Budget approved for Josephine Baird Children's Center
At its July meeting the board approved a 1966 67 budget of 290 000 the largest in a century of service to Vermont children. The center which offers residential group home day care and special education is non profit non sectarian and accredited by the Child Welfare League of America. James Cotter reported 46 children cared for last year up nine from the year before marking a third straight year of growth.
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Burlington
Josephine B. Baird
Vermont
Margaret Lillie
Bennington
Allan B. Angney
Arlington
James Cotter
Children’s Center
The
Child Welfare League of America
State of
Burlington Plumbers Cross Picket Lines Amid Carpenters Strike
Mediation stalls between the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and major Burlington contractors prompt plumbers to return to work. About 300 carpenters walked out last Tuesday over a wage dispute, halting roughly $20 million in northwestern Vermont construction as union members crossed back after a week.
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Burlington
UPIT
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Carpenters Union
Brotherhood of Plumbers and Steamfitters Union
Vermont
Milton zoning rejection by slim margin on growth plan
Milton villagers defeated a proposed zoning ordinance 109-107 to guide growth and protect property values. Milton town voted 183-56 against the plan in a second negative ballot, with about a quarter of registered voters turning out, according to Town Clerk Ethel Everest. Burlington area police seek 16 year old state ward Douglas W Billow from Enosburg Falls missing since Saturday. He is 5'7" with brown hair and a slim build, last seen in a dark shirt and work shoes. investigators believe he may be visiting relatives nearby.
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Richard Keough
Brattleboro
Glover
Proulx
Milton
UPI
Milton Town
Ethel Everest
Burlington
Enosburg Falls
Department of Social Welfare
Douglas W. Billow
Billow
Troy man dies after 40 foot fall in Schenectady
A 19 year old Troy construction worker, Christian Sorensen, fell 40 feet from a highway viaduct under construction for the Schenectady interchange of Interstate 90. He was taken by ambulance to Ellis Hospital where he died of a fractured skull, according to the Schenectady County coroner.
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Schenectady
Troy
Christian Sorensen
Ellis Hospital
Stillwater teen drowns at Hudson River dock
A 15-year-old Schuylerville youth Anthony Malinoski drowned Tuesday afternoon while swimming with friends near a Hudson River boat dock in Saratoga County. He was pulled from seven feet of water and pronounced dead at the scene. A 14-year-old from Niagara Falls, Donna Wanek, helped retrieve the body after about five minutes.
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Stillwater
Schuylerville
Hudson River
Saratoga County
Anthony Malinoski
Malinoski
Donna Wanek
Niagara Falls
Berkshire towns weigh dog restraint ordinance change
In Williamstown selectmen rejected a resident's demand for an immediate full dog ordinance. They backed the current partial restraining rule, favored by about 100 attendees at a prior hearing. In Pittsfield the City Council voted 8 2 to pursue rescinding their dog restraint ordinance enacted June 28 amid a related public hearing.
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Williamstown
Pittsfield
North Adams
Selectmen
Leroy Picard
Cat rescue ends in North Adams with failed pipe attempt
A Whitingham Vermont man, after a 300 mile drive from Wilmington Delaware, searched a flood control chute for his lost cat. Robert Sawyer and a crowd including firefighters patrolmen a veterinarian and local youths assisted but could not coax the cat from the pipe and ended the effort after hours of trying.
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North Adams
Whitingham, Vt
Wilmington
Del
Robert Sawyer
Old Guard Unseated In Virginia Primary
In Virginia two assertive young lawyers backed by Negro voters appeared to defeat Senator A Willis Robertson and Representative Howard W Smith, top figures of the region's old guard. In another key race, the Byrd organization kept its hold with incumbent Har.
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F. Byrd Jr
Senate
Robertson
William B. Spong Jr
Spong
Smith
House Rules Committee
George C. Rawlings
Virginia General Assembly
Rawlings
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
House
Carter Glass
Byrd
Armistead L. Bothe
Rhodes
Alexandria
State Senate
High Court Seeks Data On Bugging by FBI Eavesdropping
The Justice Department will tell the Supreme Court how and under whose authority the FBI bugged Fred B. Black Jr.'s Las Vegas hotel room during 1963. The issue involves tax evasion and may involve J. Edgar Hoover or Robert Kennedy, with potential impact on Bobby Baker's case and organized crime probes. The admission May 24 that the FBI conducted eavesdropping triggered the court inquiry.
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Las Vegas
Baker
Justice Department
Supreme Court
FBI
Black
Strikers Break Off Talks In Airline Negotiations
Negotiations to end a six day airline walkout stalled over union charges that Northwest Airlines reprised against seven IAM workers based in Tokyo. Assistant Labor Secretary Reynolds warned talks would be difficult unless Northwest settles the reprisals issue, as about 150,000 passengers daily faced flight cancellations across United, National, Trans World and Eastern.
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Washington
UPI
Northwest Airlines
International Association of Machinists
Northwest
IAM
Tokyo
James P. Reynolds
Reynolds
United
National
Trans World
Eastern
Joseph W. Ramsey
Bennington Ban Telephones Message List
A terse public notice lists telephone numbers 442-6300 442-2800 and 442-2684 for Bennington area communications with an unclear publish note attached.
Vermont Supreme Court clears Norwich Interchange plan
The Vermont Supreme Court ruled 4 to 1 to permit the Highway Department to proceed with Interstate 91 work through Norwich including land taking from Emma Sargeant for a relocated Route 10. The ruling upholds previous findings about hearings and safety, with protests from Norwich residents Dartmouth College and Hanover NH. Norwich voters will decide on accepting the interchange.
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Boston and Maine Railroad
Ledyard
Norwich
Sargeant
Department
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