Plainfield Vermont Plans Centennial Celebration for 100th Year
Plainfield in Washington County marks its 100th incorporation with a five day program from June 30 to July 4 led by a Centennial Princess Pageant and featuring exhibits lectures a grand parade outdoor barbecue dancing concerts church observances and a July 4 fireworks display. The town named for Plainfield New Hampshire owes its naming to John Chapman who offered to supply initial record books. the petition was granted in November 1797. Population grew from about 700 to 966 over a century.
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Plainfield
Vermont
Washington County
Elizabeth Lund Home to Raise Rates in Burlington
The Elizabeth Lund Home for unwed mothers in Burlington will raise rates from 25 to 49 dollars per girl starting July 1. State Social Welfare Commissioner John Wackerman cited rising operating costs and indicated more increases may follow. The home sought 350,000 dollars from the 1967 legislature for an 865,000 dollar capital program, but action was deferred and the council was asked to study private institutions. The home notes a 400 percent admission rise in 15 years, caring for 117 Vermont and 67 out-of-state girls in fiscal 1966, and has launched a fund raising drive after state funds were not provided.
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Wackerman
Vermont
Vermont New Hampshire blood donations fall sharply
Blood donations in Vermont and New Hampshire dropped to 640 pints last week from 1,300 pints the prior week. Mansfield Avenue Red Cross Blood Center in Burlington distributed 717 pints, with 641 going to 62 hospitals in the two states and additional pints shipped to other centers. Manchester New Hampshire residents set the high with 112 pints on hospital day, while Montpelier Vermont surpassed 100 pints with 101.
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Burlington
UPS
Vermont
New Hampshire
Mansfield Avenue
Montpelier
Vermont official attends regional police chiefs meeting
Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Erwin Alexander travels to Watch Hill Rhode Island for a four day North Atlantic regional meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. State police superintendents from CT DE ME MD MA NH NJ NY PA RI VA WV and Ontario plus the Maritimes participate.
Casals to Open Marlboro Summer Music Festival
Pablo Casals arrives at Marlboro College for the 17th Marlboro summer festival to begin his seventh season. He will lead masters classes and conduct the festival orchestra from July 1 to 15. Rudolph Serkin serves as artistic director and will oversee 16 weekend concerts from July 7 to August 20 featuring chamber programs.
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UPI
Pablo Casals
Marlboro College
Casals
Rudolph Serkin
Vermont Catholic Women elect new leaders at Stowe meeting
Mrs. Mandoza Couture of Morrisville was elected president of the Vermont Council of Catholic Women at the 13th annual meeting in Stowe. Also chosen were Mrs. Girard Fournier of Morrisville as secretary and Mrs. Marguerite Hogg of Quebec as treasurer.
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STOWE
UPI
Mandoza Couture
Morrisville
Vermont
Clergy urge Blaine Amendment retention Albany convention
Seventy two area clergymen urged the Constitutional Convention to retain the Blaine Amendment banning state aid to parochial and private schools and called on the Catholic Church to close its schools. The Albany diocese leader called the move outrageous and a blow to ecumenism. In Troy, Hudson Valley Community College graduates heard Deputy Commissioner Nyquist say change is constant and requires new solutions and wise choices.
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Albany
Edward J. Maginn
Albany Catholic
Troy
Ewald B. Nyquist
Hudson Valley Community College
Nyquist
Marine Lance Corporal Roulier Killed in Vietnam War
Adams Marine Lance Corporal Russell R. Roulier 20 son of Mr and Mrs Roulier 104 North Summer St Berkshire was killed in action June 21 in Quang Ngai Province Vietnam Defense Department reports his death with family notification by the armed forces.
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Russell R. Roulier
North Adams Approves Main Street Urban Renewal Plan
Edmund Mangini of the Division of Urban Renewal said Friday the State Department of Commerce and Development has approved the city’s Main Street urban renewal project.
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North Adams
State Department of Commerce and Development
Edmund Mangini
Division of Urban Renewal
Lenox Bicentennial Parade Draws 12000 Spectators
About 12,000 spectators watched Lenox as 30 floats, 800 marchers and 150 horses turned a bicentennial parade into the town’s most colorful and largest event in its history.
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Lenox
Carmichael Rails Against Law and Order in Boston Rally
Stokely Carmichael spoke in Boston saying the United States has law and order but not justice. He called for wealth redistribution and a black controlled economy, leading a 500 strong police escorted march through Roxbury to Franklin Park amid a thunderstorm.
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U.S
Boston
UPI
Stokely Carmichael
Franklin Park
Forever Head
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Roxbury
William Bradley
United States
Atlanta
National Guard
Rockefeller Pushed for 68 by Two Western Governors
West Yellowstone Mont two Republican governors praised Nelson Rockefeller as a top presidential prospect at the Western Governors Conference with a possible 1968 bid. Tom McCall of Oregon and David Cargo of New Mexico urged keeping options open while Ronald Reagan rises in conservative circles.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
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Republican Governor’s Association
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Wyo
Tom McCall
Oregon
David F. Cargo
New Mexico
McCall
Cargo
Ronald Reagan
California
Richard M. Nixon
GOP
Reagan
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