Vermont Auto Liability Rates Reduced Following Revocation
RUTLAND Vermont The National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters resumed low base rates for automobile liability after State Insurance Commissioner James Hunt voided increases ordered last December. The bureau had proposed 25 percent hikes in Rutland 4 percent in Burlington and about 1 percent elsewhere.
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Rutland
UPI
National Bureau of Casualty
Vermont
James Hunt
Burlington
Scarlet fever scare at Shoreham school cleared
SHOREHAM, UPS A scare of scarlet fever proved false and students return to classes Wednesday morning. John White, Shoreham High principal, said rumors of school closures were merely scuttlebutt. Two local cases, an adult and a 3 year old child, were reported but recovering. No quarantine or school time lost. town meeting day prompted today’s closure.
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Shoreham
UPS
John White
Middlebury
Shoreham High School
Posthumous master's for Viet Nam ROTC instructor at U VMont
University of Vermont senate awards a Master of Science in commerce posthumously to Army Captain John Strickler who was killed in Viet Nam in January after completing degree requirements. May commencement will present the degree as approved by the board of trustees. Local 1829 of the International Machineists Union calls a strike at Butterfield Division in Derby Line. 300 local workers affected. Key issues include 20 cent hourly raise, shifts, holiday, union shop, arbitration clause. half the plant on picket duty. Canadian union sympathy blocked by border, 60 day cooling off under Quebec law. plant makes drill parts and machinery.
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Burlington
UPI
University of Vermont
Viet Nam
Army
John Strickler
Strickler
Military Science
University
Senate
Derby Line
International Machinists Union
Afl-Cio
Butterfield
Union
Twist Drill,Co
Athol
Mass
United States-Canadian
Candian
Quebec
Vermont educational TV network gains new FCC channels
University of Vermont President Dr. Shannon McCune reports FCC has reallocated four ultra high frequency channels in Vermont for educational TV. New channels are 33 at Mt. Mansfield 23 at Grandpa's Knob near Rutland 20 at Burke Mountain and 41 at Mt. Ascutney. The Vermont Legislature has approved an educational TV network to be operated by the university.
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Burlington
UPI
University of Vermont
Shannon McCune
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Vermont
Mt. Mansfield
Grandpa’s Knob
Rutland
Burke Mountain
Mt. Ascutney
Wright wins Vermont Aviation Mechanics Award in 1965
Cecil A. Wright of New Port Flying Service receives the 1965 Vermont Aviation Mechanics Award from Gov. Philip H. Hoff. The FAA honors a state mechanic for outstanding flight safety via maintenance and overhaul work, including Wright s development of a procedure to prevent freezing moisture in an oil breather line for a certain engine.
Albany Bill Clears Assembly to Extend County Runway
In Albany county, a bill to extend the county airport runway by 1,000 feet for jet service won final Assembly approval after Senate passage. The 151 to 0 vote ends a long push for expanded air access at the county facility.
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Albany
Assembly
Albany County
Senate
Berkshire selectmen deny Albert Bachand license request
Williamstown officials rejected Albert Bachand of The Spruces for a first class license to sell new and used motor vehicles. The board called for the town manager and police chief to determine if skimobiles are legally and technically motor vehicles.
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Williamstown
Albert Bachand
The
Spruces
Bachand
Israeli 'Peace Dove' faces arrest after Cairo flight
Abie Nathan, 38, an Israeli restaurant owner and former fighter pilot, flew a relic Steerman biplane from Port Said to Israel in a peace mission. He was arrested on landing for illegally leaving the country, taking off without clearance, and flying without a license.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
Egypt
Abie Nathan
Port Said
Nathan
Peace
Jacob Nash
Vermont Competing With Con Ed For Canadian Power Purchase
Vermont faces a multi state power dispute over a plan to buy low cost Canadian power via a non profit Vermont entity. Con Ed says its negotiations with Quebec Hydro are at a standstill and favors power only if it can control Canadian supply. Vermont lawmakers push ahead amid questions of authority and the Churchill Falls project’s timeline.
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Consolidated Edison
Dchittenden-Grand Isle
Vermont Senate
Quebec Hydro
Fayette
Con Ed
New York Utility Company
Hoff
Daulton Mann
Peru
Mann
Senate
House
Harland C. Forbes
New York
New York City
Forbes
Canada
Lessard
Cornwall
N.Y
Federal Power Commission
Churchill Falls
Labrador
New England
Readsboro Eyes New Industry as Town Hall Leased
Readsboro voters approved leasing the old town hall to Victor Allen of Madison New Jersey to support a possible new molybdenum steel products industry. They also authorized 300 dollars as the town share in a countywide regional planning group and formed a citizens committee to study secondary education with a 400 dollar budget. Other actions set the school district budget at 76 787 dollars and a 15 317 dollar appropriation to pay principal and interest on the school bond issue.
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Readsboro
Victor Allen
Madison
N.J
Bennington County
Allen
North America
Atlantic Shelf Seen as Ancient Coastal Plain
New York based report in Oceanus suggests the Atlantic Continental Shelf between Nova Scotia and Florida was a gentle coastal plain 11,000 years ago when sea levels were about 60 meters lower, allowing mastodons and mammoths to roam the region.
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New York
APS
Atlantic
Oceanus
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
K. C. Emery
Nova Scotia
Florida
Udall Says Dickey Power Talks Progressing Harmoniously
Washington UndersecretaryUdall reports talks on the Lincoln Dickey Power Project in Maine are progressing smoothly with Canada. Two key questions are debated: a south transmission line into New England and an inter-tie with Canada. Officials aim to meet this spring with private and public power groups.
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Washington
UPI
Stewart L. Udall
Canada
Maine
Udall
New England
Bennington Banner details contact and pricing info
The Bennington Banner lists telephone lines for newsroom and advertising, street address at 425 Main St, Bennington Vermont, and pricing for subscriptions within Vermont and nationwide. It notes United Press International affiliation and delivery options with rates for various terms.
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Business Newsroom
Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
Bass To Take TV Post At WMHT TV Schenectady
Bass, longtime Berkshire Eagle "Lively Arts" columnist for 15 years, resigns to become program director of WMHT TV in Schenectady. He married Ruth Haskins of Greenfield, also an Eagle employee, and the couple resides with their two children in Richmond. North Adams School Committee to reconsider offering a full-time junior high guidance counselor following Guidance Director Louis Perrota annual report.
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Pittsfield
Milton R. Bass
Berkshire Eagle
Wmhttv
Schenectady
Bass
Ruth Haskins
Greenfield
the Eagle
Richmond
North Adams
Louis J. Perrota
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Bennington, VT
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Gunson
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Mustang
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Bennington, Vermont
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