Vermont boards loosen hiring to fill hard to hire
The Vermont Personnel Board unanimously allowed department heads to hire hard to fill administrative and professional posts at salaries within the full pay range instead of starting at the minimum. The board also fully adopted merit pay as recommended by a private consultant. After 1967 pay reforms and mass exodus fears, about 4,500 classified employees received 10 percent raises effective Jan. 1, with executives to see higher salaries starting soon.
Vermont Student Assistance Corp Loans Report Summary
The Vermont Student Assistance Corp in Burlington says since 1964 it has issued $1 million in loans to 1,353 students for college. Of that total, $15,725 has been repaid and $60,656 is being repaid. the rest is not yet due. Loans are repayable nine months after graduation. The nonprofit holds a $44,000 reserve and can loan 12.5 times that amount. In three years only four defaults occurred. The group also awarded 700 grants to 1967 68 freshmen totaling $150,000.
Burlington Jaycees president begins national duties
James B. Antell of Burlington is the new national president of the United States Jaycees. He arrived at Municipal Airport with his wife Cynthia to be greeted by six children and 150 wellwishers. Antell won the presidency at a Baltimore convention and will travel to Tulsa Oklahoma for the Jaycee White House, then to Kansas and Acapulco for a convention.
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UPI
United States Jaycees
James B. Antell
Far West
Antell
Municipal
Cynthia
Jaycees
Baltimore
Jaycee White House
Tulsa
Oklo
Kansas
Acapulco
Mexico
Woodstock Senior Citizens Governor's Day Picnic
The fifteenth annual Governor's Day and picnic for senior citizens takes place Wednesday at the Woodstock Recreation Center. The program starts at 11 30 a m with antique car rides, followed by a noon picnic lunch. Gov Hoff plans to attend. The Woodstock Stage Company presents a play in the Little Theatre. The event ends at 3 30 p m.
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Woodstock
Woodstock Recreation Center
Philip H. Hoff
Woodstock Stage Company
Little Theatre
Vermont Heart Association warns on U.S. diet levels
The Vermont Heart Association releases a pamphlet stating Americans average about 3,000 calories daily, far above the 2,300 calories recommended. Overeating is linked to overweight and heart attack risks in the new study.
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Rutland
UPI
Vermont Heart Association
United States
The
Association
Plattsburgh Man Charged After Body Found in Sand Pit
Troy Albert R. Rock, 24, of Plattsburgh, arrested in Saratoga Springs for outraging public decency and charged with killing Laura Connora, 6, of Schuyler Falls. Miss Connors had been missing since June 28 from her parents home. Rock was also accused of attempting to entice an elderly Saratoga Springs girl into his truck. Her body was found Thursday under a rock in a sand pit near Peru.
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Troy
Albert R. Rock
Plattsburgh
Saratoga Springs
Laura Connora
Schuyler Falls
Peru
Rock
Miss Connors
Edward J. Connors
Local deaths and missing plane search extend across towns
Troy Joseph Wills 82 a retired Russell Sage College maintenance worker died in a two car crash at the N Y 150 Pershing Ave intersection at 2 p m Saturday. James McMurray 21 of Fort Edward was killed when his car left Rt 196 on a curve west of South Hartford and hit a pole. In Grafton Mrs Otto Madsden reported hearing a scream and barking near Dyken Pond as District Avy M Andrew Dwyer led 15 people in a Sunday search for Robert Stephenson 26 and his wife Carol of Arbutis Md whose plane has been missing since June 25. weather delays plan to resume the search.
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Troy
Joseph Wills
Sheridan Ave
Russell Sage College
N.Y. 150
Pershing Ave
James McMurray
Fort Edward
Rt. 196
South Hartford
Adams The Hooker Plant to Close July 31
The Hooker Chemical plant in Berkshire will cease operations July 31 according to plant manager Robert A. McNamara. Vice President T. F. Elliott cited unprofitability in the Northeast. The facility makes phosphoric acid and sodium tripolyphosphate for detergents, relying on imported raw materials, mainly phosphorus from Tennessee, with finished chemicals shipped to other plants.
Hancock Berkshire Downs closes seventh season with loss
Pres. Santi Campanella of Warwick Rhode Island reports the track ended its seventh commercial season with a loss. Final handle for the 24 day meet totaled 212433 dollars, giving a season daily average of 189533 dollars. The break even daily average is 210000 dollars.
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Hancock
Berkshire Downs
Pres. Santi Campanella
Warwick
R.I
Campanella
Local Marine Cpl Russell Roulier Dies in Vietnam
Funeral with full military honors held in Notre Dame Church for Marine Cpl Russell Roulier son of Mr and Mrs Rene Roulier of 104 North Summer Street He was killed in action June 21 in Vietnam the first local man to die in the conflict
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Adams
Notre Dame Church
Marine Cpl
Russell Roulier
Rene Roulier
North Summer St
Vietnam
Pittsfield Firemen Muster Parade Set For Tuesday
The 21st annual muster parade will start at East Housatonic and South Streets at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. It will feature 64 units including 13 floats 21 fire companies and eight musical groups.
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Pittsfield
East Housatonic
South Sts
Harris Poll Sees LBJ Surge in Popularity Despite Vietnam Split
President Johnson gains with voters and Democratic governors as Louis Harris cites 58 percent rating of good to excellent work, a notable rise since May. Governors meeting in St Louis largely back him, predicting a 1968 re election, though 54 percent remain unhappy with Vietnam policy.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Middle East
Alexei Kosygin
Louis Harris
St. Louis
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Rise
Michigan
George Romney
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Harris
Vietnam
Romney to Visit N H to Test Political Winds
Michigan Governor Romney arrives in New Hampshire to gauge early 1968 primary dynamics. He will use Anchorage at Lake Winnipesaukee as for four day foray dubbed a vacation with receptions hosted by Republican leaders and Marriott family. Volpe to dine with Romney ahead of Laconia mansion GOP event as operatives organize campaign.
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Romney
N.H
Mirror Lake
UPI
Michigan
George Romney
Anchorage
Lake Winnipesaukee
John Willard Marriott
Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Marriott
Massachusetts
John A. Volpe
Laconia
Boston
Richard S. Robie
David B. Goldberg
Campaign Consultants Inc
Henry Cabot Lodge
Goldberg
John Deardouf
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Harvard Given Hemingway Manuscripts
Harvard University’s Houghton Library received a gift of Ernest Hemingway letters and manuscripts from the last decade of his life. Donors Dr. and Mrs. Edo Mundo Lassalle note the collection centers on Hemingway to critic Harvey Breit and includes notes on F Scott Fitzgerald Faulkner and James Jones From Here to Eternity. It also contains a satirical burlesque journal and a verbatim Breit interview from 1954.
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Cambridge
Mass
UPID
Houghton Library
Harvard University
Ernest Hemingway
Edomundo Lassalle
New York
South Dartmouth
Hemingway
Harvey Breit
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
James Jones
Lassalles
School Seeks Federal Grant For Math Project
HINESBURG Champlain Valley Union High School has submitted a federal grant application to study computer assisted instruction for mathematics at Burlington Champlain Valley Union and Rice Memorial high schools. Findings may help Vermont communities assess feasibility of such programs in math education. Mary G Zamora 27 of Dry Lake Nevada collided with a police car and a motorcycle while drunk. she was arrested and found wanted on a federal warrant in New Mexico.
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Hinesburg
UPI
Champlain Valley Union High School
Burlington
Champlain Valley Union
Rice Memorial
Vermont
Las Vegas
Nev
Mary G. Zamora
Dry Lake
New Mexico
Waterbury Reservoir drowning claims Middlesex man
Waterbury police said Adrian Clark, 22, drowned Sunday while swimming with Gary A. Holmes, 23, in the Waterbury Reservoir. Holmes reported Clark missing after they began toward the opposite bank. Clark's body was recovered late Sunday.
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Waterbury
UPI
Middlesex
Adrian Clark
Gary A. Holmes
Montpelier
Holmes
Clark
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Love Brothers
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