Turnout hits record 57.6 million in off year elections
Unofficial estimates put 57.6 million Americans voting in Congressional, state and local races, 46.5 percent of the voting age population, a record by actual numbers for an off year. Turnout rose in Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, Georgia and Florida amid close contests, while California saw fewer votes than 1966. The report cites population growth and registration levels as drivers of the high turnout.
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Washington
UPI
News Election Service
NES
Census Bureau
Tennessee
Texas
Ohio
Georgia
Florida
New York
California
Harry S. Dent
White House
South
Nixon
Dixie
Dent
Strom Thurmond
R-S
Push for Vermont day care licensing expands statewide
A new licensing team from the Montpelier based CEO Day Care Operations Unit tours Vermont to license home based care for more than two families, with nursery schools and kindergartens now included. Thomas Davis states inspections by the fire marshal and Environmental Sanitation are required to ensure minimum standards for qualifications, child counts, health, and record keeping.
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Montpelier
Thomas Davis
Vermont
Davis
Vrmont
Department of Environmental Sanitation
Berets Seized Over Fire Risk in New Jersey Warehouse
The Federal Trade Commission seized more than 6,000 dangerously flammable women's and children's chenille berets from a Passaic New Jersey warehouse tied to M. Grossman & Son Inc and Betmar Hats Inc. The action follows earlier searches finding 96 berets. The berets labeled Betmar and made in Italy are sold nationwide and burn quickly when ignited.
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Washington
Italy
FTC
Boston Mourns Cardinal Cushing Day of Mourning
Thousands passed by Cardinal Richard Cushing’s bier at Holy Cross Cathedral in Boston in a day of mourning. Masses were held at 10 a.m. and noon as schools and Catholic agencies closed. Archbishop Raimondi to lead today’s funeral service at the cathedral.
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Boston
UPI
Richard Cushing
Holy Cross Cathedral
James J. Scally
White House
White University
Cushing
Holy Cross
Immaculate Conception Church
Luigi Raimondi
United States
Anniversary Open House Postponed in North Bennington
Illness of Mrs. Griffith forces postponement of the Charles Griffiths home anniversary event. Expected attendees include 11 cardinals from across the country and numerous dignitaries. Jacqueline Onassis was to attend services in Boston, with burial planned in a crypt at Portiuncula Chapel in Hanover.
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Griffith
Charles Griffith
Jacqueline Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy
Boston
New York
St. Coletta School
Hanover
Bennington Briefs Highlight local visits and notices
Miss Paula Dowd returns home from Wells College for Thanksgiving. Draft counseling offered at Second Congregational Church Sunday 2 to 4 p.m. Prospect Mountain Ski Club opens season with Monday meeting and 6 p.m. potluck. Coast Guard Seaman Apprentice Peter G Frantz completes 45 day weather patrol aboard Chincoteague homeported in Norfolk. Gov. Deane C. Davis to speak at Brandon Training School Association meeting. Mrs. Evelyn Goeney recovering at home after hospital stay. Born Oct. 27 at Alice Hyde Hospital Malone a son Scott Emmett to Gilbert and wife.
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Paula Dowd
Paul E. Dowd
Bradford Place
Wells College
Aurora
N.Y
Liberal Arts School For Women
Upstate New York
Prospect Mountain Ski Club
Second Congregational Church
Hillside Street
Coast Guard
Peter G. Frantz
Franklin D. Frantz
Burgess Road
Chincoteague
Norfolk
Frantz
Johnson State College
Johnson
Brandon Training School Association
Deane C. Davis
Training School
Alice Hyde Hospital
Malone, N.Y
Scott Emmett
Gilbert Harrington
E, N.Y
Museum expresses thanks to women volunteers at Bennington Gift Shop
The Bennington Museum hosted a morning coffee for 23 women who volunteered as gift shop assistants during the 1970 season. Museum director Pike praised the volunteers for their work and hinted at expanding the volunteer program to the Topping Tavern Museum next year. The museum closes for winter from December 1, reopening March 1, 1971, with the tavern available by appointment.
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Bennington Museum
Pat Potts
Genealogical Library
Breard Hawks
Stephen Lincoln
Donald Hemenway
Margaretta Schuyler
Fairfax Ayres
George Atwood
Gwladys Bowen
Richard Leake
Elmer Loemker
Arthur Muchmore
Catherine Carrigan
Leon Eldred
Bradford Smith
Philip Giddings
John Mook
Maynard Jenkins
Helen Thomas
Robert Condon
James Conroy
Frederick Welling
Arthur Hall
Alan Evens
James Pfleger
Richard Carter Barret
Pike
Topping Tavern
Manchester Union to Publish Names of Nonvoters List
The Manchester Union, New Hampshire's largest newspaper, announced it will begin publication on Tuesday of a list naming and listing addresses for more than 15,000 nonvoters in the state capital area. The move aims to inform residents and encourage civic participation in upcoming elections.
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Manchester, N. H
UPI
Manchester Union
Chester
William Loeb
Walter J. Crowley
Manchester
Walter Peterson
Crowley
Community Chorus to present Haydn oratorio next month
The Bennington Community Chorus will stage its fall concert on Sunday December 6 offering Haydn’s The Creation. The performance runs about ninety minutes in three parts with five soloists, a 50-voice chorus, a 50-piece orchestra and harpischord under Theodore Cook of Manchester.
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Bennington Community Chorus
Joseph Haydn
Theodore Cook
Manchester
Fatal Vermont industrial accidents raise yearly toll
Labor and Industry reports three deaths last month bringing Vermont’s annual total to 13. Victims include Tracy Frink, 49, of Middlesex killed in a Wallingford traffic crash, Ralph Willard, 43, of Bellows Falls electrocuted at Vernon’s Vermont Yankee plant, and James Lewis, 42, a Williamstown carpenter who died after striking a power line in a Barre project.
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Williamstown
Barre
Bierwirth Receives Ninth Air Medal at McClellan
U S Air Force M Sgt George E Bierwirth son of Mr and Mrs George Bierwirth Pageant Street has received his ninth Air Medal at McClellan AFB California for outstanding airmanship on missions under hazardous conditions He has served in Vietnam and Korea and is now with an Aerospace Defense Command unit in California His wife Jeanne is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Daniel Boylan Hoosick Falls NY
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Sacramento
Calif
U.S. Air Force
George E. Bierwirth
George Bierwirth
Pageant Street
McClellan Afb
California
Bierwirth
Vietnam
Republic of Korea
McClellan
Aerospace Defense Command
Sgt
Mount St. Joseph’s Academy
Rutland
Jeanne
Daniel Boylan
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
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Spiro T. Agnew
Thurmond
Albert Watson
John C. West
Albert Gore
Miami Beach
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Edward LeVesque
Beech Street
T. Garry Buckley
Old Bennington
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Haynes & Kane Inc
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Dail
Grand Union Empire
Anne Murray
Greater
Cardinal Cushing
North Bennington
Bennington Briefs
Draft Information Service
Second Congregational
Evelyn Goeney
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Sedgeley Drive
Thomas Deptula
Westover Afb
Chicopee
Mass
Frank Baker
Bennington Music
McCullough Mansion
McCullough Park Foundation
N.H
Walker
Bennington Banner
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times News Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
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Per Skein
Fishman's
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Cracker Barrel Ski Shop
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