Vermonters warned about dangerous Airflam lighter
University of Vermont extension service notes a U S Public Health Service warning against the Airflam cigarette lighter using methyl alcohol fuel which ignites on contact with air and produces an almost invisible flame. Officials warn such ignition could trigger accidental fires and burns. A second item reports 20 year old Richard H Lifton held on bail after pleading innocent to three bad check counts totaling 125 dollars, case moved to county court. A final note covers Sen Edward M Kennedy’s 34th birthday celebrated with family in Stowe during a ski holiday, with plans to depart today.
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Burlington
UPI
University of Vermont
Extension Service
U.S. Public Health Service
Health Agency
Brookline
N.H
Chittenden
Richard H. Lifton
Edward Costello
Lifton
Stowe
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Mt. Mansfield
Edward
Two New Hampshire men jailed for armed grocery robbery
ISLAND POND API Two NH men David N. McMann 22 Stratford and Edward C. Dowland 21 Groveton pleaded guilty to robbing grocery owner Hortense Smith of about 100 dollars at Mills Pond. McMann six months plus 2 to 3 years probation Dowland one year plus 2 to 3 years probation. Captured by state police shortly after Jan. 17 holdup. Judge Harold J. Kennedy Essex Municipal Court. SWANTON Vermont first sewage lagoon approved by Board of Health to be built here at a site one mile from village limits and 1000 feet from homes. waste will be poured into Missisquoi River.
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Island Pond
API
New Hampshire
David N. McMann
Stratford
Edward C. Dowland
Groveton
Hortense Smith
Mills Pond
Harold J. Kennedy
Essex
McMann
Dowland
Swanton
UPS
Vermont
State Board of Health
Missiquoi
Nine escape serious injury in Vt. 11 three-car crash
On Vermont Route 11, three miles east of Londonderry, a head on collision totaled two cars and slight damage to a third. Frank Lovergine, 36, of Jamaica, was the most seriously hurt. Deborah Thea, 17, of Huntington, N.Y., and five teenage passengers had minor injuries. The third car’s driver and passenger were uninjured.
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Londonderry
Here
Frank Lovergine
Jamaica
Deborah Thea
Huntington
N.Y
Notable NY man raises 14 orphans to college and careers
Troy memorial notes Samuel W. Redmon Jr. 83 died at St Marys Hospital after two years of blindness. He raised 14 foster children and hosted 32 more at his Eighth Street home. One daughter, Dr Dorothy L Brown of Nashville, was the first Negro woman to hold a chief residency in surgery in a US hospital. Hoosick Falls Kiwanis distribute 15000 Grow with Hoosick Falls brochures to merchants, industry groups, and state commerce officials.
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Troy
Samuel W. Redmon Jr
St. Mary’s Hospital
Redmon
Eighth Street
Dorothy L. Brown
Nashville
Tenn
U.S
Albany cartoonist wins 1965 Freedom Award honor
Hy Rosen, a Albany Times Union cartoonist, is one of seven regional recipients of the 1965 Freedom Awards from the Freedom Foundation in Valley Forge. Rosen has previously garnered 13 Freedom Awards, including three top annual honors, for his cartoon He Knows Where He Is Going showing a Boy Scout with a compass aiming toward patriotism.
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Albany
Times - Union
Hy Rosen
Freedoms Foundation
Valley Forge
Rosen
Foundation
Berkshire theft spree and youth linked store breaks
Police traced a 14 year old boy's parents home after finding 600 dollars of merchandise stolen in several recent breaks at Moore Firestone Store on River Street. Two men were later arrested for Eagle Street breaks amid a crime wave as Berkshire police press drive for safety. Health regulations for mobile home parks adopted by Williamstown Board of Selectmen tighten lot sizes and plumbing code adherence. Pittsfield incinerator draft caused smoke in District Court building. no fire, four engines responded and building was cleared.
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North Adams
Moore Firestone
River Street
Eagle Street
Williamstown — Health Department
Board of Selectmen
Pittsfield
District Court
Williamstown youths honored in Freedom Awards program
A.1C George A. Watkins of Pittsfield and Paul K. Casey of Williamstown win honor certificates in the Freedom Awards. Casey, a St. Joseph High School senior and member of a two time state champion debating team, receives recognition for youth public addressing with Our Living Constitution.
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Williamstown
U.S
George A. Watkins
USAF
Pittsfield
Paul K. Casey
Mass
Writer Claims Washington Not First U.S. President
Hartford based historian Herbert J. Stoeckel argues George Washington was not the first president and that Washington hosted lavish parties. He cites an 1820 print showing Santa in a sleigh with a single reindeer and a woodcut of the Collier Ripley Tavern where Washington and Rochambeau allegedly celebrated after Yorktown.
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Santa
Moore
St. Nicholas
Stoeckel
Collier- Ripley
Washington
Comnte
Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau
Hartford
Webb House
Wethersfield
George
John Hanson
Maryland
Chow
Yorktown
U.S
Hanson
United States
Ground Breaks On 35 Million New Hampshire Plant
Ground was broken Monday for Merrimack Generating Station II, a $35 million electric plant by Public Service Co. of New Hampshire. It will add 350000 kilowatts by May 1968, bring total output to 476000 kilowatts with Merrimack I, and is expected to cut cost per kilowatt hour to 4.90 mils. Gov. John W. King and Avery R. Schiller attended.
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Bow, N.H
UPI
Public Service Co. of New Hampshire
PSC
Vermont Electric Power Co
William C. Tallman
New England
Tallman
John W. King
Avery R. Schiller
Merrimack Generating Station
Merrimack I
King
New Hampshire
Merrimack II
Jackson and Moreland
United Engineers and Constructors
New Trial Sought In Privacy Suit In New Hampshire
Barrington Rhode Island couple Carl and Mae Hamberger seek a new trial after a jury verdict against landlord Clifford Eastman of Laconia denying $125,000 in an invasion of privacy suit. Lawyer Peter Makris of Laconia filed the petition alleging the verdict contradicted law and evidence, and that prejudice and sympathy influenced the jury. A hearing on the petition should be scheduled soon.
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Laconia
N.H
UPI
Barrington
Hambergers
Many Girls Enrolling At Camp Hochelaga
Vermont YWCA camp Hochelaga nears 75 percent capacity as local girls gain priority with new co directors Mr and Mrs Robert Palmer. Scholarship funds honor Mrs Florence Duncan Weld and aid Vermont girls ages eight to sixteen at South Hero site.
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Castleton
Vermont
Camp Hochelaga
YWCA
Robert Palmer
State Council
South Hero
Florence Duncan Weld
L.G. Hebblethwaite
Mohawk Avenue
Essex
John J. Connelly Jr
Barre
South Hadley Falls
Mass
Palmer
South Hadley High School
Springfield College
Peoples Academy
Morrisville
Sharon Roberts
Six first aid steps for heart attack victims
Vermont Heart Association outlines six immediate precautions for heart attack victims. Key signs include severe chest pain often radiating to the left arm, nausea, sweating, extreme breathlessness, and possible fainting. Actions: call a doctor at once, position the patient between sitting and lying, avoid lifting, loosen constricting clothing, keep warm but not overheated, and do not give fluids without medical advice.
Quadruplets Born in N Y in New York
In Cold Springs New York a hairdresser and his 36 year old wife welcomed quadruplets three girls and a boy born at Julia L Butterfield Memorial Hospital weighing 2 pounds 9 ounces to 2 pounds 13 ounces The hospital said the babies were holding their own and the parents also have a 16 month old son Ronald Jr Acebal works as a hair stylist in Peekskill and the family lives in Crompond New York
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Cold Springs
N.Y
Helen Acebal
Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Hospital
Acebal
Ronald
Ronald Jr
Peekskill
Crompond
Cincinnati Lawyer Tests Government Word for Silver
Cincinnati lawyer Lee Vesper traveled to verify the governments promise to redeem silver certificates. He received a 1000 ounce bar of silver after redeeming $1303 in old silver certificates, while the Treasury moves to replace them with Federal Reserve notes not redeemable in silver. Silver certificates in circulation retain their value in silver.
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New York
UPI
Cincinnati
Lee Vesper
Federal Reserve
Vesper
Army tests instant bridge to span 400 feet in an hour
Aberdeen Maryland reports the Army demonstrating an instant bridge using mobile bridge ferry units aligned parallel to the bank to form a folded roadway. The test beats a five hour ponton bridge that needs 400 men, linking structures in 60 minutes. Separately, a man named Vesper trades for a silver bar after Treasury limits. The onion is noted as symbol of eternity in Egyptian lore.
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Aberdeen
Vermont Town Officers Conference Series Set Across Nine Towns
The Government Research Center at the University of Vermont plans nine March sessions for town officers to discuss administration with experts. About 1100 participants from 212 towns joined last year. Speakers include Richard Gibboney on education and federal impact, Russell Holden on highways, and James Sykes on an electronic accounting system for towns. Meetings run 9 a.m. registrations with talks, discussions, and afternoon sessions at each site: Bellows Falls, Woodstock, Barre, Swanton, Bristol, Manchester, St. Johnsbury, Orleans, Johnson.
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Burlington
Vermont
Government Research Center
University of Vermont
Andrew E. Nuquist
University
Richard Gibboney
Education
Department
Russell A. Holden
James G. Sykes
UVM
Bellows Falls
Woodstock
Barre
Swanton
Bristol
Mt. St
Manchester
St. Johnsbury
North Congregational Church
Orleans
Memorial
Johnson
State College
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Down In
Berkshire
Mactic
Cornwallis
Collier
Connecticut
Burlington, Vt
Ridgefield, Conn
Connelly
Hochelaga
Cornelius Granai Jr
Kenneth Hopper
Middlebury
Russell Holden
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Procetor
John Swainbank
William Onion
Earle W. Brailey
Bethel
Vermont Ywca Council
Treasury Department
San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank
U.S. Assay Office
ELKS
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont Elks Association
Raymond J. Quesnel
Montpelier
Elks Grand Lodge
Armand J. Beltrami
H. Greenberg & Son, Inc
Main ST
Bennington
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vt
Kylo
VNB
The
Vermont National Bank
Brattleboro
Chester
Newfane
Proctorsville
Springfield
Wilmington
Windsor
Member
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit: Insurance Corporation
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