Who Owns Lake Champlain The Debate Heats Up
Governor Hoff argues Vermont should decide lake ownership and permits to fill Lake Champlain. Army Engineers in New York cite navigation and public access, while groups like Lake Champlain Committee, Audubon Society, and local officials lobby for public ownership and state control. Calls for state law to reaffirm ownership and require permits.
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Corps of Army Engineers
East 16Th Street
N.Y
Lake Champlain
Montpelier
State of
Vermont
Hoff
Army Engineers
New York City
Burlington
Water Resources Board
Reading Program Developed At St. Michael's College
Father Bernard J. Bechard of St. Michael's College promotes a flexible developmental reading program. He argues there is no single method and teachers should use multiple techniques to match each child's individual learning. The program is run within the college's graduate education curriculum to improve reading across all grades.
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Winooski Park
St. Michael’s College
Bernard J. Bechard
S.S.E
Liberal Arts College
Father Bechard
St. Michael’s
Bechard
McGill University
Jane Austen
Thomas Wolfe
Angel
Balzac
Chekhov
Crane
Emerson
Euripides
Mann
Plato
Shaw
Soph
Fresh Air Fund sets new record in 1965 66
New York Herald Tribune reports a record 11 247 children traveled to the countryside for free vacations funded by the Fresh Air Fund. Including a 3 000 acre camp near Fishkill and 13 875 total participants, with 35 percent Black 32 percent Puerto Rican 32 percent white and 2 percent oriental. The fund aims for 15 000 in 1967 and notes growth in Puerto Rican boy participation.
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New York
Herald Tribune
Fresh Air Fund
Maine
Virginia
Fresh Air
Fishkill
America
New York City
Ralph B. Dwinell
Friendly Town
Long Island
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
The
Bennington Banner
Veterans Day Originated with World War I Armistice
The Armistice signed at 5 a.m. November 11 1918 in a forest near Compiègne ended World War I and brought a four year silence at 11 a.m. The article notes heavy wartime losses, the joy of peace, and President Wilson's reflections. It covers the Bigler governors note, Armistice Day origins, the Unknown Soldier, and the evolution to Veterans Day in 1954 with two minutes of silence at 11.
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Washington
Forest
Compeigne
Paris
UPI
Nelson
Winthrop Rockefeller
Bigler
New York
Arkansas
Library of Congress
John
William Bigler
William
Pennsylvania
California
John J. Pershing
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
America
Taries
France
Arlington National Cemetery
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
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Board of Alderman
Europe
Warren G. Harding
Bennington, VT
Main Street
Bennington
Ted
Thermos
Fishman’s Main
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