Around Vermont 251 Club Meets Wednesday
Montpelier arrangements are set for the annual 251 Club banquet at National Life with Deane C. Davis toastmaster Gov Hoff to greet guests and Willard Strong to welcome. The club aims to visit all 251 Vermont towns with lingered visits and notes. Ronald Rood will present a slide talk Now You See It. A business meeting follows.
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Montpelier
251 Club
National Life
Lillias M. Bailey
Deane C. Davis
Philip H. Hoff
Willard H. Strong
Vermont
Ronald Rood
Lincoln
Vermont Life Magazin
Lyndon State College begins second session of youth program
Lyndon State College starts the Vermont New York City Cooperative Youth Program second session after a four week run. Prof. Herbert DiGioia told trustees the 76 youths from Vermont and New York worked, toured, and created projects including a poetry book, a movie, radio reports and TV appearances. A follow up study to assess impact will be done after the second session. Nine area drawings yielded 617 pints of blood for the Burlington Regional Blood Center, down from last week, with Brattleboro 165 pints and Concord N.H. 106 pints. 621 pints were sent out to 62 Vermont and New Hampshire hospitals.
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Lyndon Center
UPI
Lyndon State College
Lyndon
Burlington
Vermont
New Hampshire
Brattleboro
Concord
N.H
Albany Jail Awaiting Arraignment in Macy Murder Case
Albany reports a Cohoes couple, Charles and Carol Bressette, held in Albany County Jail after a high speed chase and crash linked to the murder of 77 year old Clarence Macy whose battered body was found in the Erie Canal at Vischers Ferry. Macy last seen Friday morning near his home.
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Albany
Cohoes
Albany County
Clarence E. Macy
Erie Canal
Vischers Ferry
Charles Bressette
Carol
Waterford
Bressettes
Macy
Delaware Avenue
van Schaick Island
Ballston Spa
Thomas A. Leighton
Rensselaer
Saratoga
Edward T. Sullivan
Grand Jury
Leighton
Albert Sitterly
Phone Workers Reject Two Company Offers
Boston based IBTW rejects two offers from New England Telephone Co after a 96 day strike. Union president Gerald J Walsh will seek talks to reopen negotiations with NET. Ballots show wage package defeated 6179 to 4328 and promotion plan 8549 to 1939, with the company deeming the rejection unconscionable and prolonging the strike.
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Boston
UPI
International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers
IBTW
Gerald J. Walsh
New England Telephone Co
NET
American Arbitration Association
Executive Council
Walsh
Manchester
N.H
Portland
Mass
Vermont
New England
Connecticut
Robert Pillsbury
Burlington
Vermont Telephone
Pillsbury
Howevever
Moulton backs Rockefeller for GOP nomination in Vermont
Vermont Republican state committee chairman Elbert G. Moulton endorsed Gov. Nelson Rockefeller for the Republican presidential nomination saying it would be best for the country and the party. He noted nine delegates favor Nixon and that his support may upset pro-Nixon factions, but he will back Rockefeller while a win seems possible.
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Moulton
Rockefeller
Prouty Praises Vermont New Hampshire School Compact
Senator Winston L. Prouty calls the Vermont New Hampshire interstate school compact a milestone as Senate approves the measure. The pact would let neighboring communities cross state lines to form joint school districts after Vermont's 1968 passage and with federal approval pending to take effect, citing Dresden School District examples in Norwich Vermont and Hanover New Hampshire.
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Washington
UPI
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Senate
Vermont
Norwich
Hanover
N.H
Dresden
Vermonters Back Traditional Name For Thompson Point
Vermont Library Trustees endorse a Charlotte residents’ petition to keep Thompson's Point spelling on Lake Champlain maps. They oppose federal changes to Thompson Point and Thompsons Point, with a formal Board on Geographic Names request to follow. The 1839 name remains tied to town property leased for summer use to aid the town’s poor.
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Charlotte
UPI
Sam
Federal Board On Geographic Names
Thompson’s Point
Thompson Point
Thompsons Point
Berkshire police chase ends with teen in court
Henry Brown, 17, of North Adams faces District Court following a late Saturday chase in Clarksburg and North Adams. His getaway car, stolen from Shapiro Motors, crashed into a parked vehicle before he hid under a porch. In Great Barrington a fire at Waverly Apartments killed Joseph J. Kiley, 43, with Miss Mary Wimpell and Mrs. Viola Vosberg rescued from a third floor window as smoke inhalation injuries were treated. In Pittsfield, Earl L. Clement, 48, died when his car left the road and struck a culvert. his daughter Rosemarie, 15, and Deborah Ann Boucher, 16, were hospitalized with serious injuries.
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Cambridge
Lisa Anne Rymph
John A. Rymph
Easton Station Road
Greenwich
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge Central School
Phillip Sica
Cambridge Police
Paul A. Dicranian
Pownal
North Adams
Henry Brown
Clarksburg
Mass
Shapiro Motors
Great Barrington
Joseph J. Kiley
Waverly
Mary Wimpell
Viola Vosberg
Riley
Washington
Pittsfield
St. Luke’s Hospital
Earl L. Clement
Rosemarie
Deborah Ann Boucher
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Woodstock
Windsor
Jimmy Fund
Cancer Research Fund For
Fleming Museum
New York
Weather Bureau
Prouty Halls Interstate School Compact
Pond
Tion
Charlotte Citizens
State Library
Omega
Atkins
Gould
Jewelers
Omega Watch Center
Nationaline
Depot ST. Dial
Bennington, VT
House of Walsh
Spring Street
Williamstown, Mass
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