Chester Voters Consider Second Bond Vote for School
Voters in Union School District 86 return to the polls to decide a 2.6 million bond after trimming 4,000 square feet from the planned building to cut costs. The district includes Cavendish Proctorsville Chester and Andover in Windsor County and previously rejected a 2.7 million proposal.
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Chester
UPI
Union School
Windsor County
Cavendish Proctorsville
Andover
Chester’s High School
State Education Board
City Manager Smith resigns before firing by Troy Council
Sidney C. Smith, 39, quit as Troy city manager effective December 31 after clashing with a GOP led council over the 1969 budget. Reports say a warning of imminent dismissal preceded his decision, spurred by council friction and a budget workshop no-show to hunt in Vermont. In Schenectady, WMHT gains federal real estate for a new home from HEW, valued at $170,000, relocating from the Riverside School with 45 employees. move slated for early spring.
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Troy
Sidney C. Smith
Smith
Vermont
Schenectady
WMHT
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Riverside School
Missing Man Edwin Thompson Sought After Nights Out
Pittsfield police released a photo of 24 year old Edwin Thompson to locate where he was last seen after leaving Dalton Woolen Mills at 11 p.m. Oct 11. His disappearance became known Oct 20 when his mother from North Canaan, Conn., came to find out why he had not visited over two weekends. His car was found in a Lanesboro junkyard Oct 31.
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Pittsfield
Edwin Thompson
Dalton Woolen Mills
Thompson
Virginia Thompson
North Canaan
Connecticut UConn calls state police over barricaded students
University of Connecticut President Homer Babbidge requested state police help to handle 150 demonstrators barricaded in the Gulley Hall administration building. Troopers massed at Mansfield State Training Center as protests over charges against four professors and eight students in a Dow Chemical protest last month continue.
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Mansfield State Training Center
Dow Chemcal Co
Gulley Hall
Gulley
Dow
Board of Trustees
Connecticut River Future To Be Discussed
About 60 central New England officials will gather for a two day conference starting November 19 to resolve conflicting interests in the Connecticut River Basin. Industry, atomic power, farmers, and fishermen will seek a shared management plan funded by the American Conservation Association. Leonard B. Diworsky, a White House science adviser, will open with remarks on the river control dilemma.
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Amherst
Mass
UPI
Connecticut River
New England
American Conservation Association
Leonard B. Diworsky
White House
IBM Head Tells Of Computers Limitations
IBM chairman Thomas K. Watson Jr. warned that computers can aid humans but cannot control destiny or make moral judgments. Speaking at MIT during dedication of a 3.5 million Information Processing Center, he urged realism about what machines can do and emphasized the mind remains beyond even the most advanced computer. Later Dr. Babbidge discussed the Connecticut 12 case, noting due process but no amnesty.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
International Business Machine
IBM) Corp
Thomas K. Watson Jr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Watson
IBM
Guiley Hall
588 Deer Taken in Three Days
A spot check at Fish and Game stations around Vermont shows 588 deer taken in the first three days of the 1968 season. St Johnsbury reported 161, Edgar Austin of West Burke bagged a 257 pound 10 point deer at Island Pond. Commissioner Kehoe predicts a 1968 kill of about 14000 despite higher license sales.
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Montpelier
UPI
Fish and Game Department
Fish and Game
St. Johnsbury
Edgar Austin
West Burke
Island Pond
Edward Kehoe
Kehoe
Veterans Day Observances Honor War Dead Across New England
UPI reports Veterans Day ceremonies in Boston Providence Augusta and Springfield mark the 50th anniversary of World War I memory and pay tribute to fallen service members. Parades, speeches by Adj Gen Edwin Haywood and a Springfield tribute at Winchester Square highlighted diverse communities recognizing military sacrifice.
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America
New England
New
Boston
Boston Common
Providence
R.I
State House
Augusta
Maine
Adj
Edwin Haywood
Winchester Square
Springfield
King Not Primary Target in Look Magazine Claim
UPI reports James Earl Ray says he joined a plot to kill King eight months before the April 1968 assassination, but was duped and told nothing about any murder plan. Look Magazine’s second Huie interview cites officials saying the primary aim was to trigger racial violence, with King as a secondary target or instrument.
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New York
UPI
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Look Magazine
Ray
William Bradford Huie
Memphis, Tenn
Hale
United States
Dr. King
Canada
Raoul
Windsor
Ont
Detroit Midh
Nuevo Laredo
Motel Industry Foresees Ultra Lux Future for Motels
Chicago dispatch reports Hospitality Magazine envisions a transformed motel sector with resort style motels offering indoor tennis and squash, linen napkins, pressed pants, room service on cloth tables, and automatic baggage transport, yet at high cost and with reduced personal staff. Some budget rooms would remain clean and spartan with fast computer billing likely delivering bills at home.
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Chicago
UPI
Hospitality Magazine
Hospitality
Seaboard States Seek Offshore Water Control
Atlantic seaboard state attorneys general meet in Boston to press for expanded offshore water jurisdiction. Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Elliot L. Richardson and Harvard Law School professor Richard Baxter will outline state arguments, with Louisiana Atty. Gen. Jack P. F. Gremillion and William Griffin also participating. Federal views will be presented by George Swarth of the Justice Department and Edward Weinberg of the Interior Department.
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Boston
UPI
Atlantic Seaboard States
Elliot L. Richardson
Massachusetts
Richard Baxter
Harvard Law School
Atlantic Seaboard
Atty
Jack P. F. Gremillion
Louisiana
William Griffin
Washington
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
George Swarth
Land and Resources Divison
Department of Justice
Edward Weinberg
Interior Department
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Vermont Highway Department
John T. Gray
Federal Highway Administration
Brattleboro
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
U.S
Colchester
I.p.a,c, Inc
White River Junction
Connecticut
Richard S. Bogoslofski
Bloomfield
Kenneth Mayrand
Tarriffville
Conn
Palmer Ainsworth
Windsor District Court
Bogoslofski
Woodstock
Mayrand
Quebec
St, Albans
William Kitchell
Gary Monahan
Burlington
Terrance Pelican
Swanton
Candiac
Merrill Bashaw
Monahan and
Pelican
Waterbury
Bryant
Bryant Chucking Grinder Corp
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
James Kane
Channel 17
Berkshire
Selectman
Williamstown
Filmore Baker
John Fisher
Fisher
William Cummings
North Adams
4 Vista
Stanley Einstein
New York City
North Adams State College
Venable
University of Connecticut
London
United Press International
Seaboard States
Triple ‘‘S
Grand Union Empire
Bradford
Mon. Plaza Shopping Center
Greenberg
Main Street
Bennington
Qrug Stores
Elai
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Reo
NORMAN _ LUBOFF CHOIR
Herald Angels
Henry Mancini
Little Town of
Bethlehem
Peter Nero
Leontyne Price
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Ave Maria
Shubert
Robert Shaw
RCA Victor
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Christmas Club
Nabank
Bellows Falls
Jamaica
Ludlow
Newfane
Proctorsville
Wilmington
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Ael
Edames
Harry Belafonte
Lana Cantrell
Vic Damone
Arthur Fiedler
Boston Pops
Morton Gould and His Orchestra
Good King Wenceslas
AL Hirt
Santa Claus
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