New Legislature Organizes as Vermont House Shifts Leaders
Vermont lawmakers convene at 10 a.m. to organize the 1967 session and select leaders. Rep. Richard W. Mallary is favored to win the House speakership on the first ballot, with Rep. Leo O’Brien as minority leader and potential picks for majority whip being Rep. Luther Hackett or Rep. John Burgess. The Senate will elect a president pro tempore as they review about 50 bills among hundreds of proposed measures.
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Richard W. Mallary
R Fairlee
Mallary
Thomas Salmon
Dockingham
Salmon
Mallory
Fairlee Dairyman
House
Leo O’brien
South Burlington
Luther Hackett
John Burgess
Brattleboro
Hackett
Burgess
Lawrence Franklin
Guilford
George W.F. Cook
Rutland
John J. Daley
Committee
Chamber
Capitol Complex
State House
Redstone Arsenal
State Police and Public Safety Department
John J. O’brien
South Burlinghe
Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Assembly
Legislative Council
S. Hoff
Department of Social Welfare
Hoff
Barbara Howes Poem Honoring Hoff At Vermont Inauguration
UPI reports poet Barbara Howes of North Pownal wrote a poem titled For A Green Occasion in honor of Governor Hoff. Howes will read it at the inauguration in the House chamber. The 1955 Guggenheim Fellow and 1958 Brandeis grant recipient is a Boston native and Bennington College alumna.
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Miss Howes
North Pownal
Brandeis University
Boston
Bennington College
Peisch Withdraws From Vermont House Speaker Race
Rep. Francis Peisch of Burlington withdraws from the Vermont House speaker race, leaving one Republican and one Democrat. Richard Mallary, seeking reelection, faces Thomas Salmon as challenger. The new speaker will be elected Wednesday when the Legislature meets at the State House at 10 a.m.
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Burlington
UPI
Francis Peisch
Vermont
Peisch
Richard Mallary
Fairlee
Thomas Salmon
Rockingham
Mallary
Mallory
State House
Three Children Die In Burlington Fire
Burlington fire killed three children Cheryl Abell 14 Susan 13 and Michael 5 who slept in a third floor bedroom Their aunt Mrs Sabin Abell sister of the father Sabin Abell Jr identified the youths The blaze began late Monday in a Hill Section apartment building owned by William Magnus stepfather to the victims No cause yet given Firefighter Robert Bushey suffered minor cuts from glass.
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Burlington
UPI
Cheryl Abell
Susan
Michael
Robert E. Rudd Jr
North Pownal
Pownal Center
Sabin Abell
Rudd
Hill Section
William Magnus
Magnus
Sabin Abell Jr
Shelburne
John Abell
Charles Finnegan
Loomis and
Weston Streets
Finnegan
Robert Bushey
Inside Teacher Defends Burr and Burton in Letter to Editor
Chronicle recap notes a teacher’s letter defending Burr and Burton in a 1966 Bennington chronology. Page references indicate broader coverage of local education debates and the North Bennington tax collector’s routine collection report on page 7.
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Burr
Burton
Bennington News
North Bennington
U S Officials Foil Planned Haiti Invasion Scheme
Federal and local police halted a beachhead operation by exiled Cubans Haitians and American mercenaries aimed at overthrowing Haiti’s Duvalier regime. About 120 men and a priest led by Rolando Masferrer and Father Jean Baptiste Georges were to depart Cocoa Palm Beach for Haiti with boats weapons and five planes. Twenty one suspects were jailed in Key West and others questioned en route to Miami as authorities recovered arms and ammunition and pressed potential charges.
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Fla
UPI
Haiti
Francois
Papa Doc) Duvalier
Coca Plum Beach
Florida Keys
Miami
Monroe County
Key West
Renee Thompson
U.S
William V. Albury
Father Jean Baptiste Georges
Rolando Masferrer
Havana
Masferrer
Duvalier
Fidel Castro
Rene Leon
U.S. Army Infantry
Ft. Benning
U.S. Army
Panama Canal Zone
Rescue Boats Speed To Liberian Tanker
A Liberian oil tanker Failaika with 43 aboard reported a bridge overboard in gale seas about 400 miles east of Nantucket. One injury, a captain with a broken arm, was reported as Coast Guard and allied aircraft and ships converged for rescue. The 624-foot tanker, built in 1952, was bound for Portland, Maine, after losing communications but later said no immediate danger of sinking.
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Here
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
England
Otis Air Force Base
Cape Cod
St. Laurent
Vigilant
Provincetown
Traviata
Continental
Amfran Transport Co
Monrovia
Liberia
Portland
Maine
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Quincy
Jack Ruby Dies of Cancer at Parkland Hospital
Dallas UPI reports Jack Ruby died of cancer at Parkland Hospital at 10 30 a m CST. He sank into a coma after a monthlong illness and had no further details given by Hospital Assistant Administrator Peter Gerlich. Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald on nationwide television, faced a pending retrial after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction and death sentence last October.
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UPI
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Oswald
Parkland Hospital
Ruby
Peter Gerlich
Eva Grant
Jack
Justice of the Peace
W. E. Richburg
Texas Schoolbook Depository
Texas Court of Criminal Ap
Peals
Wichita Falls
Tex
New York
Capitol Records
Chicago
Parkland
Traffic Toll Lower Than Anticipated
United Press International reports a safer New Year holiday weekend with 441 traffic deaths by 9 a.m. EST and a total holiday toll of 576 including fires and plane accidents. Texas led states with 40 traffic deaths, California 32, Michigan 25, and North Carolina and Ohio 21 each. Alaska Delaware Nevada and Wyoming reported no traffic deaths.
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United Press International
Texas
California
Michigan
North Carolina
Ohio
Illinois
Alaska
Delaware
Nevada
Wyoming
North Viet Rejects Peace Offer Refers Viet Cong Role
North Vietnam rejected Britain's peace talks proposal and insisted the Viet Cong be included as the sole genuine representative of the South Vietnamese people. Hanoi radio and an official news agency called George Brown’s plan an attempt to mislead world opinion and urged negotiations only among Vietnam and the United States on British soil.
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UPI
North Vietnam
Britain
Hanoi
George Brown
Brown
America
United States
South
Red Chinese Admit Division Between Communists and Nation
Hong Kong based dispatch reports a split between the Chinese Communist party and the nation as 1967 begins. A central committee state of the union says Mao faces opposition and survived a 1966 leadership challenge. An article in Peoples Daily details Maoist goals for 1967 including purging anti Mao elements and expanding revolutionary groups under the cultural revolution committee. It also notes a push for scholars to align with Maoist policy and for wide debate under Mao Tse tung's thought.
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UPI
Red Guard
Peking
Mainland China
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese
Communist Party
Mao
Chou Yang
Party
Peoples Daily
Chou
Red Chinese
Red China
Cultural Revolution Committee
Rockefeller May Tie Dewey Record
Governor Rockefeller’s oath of office makes him the senior U.S. governor and a potential holder of the longest tenure in the New York executive mansion. If he serves his full term, he would surpass former Gov Thomas E. Dewey who governed from 1942 to 1954.
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