Vermont job losses and Girl Scout Week noted
In Vermont 558 workers lost jobs in the week ending Feb 29, lifting total unemployment claims to 8,100 and the jobless rate to 8.4 percent. About one in ten exhausted regular benefits and drew 13 extra weeks. Gov Hoff proclaimed March 8-14 as Girl Scout Week noting the 1912 Savannah origin. Five Vermont Symphony concerts planned including two TV performances starting March 22.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Employment Security Department
Vermont Symphony Burlington
Vermont State Symphony Orchestra
Charles S. Lewis
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association
Wcax-Tv
Channel 3
Burlington
Randolph
Springfield
Castleton
Barre Elects Cornelius Granai Mayoral Return
Cornelius O. Granai, 66, lawyer and Barre representative in the legislature, won the mayoralty with 1740 votes to 1458 for Alderman Wilfred J. Fisher. His nephew, Mayor George Estivill, 49, did not seek re election, having previously defeated Granai in 1958. Esteemed as rivals, the two clashed politically despite family ties.
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Barre
Cornelius O. Granai
Wilfred J. Fisher
George Estivill
Granai
Estivill
Fisher
New York Housing Project Suffers Electrical Surge Damage
A powerful electrical surge Wednesday damaged appliances in 28 units across five Griswold Heights buildings in Troy. TV sets clocks and 15 heating transformers were affected but no fires occurred during the transformer wiring change. Officials say about 90 percent of bulbs were affected.
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Troy
Griswold Heights
Peltier Released From Hospital After Shooting Incident
Norman Peltier, shot by his son on February 15 in Hoosick Falls, is jailed in Rensselaer County for assault third degree and disorderly conduct after failing to post $1,000 bail set by Justice Thomas G. Restino.
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Hoosick Falls
Norman Peltier
Rensselaer County
Peltier
Justice of Peace
Thomas G. Restino
Adams Woman Seeks Susan B. Anthony Memorial
Miss Celia G. Hughes of 48 Center Street marks her 94th birthday and campaigns for a permanent memorial to Adams native Susan B. Anthony. She has lived in Adams since she was 13 months old.
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Adams
Celia G. Hughes
Center St
Susan B. Anthony
Carlson Named Mount Greylock School Committee Chairman
Williamstown Bruce Carlson was named chairman of the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee. The committee authorized Assistant Superintendent Robert Osterman to provide a breakdown of white and non white students in response to a state Department of Education request.
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Williamstown
Bruce Carlson
Mount Greylock
Robert Osterman
State Department of Education
Hazard at Hodges Crossroad Junction Raises Safety Probe
North Adams reports the State Highway Department is investigating a hazard at the Hodges Crossroad and South State Street junction. Survey work has run about three weeks as engineers study a narrow bridge, a railroad crossing, and a sharp angle turn within a few yards.
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North Adams
State Highway Department
Hodges Crossroad
South State Street
Miss UniverseVaccination dispute halts Australia tour
In Sydney Miss Universe Ieda Vargas balked at vaccination but after a doctor refused a Brazilian certificate she relented. She left the airport lighter after an arm rub and stated the needle hurt little. The scene followed a 30 hour flight from the United States.
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Sydney
Australia
Miss Universe
Ieda Maria Vargas
Miss Vargas
United States
Barry and Rockefeller use soft sell in New Hampshire
In Concord New Hampshire Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller eschew overt appeals in the Republican primary press the hands of voters but avoid asking for votes. Rockefeller defends not pressuring voters while Goldwater refuses to imitate Kefauver’s approach.
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Jack Bell
Rockefeller
Goldwater
Estes Kefauver
New Hampshire
Concord
N.H
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
D-Tenn
Kefauver
Harry S. Truman
No One Is Certain Exercise Prevents Heart Disease
Dr Irvine H Page of the Cleveland Clinic says regular exercise may not guarantee immunity to cardiovascular disease but slothful living is certain to harm health. He urges more women to support themselves and more men to reflect on what time is slipping away, noting physical laziness in society.
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Providence
Ogden Nash
Pembroke College
Nash
New York
UPI
Irvine H. Page
Cleveland Clinic
American Heart Association
Nearby Atomic Reactor Offered For International Inspection
The Yankee Atomic plant in Rowe Massachusetts would be placed under international inspection as part of a $57 million investment by 12 New England utilities. The plant began producing power in 1960 and reached 185000 kilowatts last New Year’s Day using a pressurized light water reactor with enriched uranium fuel.
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Rowe
Mass
Yankee Atomic Electric Co
United States
New England
Deerfield River
Connecticut River
Vermont
Readsboro
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Glenn A. Reed
Reed
Yankee
Goldwater Denounces Civil Disorder in Keene Speech
Senator Barry Goldwater denounced civil disorder as a weapon in the racial equality struggle during a Keene New Hampshire stop. He blamed Johnson and argued riots and protests undermine leadership and national honor, urging support in the New Hampshire primary. He highlighted California petitions and vowed to win New Hampshire to show a candidate from a small state can prevail.
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Keene
N.H
Barry Goldwater
New Hampshire
Johnson
Goldwater
Amer
Ica
England
California
Bennington Banner Details Delivery and Rates
The Bennington Banner lists contact numbers for business news and newsroom and describes its daily publication schedule. It provides home delivery options, rates by mail within a 50 mile radius in Vermont, and U S and military service rates.
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Bennington Banner
Main St. Bennington Vt
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
AP News
Vermont
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Charles Vidor
Ray Conniff
Ann Marie
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Roger Hilsman
Columbia University
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Columbia
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U.S
Viet Nam
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Rocky
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Hartford
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Conn
Main Street
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Francis J. Hogan
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New Vista
EIA
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Bennington, VT
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Chevelle
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