Rate Change Depletes Stamp Stocks
Post offices across Bennington North Bennington and Shaftsbury report six cent first class stamps in very short supply as a cold wave and slow mail delivery hamper shipments. One cent stamps are scarce while some offices ration ones and twos. Officials blame late Congress action and expect temporary shortages as offices swap stamps and await restocked deliveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
North Bennington
Shaftsbury
Stanley J. Pekalski
Pekalski
North
U.S
Two-Lane Cost Estimates Cause Road Funding Blunder
Vermont lawmakers probing a $300 million highway cost error heard Highway Commissioner Lauritz S. Larsen. He said in 1966 former Highway Commissioner Russell Holden used two-lane estimates while the plan was to build four-lane U S 7 and related routes. Bishop had provided four-lane figures but legislators received two-lane figures instead.
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U.S. 7
Pownal
Rutland
New York Line
Burlington
St. Johnsbury
Holden
Larsen
State
Vermont
Arthur D. Bishop
Montpelier
Bishop
Highway Department
Philip H. Hoff
Hoff
Vermont House balks at Hoff budget and tax plans
The Vermont House Republican leaders reject Gov. Hoff's 1968 supplemental budget requests without detailed cut plans and oppose his 2 percent room and meal and corporate franchise tax hike. Leaders demand belt tightening and insist cuts be identified, while Hoff pushes selective freezes and possible 3 percent admin reductions. The dispute centers on balancing the 1968 and 1969 budgets and funding to UVM and student aid amid large arterial highway cost overruns and bonding needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GOP
Hoff
House
Richard W. Mallary
Fairlee
Luther Hackett
South
Burlington
Mallory
Vermont
Massachusetts
New York
Joint Session Called To Hear Special Message
In Montpelier a surprise move by House Minority Leader Leo O'Brien set 10 30 a m Friday to hear a special message from Gov Philip H Hoff The House endorsed the joint resolution and sent it to the Senate for action Newsmen and lawmakers sought details of the message but were unsuccessful The House also set March 23 as adjournment and adopted a resolution urging Congress to amend federal tax laws to give states 50 percent of cigarette and liquor levies In the Senate escape from custody by a prisoner was made a felony and the measure to end annual local option votes on alcohol was advanced to final reading
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin M. Collings
Arthur Ristau
Gerald 8. Witherspoon
House
Senate
Congress
Inside Hoosick Pools and County Highway Debate
Editorial and letter discuss Bennington County road conditions with focus on highway safety and traffic in Hoosick. The page notes include reader opinions and a call for improved maintenance amid winter weather.
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Bennington County
29 Below Zero Sets Bennington Cold Record
A 7 am reading at the U S Weather Observer Station on Harwood Hill registered 29 degrees below zero in Bennington, the lowest in 15 years for the observer and a mark among Vermont and New England records. Readings showed 32 below in St Johnsbury and 25 below in Burlington, with Maine and New Hampshire also reporting extreme cold as a northern regional cold wave continued.
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Bennington
U.S
Weather Observer
Harwood Hill
Paul Bohne
Vermont
New England
St. Johnsbury
Newport
Burlington
Lebanon
N.H
Maine
Providence
R.I
Weather Bureau
Boston
United States
Midwest
Florida
Northland
Tanker Righted After 10 Hours In Grafton NY
A 40 ton liquefied propane gas tanker overturned on NY 2 near Grafton Elementary School. Half the load was siphoned into another tanker, 215 students and 15 families evacuated, and traffic rerouted while police fire and state officials removed the vehicle with heavy equipment in sub zero weather. The 21 year old driver James Diorio and passenger James Rosenberg escaped injury. The truck operated by L P Gas Transportation Inc of Chester had picked up propane at Selkirk depot en route to Adirondack Bottled Gas Co.
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Grafton
N.Y
N.Y. 2
Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office
Adirondack Bottle Gas Company
L.P. Gas Transportation, Inc
Chester
Selkirk
Adirondack Bottled Gas Co
James D. Diorio
James Rosenberg
Diorio
Marine Transport Plane Crashes in Nevada
A four engine Marine Corps C54 transport with 18 aboard crashed on Mt Tobin near Battle Mountain Nevada. No survivors expected as wreckage was sighted and searchers advanced to the scene. The aircraft was en route from Quantico to Seattle with an amphibious landing training party aboard.
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Battle Mountain
Nev
UPI
Marine Corps
Nevada
Sheriff’s Office
Mt. Tobin
Pershing County Sheriff's Deputies
Quantico
Settle
Wash
U.S
Buckley Air National Guard
Colorado
Lowry Air Force Base
Lowry
Seattle
Reno
U S Army Attache Ordered Out Of Poland
The Polish government orders U S military attache Lt Col Edward H Metzger to leave by Jan 16 after he was detained for nearly 12 hours in Bydgoszcz. Embassy says he was apprehended at gunpoint on Jan 4 and held until Jan 5 without contact, then to depart by air for Amsterdam.
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Warsaw
UPI
U.S
Poland
Army
Edward H. Metzger
Quincy
Mass
Metzger
Bydgoszcz
Amsterdam
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St. Joseph College
Julia Marie
Mark Ramson
Donald LeSage
Col
Raymond C. Murray
Richard Lewis
Dick Gray
Frank Novacs
Charles Parsons
Dick Vachon
Lawrence Glass
Robert Shiels
Hamilton
New Hampshire
University of Vermont
House Ways and Means
Emory Hebard
R-Glover
House Appropriations Committee
Sanborn Partridge
R-Proctor
UVM
Vermont Student Assistance Corp
James Jeffords
Hoosick
Weir - Reynolds
Manchester
Mercury
Elizabeth Dwyer
South Stream Road
Pownal Center
Town
Massena and
Glens Falls
Neighboring
Main Street
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Prince’s Grill
East Main Street
Shep and Son
North Adams
Shire
Ariington
REA
U.S.7
Merrill Transport
Otis
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