Vermont Woman Wins Seat In State House After Recount
Evelyn Jarrett a Burlington Democrat unseated incumbent Cless Davis in District 18 after a recount, 1 201 to 1 060. Jarrett, widow and oil business owner active in civic life, becomes the first woman to hold the post. Burlington honors longtime civic leader Harold Brand retires from New England Bell. Vermont to receive 6.1 million dollars federal aid for Title I education over two years. Bristol voters decide whether to sell 32 acres airport property to Union School District 28 for a junior senior high school site for 33 000 dollars, with 13 adjoining acres to be leased if approved. Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences sends a sympathy telegram to Florence Italy after recent floods signed by Francis X. Gokey and Lucien Hanks.
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Burlington
UPD
State House of Representatives
Evelyn Jarrett
Cless Davis
Jarrett
Bristol
APS
Union
Bristol Recreation Club
Rupert Spencer
State Department of Education
Lincoln
Monkton
Starksboro
New Haven
Winooski Park
Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences
Florence
Italy
Francis X. Gokey
St. Michael’s College
Lucien Hanks
Bennington College
Cassatt Statue Returned to RPI After Fifty Years
A landmark statue of Alexander Johnston Cassatt, first president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, stood in New York City’s Pennsylvania Station for over five decades before being donated to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The gift, arranged by the railroad and Mrs Lois Cassatt Thayer, was announced at a ceremony where Thayer received a commemorative Mary Cassatt stamp album.
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Troy
New York City
Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Alexander Johnston Cassatt
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cassatt
RPI
John
Lois Cassatt) Thayer
Rosemont
Rensselaer
America
Thayer
Mary Cassatt
Berkshire Jury Convicts Fontaine in Receiving Stolen Goods Case
In Berkshire County, a superior court jury found John L. Fontaine guilty on two counts of receiving stolen goods. His wife Rita was found innocent on two similar counts. Judge Thomas J. Spring postponed sentencing to Monday. Fontaine then changed his pleas to a broader trial on receiving stolen goods and two counts against him were not pursued. remaining counts against Rita were not pressed. The couple had been indicted in 1964 on 30 counts each of larceny and receiving stolen goods linked to an alleged antique theft ring.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire
John L. Fontaine
Rita
Thomas J. Spring
Fontaine
Boston Crackdown on Hoodlums Aims to Curb Bloodshed
Boston police and state units rounded up more than 30 suspects in a city wide crackdown aimed at halting a wave of gangland killings. The operation, ordered by Commissioner McNamara, involved 100 officers and 200 stakeouts as investigators pursue underworld figures tied to loan shark operations and the Bratsos DePrisco killings.
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Boston
UPI
Edmund L. McNamara
William Bradley
Bradley
McNamara
Arthur C. (Tash) Bratsos
Medford
Thomas DePrisco
Roslindale
Joseph (Barboza) Baron of
Swampscott
Commonwealth
Baron
Bratsos
DePrisco
Judge Orders Recount In Two Rutland House Races
Superior Court Judge Dale Brooks has ordered recounts in two Rutland County races. In District 29 Vermont House contest Basil Walsh sought a recount after losing by 41 votes to Ralph LeDuc, a Republican, and Jerome Fitzpatrick, a Democrat. In District 23 Thomas Hannon, a Democrat, trailed Lyle Rice by 10 votes.
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Rutland
UPI
Superior Court
Dale Brooks
Vermont
Basil Walsh
Brandon
Ralph LeDuc
Jerome Fitzpatrick
Pittsford
Walsh
LeDuc
Thomas Hannon
Lyle Rice
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Brand
Harold E. Brand
New England Bell Telephone Co
St. Johnsbury
Montpelier
Vermont Consistory
The
Masons
Chittenden
Washington
Orange
Academy
New York
Penn Station
Hoosick Falls
William Cronin
Leo Albowicz
Boston and Maine
Albowicz
Rochester
Laplois Ashford
Ashford
Public Safety
Down In
Williamstown
Leroy Picard
Adams
Adams Teachers Association
Eugene P. Melville
Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
U.S
South End
North End
Underworld
Walt
Kentuck Wat
MR. Boston
MR. Boston Distiller Inc
Mass
Colt Lamp
Haynes& Kane, Inc
Dial
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