Aiken Announces 28000 Grant For Button Point Project
Senator George Aiken reports a 28000 federal grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to Vermont to acquire Button Point on Button Island in Lake Champlain. The state match will be equal, part of a 56000 recreation project approved last year in a 3.24 million package to designate Button Island as a natural area. 465 Vermont secondary students are bound for Green Mountain Boys and Girls States at Norwich University and Vermont College Montpelier, with 287 boys and 178 girls expected.
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Button Island
Northfield
UPI
Vermont
Green Mountain
Norwich University
Vermont Department of the American Legion
Norwich
American Legion Auxiliary of Vermont
Vermont College
Montpelier
Vermont New Hampshire Christmas Tree Association Meeting
About 100 members are expected at a spring meeting this Saturday in Lyndonville and Grover. Fy Young Jr. president says improvements in Christmas tree growing will be discussed and visits to local tree farms are planned.
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Lyndonville
UPI
Vermont- New Hampshire
Vermont hospitals receive $28 536.47 heart equipment loaned
The Chronic Illness Control Division of the Vermont State Department of Health allocated 28 536 47 dollars worth of heart equipment to ten Vermont hospitals using federal formula grant funds The program aims to improve outpatient facilities for diagnosing heart disease and other chronic illnesses The equipment is provided as a ten year loan with a renewal option every ten years
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Burlington
Vermont
Vermont State Department of Health
Health Department
Burlington clerk feared drowned in Lake Champlain
A 25 year old Burlington postal clerk formerly of Chicopee Massachusetts is feared drowned after a sailboat capsized in Mallets Bay on Lake Champlain. Searchers recovered the boat wallet and some clothing. He was the sixth missing person feared drowned in four days on the lake.
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Mallets Bay
UPI
Burlington
Chicopee, Mass
Lake Champlain
Robert Jakobcyzk
Vermont university lands 150000 NASA grant for space study
The University of Vermont received a 150000 grant from NASA for space research. The grant brings NASA support to 450000 over the past two years. The NASA program at UVM backs nine projects addressing basic space questions.
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Burlington
UPD
University of Vermont
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Space Agency
NASA
Coast Guard Receives Full Fleet for Lake Champlain
Burlington reports the U.S. Coast Guard has a full fleet of boats for Lake Champlain this summer with a 40 foot twin engine diesel craft arriving from Long Island storage to join the service on the lake.
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Burlington
UPI
U.S. Coast Guard
Lake Champlain
Long Island
N.Y
Albany Board to Close Two Predominantly Negro Schools
Albany officials announced plans to shut two largely black schools in the fall after a closed session with an advisory committee named by the Albany NAACP. Board member John E Holt-Harris Jr said the move would eliminate imbalanced schools, with one school about 80 percent Negro and the other 90 percent.
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Albany
Albany Board of Education
John E. Holt - Harris Jr
NAACP
Albany Times-Union
WAMC to broadcast entire Tanglewood season live
Albany station WAMC 90.3 will broadcast the full Tanglewood season from Lenox Massachusetts from July 2 through August 25. Station director Frank M Woolsey Jr says this is likely the first time in 30 years a radio outlet carries the entire festival live. Weekly Saturday broadcasts will be added for the first time.
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WAMC
Albany Medical College
Frank M. Woolsey Jr
Lenox
Mass
Tanglewood
North Adams College Wins $750000 Construction Grant
The U S Department of Health Education and Welfare awards North Adams State College a $750 000 grant for library classroom and administration building construction. President Eugene L Freel says funds come after Kennedy office notification. grant was applied for last fall through Senator Kennedy. An interfaith choral festival at Tanglewood in Lenox features 26 churches and a combined 400 singers in an hour long program with organ accompaniment and a talk on Music and the Church by Rev Malcolm W Eckel.
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U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
North Adams State College
Eugene L. Freel
Freel
Edward M. Kennedy
Sen. Kennedy
LENOX
Berkshire
Tanglewood
Malcolm W. Eckel
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Pittsfield
Williams College to host Peace Corps training team
Sixty seven volunteers will arrive at Williams College Monday to begin a summer long Peace Corps training program in Williamstown and Adams under director Associate Prof. Robert L. Gaudino. The group will activate the Peace Corps applied nutrition program in Andhra Pradesh, India, with 10 day leaves after training before returning to India with Gaudino.
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Williamstown
Williams College
Adams
Robert L. Gaudino
Andhra Pradesh
India
Gaudino
Action Urged To Control Low Flying Aircraft
John S. Throckmorton urged Bennington selectmen Tuesday night to curb extremely low flying planes from the town Municipal Airport. His Walloomsac Road home was cited as being affected by the issue and he sought official action.
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Bennington
John S. Throckmorton
Walloomsac Road
Callan Sign Questioned By Official At Town Meeting
At a Bennington selectmen session Halvor Halvorsen reported James Callan erected a sign advertising his mobile home park without a permit. The board confirmed Callan had been directed to Halvorsen for permits and said they had not misled him. Also discussed were air traffic concerns near the airport runway raised by Throckmorton, with plans to consult the Airport Commission and State Aeronautics Commissioner Knapp about flight altitudes and runway extension funded by a past March appropriation.
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North Bennington Road
Halvorsen
Callan
Selectmen
Throckmorton
Joel T. Whittemore
Whittemore
Erty
Town Airport Commission
Edward F. Knapp
Knapp
March
Trader Accepts Elephant for Chevrolet Impala in Worcester
Worcester dealer R Gordon Butler accepted a 3000 dollar trade toward a Chevrolet Impala from Bob Gibson a San Diego animal trainer who traded in an elephant chained to a trailer. The elephant valued at 2500 to 3000 dollars was bought for the car while two other elephants remained with Gibson en route to Wyoming. Butler plans to contact zoos to arrange future deals noting the animal eats hay and has rheumatism.
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Worcester
Mass
UPI
R. Gordon Butler
Bob Gibson
San Diego
Calif
Butler
Wyoming
Rowers Sighted 125 Miles at Sea
Two British army paratroopers started June 4 to row the Atlantic in a 20 foot dory. Sighted 125 miles east of Chatham by the Boston fishing vessel Winchester. Organiser John Ridgway and navigator Chay Blyth hoped to complete the 3,200 mile crossing in 55 days.
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UPS
Atlantic Ocean
Chatham
Coast Guard
Winchester
John Ridgway
Chay Blyth
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