Vermont Managers Meet Opens Two Day Session
Around Montpelier the two day annual meeting of the Vermont Town and City Managers Association opens with 36 managers expected. CantBe, Harp and Wackerman to speak on the Food Stamp program. Gov Hoff to address the banquet. Ralph Irving is president. Local news notes St Johnsbury district rejects school closure. Job Corps praised by regional director and jobless claims drop sharply statewide.
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UPI
Vermont Town and City Managers Association
Manuel Canas Jr
Robert Harp
Livingston
N.J
International City Managers Association
John Wackerman
Vermont
Federal Office of Economic Opportunity
Milton Pulakos
Burlington
State Department of Employment Security
Barre - Montpelier
Bennington
Rutland
St. Johnsbury
St. Albans
Brattleboro
Springfield
Newport
Richmond votes to stay in Mount Mansfield union district
Richmond voters approved remaining in the Mount Mansfield Union School District by 278 to 152. This marks a final victory after efforts to rescind a prior October join, with a new Jericho Center school planned as the district’s geographic center.
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Richmond
UPS
Mount Mansfield
Bolton
Underhill
Jericho
Jericho Center
New York Ethics Bill Fails In Assembly Vote
Albany passage of a state ethics code for legislators and staff failed after a 71 to 73 roll call. The bill would have barred lawyer lawmakers or staff from paid practice before state agencies and set up a five member advisory commission. A separate cigarette label bill passed the Senate 46 to 11 warning that excessive use is dangerous to health. Smithtown tribute notes broadcaster Norman Brokenshire dies at 66 after a stroke, reflecting a career on CBS and NBC radio in the 1930s and 1940s amid industry struggles with alcoholism.
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Albany
Assembly
New York State
Senate
Smithtown
Norman Brokenshire
Brokenshire
CBS
NBC
Theater Guild of the Air
Florida man dies after being crushed in North Adams mishap
Judson Goman 63 of the Mohawk Trail was fatally injured Tuesday when crushed between two trucks unloading behind a market in North Adams. He died at North Adams Hospital about an hour after the 10 a.m. mishap. A former Florida town employee, he served many years as cemetery custodian and road maintenance foreman.
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Florida
Judson Goman
North Adams
Goman
Adams Grows to 12703 In Five-Year Population Rise
Adams official confirms population at 12 703 with Town Clerk Audrey Scully noting a gain of 312 people in five years. Fire marshal investigates a blaze that destroyed the vacant Peter Stone farm on Mohawk Trail near Horseshoe Curve, saving some furnishings and trunks.
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Adams
Audrey Scully
Pittsfield
Mohawk Trail
Horseshoe Curve
Lillian Collins
North Adams
Peter Stone
Rockefeller Eyes Third Term but Signals 1968 Ambitions
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller said he would seek a third term next year and stay flexible on the Republican presidential nomination. He emphasized plans to run for governor again with Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson and Atty. Gen. Louis Lefkowitz on his team, while not ruling out another 1968 bid. Observers warn that a strong renomination and governorship could boost his presidential prospects.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Malcolm Wilson
Louis Lefkowitz
Rockefeler
Dry Spring Fires Threaten New England Woodlands
A cool spring day failed to relieve a region drought raising fire danger across six New England states. Vermont forester Albert Gottlieb flagged possible woodland closures if fires worsen. Maine yard fires burned Marblehead Boat Yard buildings and nearby woods while a century old Peavey Building and two houses were hit in Oakland. Two hundred students and volunteers fought the blazes for over an hour.
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Boston
UPS
New England
Weather Bureau
Quonset Point
R.I
Vermont
Albert Gottlieb
Gottlieb
Marblehead
Biddeford
Maine
Peavey Manufacturing
Oakland
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Reading
Republic Steel
Reynolds Met
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