Ottauquechee Valley Regional Planning Commission organized
Appointed representatives from Plymouth Bridgewater Woodstock Pomfret and Hartland formed the Ottauquechee Valley Regional Planning Commission with Hartford support. Henry T. Bourne of Woodstock was elected chairman Samuel R. Puffer Hartland vice chairman Rex Jillson Pomfret secretary treasurer.
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Woodstock
Plymouth
Bridgewater
Pomfret
Hartland
Ottauquechee Valley
Vermont Weekend Fatalities Include Burlington Nurse Aide
A Burlington nurse’s aide Sharon Shortsleeve, 19, died in a Shelburne single car crash when the vehicle she rode in failed a curve and overturned. Driver Charles Ouellette, 19, also of Burlington, was involved. Earlier, Fernand Rouleau, 34, from Williamstown, who was injured in a motorcycle crash with his brother, died Sunday in Barre City Hospital.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Sharon Shortsleeve
Burlington
Shelburne
Charles Ouellette
Miss Shortsleeve
Fernand Rouleau
Williamstown
Barre City
Repton Locomotive Heads to Steamtown Exhibit in Bellows Falls
The 1930 62 ton Royal Express locomotive Repton, once hauling passengers between London and Windsor, will join 51 other vintage engines at Steamtown USA in Bellows Falls. The British government donated the engine to F. Nelson Blount's museum, with shipping by boat to the United States costing $20,000.
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Repton
United States
Vermont Liquor Dept reports April gains and yearly rise
UPI reports in Montpelier that April liquor sales rose by 46 000 dollars versus last year. For the first ten months of fiscal 1967 total liquor sales reached 18 million dollars, about 2 million higher than fiscal 1966. The state tax on liquor and related beverages climbed to 470 000 dollars, up 10 000 from a year earlier. Total cases sold in April fell by about 1 000 to 27 600.
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Montpelier
UPI
State Liquor Department
Roger Sheridan
Obedience vs dissent sparks quotes at Skidmore graduation
Webster College president Jacqueline Grennan challenged blind obedience and draft card burnings while praising responsible dissent. In Warrensburg, Rev Luke Anthony Moosburger 94 died in a crash near Newark after his car struck a parked vehicle injuring Ruby E Power 75.
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Saratoga
Adolph Eichmann
All Saints
Jacqueline Grennan
Webster College
Webster Grove
Skidmore College
Warrensburg
Luke Anthony Moosburger
St. Mary’s Priory
Newark
N.J
Father Moosburger
Glens Falls Hospital
Ruby E. Power
Lake George
Florida school teachers reach tentative contract deal
The Florida School Committee and the consolidated school teachers association have agreed on all terms of a proposed contract. Three teachers remain unresolved as their case waits before the State Labor Relations Board, challenging the committee’s failure to appoint them for the next year as an unfair labor practice under the collective bargaining law.
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Florida
Florida School Committee
Teachers Association of the Consolidated School
State Labor Relations Board
Counterfeit Bills Found In Bank Deposit at Lee National Bank
In Lee, three counterfeit twenty dollar bills were found in a deposit Berkshire Downs made at Lee National Bank. Cashier Thomas C. Campoli alerted police after verifying the notes. Berkshire Downs maintains an account there and counterfeit bills have circulated at the track previously. In North Adams, Sprague Electric workers rejected the company's final contract offer by a large margin, withholding comment from management. The proposal claimed over five percent in direct raises dependent on union acceptance by Friday.
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LEE
Lee National Bank
Berkshire Downs
Thomas C. Campoli
Campoli
North Adams
Sprague Electric Co
Pink elephant theft on Gamwell Avenue stuns Pittsfield
Early Sunday a resident reported a pink elephant statue on a lawn at 96 Gamwell Ave was stolen by an unidentified individual who also removed street sign posts from two nearby streets to prove a point.
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Pittsfield
Gamwell Ave
Taylor calls Vietnam a test of national character at Norwich
Former U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor told Norwich University graduates that U.S. reluctance to be a fence-sitter pushed troops into Vietnam. He tied Korea to SEATO and said staying the course on chosen sides defines national character and duty to self-determination.
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Northfield
UPI
U.S
South Vietnam
Maxwell D. Taylor
America
Vietnam
Norwich University
Korea
Southeast Asia
Taylor
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
Red China
North Vietnam
Diem
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Norwich
Moyers: Hawks and Doves Intoxicated with Righteousness
Bill Moyers in a commencement address at Winooski Park argues that more Vietnam debate is needed while hawks and doves have become intoxicated with their own righteousness, reflecting on the heated campus climate and policy lines.
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Moyers
Doves
Winooski Park
UPI
White House
Bill Moyers
Vietnam
Water Supply Hearings Set Across New England
The U S Army Corps of Engineers NEWS Study holds hearings to assess Northeastern water needs. Sessions occur in Portland Maine on June 6 Concord New Hampshire on June 7 and Montpelier Vermont on June 8, all at 2 p m Local venues include the University of Maine Portland campus the Concord State Office Building and the Vermont State House.
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New York
United States Water Supply (News
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Portland
Maine
Concord
N.H
Montpelier
Luther Bonney
University of Maine
Falmouth St
Dept
United States
North Atlantic Division
F. P. Koisch
Vermont Escapers Captured in N.H.
Hanover New Hampshire police captured two Windsor State Prison escapers from Vermont. John Casper, 31, of Burlington and Winston Morris, 28, of Barre, were found walking in civilian clothes on Main Street at 3 am. Neither offered resistance and both were held for Vermont authorities awaiting extradition waiver.
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Hanover
N.H
UPI
Windsor
Vermont
Carlton Woodward
John Casper
Burlington
Winston Morris
Barre
Woodward
Main Street
Garden Clubs Meet Next Week at Grafton
GRAFTON The Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont Inc will hold its 31st annual meeting June 12 to 14 at the restored Old Tavern. Hostesses from Bellows Falls Garden Club, led by Mrs. Charles Clark, plan a full program with registration at 10 a.m. Tuesday, talks by civic beautification leaders and a tea at Mrs. Samuel Pettengill's garden. A cocktail hour precedes dinner, and Dr Barbara Shalucha will lecture on Beyond the garden. The Wednesday session includes a business meeting, nominating slate, a luncheon with life member honorees, and the Wickenk-Way flower award. There are eighteen clubs and about 1200 members in the federation.
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Grafton
Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont Inc
Bellows Falls Garden Club
Charles Clark
Ruth Riley
C. Davis Wroten
Burlington
Philip M. Read
Boston
Sears
New England
Samuel Pettengill
Robert Bancroft
Prescott Bailey
Harry Rubican
H.A. Mayforth
Barbara Shalucha
Shalucha
Springfield
Frederick Welling
North Bennington
National Council Or
State Federation
E. van Dyke Wetmore
Essex
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Heart Association
Bolton
Vermont Heart Association
Bolton Valley Lodge
Richard E. Bouchard
Walter W. Buttrick Jr
Bellows Falls
Roger W. Mann
Jeffersonville
William O’ Rourke
Rutland
Clifford B. Harwood
Manchester
Fred L. Nims
South Londonderry
Roy D. Watkins
Queen’s Engine
Down In
Berkshire
Sprague
Gen. Taylor
The
Military College
St. Michael’s College
Long Island Newsday
Hawks
St. Michael’s
Haynes & Kane Inc
Main ST
Dial
Bennington
Johnson
Alexander Trowbridge
Viet Nam
Middle East
Bennington Banner
H. Greenberg & Son, Inc
Bennington, VI
Israel
Aqaba
Geneva
U.S.A
Beirut
Amman
Jerusalem
Cairo
Damascus
A-Capital
Jordan
United Arab Republic
Egypt
Lebanon
Capital
Syria
VEC, Inc
Madison, Wisconsin
Ula
Ana Gulf
MINN
Wey
UNUL
Vermont Bank
Brattleboro
Chester
Manchester Center
Emith
E. T. Williams
Atkins and Gould
Jewelers
Atkins
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