Study Recommends College Bonding Plan
A Vermont study by Lowrie Gibb urges stricter control of new colleges and creation of a college building authority to issue bonds for campus construction. The 70 page report recommends accreditation by the state Education Department and a full time staffer to support relocation and expansion, with input from Marlboro Windham Bennington and Goddard colleges.
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Montpelier
Lowrie Gibb
Manchester
Vermont Development Department
Gibb
College Building Authority
State Education Department
Massachusetts Board of Collegiate Authority
Marlboro
Windham
Bennington
Goddard
Expanded Housing and Home Finance Act
College Authority
VDD
Court judge urges flexible questioning to aid crime solves
Federal Court remarks on the role of police questioning in solving serious crimes and recovering kidnapped persons or stolen goods. Judge Lumbard argues that mandatory restrictions can impede investigations by eroding spontaneity and the willingness of suspects to provide information.
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Lumbard
Williams College plans Mt Hope Farm development
Williams College trustees appointed a special committee with a full time executive secretary to develop future plans for Mt Hope Farm, a 1000 acre estate bought in 1963 for 325000 with help from a foundation. Goals include strengthening the college and Williamstown as an educational cultural center and boosting taxpaying activity in the town.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Mt. Hope Farm
Williams
John E. Lockwood
Lockwood
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
New York City
Charles A. Schweighauser
McDonnell Planetarium
St. Louis
Lenox Hill Hospital
E. Parmalee Prentice
Alta Rockefeller Prentice
Col. Prentice
Vermont Reapportionment Sparks Legislature Clash
Election coverage details how malapportioned Vermont faced a 1965 realignment battle. Small town lawmakers resisted changes citing states rights and fear of losing seats, while Democrats gained in urban areas. The House margin was expected to shrink from 3 to 1, and the Senate from 17 to 13, with further shifts anticipated.
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House
Senate
GOP
Applications for federal aid to education reach 250000 plus
Vermont Education Department reports applications totaling more than 250000 for projects aiding educationally deprived children under the Federal Aid to Education Act. Burlington schools seek over 100000 for special programs. state allocation is 1.7 million. Nine districts in northeastern Vermont await a 181000 cultural educational project involving TV education, Fairbanks Museum outreach, and a Lyndon State College materials center benefiting Essex Orleans Caledonia counties and several towns.
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Montpelier
Apt
State
Burlington Public
Walter D. Gallagher
Northfield
Richard A. Gibboney
Vermont
St. Johnsbury
Fairbanks Museum
Lyndon State College
Essex
Orleans
Caledonia
Bradford
Corinth
Newbury
Topsham
Arlington painter Niles 75 dies at Sourcliffe Home
ARLINGTON New York area obituary notice for Lawrence Niles 75 born June 1890 Arlington son of Harry and Alice Hicks Niles self employed painter and paperhanger. Survived by son Leon Niles Cortez Fla daughter Grace Hebert Arlington sister Sylvia Secoy Arlington three grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday 2 p.m. Hanson Walbridge Arlington with Rev. Granville Greenwold officiating. Burial Evergreen Arlington. Friends may call tonight 7 to 9.
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Arlington
Lawrence
Niles
Sourcliffe Nursing Home
Harry
Alice (Hicks) Niles
Leon Niles
Bennington
Grace Hebert
Cortez
Fla
Sylvia Secoy
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Granville Greenwold
Federated Church
Evergreen Cemetery
Area Women Attend Workshop at Newbury Vermont
Members of the Vermont Fellowship of Women of the United Church of Christ attended a two day workshop at the Atkinson House in Newbury amid bad weather. Plans were announced for multiple two day retreats across the state on March 30 31 and April 13 14 with area workshops in Lyndonville Waitsfield Burlington Manchester and Windsor May 2 3. Leaders included Mrs Laurence Howe and the Rev Lester Gallihue with speakers such as Mrs Edward Treat Rev Roger Albright and Mrs Francois Peach. Attendees from Bennington included Mrs Reimann Mrs Bentley and Mrs Theodore Thomas highlighting laity involvement in church work.
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Newbury
The
Vermont Fellowship of Women of the United Church of Christ
Atkinson House
Windsor
Laurence Howe
Burlington
Lester Gallihue
Wells River
P. W. George
Bradford
India
Edeward Treat
Roger Albright
Vermont Church Council
Francois Peach
Island Pond
Harold Reimann
Bennington
Kathryn Kyno
Two-Car Crash Injures Montpelier Man And Barre Women
Paul Williams, 19, of Coulter Street, Montpelier, was injured when a two-car collision sent his sedan flying through a windshield and left him with facial cuts. The D Agostino station wagon was pushed 110 feet into a vacant lot after the impact. Williams was treated at Heaton Hospital in Montpelier and listed as good. The other two occupants, Barre women, sought their own doctors. Police reported the crash involved a sedan driven by John E. McLaughlin, 19, of Barre, with Williams as a passenger, rear-ending Mrs Thelma A. D Agostino who stopped to turn left. Additional local items included parking ban reminders, TV broadcast rescheduling, updates on injured Cpl Lawrence D Smith, and community notices.
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Paul Williams
Coulter Street
Montpelier
Heaton Hospital
Barre
John E. McLaughlin
Williams
Rural Fire Auxiliary Plans Christmas Dinner
The Rural Fire Auxiliary met Monday night to plan the Christmas supper for members and their husbands, set for December 16 at Ladd Brook Restaurant in Pownal. Ten members attended, reports were heard and finalized, and thanks were given to merchants and donors for the Harvest Social. Alma Shattuck and Grace Hurley served refreshments, with the January 17 Beech Street firehouse meeting food committee named Janet Mattison and Mary Butier.
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Rural Fire Auxiliary
Ladd Brook
Pownal
Alma Shattuck
Grace Hurley
Beech Street
Janet Mattison
Mary Butier
Exhibit recalls Vermont boundary settlement bicentennial
A Vermont Historical Society exhibit marks the 200th anniversary of the Vermont boundary settlement. It features Gov Benning Wentworth 1761 land grants, Colden New York claims, Gerard Bancker map, and Congress resolutions guiding Vermonters to Philadelphia delegates. The display also notes New Hampshire ceding New York rights in 1781 and Vermont joining the Union in 1790 with a $30,000 settlement.
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Vermont
Benning Wentworth
New Hampshire
Bennington
Lake Champlain
Connecticut River
West Fairlee
Gov
Wentworth
George III
Cadwallader Colden
New York
George Myers
Richard Thompson
John Smith
Gerard Bancker
Colden
Congress
Philadelphia
Hospital Notes November Twenty Second Sixty Five
Admissions list includes William Krawczyk Tammy Dewey Frederick Edgar Harriet Guerard Marlene Sheldon and others across Bennington North Adams and Manchester Center. Discharges include Kent Libby Julia Betit with son Elizabeth Camire with son Theresa Livingston and Karen Mylott. Births announce a son for Donald Legacy and a daughter Sandra for Paul Jones with a son Neal.
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William Krawczyk
Tammy Dewey
Frederick Edgar
Harriet Guerard
Marlene Sheldon
Bennington
Janice Moon
North Adams
Sandra Levesque
North Bennington
Kent Libby
Julia Betit
Elizabeth Camire
Theresa Livingston
Karen Mylott
Manchester Center
Juanita Eddy
Donald Legacy
Oakes St
Paul Jones
Chapel Road
Sandra
Neal
Stock Averages at Noon Report From Dow Jones
Dow Jones Bache and Co Albany reports at noon the industrials 30 at 947.21 up .83, railroads 20 at 236.83 up .62, utilities 15 at 155.66 down .52. Composite average 333.26 up .24 with volume 3,120,000.
Funeral for Mrs Carrie B Pratt Held at Hanson-Walbridge
The funeral for Mrs Carrie B Pratt widow of Joseph H Pratt was held Monday afternoon at Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home. The Rev Melvin R McGaughey First Methodist Church pastor officiated and she was a church member. Bearers were Lawrence Pratt Kenneth Pratt Chester Mallory and Phillip Reilly. Commital prayers were offered at Park Lawn Cemetery where interment occurred.
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Methodist Church
First United, Presbyterian Church of
Hoosick Falls
Robson Home
Main St
Jerrald C. Potts
Green Island
Maple Grove Cemetery
Carrie B. Pratt
Joseph Henry Pratt
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Melvin R. McGaughey
First Methodist Church
Small Vermont Town Huntington Studied in Nation Article
New York reports Huntington Vermont a 25 mile southeast of Burlington is profiled in Nation magazine. Dan Wakefield portrays the town as a fading rural holdout with 15 of 100 farms remaining, a 50 percent population drop, and 40 winter relief cases. The piece notes conservative locals, a 70 thousand gift for a central school finally used, and plans for ski lodges and golf courses as tourism rises. The analysis foresees megapolis growth overrunning the town and its farms converting to real estate as residents become commuters.
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New York
Vermont
Huntington
Burlington
the Nation
Dan Wakefield
Appalachian
Kentucky
Wakefield
Grace Pierce
Huntington Center
Missioner
Rita
IBM
Bennington College Senior Featured in Vermont Life
Valerie Crane, a Bennington College senior, is the centerpiece of a double spread in the new Vermont Life issue, produced for 120,000 copies. The edition highlights skiing photography, a Woodford scene by Emil Grimm, and a range of winter Vermont features from Stine Press in Lunenburg to beagles and owls, with a front cover twilight farm scene in Hartford and back cover views of West Brook in Stowe.
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Montpelier
Bennington College
Valerie Crane
New Vermont Life
Vermont Development Department
Woodford
Emil Grimm
Bennington
Stinehour
Lunenburg
Round Top
Plymouth
Sherman Howe
Stratton
Mt. Mansfield
Glen Ellen
Mt. Tom
Vermont Life
Marlboro
Passumpsie
Peacham
Felchville
Norwich
Weather
Stinehour Press
Ann Fry
Jon Hardie
Malvine Cole
Barnard
Lee Wards
Arthur Griffin
West Brook
Stowe
Vietnam War Casualties List Sets Daily High
The Defense Department released 85 American servicemen names killed in Vietnam, the longest single day total since the war began in 1961. The list, delayed by next of kin notifications, indicates most deaths occurred last week. All the dead were Army. one died of non combat causes, and three were missing in action across Army Navy and Air Force.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Viet Nam
United States
Army
Navy
Air Force
New Jersey native William Bates elected governor of Mayflower Descendants
Clifton resident William Le Roy Bates, 70 Ridge Road Rutherford, a Bennington native and son of the late Judge Edward L. Bates, was elected governor at the Society of Mayflower Descendants in New Jersey annual meeting at Upper Montclair Country Club. Bates, a former deputy governor, recently retired as vice president of America Fore now Continental Insurance, serves on the Yale Alumni Board and Rutherford Community Chest board, and holds multiple local and national memberships. The meeting marked the 345th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact signed November 21, 1620 near Cape Cod.
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Yale
Rutherford Community Chest
Bergen County
National Community Bank
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Mt. Anthony Lodge F&am
Bennington
Sons of the American Revolution
Rutherford
Rotary International
Yale Club
New York City
Upper Montclair
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Moulton
Burr and Burton Seminary
Federal Court
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Harte Theatre
Stanley Baker
Stuart Whitman
Richard Holmes
Civil Defense
W. Earle Forman
Joseph Bruso
Florence E. Winters
N,y
William A. Winters
High St
Troy
N.Y
Eagle Bridge
Clara Stallmer
Chester Gibbons
Theodore Anderson
Donald DeLee
Richard Emery
Joseph Manduzio
Arthur Nash
Robson Home For Funerals
Charles F. Wood Sr
N. Y
Wilmington
Del
Rhea A. Gleason
Shaftsbury
Rhea A. (Bradley) Gleason
Putnam Memorial Hospital
J. William Gleason
Hanson-Walbridge
Shaftsbury Methodist Church
Reimann
Bentley
Theodore Thomas
Bennington Briefs
Lawrence D. Smith
State Police
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Burslington
Smith
Rutland
Lindsay
Tomorrrow
WMHT
Daniel E. Butston
National Educational Television
Gerald W. Black
U.S. Navy
Ticonderoga
Seventh Fleet
South China Sea
Raymond G. Black
Dewey St
North
South
Richard B. Diaemond
Green Mountain
Boundary Settlement
Vermont Historical Society
Dow Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Nation Magazine
Society
New Jersey
W. Leroy Bates
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