Huntington Residents Demand Audit After $12000 Shortage Claim
Vermont authorities will conduct an immediate inquest into an alleged twelve thousand dollar shortage in Huntington town funds. Town meeting votes for a complete independent audit for 1963 64 taxes after an overfloor audit by Wesley Cilley of South Burlington cited irregularities in books handled by former Town Treasurer Sheridan Coveau. Coveau, re-elected in a tight three way race, denied wrongdoing but proposed an independent audit before admitting blame or making restitution.
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Huntington
UPD
Chittenden County
Atty
Patrick J. Leahy
Leahy
South Burlington
Wesley Cilley
Cilley
Sheridan Coveau
Coveau
Vermont high school poetry contest sponsored by BARRE society
The Poetry Society of Vermont invites Grade 9 to 12 students in public or private Vermont schools to submit original poems four to 24 lines in traditional or free verse. Each poem must be signed with a pen name and include a sealed envelope with real name, address, school, and class. Pen name on the outside envelope. Entries due April 1 to contest chairman Richard Barry in St Albans. Winners receive cash prizes and poems published in The Mountain Troubadour, with eligibility for the Troubadour Prize.
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Richard Barry
St. Albans
SVEA Convention Leaders Set at Lyndon State College
The Student Vermont Education Association will hold its annual convention at Lyndon State College on Saturday with Fay G. Whitcomb headlining the morning session on Franklin Northwest District public religious school plans. Jocelyn Lambourne will speak in the afternoon on special class methods and present slides from her teaching in Montpelier and other English schools. Attendees include SVEA members from Johnson, Castleton, Lyndon State, Trinity, Norwich, and the University of Vermont.
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Lyndon
Vermont Education Association
SVEA
Lyndon State College
Fay G. Whitcomb
Franklin Northwest
Swanton
Jocelyn Lambourne
Montpelier
Johnson, Castleton
Lyndon State Colleges
Trinity College
Norwich University
University of Vermont
Vermont Declares Child Welfare Week March 18
Governor Hoff designates March 18 to 24 as Child Welfare Week in Vermont via proclamation urging citizens to recognize the work of child welfare services. The week aligns with the Northeastern Regional Conference in Boston in March 2022, with participants from New England and Canada. Since 1920 the Child Welfare League has led efforts to improve child life conditions and welfare policies.
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Montpelier
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont
Child Welfare League of America
Boston
New England
Canada
Child Welfare League
New Albany Postal Facility Planned For 1973
Albany area moves toward a $10 million postal facility slated for completion by January 1973. A site near an airport and major highways is under review. The center will be three times larger than the current downtown Albany office and serve 158 area post offices. Nelson Rockefeller to appoint Dr Samuel Gould to form a minority employment committee in news media. Schenectady HUD grants re certify eligibility for public housing expansion and demolition planning.
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Albany
John L. McDonald
Realty Bureau of Facilities
Washington
New York State Association of Broadcasters
Schine - Ten Eyck
Albany Gow
Nelson Rockefeller
Samuel Gould
The
State University of New York
Rockefeller
Schenectady
Erwin Shapiro
Federal Housing and Urban Development Department
HUD
Albany study predicts doubling of Black residents by 1985
A two year Albany Community Improvement Program study projects the city will have twice as many Negro residents by 1985, lose about 12,000 people to the suburbs, and be left with a concentration of elderly, non productive and low income residents.
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Albany
Berkshire teen center blocked in Pittsfield tussle
Pittsfield blocks a second teenage center as neighbors oppose and opponents fail to appear before the City Council. Harry Vincent Jr. and Donald Valenti sought a license for entertainment at the Berkshire Roofing Co. site amid concerns about railroad tracks, oil tanks, and highway access. Williamstown workers at Cornish Wire Co. and Warren Wire Co. resumed full shifts after a copper shortage forced a temporary closure.
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Pittsfield
Harry Vincent Jr
Donald Valenti
Berkshire Roofing Co
Williamstown
Cornish Wire Co
Warren Wire Co
Pownal
General Cable Corp
Harrington Rejoins Pittsfield City Office as Senior Clerk
Madalyn Harrington, former secretary to Mayors Dillon and DelGallo, returns to city service as senior clerk stenographer in the Traffic Commission after topping the civil service list. She hails from Bennington, Vermont. City Infirmary landmark in North Adams is being demolished to clear land for Southview Cemetery gravesite expansion.
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Pittsfield
Madalyn
Shanahan) Harrington
Robert Dillon
Remo DelGallo
Donald Butler
The
Traffic Commission
Civil Service
Harrington
Bennington
North Adams
City Infirmary
City Poor Farm
Southview Cemetery
McCarthy Warns Tax Hike Will Burden Economy
Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota argued in Manchester that the Johnson administration's proposed tax increase would hit taxpayers with higher taxes and higher prices. He contended the move aims to slow the economy and would not take effect immediately.
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McCarthy
Manchester
N.H
New Hampshire College of Accounting and Commerce
Vietnam
Aiken backs subsidies to aid U.S. dairy farmers
Senator George D. Aiken urges direct wartime subsidies as dairy prices sag. He cites rising inflation, tax concerns, and government war spending as factors while urging Freeman to convene dairy leaders and USDA experts to address the market drop.
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Washington
UPI
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Aiken
Freeman
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Brattleboro Votes To End Town Meeting System
Brattleboro repealed its eight year experiment with Representative Town Meeting by 775 to 768 votes. Voters approved a return to the old Town Meeting system, effective next year, after low turnout of 1,443 of 7,000 registered residents. The measure ends a system launched in 1961 with 108 elected delegates and 115 voting members including officials.
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Brattleboro
Vermont
Representative Town Meeting
Windham towns back Planning Commission expansion
Twenty of twenty two Windham County towns voted to continue the Windham Regional Planning Commission and fund a broader development role. The two year old body relies on federal money expiring July 1. a $27,000 budget will be matched by the development department. Brattleboro and Athens debated the plan. Brattleboro did not vote at meeting.
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Brattleboro
Windham
Vermont
Development Department
Commission
Bertil Wickberg
William Schmidt
Rockingham
Windham County
Wardsboro
Readsboro
Bennington County
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