Vermont News Roundup Highlights Deaths and Public Appointments
A 22 year old man died by suicide in Cambridge Junction after being despondent for some time, found by his father. A two story Winooski fire killed Shelley Lamarthre 3, and fireman Alan Hill, with others injured as a wall collapsed. Gov Hoff named Robert Branon deputy agriculture commissioner with an 8500 dollar salary to work on dairy code revisions. Norwich University leader Maj Gen Harmon plans retirement by 1965 and seeks a new Army administrator. Kenneth B Watkins elected president of Vermont Retail Grocers Association, with officers and directors named and a 250 dollar donation to Keep Vermont Beautiful.
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Cambridge Junction
UPI
Neil M. Playful
Playful
Winooski
Shelley Lamarthre
Alan Hill
Hill
Maurice Blanchard
Ronald Duell
Northfield
Ernest N. Harmon
Norwich University
Harmon
Military College
Woodstock
Kenneth B. Watkins
Reading
Vermont Retail Grocers’ Association, Inc
Woodstock Inn
Jules Chicoine
St. Albans
George McQuade
St. Johnsbury
J. Tilly Ballard
Rutland
James H. Watson
Taftsville
Ernest Hurst
Greensboro
Edward Farnham
Manchester
Ballard
Carl R. Smith
Grocers’ Organization
Keep
Vermont
Vermont backs bid to land 1976 Winter Olympics
The Vermont Development Board, with unanimous support from Gov Hoff, backs a coordinated effort to secure New England as the best site for the 1976 Winter Games. Chairman Drysdale said the Development Department will assist in any feasible way, contending the region would gain from an Olympic hosting.
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Montpelier
Vermont Development Board
Hoff
New England
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
Vermont
Wappingers Falls crash survivor fights for life in Ellis Hospital
A Delaware and Hudson freight train fatally struck a late model car carrying five youths from Wappingers Falls New York near Ballston Lake. Anna Barry 15 survived. siblings Michael 13 and Barry 15 were killed along with Corine Windheim 17 and John Burns 21.
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Schenectady
UPS
Ellis Hospital
Delaware and Hudson
Here
New York
Ballston Lake
Wappingers Falls
N.Y
Anna Barry
Michael
Corine Windheim
Barry
John Burns
Stocks Open Narrowly Mixed In Moderate Session
New York stocks opened with mixed results in moderate trading. American Telephone stood at 136.44, American Tobacco at 32.54, Merritt Chapman & Scott up 0.14, Reynolds Metals down 0.61, Reynolds Tobacco up 0.04 to 42.0, Financial Federation up 0.? to 52, and U.S. Rubber down 0.49.
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New York
UPI
American Telephone
American Tobacco
Merrit Chapman & Scott Rose
Reynolds Metals
Reynolds Tobacco
Financial Federation
U.S. Rubber
American Airlines
General Electric
Polaroid
International Nickel
Louisville & Nashville Celac Railway
Liggett & Myers
I Air Reduction
Alco
Allegheny
American Metal
American T & T
Armco Steel
Armour
Atchison
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chrysler
Coca Cola
Columbia Gas
Consu Pw
Continental Can
Paramount
Ya Reynolds Tobacco
Goodrich Tire & Rub
Richfield
Goodyear Tire & Rub
Schering
Grace WR
Sears Roebuck
Great A & P
Vy Greyhound
Sinclair
Gulf Oil
Vq Socony Mobil
Harbison Walker
Southern Ry
Herc Powder
Sperry Rand
Illinois Central
Standard Brand
Rand
Standard Oil
Ind
IBM
Int Harvester
Nickel
Island Creek Coal
Stewart Warner
Jones & Laughlin
Swift
Joy Mfg
Tenn Gas
Kennecott Texaco
Lone S Cm
United Air Lines
Mack Trucks
United Fruit
Monsanto
United States Rubber
le Motorola
United States Smelt
United States Steel
National Biscuit
Va National Dairy
Warner Bro Pic
National Gypsum
Va P&p
New York Central
Westing Air
North Amer
Westing Elec
Amer Coal
New England Colleges Hold Weekend Graduation Exercises
UPI reports a weekend of commencements across about 30 New England colleges and universities. Speakers include James Reston at Brandeis and Hubert Humphrey at UMass Amherst urging dignity and freedoms amid civil rights debates. King Jr. at Wesleyan condemns segregation as a national shame and a barrier to progress.
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New England
Boston
UPI
America
Norwich University
Northfield
Hubert H. Humphrey
University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Humphrey
Martin Luther King Jr
Weslyen University
Middletown, Conn
United States
Stafford urges edu tion link to U S world leadership
Vermont Congressman Robert T. Stafford addressed Castleton College graduates, arguing federal aid should aid brick and mortar needs while avoiding centralized curriculum control. He warned Southeast Asia risks and urged graduates to support a viable foreign policy and active citizen roles.
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Castleton
Robert T. Stafford
Castleton College
United States
Vermont
Southeast
Asia
Africa
Cuba
Washington
Stafford
Southeast Asia
South
Viet Nam
Three Names Added To Vermont Road Toll This Weekend
Vermont's highway death toll rose to 58 with two deaths from a Saturday night one car crash on Route 5 in Wells River. Theodore Floyd Butson 20 died, as did Freeman Hitchcock 28 of Woodsville. Raymond Burkey 62 died from injuries in a May 15 two car crash on Interstate 89.
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Wells River
UPD
Vermont
Theodore Floyd Butson
Butson
Freeman Hitchcock
Woodsville
N.H
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Raymond Burkehy
Charlotte
Burleigh
Inlaw
Olive Manor
Bennington Banner Telephones and Publication Details
The Bennington Banner lists its business and newsroom phone numbers and advertising line. It states publication daily except Sunday and legal holidays from 425 Main St Bennington Vermont with subscription rates for local and U.S. mail and special serviceman rates.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
Cardinal Cushing Labeled Possible GOP Convention Speaker
Boston archbishop Cardinal Cushing, amid criticism over comments on the Massachusetts Crime Commission, received an informal bid to be keynote speaker at the Bay State Republican convention. State Chairman Frederic Dumaine Jr. floated the idea to let him address morality in public employes. Cushing said he could not be keynote speaker at either major party convention.
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Saratoga Springs
UPS
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Skidmore College
Sen
Smith
U.S
Barry Goldwater
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Sen. Smith
San Francisco
North Adams
Harry G. Schrickel
Whittier College
Calif
Whittier
North Adams State College
Schrickel
Cardinal Cushing
Bay State
Boston
UPI
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Massachusetts Crime Commission
Frederic C. Dumaine Jr
Dumaine
WBZ
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Gulf Rocks Road
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Joseph F. Speth
Farrell
Senate
Adams
Franklin Farrell
Dalton
Lee
Greylock ‘Protectors
Pittsfield
Mt. Greylock
Boston University
James Reston
Brandeis University
Waltham
Reston
New York Times
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Crime Commission
Tn Peale
California
Deal Label
Sunkist Lemons
Gholden
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Finch Dist. CO
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