Falls mayor honors double drowning victims in village statement
Hoosick Falls mayor Richard A. Severson issued a village statement extending sympathy to the John Leibach family after the loss of their two young sons in a drowning last Wednesday. He praised the extensive regional cooperation and the community's compassion, noting aid from police, fire, rescue squads, Red Cross, and Civil Defense coordinators. The mayor thanked residents who opened homes and local organizations, and urged support for burial expenses via a fund drive, stressing that help cannot replace the loss but can ease the burden.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Richard A. Severson
John Leibach
Rensselaer County
Red Cross
Benedict A. Nowik
Civil Defense
William Dougherty
Rensselaer
George Santerre
Rensselaer County Ambulance and Rescue
William Mattison
Bennington County Civil Defense
Hoosick Falls Student Selected for Europe Music Tour
Norman W. Baker, West Hoosick freshman at SUNY Albany majoring in music, joined six other music students to tour Europe in April as part of a cultural exchange. He plays trumpet with a seven piece orchestra accompanying the Children’s Theatre Group for The Wizard of Oz, with performances in Moscow Budapest and Copenhagen. Baker, a 1973 Hoosick Falls HS graduate salutatorian, centers his academics at Albany with a 4.0 first semester average.
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Finnair
New York City
Moscow
Budapest
Copenhagen
the College
Performing Arts Center
SUNY
R. Findlay Cockrell
Pat Snyder
Norman
Hoosick Falls Central School
Albany
Clyde R. Baker
West Hoosick
West Arlington Jrs 4H Club Meets at Leader’s Home
The West Arlington Jrs 4H Club met February 11 at Mrs. Maurice Matteson’s home. Seventeen members attended with William Snow as guest. Members planned for the March 14 county mini state day and future planning meetings on February 25 and March 10.
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West Arlington
Grange Hall
Wedding party heads to Tampa for sun filled vacation
Arlington Sandra Corey, Kathy Galli, Erna Halbur, Terry Wilcox and Kathy Thompson flew to Tampa from Kennedy Airport for a week's vacation in the sun. In the Banner marriage notice for Kevin and Melinda Hall Walsh, Michael Zimmer was omitted as an usher.
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Sandra Corey
Kathy Galli
Erna Halbur
Terry Wilcox
Kathy Thompson
Tampa, Fla
Kennedy Airport
Kevin
Melinda
Hall) Walsh
Michael Zimmer
Pownal Center Fire Dept Plans Snowmobile Races Tonight
Weather permitting the Pownal Center Fire Department will sponsor snowmobile races tonight at 7 30 at the Pownal Center track. Also on the schedule AA meetings and East Pownal Fire Auxiliary gathering are noted with venues and times.
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Pownal Center
Alcoholics Anonymous
Pownal
East Pownal
South Stream Road
Hoosick Area Center lists 10 seats left for Lancaster trip
The Hoosick Area Senior Citizens Center announces 10 seats remain for a Lancaster Pa trip on May 14 15 and 16 with a deposit due by April 14 and full fare then. Details by calling 686-7561. A Blantyre Castle trip in Lenox Mass set for Wednesday April 17 includes a gourmet luncheon and a tour of a showplace restaurant built in 1902 by Robert Patterson.
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Hoosick Area
Senior Citizens Center
Lancaster
Blantyre Castle
Lenox
Mass
Robert Patterson
Caroline Wilwol
Anton Beza
Bennington Rutland SU Wins ESEA Funds for Library Materials
The Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union will receive 8133 dollars from the Vermont Department of Education to buy library and audio-visual materials under Title II of the ESEA. An additional 1844 dollars will come under Title III of the NDEA for art English reading industrial arts math music and science materials with 50 percent reimbursement to local districts.
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Manchester
Bennington-Rutland
Vermont Department of Education
Community Notes From Local Church and Families
White Creek resident Eugene Conway is a patient at Mary McClellan hospital. The Consistory of the Buskirk Reformed Church met recently with Francis Wade. Mr and Mrs Malcolm Hamilton visited Mr and Mrs William Spink in Schenectady Sunday. John Hamilton stayed a few days with Mr and Mrs Daniel Morehouse and family in Garrettsville. Lois A Virtue and Mr and Mrs Paul E Virtue of Coila called on Mrs Gertrude Aiken Sunday evening.
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Eugene Conway
Mary McClellan Hospital
Buskirk Reformed Church
Francis Wade
Malcolm Hamilton
Mrs
William Spink
Schenectady
John Hamilton
Daniel Morehouse
Garrettsville
Lois A. Virtue
Paul E. Virtue
Coila
Gertrude Aiken
Vermont House panel approves $5 monthly boost for aged and disabled
The Appropriations Committee approved a five dollar monthly increase to benefits for the aged, blind and disabled, raising a single recipient’s check to 175 dollars. Kenalene Collins, R Readsboro, dissented, urging lawmakers to use 200 thousand dollars for other needs. The panel also trimmed governor recommendations in the 159 million general fund 1974 bill, cutting 25 thousand from community college funds, 50 thousand from Legal Aid, 43 thousand from defender general, and eliminating funding for the Morgan Horse Farm at Weybridge.
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Gov. Salmon
Vermont Community College
Vermont Legal Aid
Defender General
Morgan Horse
Weybridge
Vermont House backs higher mortgage rate to boost lending
The Commerce Committee endorsed raising the mortgage interest ceiling from 7.5 to 8.5 percent, a move to inject new money into home buying. Governor Salmon and most committee members rejected abolishing the cap, while the Vermont Bankers Association backs the increase and a related home-finance agency bill.
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Vermont Bankers Association
Salmon
Commerce Committee
Vermont Home-Finance Agency
Earle pushes ban on nonrefillable beer and soda containers
Rep Ernest Stub Earle of Eden proposes a total ban on nonrefillable beer and soda containers. A member of the House Natural Resources Committee, he seeks beer sold only in bottles manufacturers can reuse. The committee favors refinements to the current system, which acts as a deposit with a nickel return upon container return.
Middlebury audit finds $876 short in town accounts
Middlebury Town Clerk Kenneth Caul said the $876 shortfall in the town accounts is not embezzlement and could be treated as a loss similar to a business write off. The UPI report notes the discrepancy was found during a recent audit.
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Middlebury
UPI
Kenneth Caul
Highway Board backs Gray for another term as commissioner
The state Highway Board recommends reappointing Highway Commissioner Gray for a two year term and adds a provision limiting him to one more term. The proposal goes to Gov. Salmon where approval is virtually assured.
Albany Energy Powers Expand as Wilson Receives Authority
In Albany the legislature granted Governor Wilson emergency energy powers including control over gas station sale quantities. The measure permits allocations to critical areas and waives certain anti pollution rules, with priority to health and safety. Democrats criticized it as inadequate while Republicans backed it as necessary. In Troy County Executive Murphy vetoed a contract powers limit bill, objecting to a legislature approval amendment, with a special session planned to reintroduce the bill.
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Albany
Gov. Wilson
Troy
William J. Murphy
Murphy
Joseph Manupella
Gas theft eyed at Berkshire station fuel loss near 400 gallons
James B. Dean, operator of a Curran Highway gas station in North Adams, told police someone in an unmarked tank truck stole about 400 gallons of petrol from an underground tank Tuesday night or Wednesday. He said inventories show a shortage of 36242 gallons and gas was siphoned from several U hauls.
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North Adams
James B. Dean
Curran Highway
Dean
Williams grad Gagliardi presiding in Vesco trial
Federal Judge Lee P. Gagliardi a 1941 Williams College graduate and Columbia Law School alumnus said he will sequester the jury in the long trial of Maurice H. Stans former secretary of commerce John N. Mitchell and financier Robert Vesco. The trial is expected to last at least five weeks.
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Williamstown
Lee P. Gagliardi
Maurice H. Stans
John N. Mitchell
Robert L. Vesco
Williams College
Gagliardi
Larchmont
N.Y
Columbia University Law School
Williams
Robert Vesco
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George Andrews
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Richard Cuddihy
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