Vermont Consumer Protection Bureau Logs 47 Complaints
Assistant Attorney General Richard Blum reported that the Vermont Consumer Protection Bureau processed 47 complaints last month. Most concerns involved dissatisfaction with goods or services from local merchants, including six contract cancellation cases and five criminal matters. He urged careful reading of all installment sale contracts before signing.
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Burlington
UPD
Consumer Protection Bureau
Asst
Richard Blum
Blum
Montpelier Tax Revenues Up For 1968 Fiscal Year
The state has collected over 17.6 million for its general fund, about 3 million more than 1967 for this period. A monthly report by Tax Commissioner Gerald S. Witherspoon cites income tax gains driving the rise, with liquor and wine, cigarette, and meals and rooms taxes also showing increases.
Rebid Planned for 16 Mile I 89 Project Swanton to Georgia
Vermont highway officials will re advertise the 16 mile I 89 upgrade from Swanton to Georgia after bids exceeded estimates. Commissioner Lauritz Larsen said two eight mile sections were affected with Lane Construction Co quoted about 400000 over estimates and Perini Construction Co about 26 percent higher than anticipated.
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Montpelier
UPD
State Highway Department
Swanton
Georgia
Lauritz S. Larsen
Larsen
Lane Construction Co
Meriden
Conn
Highway Department
Perini Construction Co
Framingham, Mass
Rutland men and teen plead innocent in check fraud case
In Rutland District Court on Monday Gary A. Marshal 16 of Winooski Joseph H. Dupaw 23 of Colchester and James J. Mahoney 26 of Rutland pleaded innocent to 16 counts of check fraud The warrants allege they cashed fraudulent checks on October 27 and 28 in Poultney and Rutland totaling 1631 Marshal and Mahoney were jailed for lack of 2500 bail Dupaw posted 3000 in lieu.
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Rutland
UPD
Gary A. Marshal
Winooski
Joseph H. Dupaw
Colchester
James J. Mahoney
Edward G. McClallen
Atty
Robert E. West
Poultney
Marshal
Mahoney
Dupaw
Hunting death of Chester man in Wardsboro shocks town
State police investigated the hunting death of John W. Wyman, 67, of Chester, in Wardsboro. He was shot in the abdomen while hunting with his son Hollis Wyman, 41, of Stoughton, Mass. He died at the scene. the two were about 150 yards apart when the son heard his father shout.
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Wardsboro
UPI
John W. Wyman
Chester
Wyman
Hollis Wyman
Stoughton
Mass
Unnamed 18 month old in hospital after babysitters incident
An 18 month old boy was treated at Albany Medical Center Hospital for bruises and alcohol ingestion after his mother left him with two teen aged babysitters and found him unconscious. Police were called after Mrs Joyce Andrews took her son James Lewis Jr to the emergency room on a Saturday.
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Albany
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Joyce Andrews
Fourth Ave
James Lewis Jr
Mechanicville volunteers wheelbarrow fundraiser trek
Mechanicville volunteer firemen pushed a wheelbarrow from Albany to Mechanicville on Sunday to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy. An exhibit car led the slow parade through Menands Cohoes and Waterford, helping gather a substantial amount through this novel collection method.
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Mechanicville
Albany
Menands
Cohoes
Waterford
Hitchhiker attack ends in theft on Albany streets
Police seek a hitchhiker who paid for a ride by striking the motorist with an auto jack and stealing 35 dollars. Joseph Treffeletti, 22, of Loudonville reported picking up an unknown man on Central Avenue and Northern Boulevard who directed him to Holland Avenue. The victim sustained three scalp wounds requiring 40 stitches after the assailant struck him and fled with the wallet.
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Albany
Joseph Treffeletti
Loudonville
Central Avenue
Northern Boulevard
Holland Avenue
Treffeletti
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Real estate to be sold in Sand Springs Hires Bottling bankruptcy
Berkshire region announces a 11 a.m. public auction Thursday of Sand Springs Hires Bottling Co. Inc. assets after the firm filed for bankruptcy and closed its plant July 28. Auction at the plant gathers buyers for equipment and real estate.
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Williamstown
Sand Springs
Anti-Viet Demonstrators Ousted From Boston Induction Center
Boston Army Base guards escorted about 10 demonstrators from the Summer Street gate after they entered on a bus to protest the induction of 20 year old Wakefield youth Arthur Wollin. Police reported no violence as about 35 from two groups traveled to the base, with 25 denied entry. The protestors planned a second action Thursday at the Federal Building to hand in draft cards.
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Boston
UPI
Boston Army Base
Wakefield
Defense Department
Summer Street
New England Resistance Group
Thomas Jarrell
Cambridge
The
Dem
Onstrators
Arthur Wollin
Jarrell
Federal Building
King Hassan urges Africa to curb brain drain through better education
King Hassan of Morocco called on African nations to raise education standards to prevent skilled graduates from leaving their countries. He argued that many top students study abroad and, after experiencing life there, are reluctant to return, depriving home nations of capable cadres.
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Rabat
UPI
King Hassan
Morocco
Court Grants Motion To Drop Murder Charges
Burlington youth Rodney Rudolph, 16, had murder charges dropped after a second county grand jury found him insane. State's Attorney Patrick Leahy moved to halt the case. Dr. William Woodruff testified the teen is psychotic and recommended prolonged psychiatric hospitalization. Rudolph remains at Waterbury State Hospital awaiting final court decision.
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Burlington
UPI
Rodney Rudolph
Chittenden
Patrick J. Leahy
William Woodruff
University of Vermont Medical College
Waterbury State Hospital
Two Plead Guilty To Drug Charges In Rutland
In Rutland County Court a 24 year old Castleton State College French instructor Mrs Anne Bond Harris from Middlebury and a 19 year old student Ellis Pearson of Albany New York pleaded guilty to marijuana possession. Harris received 60 days in jail and a $100 fine both suspended. Pearson was fined $200. Both were arrested last May following police at the Clage Accece motel. Previously they pleaded innocent before the charge was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor.
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Rutland
UPI
Castleton State College
Anne Bond Harris
Middlebury
Ellis Pearson
Albany
N. Y
Superior Court
William C. Hill
Harris
Pearson
Vermont Supreme Court orders re view in ETV dispute
The Vermont Supreme Court remanded WCAX-TV versus University of Vermont to a lower court, saying the intervening hearing was not properly conducted. The case centers on public funds for the state ETV system and an access road on Mt Mansfield affecting WCAX-TV property.
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UVM
Wcax-Tv
New Educational Television
ETV
Mt. Mansfield
University
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