Brattleboro Names Ralph A Yean 1962 Man of the Year
Ralph A Yean is Brattleboro 1962 Man of the Year as chosen by the Chamber of Commerce. The childhood East Dover native moved to Brattleboro in 1913, now works at a funeral home and has chaired many community and religious committees. Other awards honored Ralph Randall Fred Thomas and Joseph Lavoie for service and public involvement.
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Brattleboro
Ralph A. Yean
Chamber of Commerce
Yean
East Dover
Austine
Ralph Randall
Fred Thomas
Chamber
Joseph Lavoie
Hungry Safecrackers Loot $1244 In St Albans Store
Safecrackers ripped open a front display safe at the M H Fishman Co store last weekend and escaped with 1244 dollars. Police consider the crime professional and outside gang driven with an inside accomplice possible. A snack bar break was noted as evidence.
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ST. Albans
M.H. Fishman Co
George Hebert
Albany asks end to license based discrimination in state professions
Sen Harry Kraf and Assemblyman Jerome Schutzer introduced a bill in Albany to bar doctors dentists psychiatrists and other professionals from refusing treatment due to religion race or color. The proposal aims to protect patients holding licenses or certificates issued by the State Education Department.
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Albany
State Education Department
Harry Kraf
Jerome Schutzer
Trustees OK 400 Tuition Plan Affects 24000 Education Students
Albany reports the State University Trustees adopted a uniform 400 tuition for undergraduates to raise about 14 million for Rockefeller’s budget. Funds go to a State University Income Fund to lease new buildings financed by the Construction Fund. Reactions were mixed among students and lawmakers with GOP backing and Democratic opposition.
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Albany
Berkshire City to hear rezoning for Galvin Road trailer park
At a January public hearing residents along Galvin Road opposed a rezoning proposal to permit a mixed resident transient trailer park. The request was filed by Mrs Albert Bachand and Jacob Lev, with Bachand's husband running a nearby Spruces mobile home park in Williamstown. The Planning Board backs the change for the City Council approval.
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North Adams
Galvin Road
Albert Bachand
Jacob Lev
Bachand
Spruces
Galvin Rd
Council Buys Windsor Lake in North Adams
The North Adams City Council unanimously approved paying Windsor Industries Inc. 6625 for Windsor Lake and about five acres of land once owned by the defunct textile firm. Mayor Florini called it in the people’s best interests for children. The lakefront area has served as the city’s main public swimming and picnic site, known as Fish Pond.
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North Adams
Windsor Industries Inc
Windsor Lake
Francies C. Florini
Fish Pond
Hoosac Range
House Hearing On State Aid For Roads Set
In Montpelier a 2 30 p m public hearing in the House chamber will consider a bill to end state aid roads. Rep Joseph Moore says the measure would save the state about 9 million in taxes over five years and transfer 350 to 450 miles of state aid roads to the state system while sending the rest to towns with 350 dollars annual maintenance per mile.
Camp Champ heater acts as stove and heater
A Cleveland firm Kupp Corp. makes a portable infrared Camp Champ heater that serves as both heater and stove for camping. Weighing three pounds it runs four to five hours on propane as.
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Double Duty
Cleveland
UPI
Kupp Corp
Cockfighting Revealed in Local Spotlight and History
A look at cockfighting near Pownal discusses hen roles, breeding, and training methods. It describes pens, gaffs, derby weight classes, and the brutal pit, noting the sport’s long history from Old Hickory to Washington and Jefferson.
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George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
White House
Bennington Banner Public Notices and Rates
Classified line includes display advertising contacts and Bennington Banner masthead. Publisher details list address 425 Main St Bennington Vermont and Associated Press affiliation with republication rights. Subscription prices shown for local Vermont and U S mail ranges from three months to one year.
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Main St
Bennington
Vermont
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Hoff and Holden Face Critics on Vermont Road Plans
In Montpelier Gov Hoff and Highway Commissioner Holden will meet Swanton and St. Albans chamber officials to address claims the two lane interstate plan cannot handle Canadian traffic and the Montreal World’s Fair demand. Floyd Handy notes the department originally outlined four lanes for the county. Hoff attends Boston meeting for New England Governors Conference to discuss participation in the 1964 World’s Fair. Sen John J OBrien of Chittenden County is re elected chairman of the Democratic legislative delegation with Rep Stanton Lazarus as vice chairman and Rep John E Kelly as secretary treasurer.
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Montpelier
Hoff
Russell Holden
Swanton
St. Albans
Montreal
Floyd Handy
Highway Department
Soviet Writers Visit Frost in Recovery at Boston Hospital
Three touring Soviet writers met Robert Frost in his hospital room in Boston after his December surgery. They described the 88 year old poet as bright and regaining his full force and shared champagne with him. The delegation included Mme Frida Lurge Valenin Katayev and Viktor Rozov.
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Boston
Robert Frost
Frost
Russia
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Khrushchev
Mme. Frida Lurge
Valentin Katayev
Viktor Rozov
5 day Boston forecast 3 to 9 degrees below normal
U S Weather Bureau projections for Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island and northeastern New York call for temperatures over the next five days Thursday through Monday to average 3 to 9 degrees below normal. Expect much colder Thursday and continued cold through the weekend with precipitation totaling about 0.7 inch melted as snow, possibly mixed with rain along coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Snow likely again by late Sunday or Monday.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
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