Council to study private schools for public funds visit Austine
Vermont Legislative Council committee on private and quasi public institutions will visit the Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro on June 8. The panel reviews criteria for public funds for private capital improvements and the balance of private payroll versus public service. Other sites to be studied include the Elizabeth Lund Home in Burlington and the Caverly Child Center in Pittsfield.
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Austine
Elizabeth Lund
Burlington
Caverly
Pittsfield
Vermont seniors to graduate as 5000 prepare
Education Department reports nearly 5,000 Vermont high school seniors will graduate in coming weeks with caps and gowns. About 90 to 95 percent of seniors graduate. 1966 had 208 non-graduates out of 4,800-plus. The current class is 60 percent larger than 1957, and Perrin notes it equals about half the anticipated September first graders.
Eastern regional CSG meeting to discuss tax sharing
STOWE Vermont June 13 to 16 Eastern regional meeting of the Council of State Governments will gather to address governmental problems including federal state tax sharing. Gov. Philip H Hoff as vice chairman of the National Governors Conference Tax Sharing Committee heads the speaker lineup as others study state government news coverage and topics such as air and water pollution taxation of interstate business highway safety and abolition of the electoral college.
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STOWE
UPI
Council of State Governments
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont Trustees Approve Revised Budget For 1967-68
University of Vermont trustees approve a 1967-68 budget of 22 444 790 dollars starting July 1. State appropriation totals 6 498 000 dollars. A two year budget total of 47 million was presented with 14.9 million requested from the state. Legislature approves 13.3 million, up 4.3 million from the current biennium.
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Burlington—University of Vermont
Windsor carpenter arraigned for first degree murder
Maurice W. Oakes, 40, a carpenter's helper, was arraigned in a Windsor District Court special session on a first degree murder charge after his wife Rosalie Ann Gibson Oakes, 32, mother of two, was found dead from a head wound just before midnight Friday. In Montpelier, Gov. Hoff proclaims June as Summer Opportunity for Students Month.
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Windsor
Maurice W. Oakes
Windsor District Court
Rosalie Ann Gibson Oakes
Drowning at Quarry After Friend Rescue Attempt
HAMPTON Paul Matthews 20 of Farmingdale Long Island drowned Saturday while trying to save a friend at a quarry. Police say he jumped in and never came up. State police divers recovered his body 30 feet under water. The friend escaped unharmed.
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Hampton
Paul Matthews
Farmingdale
Long Island
Matthews
St. Michael’s College
Winooski
Shaker Village to Restore Three Buildings in Berkshire
Avalon Foundation grant funds restoration of the Ministry Shop, Machine Shop, and Ice House in the Berkshire Shaker Village. The public museum opens June 1 for its seventh season. Trustees also plan to renew efforts to restore the 1826 Round Stone Barn.
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Hancock
Avalon Foundation
New York
Lawrence K. Miller
Village Corporation
Eugene M. Dodd
Dedication of Arnold Place Center Renamed The Perry House
The dedication of the center for retarded children at Arnold Place was held Sunday. The one story brick building will be formally named The Perry House in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Elwyn Perry of Williamstown. The couple received a plaque at the ceremonies as nineteen local children and adults use the new center.
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North Adams
Arnold Place
Perry
Elwyn Perry
Williamstown
Berkshire
Williams scholar Winthrop Root to retire after 36 years
Williamstown professor Winthrop Hageman Root, 65, Williams College German literature chair and Dwight Whitney professor, will retire June 30 after 36 years on the faculty and 12 as department head. He will relocate with Mrs Root to Boston to write and rest.
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Williamstown
Winthrop Hageman Root
William Dwight Whitney
Williams College
Root
Boston
New Hampshire killer ends 42 day hunger strike over lie detector test
CONCORD New Hampshire convict Russell Nelson Jr ends a 42 day hunger strike to secure a lie detector test to prove innocence. He resumes eating but the test is not granted. Nelson and Martin eau face execution for the 1959 Maurice Gagnon murder in Lincoln and Nashua.
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New Hampshire
Concord
N.H
UPI
Russell Nelson Jr
Lincoln, R.I
Maurice Gagnon
Nashua
Parker Hancock
Nelson
Death Row
Martineau
Donald MacFarlane
D-Swanzey
MacFarlane
Russell Sr
Rockville, Conn
Love Not War Platform Drives Pop Artist Campaign
In Boston Common Louis Abolafia, a New York City artist and hippie favorite, addressed hundreds in a toga and beard. His campaign message is simple Make love not war as chants of LSD and Help Im a Rock echoed in the crowd.
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Boston
Louis Abolafia
New York City
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