NASA chief Webb to address UVM 160th commencement
Burlington reports NASA administrator James E. Webb will be the main speaker at the University of Vermont 160th commencement on June 7. Webb, head of the U S space program since 1961, holds degrees from Dartmouth Chicago Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago.
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Chicago Theological Seminary
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Howe Richardson Scale to lay off about 60 workers
Rutland reports the Howe Richardson Scale Co will cut about 60 jobs over four months as older scale models are discontinued. Company VP John G. Fenton said layoffs will target workers with the least seniority in a plant that employs more than 500.
Urban session approves water project and school site in Troy
In a brisk session the City Council passed 24 resolutions including funding for a multi million dollar water project and a $411000 street paving program. It authorized five acres to the Board of Education for a K–6 school and approved the Hoosick Street Arterial designs. Albany exhibits Fort Ticonderoga manuscripts at the Education Building in May under Col. Edward Pierce Hamilton.
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Board of Education
Albany
Fort Ticonderoga
New York State Library
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New York State
Ethan Allen
Trumbull
Fires scorch nearly 900 acres in Adirondacks
Nearly 900 acres of brush and wood lands burned across northern New York as a rainless spell dried the area. Conservation authorities warned that rising heat could worsen fire danger with warmer weekend temperatures foreseen by the Weather Bureau. Four fires in the Adirondacks were halted by firefighters and volunteers amid brisk winds.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Adirondacks
Mt Greylock raises two school officials in unanimous vote
Mt Greylock Regional High School Committee approved a $600 raise for Assistant Superintendent Robert Osterman to $12,000 for an 11 month year and a $11,520 salary for Principal William Clark for a 10 month post. Clark reduces coaching duties as part of the new arrangement. Osterman and Clark have shared admin duties since former Supt. Paul J. McDonald resigned last August. In Lanesboro, the Mount Greylock Protective Association named William H. Tague president as the reactivated group maps strategy to resist commercializing the mountain. The executive committee also includes Dr. Joseph A. Wilk, Pamela Weatherbee, Mary Gleason, and others from Berkshire towns. The group adopted the slogan Save Greylock.
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Robert Osterman
William Clark
Mt. Greylock
Osterman
Clark
Paul J. McDonald
Lanesboro
Mount Greylock
Attorney General to possibly cancel visits in Berkshire County
Wayne Kayser of Dalton said the attorney general may cancel appearances after being summoned to Suffolk Superior Court to present evidence to a special grand jury. Brooke canceled the North Adams State College event but might attend the Berkshire County Women’s Republican Club anniversary dinner at the 1896 House in Williamstown tonight.
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Dalton
Edward Brooke
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Berkshire County Women’s Republican Club
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Stocks Mixed at Market Open With Tiny Shifts
New York stocks opened narrowly mixed as Continental Oil rose to 72 while Gulf Oil and Chesapeake & Ohio Railway held steady around 58 and 7334 respectively. Goodyear edged up to 42 1 4 and Kennecott Copper stayed at 85 as General Electric declined.
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New Hampshire Could Absorb Portsmouth Shipyard Phase Out
A New Hampshire official says the state could absorb a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard phase out due to tight labor and strong retraining, education, and technical- vocational college expansion. He notes statewide unemployment is low, with regional variations, and predicts new industry would employ displaced workers, boosting overall regional development.
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Women should join Vatican Ecumenical Council says Suenens
Boston UPI Leon Cardinal Suenens urged Vatican Ecumenical Council representation for women. He said including women would be symbolic yet important and proposed women participate in councils and commissions while clarifying his stance on active orders versus cloistered nuns.
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Leon Cardinal Suenens
Belgium
Paulist Fathers Catholic Information Center
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Three Drown As Wave Capsized Fishing Boat Off Mass Coast
A 21 foot Nashua fishing party boat capsized 300 feet offshore near Salisbury Beach Massachusetts. Three men died and six were rescued including a pregnant woman. Coast Guard helicopters and patrol boats recovered two women and four men, with the jetty entanglements and a missing third body.
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Methodist Church Conference Debates Church-State, Race Policy
The Methodist Church general conference in Pittsburgh adjourned after five hours of talks on church-state relations and disciplinary action for ministers who exclude congregants by race. A plan to end racial segregation by integrating the all-Negro central jurisdiction into white jurisdictions was approved, while the two key items were left for later debate.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
General Conference of the Methodist Church
Road Suggestion Aims to Cut Hairpin Turns on Highways
The Bureau of Public Roads urges states to remove hairpin turns before building new highway miles. Funding would come from a $1 billion federal road program requiring state matching funds for each dollar spent.
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UPS
Bureau of Public Roads
Bennington Banner Details Daily Operations and Rates
The Bennington Banner lists contact numbers for news room advertising and business, states publication daily except Sundays and holidays, provides address at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont, and shows subscription rates for Vermont and out of state with special serviceman rates.
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Main St
Bennington
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Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
Vermont
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