Scouts Gather for Ethan Allen Council Jamboree in Rutland
In Rutland the Ethan Allen Council Boy Scouts will host a three day event May 13 to 15 at the fairgrounds with about 1,000 Scouts arriving to camp in 600 tents. A parade followed by an opening ceremony, exhibits and public shows are planned, ending with services Sunday morning. In Burlington the zoning board meets May 17 to review plans for over 1,200 apartments on the Howe Farm west of Allen Parkway with immediate construction expected if approved.
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Rutland
Ethan Allen Council
Boy Scouts of America
Men of Tomorrow
Fairgrounds
Burlington
APT
Burlington Zoning Board
Howe Farm
Allen Parkway
Raymond Wheel
Maurice Chausse
New Jersey
Chausse
Vermont Republican Leader Sees No Viet Nam Issue in 1966 Campaign
Burlington dispatch reports Derick Webb Shelburne state GOP chairman backs President Johnson on the Viet Nam war. Webb agrees with Rep. Robert Stafford that war effort is not mismanaged and doubts the war will dominate the 1966 Vermont election, though observers warn dissatisfaction could aid Republicans.
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Burlington
Vermont Episcopal Diocese opens 176th convention
The Right Rev. Harvey D. Butterfield Episcopal Bishop of Vermont presided as the 176th annual convention began in Brattleboro. The two day session drew 46 active priests and 166 lay delegates from 52 parishes and missions statewide.
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Brattleboro
UPI
Harvey D. Butterfield
Episcopal
Vermont
Episcopal Diocese of
Watervliet Arsenal threading method eyed for space vehicle parts
In New York officials from AVCO Lycoming visited Watervliet to study adapting the arsenal’s rapid threading technique for exterior gun tube threading to space hardware. Focus is breech lock for the Mark 17 missile reentry vehicle. AVCO Lycoming leads R&D and production for the vehicle per Air Force directive.
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Watervliet
Avco-Lycoming Corp
Stratford
Avco-Lycoming
U.S. Air Force Systems Control
Wright-Patterson Field
Dayton
Ohio
Berkshire zoning denies junkyard permit on Critelli farm
In Notch Road, 150 acre Critelli property, Zoning Agent Nelson Bond’s permit denial was upheld by selectmen. A fuel oil truck accident in North Adams pinned a mechanic, injuring five small bones and two ribs. 23-year-old William Beer was treated at North Adams Hospital. Williamstown Chamber of Commerce President Donald Thursday addressed industry leaders at Northern Berkshire Industry Night, praising water power, the Hoosac Tunnel and regional growth prospects.
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Adams
Nelson H. Bond
Richard F. Critelli
Notch Road
North Adams
William Beer
Williamstown
Chamber of Commerce
Donald A
Berkshire
North Berkshire
Hoosac
Coast Guard rescues two rat poison eaters at sea
A Coast Guard helicopter and medic rushed to a 55 foot tuna boat 35 miles northwest of Key West to treat two fishermen who had eaten rat poison mistaken for meat. The Karrick crew, Arthur Stewart and Joe Johnson of Key West, reported nausea and weakness and one man was flown back to shore in serious condition. The doctor advised vomiting and burned toast to mitigate the poison.
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Key West
Fla
UPI
Coast Guard
Karrick
Arthur Stewart
Joe Johnson
Here
GM Begins Cutbacks In Assembly Plants
GM started production cutbacks at four assembly plants as the first major reduction in the GM work week since 1961. About 6,000 workers at three plants will work a three day week, while roughly 3,500 at another plant shift to a four day week as output lags demand. GM would confirm only that.
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Detroit
UPI
General Motors
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
American Motors Corp
Ford
Ward
Parcel Post Bill Approved By Subcommittee
The House postal rates subcommittee approved a bill to raise both weight and size limits for parcel post between first class post offices and to boost parcel post rates. It would increase annual postal revenues by about 103 million dollars and faces strong opposition from the Railway Express Agency. The measure aims to place parcel post on a break even basis after losses since 1951.
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Washington
UPI
House Postal Rates Subcommittee
Post Office Department
Subcommittee
James Morris
D-La
House
Railway Express Agency
REA
Parcel Post
Congress
Second Youth Corps Program Assured in Vermont
Vermont will run a second summer in-school Neighborhood Youth Corps program. Henry O'Donnell says the U S Labor Department authorized a 95580 supplemental funding. about 300 Vermont high school students will work this summer at 1 25 an hour. Burlington will have its own program as the state expands youth corps funding beyond 500000 since last July. Involving about 50 high schools, the effort aims to place youths in school projects across the state. Shirley Hale, a Dallas dancer, fainted while auditioning in Rawlins at 6775 feet. firemen revived her with oxygen then she danced to show recovery.
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O’donnel
Vermont
Rawlins
Wyo
UPI
Shirley Hale
Dallas
Tex
Three St Onge family to receive honorary degrees
Three members of the St Onge family from Putnam Connecticut will get honorary doctorates at St Michael's College 63rd commencement in Winooski Park Vermont. Rita de la Croix provincial superior of the Daughters of the Holy Ghost, Monsignor Paul J St Onge vicar general of the Norwich diocese and U S Representative William L St Onge will be honored. St Michael's will graduate 225 seniors with Bernard Auer Time publisher as speaker.
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Winooski Park
UPI
St. Onge
Putnam
D-Conn
Gerald E. du Pont
St. Michaels
Rita de la Croix
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Vermont
New York
California
Canada
Msgr
St. Joseph Parish
New London
Rep
House
Judiciary Committee
Father du Pont
St. Michael’s
Bernard Auer
Time Magazine
New England States Oppose Administration River Bill
Seven northeastern states told Congress the federal plan eases out of water pollution control. Thomas C. McMahon of the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission testified against the Clean Rivers Restoration Act of 1966. The panel backed a water pollution control bill with a 30 percent matching grant program totaling $6 billion over six years, plus bonus and research funds.
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UPI
Congress
Thomas C. McMahon
New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission
Senate Public Works Subcommittee
Air and Water Pollution Control
New England
New York
McMahon
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Arsenal
Skidmore
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Skidmore College
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Old Bennington
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