Vermont study seeks more two year technical colleges
A Comprehensive Feasibility Study by the Vermont Technical Education Committee says Vermont faces a shortage of vocationally skilled workers. It outlines six alternatives, including establishing one or more two year technical colleges and expanding Vermont Technical College facilities. Dr. Harvey Scribner will review the study for the 1969 legislature. Rutland voters face a $7.9 million school bond issue tied to plans for a $12.2 million senior high school. The bond proposal would repeat the Nov. 5 plan amid overcrowding warnings and looming double sessions at junior and senior highs.
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Rutland
UPI
James Lathrop
White Plains
N.Y
Lathrop
James Tinney
Ferrisburg Railroad Crew Start Work After Derailment
A 1000 horsepower Vermont Railway freight engine derailed near Ferrisburg after an open switch. Crews began work today to rerail the locomotive. Engineer Clement D'Avignon of Middlebury spotted the switch and slowed the train, preventing further grain cars from derailing on the Burlington to Rutland run.
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UPD
Ferrisburg
Vermont Railway
Vergennes
Clement D’avignon
Middlebury
Burlington
Rutland
Police warn of counterfeit company checks fraud
Burlington area police warn merchants to watch for checks bearing the names of Bernie's Auto Sales and Pippin Brothers Auto Village after $5,100 in fraudulent checks were cashed last week. Fifty eight blank checks were stolen earlier this month from the two firms, which only learned of the loss when questioned by police. The fraudulent checks were cashed at banks in Burlington Winooski and Essex Junction.
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Burlington
UPD
New York Education Leaders Plan Action On City School Strike
Albany report says the education committee will convene this afternoon with Senate Majority Leader Earl Brydges and acting Assembly Speaker Moses Weinstein to weigh steps to reopen New York City’s strikebound schools. The panel may consider alternatives in light of stalled negotiations.
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New York City
Senate
Earl W. Brydges
Niagara Falls
Assembly
Moses M. Weinstein
Queens
Joint Legislative Committee On
Brydges
Albany Board Finds No Discipline For Teacher In Oct Incident
The Albany board of education found no cause for disciplinary action against Louis Zinnanti a Livingston Junior High teacher who allegedly struck 15 year old Barry Hicks in an Oct 22 incident. The board said Zinnanti acted instinctively in an emergency and will be reassigned within the school system pending a transfer to another school. A 22 member federal grand jury convened to hear testimony today on area garbage contracts alleged corruption of municipal officials and possible mafia infiltration in the capital district.
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Board of Education
Louis Zinnanti
Livingston
Barry Hicks
Zinnanti
Hicks
William Murphy
Federal
Capital District
Justice Department
Connerpign
Remington Bronze Statue Recovered Near Lake Saranac
Berkshire School reports its rare bronze statue The Rattlesnake by frontier artist Frederic Remington stolen last summer was found Aug. 24 buried in a tin can near Lake Saranac New York. Police confirm ownership pending final tests before return.
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Sheffield
Frederic Remington
Berkshire School
Lake Saranac
N.Y
Crea Gets Year Jail Term in Berkshire Stolen Car Case
A third defendant, suspended Pittsfield officer Anthony J. Crea, was sentenced to one year in jail by Judge Francis J. Guirico in Berkshire Superior Court. The sentence on two counts will run concurrently at Berkshire County Jail. Crea also submitted his resignation on Wednesday after 17 years on the force.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire
Anthony J. Crea
Francis J. Guirico
Berkshire Superior Court
Berkshire County
Crea
Police Department
Berkshire plan for Saddleball Mountain ski resort stalls
Berkshire County Regional Planning Commission announced no federal funds were available for the Saddleball Mountain ski area and resort project this year. The only federal money in the state is set aside for education and water pollution programs, halting the Berkshire plan.
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Adams
Saddleball Mountain
Berkshire County Regional Planning Commission
Adams appoints Tarsa as permanent police chief
John A. Tarsa was named permanent police chief of Adams on Wednesday, after serving as acting chief since February when former chief Frank Kofeck retired.
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ADAMS
UPI
John A. Tarsa
Frank Kofeck
Boston Robbery Kills Three In Black Community Office
In Roxbury a group of masked gunmen killed Guido St Laurent 41, Carnell Eaton 32, and Harold King in the New England Grass Roots Organization office. Fred Rose 41 and Ronald Hicks 31 were wounded, with Rose later dying. Hicks in serious condition. A visitor, Harold King, also died while Rose provided police with key details. The attack disrupted a local civil rights effort led by St Laurent, who founded NEGRO to spotlight self help projects in Boston. Police withheld identities of the suspects as of report time.
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UPI
Guido St. Laurent
New England
Grass Roots Organization
Roxbury
St. Laurent
Russ
Guido
Fred Rose
Rose
Ronald Hicks
Carnell Eaton
Cleveland
Ohio
Harold King
Hicks
Paper Company Prepares To End Lake Pollution
Burlington reports International Paper Company ready to meet water quality standards as it moves its mill to new quarters near Ticonderoga. The Vermont and New York agencies discuss Lake Champlain rating disputes and water quality expectations for the plant's waste treatment system.
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Paper Company
Burlington
UPI
International Paper Company
Lake Champlain
George Rand
Stewart Udall
Vermont Water Resources Board
New York
Vermont Board
Rand
Ticonderoga
N.Y
Lobstermen Fear Great Storm Damage
Boston reports indicate Nor easters battered New England lobstermen with likely heavy trap losses in shoal waters. Ossie Beal and Lewis Orsillo warn many traps washed ashore or stolen, with full damage assessment due in a week to ten days. Offshore traps may fare better. price risk could rise slightly. Public officials expect sizable shallow water losses and plan surveys after fishermen resume boating.
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Boston
UPS
New England
Ossie Beal
Maine Lobstermen’s Association
Lewis Orsillo
Atlantic Lobsterman’s Cooperative Inc
Saugus
Orsillo
Massachusetts
Augusta
Maine
Ronald W. Green
Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries
Green
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