Vermont Conference opens at UVM with Feiffer and Harri son
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer and Selig Harrison of the New Republic spoke at the ninth annual Vermont Conference opening at the University of Vermont. Themes include Myopic Man limitations in communications. Other Vermont items report three youths arraigned in Franklin and Girl Scout Roundup site work near Button Bay State Park.
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Montpelier
Button Bay
Robert Williams
Department of Forests and Parks
Sprague Names President for Canadian Operations
Sprague Electric Co. of North Adams announces Douglas B. Annan to lead Sprague TCC Canada Ltd in Toronto. He will join the board. Dr. Francis J. Burger remains vice president in charge of technical, research and development efforts.
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Sprague
North Adams
Sprague Electric Co
Sprague-Tcc (Canada) Ltd
Toronto
Sprague Co
Douglas B. Annan
DeHaviland Aircraft of Canada Ltd
Francis J. Burger
Incumbents Reelect in Quiet Cambridge Village Vote
In Cambridge New York two incumbents were reelected to village trustee posts. Thomas F Dunn won 51 votes and Donald J Presler 46 votes for two year terms in a calm local election.
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Cambridge
Thomas F. Dunn
Donald J. Presler
Protests Condemn County Tax Adoption in Cambridge Meeting
About 250 residents gathered in the Cambridge municipal building to condemn the county sales tax approved by the County Board of Supervisors on March 12. Gardner Cullinan of the Washington County Post was elected moderator as petitions urged rescinding the tax and placing the issue before voters in a referendum.
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Cambridge
County Board of Supervisors
Gardner Cullinan
Washington County Post
Rutland Railway Faces ICC Climax Amid Abandonment Bid
Vermont’s Rutland Railway saga nears a turning point as ICC ex am iners come to Rutland to decide whether to allow full abandonment. Ownership, labor strikes, and state plans clash with potential salvage, wage costs, and regional shippers facing higher transport bills. Four hundred workers face job loss regardless of the decision.
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Rutland, Vt
Rutland Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Vermont
William S. Ginsburg
Rutland Corp
Washington, D.C
Ginsburg
Gisburg
ICC
Keyser
CNR Considers Cutting Summer Mail Train Service
The Canadian National Railroad seeks state approval to trim its summer passenger service between Portland and Montreal to weekend-only runs. The petition with Maine New Hampshire and Vermont utilities commissions proposes a Friday Montreal to Portland train with a Saturday return, stopping in Vermont and New Hampshire. Most riders on this route are Canadian vacationers to Old Orchard Beach Maine.
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Concord
N.H
Canadian National Railroad
Portland
Maine
Montreal
Public Utilities Commissions of
New Hampshire
Vermont
Road
CNR
Old Orchard Beach
Eighteen Bennington Students to Take Math Prize Test
Eighteen Bennington High School students will join the fifth annual High School Prize Examination in Mathematics on Saturday. Sponsored by National Life Insurance Co and hosted by the University of Vermont, the event awards prizes at school, regional, and state levels with top 20 percent receiving certificates of merit.
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Bennington High School
National Life Insurance Co
University of Vermont
Vermont
Bendi
Bennington County
Addison
Rutland
James Crozier
Stuart Eldred
Karen Killen
Edward Trainor
Ivars Vitenbergs
John Fothergill
Mara Lusis
Joe Paresky
Ronald Pollock
Robbery Note Left, No Gunman Found at Bank Lobby
A Rochester Savings Bank customer discovered a note in the lobby reading This is a hold up Do not call guard or you will be hurt Quickly put money into the bag The guard was alerted but no bag or robber was located.
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Rochester, N. Y
Rochester Savings Bank
Martinelli Faces 1.5 Million Federal Tax Lien
A federal tax lien for 1 546 672 dollars was filed Tuesday against Arnold C. Martinelli of Belchertown Hampshire County. The lien covers federal income taxes for 1949 to 1955 and was filed by revenue agent John H Winsoski of the Springfield treasury office. Martinelli is president of Rogers Plastic Corp of West Warren and runs plants in Brattleboro Vermont and Montreal.
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Northampton
Mass
Arnold C. Martinelli
Belchertown
Hampshire County
Radio sets gifted to Tulsa officials meet reception troubles
Tulsa AP reports a radio station gave radios to District Judge Robert Simms and County Attorney David Hall for courthouse use, but building structure blocks reception to only a competing station.
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Tulsa, Okla
Robert Simms
New County
David Hall
Plucky Deaf Girl Set for U S Visit by Polaris Crew
Fifteen year old Wendy Mad docks, deaf from birth, won the hearts of U S sailors Lt Ted Meloy and Richard Dias after Christmas dinner. They invited her to the United States as a guest, with U S officials helping secure a visa. She will stay with Meloy in Groton Connecticut and visit New York, Boston and Washington.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Wendy Maddocks
Jane Tuesday
United States
Wendy
Ted Meloy
Richard Dias
America
U. S
Meloy
Groton, Conn
New York
Boston
Washington
Mammoth Cave Founded by 19th Century Bear Hunt
Bear in Cave becomes part of a National Park spanning about 70 000 acres between Bowling Green and Elizabeth town in southwestern Kentucky. The cave’s discovery traces to a hunter who chased a wounded bear into it and information about the cave spread by workers mining nitrates for gunpowder in the War of 1812.
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Bowling Green
Elizabeth Town
Kentucky
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Hoff
ST. Johnsbury
Philip Hoff
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White River Junction
Down In
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By Arthur Ristau
F. Ray Keyser Jr
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