Prank Day at State House Turns Out to Be Dummy
Montpelier reports a Capitol scare as reporters found a quarter size stuffed dummy hanging from the flagpole at half mast. Sergeant at arms Wallace Whitcomb said a Halloween prank led to the dummy being placed there and soon replaced with the flag. Mrs. Walter Erickson of Montpelier Center had reported the theft of the dummy from her lawn Monday night.
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Whitcomb
Walter Erickson
Montpelier Center
Stafford cites inflation and Vietnam war as top U S concerns
Burlington dispatch reports Rep. Robert Stafford says inflation and the Vietnam conflict are the two great problems facing the nation. He notes 325000 U.S. ground troops in Vietnam and war costs about 2 billion dollars monthly. He forecasts a requested war funding of 9 to 15 billion dollars and predicts possible peace talks before spring 1968. He also expects a 12 billion dollar tax increase after the general election to curb inflation.
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Burlington
UPI
Robert Stafford
R-Vt
Viet Nam
Stafford
Johnson
Congress
United States
Vermont Board OKs 10 Million Dollar Power Loan Plan
The Vermont Public Service Board approved New England Power Co. long-term first mortgage loans totaling 10 million dollars. The decision followed an Oct 17 Montpelier hearing and funds would back the Big Eleven Power Loop project and a 20 percent stake in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. A Vernon nuclear plant slated for 1972 would supply about 20 percent of its output to NEPCo.
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Vermont-Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vernon
New England
Ludlow man sentenced in Healdville Post Office burglary
Jay Francis Hall, 26, was sentenced to two to three years in Windsor State Prison by Superior Court Judge Dale Brooks in Rutland County Court after pleading guilty to a burglary tied to the Healdville Post Office earlier this year. The case had bounced between district and county court before sentencing.
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Rutland
UPI
Ludlow
Windsor
Healdville
Dale Brooks
Jay Francis Hall
Hall
Nixon to Campaign in Maine and New Hampshire
Former Vice President Richard M Nixon will campaign in Waterville Maine and Manchester New Hampshire on Friday but he is not expected to visit Vermont. Richard Thomas Vermont Republican State Committee executive secretary says he has heard nothing about Nixon campaigning for Richard Snelling in the state.
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Montpelier
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Waterville
Maine
Manchester
N.H
Vermont
Richard Thomas
Republican State Committee
Nixon
Richard Snelling
Adirondack search for missing Yonkers man in Franklin County
State police and conservation workers scoured the Adirondacks in Franklin County on Monday for Raymond Pocci 28 of Yonkers missing since Sunday after losing contact with hunting companions in the Town of Santa Clara. In Hoosick the 78 year old Hoosac School installed Donn D Wright as headmaster with Rt Rev Allen W Brown bishop of Albany and Bard College president Reamer Kline delivering the keynote. A Buffalo house fire killed five children and left a babysitter seriously amid.
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Saranac Lake
Adirondacks
Franklin County
Raymond Pocci
Yonkers
Pocci
Santa Clara
Hoosick
Hoosac
Donn D. Wright
Allen W. Brown
Episcopal Diocese of
Albany
Reamer Kline
Bard College
Buffalo
William Thomas
Arnold Dale Bishop
Willie Jr
Gwendolyn
Willie Moore
Calvin
Thomas
Berkshire union rejects revised Sprague deal on contract
Sprague Electric Co. submitted a revised six month contract proposal to the Independent Technical Semitechnical and Office Workers Union in Berkshire county. Union leaders rejected the proposal but conceded some slight improvement over the Oct. 14 offer as the old contract expired at midnight and the six month extension clause took effect with no strike danger.
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North Adams — Sprague Electric Co
Technical, Semitechnical and Office Workers Union
Pittsfield Hero Dies From Guam Truck Accident Injuries
Lawrence S. Madison 8C, a Pittsfield native and 1962 Pittsfield High School graduate, died in a Guam naval hospital from injuries after being struck by a truck while walking with two companions on October 23. Parents Mr and Mrs Joseph Madison Jr. confirmed the death.
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Pittsfield
Wind Topples 90 Feet of Butler Wholesale Wall
A single gust on Pleasant Street last weekend toppled 90 feet of a 20 foot high cinder block wall at Butler Wholesale Products Co. warehouse. A contractor foreman said the wall was braced from the inside but the wind brought the wall down on both sides of one brace.
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Adams
Pleasant Street
Butler Wholesale Products Co
Pittsfield Halloween Parade Draws Big Crowd
About 17,000 people attended the 22nd annual Halloween parade organized by the Department of Parks and Recreation in Pittsfield on Monday night. Approximately 1,500 participants including school children college students marshals and captains joined the event.
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Pittsfield
Department of Parks and Recreation
Snelling accuses Hoff of running a partisan administration
Shelburne Vermont Richard Snelling Republican gubernatorial candidate accuses Governor Philip Hoff of leading a blatantly partisan administration. He cites agency heads and tax official Gerald Witherspoon as evidence of the Democratic effort to strengthen Hoff's hold, and criticizes state efficiency while advocating a sales tax plan to curb rising property taxes.
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Shelburne
API
Richard Snelling
Philip H. Hoff
Snelling
Hoff
George Aiken
Gerald Witherspoon
Witherspoon
League of Women Voters
Rutland
Vermont
Democratic Party
Montpelier
Rutland Daily Herald backs Stafford and Oakes in VT race
The Rutland Daily Herald endorses incumbent Rep. Robert Stafford for a fourth term and Republican James L. Oakes for attorney general. Editorials praise Stafford as an experienced, capable representative in Washington and Oakes as a seasoned lawyer with integrity. Oakes gains CLU backing, while Connarn faces opposition. Vermont highway death toll rises as two-year-old Martin Briggs dies in Williston crash.
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Rutland
UPI
Rutland Daily Herald Today
Robert T. Stafford
R-Vt
Stafford
Washington
James L. Oakes
Jim Oakes
Washington - Orange Counties
CLA
United State and
Allied Products Workers of America
Oakes
Claremont
N.H
Daily Eagle
Williston
UPD
Essex Junction
Vermont
Martin Briggs
Ruth Briggs
Vt. 2-A
John G. French
Cambridge
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Burlington
Barbara
French
Aiken cites Vermont defense spending rising in Vietnam war
Senator George D. Aiken reports Vermont defense outlays reached 81 million dollars in fiscal year 1966, more than doubling the prior year, with 39.5 million spent in the first quarter of the current year. He predicts about 125 million in prime contracts if the war endures, noting boosted local economic activity and spending power.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Aiken
Defense Department
Viet Nam
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