Vermont blue law test eyed as store opens Sundays
Washington County State's Atty. Palmisano may seek a court ruling on Vermont Sunday blue laws after watching a Berlin store sell a sweater at 11 a.m. The case follows a prior Vermont Supreme Court decision striking down the exception for locally made goods. A possible warrant and further action were left undecided.
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Frank Constantine
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Bellows Falls
Blood donations rise in Vermont and New Hampshire
UPI reports Vermont and New Hampshire donors collected 951 pints in nine drawings last week, a gain of over 300 pints from the previous week. Mansfield Avenue Red Cross Center shipped 859 pints to 62 hospitals in the two states, 99 pints to other centers, with Burlington residents contributing 238 pints in a single emergency draw. Navy Disciplinary Command personnel sent 188 pints and St Johnsbury residents 150, both exceeding the 100 pint goal.
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UPI
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New Hampshire
Mansfield Avenue
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N.H
St. Johnsbury
Vermont private airplane crashes on test flight
The $60,000 University of Vermont private twin engine plane belly landed in a West Addison farm pasture after engines sputtered during a test flight. Pilot John Pratt 25 and passenger Denis Bender 24 from Winooski sustained minor injuries. The aircraft, used mainly by the college of medicine, was heavily damaged.
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Denis Bender
Winooski
College of Medicine
Cavendish Receives federal water grant
Cavendish has been awarded a federal water pollution control grant of 123,420 dollars. The grant announcement, made in Washington by the Vermont Congressional delegation, notes the total project cost is 413,400 dollars.
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Washington
Vermont
Narcotics raid arrests 19 in Albany Madison Ave apartment
Police raided a Madison Avenue apartment Saturday night in Albany, arresting 19 area youths on narcotics charges. Fifteen teenagers, three 20-year-olds and a 28-year-old man pleaded innocent at Sunday arraignment before Police Judge Harold Segal and were released on $50 bail, with appearances set for July 31.
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Madison Avenue
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Berkshire Countywide program to inform residents on Medicaid
Berkshire Community Action Council will launch a countywide MA Medical Assistance awareness program in early August in partnership with the Commonwealth Service Corps. Workers will visit county residences to explain benefits and determine eligibility. In Williamsown the Board of Appeals denied a gasoline station petition on State Road, citing zoning and district impact concerns. North Adams futures development sees seven tenants including Berkshire Gas, Western Union, RMV, BF Goodrich, Montgomery Ward, Mohawk Theater operator, and Sprague Electric, with construction planned for October and occupancy in September 1968.
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Berkshire Gas Co
Western Union Co
the Registry of Motor Vehicles
B F. Goodrich Co
Montgomery Ward
Western Massachusetts Theater Corp
Sprague Electric Co
Donald A. Thurston
Reischauer draws 1863 Viking rescue parallel with today
Former U S ambassador Edwin O Reischauer linked the 1863 Mikura Island rescue of 460 Chinese laborers by Japanese villagers to present day efforts to repair ties with Communist China. He spoke at a ceremony in New Bedford marking the Viking clipper rescue and urged Japan to use trading and technical aid to help Asia.
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U.S
Japan
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San Francisco
Hong Kong
California
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Asia
Motorcyclists Protest Bay State Helmet Law
About 1,000 motorcyclists gathered at Boston Common to oppose Massachusetts helmet requirements set to take effect January 1. Speakers criticized the law as Big Brother overreach while riders from nearby states joined locals in the six hour protest. Police monitored the event, which included a helmet burning on the State House steps and calls for repeal.
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Unknowns MC Club
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Banditos MC Club
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Third National Bank
Hampden County
Simplicity Marks Final Rites For Carl Sandburg
In Flat Rock North Carolina UPI reports simplicity guided the final rites for poet biographer Carl Sandburg. A small circle of friends and relatives attended the 2 p.m. EDT service at St John in the Wilderness Church as the famed Pulitzer winner who chronicled Lincoln passed away Saturday in seclusion.
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UPI
St. John In the Wilderness
Sandburg
America
Lincoln
New England Regional Office Opens Next Monday in Boston
The New England Regional Commission will open its Boston office July 31 in brief ceremonies at the U S Post Office and Courthouse. The agency, a joint federal state body created under the 1965 Public Works and Economic Development Act, will oversee economic development planning for six states in the region. Death was caused by an apparent heart attack. Sandburg’s body lay in state Sunday in the community where he raised goats and spent his last years. Burial will be in Galesburg Illinois where he was born January 6 1878. Sandburg’s widow Lillian was at his side. He was lauded in Blue Ridge Mountain churches and in Illinois where he served as poet laureate. Governor Kerner and President Johnson issued tributes. Sandburg’s best known poems include Chicago and Fog. He won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for the Lincoln biography volumes.
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UPD
New England Regional Commission
U.S. Post Office
Commission
Public Works and Economic Development
Sandburg
Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
Barcelona Seeks Permit for Snowflake Exhibition
Barcelona officials said Expo 67 requested permission to exhibit Snowflake the world’s only albino gorilla in captivity. No decision had been reached.
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Barcelona
Spain
UPD
Montreal
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