Readsboro Marine on Leave Dies in Weekend Fatality
A 19 year old Readsboro Marine on leave from the service died in Vermont s only Fourth of July weekend highway fatality. John V Fuller I lost control of a 1964 Ford convertible on South Hill Road near Readsboro around 1 45 a m Monday and the car overturned pinning him beneath. Death was due to asphyxiation and possible skull fracture. Fuller was en route to an all night dance at the South Readsboro Community Club Hall._state police and regional medical examiner attributed the cause. first responders noted this as a total wreck for the area. A prior crash involving Fuller occurred last fall in Whitingham. In other weekend accidents a Bennington man, Barry R Purdy 22, was hospitalized in Woodford after his Chevrolet convertible left the road and struck a culvert. His passenger Herbert Holland of Bennington was uninjured.
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Readsboro
Vermont
John V. Fuller I
Leona Fuller
Wilmington
Fuller
South Hill
Milton Wolf
South Readsboro
Rizleri Comal
Peter Barton
Young Fuller
Whitingham Village
Young George Reynolds
Bennington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Woodford
Barry R. Purdy
River St
Purdy
Herbert Holland
Head Start Launched Today In Vermont
Vermont launches its Operation Headstart program across the state to aid disadvantaged preschool children entering school this fall. Over 2,300 children will participate in 103 centers, with most opening today. The Burlington School Department runs the state's largest center serving about 300 children from Burlington and nearby towns. The program operates under a 90 percent federal, 10 percent local funding mix, committing over $300,000 to Green Mountain State programs.
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UPD
Vermont
Burlington
Essex
Colchester
Green Mountain
Holiday Weekend Deaths Record Traffic Toll
United Press International reports the Fourth of July weekend set a new high in traffic fatalities, with 541 deaths by 9:30 a.m. EDT and 547 by 11:30 a.m. EDT as the period extended from Friday evening to Monday night. California led with 52 traffic deaths, followed by Ohio and New York, while Alaska and Delaware were spared. The National Safety Council projected 470 to 570 total fatalities during the 72-hour span, the worst on record for a four-day holiday period.
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United Press International
California
Ohio
New York
Missouri
Texas
Illinois
Michigan
Alaska
Delaware
National Safety Council
Arizo
Howeard Pyle
Safety Council
Vermont tax reform eyed to bill residents instead of returns
Vermont Tax Commissioner Witherspoon proposes a system based on federal tax liability. The plan would have the department issue bills rather than require residents to file state income tax returns. Norman Redlick, NYU Law, to assist at 75 dollars daily. The aim is to align Vermont taxation with federal statutes and use prior year federal returns to set a state rate.
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Montpelier
UPI
Gerald Witherspoon
Vermont
Witherspoon
New York University Law School
Norman Redlick
State Tax Department
American Troops Join In New Zone D Sweep Near Saigon
American, Australian and Vietnamese troops conducted a large sweep through Zone D north of Saigon in the second joint search and destroy operation this week. No contact reported by late afternoon as U.S. planes and ground forces pressed the zone’s jungle sweeps. Meanwhile Ba Gia garrison defenders reported heavy fighting with 30 dead, 42 wounded, and 109 missing among government troops, with U.S. jet support and mortars exchanged in a stubborn battle.
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UPS
Zone D
Guao
Ba Gia
U. S
U.S
France recalls ambassador as Common Market talks stall
Brussels reports France has recalled its ambassador to Paris amid De Gaulle moves over farm-price policy. Hallstein travels to Bonn for crisis talks with Italy and West Germany as France and partners refuse to concede on farm policies and threaten a diplomatic split.
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UPI
France
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Six Nation Group
Walter Hallstein
Bonn
Hallstein
Giuseppe Saragat
Amintore Fanfani
West Germany
Italy
de Gaulle
Benelux
Pownal Race Track's Biggest Day of the Year
Pownal's Green Mountain Park track celebrated Independence Day with the largest crowd of the season. An afternoon crowd of 10 371 attended the 11 race card and $570 734 was handled at the tote machines, the biggest day of the year for attendance and handle.
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Pownal
UPD
Green Mountain Park
Leddy Hebard Named To Alignment Board
The five member Legislative Apportionment Board will include Bernard Leddy Burlington attorney who lost the 1960 governor race and Emory Hebard Glover former Reapportionment Committee chair. Gov Hoff will name Christopher Webber Rutland attorney and Frances Callahan White River Junction to the slate. the chief justice will pick a fifth member. The board must decide by August 16 how multi member districts are drawn and will oversee future apportionment changes.
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Philip H. Hoff
Christopher Webber
Rutland
Frances Callahan
White River Junction
Democratic State Women’s Organization
State Supreme Court
Fletcher Plumley Former Vermont PSB Head Dies at 58
Fletcher D. Plumley aged 58 former chairman of the Vermont Public Service Board died in Washington after a period of illness. A Northfield native he led the PSB 1944 to 1947 and later served as secretary of civil and military affairs in Vermont. He worked as an attorney for Reynolds Metals in Washington since 1950 and was active in Vermont Republican circles.
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UPI
Fletcher D. Plumley
Vermont Public Service Board
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PSB
Vermont
Green Mountain
Northfield
Reynolds Metals Co
Charles A. Plumley
Norwich University
George Washington University
Senator Angney to Seek Re-Election in New Legislature
Arlington Republican Allan B. Angney Jr. announced he will run again for the Vermont Senate after reapportionment placed the chamber on a one person one vote basis. He won his seat in 1964 with no change to Bennington County's two seats, while the fate of the other Bennington senator, Democrat Robert M. Wilson, remains undecided.
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Allan B. Angney Jr
Bennington County
Angney
Senate
Federal
Vermont
Robert M. Wilson
Bennington
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Edward G. LeTourneau
Grandview St
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Nguyen Chanh Thi
Quang Ngai
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