Vermont warns on unlicensed mail order insurer
Vermont officials warn residents against doing business with United Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Chicago, not licensed in the state. The firm promotes a ten dollar annual auto policy that is actually an accident and health policy. premiums collected will be refunded. Police seek Burlington jail escapee William Mayer after he and two others fled the jail.
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Montpelier
Vermont
United Equitable Life Insurance Co
Chicago
William C. Shouldice Jr
Shouldice
Burlington
UPI
Chittenden County
William Mayer
Michael Duffy
Anthony Humphrey
Milton
Humphrey
Windsor State Prison
Royalton College President pleads innocent in pay case
Royalton College President Anthony Doria pleaded innocent in Windsor District Court to five counts accusing non payment of employees. The incidents timing cited as June 7 1968 and December 31 1968. Bail set at 250 dollars per count, he was released on personal recognizance. no trial date set.
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White River Junction
UPI
Royalton College
Anthony Doria
Windsor
Theodore Allen
Jane Osgarthorp
Marion English
Palmer A. Ainsworth
Doria
Hoff backs Davis sales tax plan in Vermont
Gov. Deane C. Davis said former Gov. Phil Hoff would support his call for a 4 percent general sales tax. Hoff expressed elation with Hoff’s inaugural budget message and pledged to back the tax as part of Davis’s plan to raise enough revenue for a $95.1 million Vermont budget. Hoff said he would support him down the line.
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Hoff
Davis
Deane C. Davis
Bridge plan eyed by Vermont New York panel
Burlington UPI reports the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission was to meet to decide if a third span is needed after a month long study by a Boston firm. The feasibility cost and construction review looked at an east west highway route through northern New England to New York. The states currently link Aylburg Vermont to Rouses Point New York and Chimney Point Vermont to Crown Point New York.
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Burlington
UPI
Lake Champlain Bridge Commission
Vermont
New York
Boston
New England
New York State
Aylburg
Rouses Point
N.Y
Chimney Point
Crown Point
Albany Presbytery installs woman as pastor
In a historic first for the Albany Presbytery the Rev. Margaret E. Howland was installed as pastor of Woodside Presbyterian Church in Troy during a Sunday night ceremony. Howland, a Philadelphia native, studied at UPenn Princeton Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary and was ordained ten years ago after serving as assistant pastor in Brooklyn.
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Albany
Presbytery
United Presbyterian Church
Margaret E. Howland
Philadelphia
Woodside Presbyterian Church
Troy
George Borthwick
Fifth Avenue Church
New Jersey
Union Theological Seminary
New York City
Union Church of
Bay Ridge
Brooklyn
Conte reappointed to Migratory Bird Commission plans recreation bill
Rep Silvio Conte of Pittsfield was named to a third term on the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission by House Speaker McCormack. He also plans a bill creating a Connecticut River Valley National Recreation Area spanning 23 500 acres along the Connecticut River estuary and 82 miles of the upper Connecticut River in New Hampshire. In Pittsfield a 21 year old Joseph Moore was killed in an early morning shooting and James Horton 23 was jailed for manslaughter. Horton reportedly owned a 25 caliber Beretta. In Lenox residents approved zoning changes to exclude apartments from permitted uses and to limit industrial zones to industrial uses, in a turnout over 330.
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Pittsfield
Silvio O. Conte
R-Mass
Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
House
John McCormack
D-Mass
Conte
Connecticut River Valley
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Connecticut River
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Lake Francis
Moore Reservation
Joseph W. Moore
James Horton
Horton
Moore
Lenox
Burgess Ponders Appointments of House Committee Chairmen
Vermont Speaker Burgess weighs committee chair picks as 180 lawmakers prepare to reconvene to tackle taxes and the budget. Names floated include Luther Hackett to chair Appropriations and Arthur Gibb for Ways and Means, with a potential Democrat at Judiciary. Senate to evaluate 21 bills with Sunday Blue Laws under review.
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Burgess
House Committee
House
Ways and Means
Appropriations
Luther Hackett
South Burlington
Arthur Gibb
Weypridge
Gibb
Natural Resources
Legislative Council
Davis
Peter Giuliani
Montpelier
Thomas P. Salmon
Rockingham
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Freight Train Derailment Hits Charlemont Line
A Boston and Maine freight train derailed early today near Charlemont Massachusetts. Ten of 137 cars went off the tracks with five tipping over. Cars carried clay and paper products. No injuries reported. The derailment blocked both directions while wreckers from Mechanicville and East Deerfield work to clear the line. no rerouting planned.
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Charlemont
Mass
UPI
Boston and Maine
Mechanicville
N.Y
Portland
Maine
B&m
Deerfield River
East Deerfield
Brandeis President To Meet With Barricaded Students Today
Brandeis University faces a four day protest by 65 black students at Ford Hall over 10 demands including an autonomous Afro American studies department with its own budget. President Morris Abram plans to meet alone with the demonstrators after proposing three committees, which the students oppose.
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Waltham, Mass
UPI
Brandeis University
Liberal University
Morris B. Abram
Ford Hall
Abram
Randy Bailey
Martin Luther King Jr
Brandeis
Department of
Giuliani Non-Committal On Sales Tax Plan
In Burlington Giuliani declined commitment to Gov Davis proposed 95 million dollar general sales tax for fiscal 1970. He said he needs to study the problem and be convinced the revenue is needed. He also said his role in backing the plan would depend on gaining familiarity with the post.
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Giuliani
Burlington
UPI
House
Peter Giuliani
Montpelier
Deane C. Davis
Wcax-Tv
Bryant Strike Talks Find Way to End 10 Week Stand
Springfield union and Bryant Grinder Co. negotiators meet to end a 10 week strike by 350 Local 218 members. Strike began November 4 1968 after six months of bargaining failed to yield a contract amid charges of illegal strike activity and bargaining refusals.
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Tool Company
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Mon. Plaza Shopping Center
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Main Street
Family Pack Ground Beef
Richmond
Total Value
Betty Alden
McIntosh
U.S
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Anjou Pears
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