Vermont Committee Adds New Members to Children and Youth Panel
Governor’s Committee on Children and Youth welcomed new appointees at a University of Vermont meeting led by Chairman C. Andrew Herschel. New members include Rev. Paul Bresnahan and Natasha Simon among others. Awards committee reported 25 individual and 12 group nominations for the Distinguished Service Awards to be presented at the January 18 annual meeting with an afternoon program and banquet. Governor Hoff invited to present the awards.
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Montpelier
C. Andrew Herschel
Governor’s Committee On Children and
University of
Prudence Fisher
Barre
John Verret
South Burlington
Edward Miller
Rutland
Governor’s Committee
Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Richford voters weigh bond for new elementary school
Voters decide on a 348000 dollar bond as Richford's share for a six classroom elementary facility. Total project cost is 462000 with 38000 state aid, 21000 for equipment and 9000 in legal fees. If approved, old junior senior high may be renovated for grades seven to twelve and a library expansion. the new school would serve kindergarten through fourth grade.
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Richford
UPI
Vermont Board Considers 49 State Jobs and Driver Training Funds
The Vermont Emergency Board was urged to approve 49 new state positions and 103000 for driver training programs across more than 50 public schools. The 23 item agenda included eight Fish and Game, 21 Highway, 12 Motor Vehicles, plus one each for Auditor of Accounts, Historic Sites, Vermont Life Magazine, Social Welfare and Special Education, and two for the Commission on Statewide Planning for Vocational Rehabilitation.
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Auditor of Accounts
Vermont Life Magazine
Social Welfare and Special Education Division
Commission On
Hearing date set for mutual to stock transition
State Banking and Insurance Commissioner James Hunt scheduled November 29 for a hearing on a Mutual Insurance Company request to convert from mutual to stock. The 60-year-old firm has grown rapidly in five years with annual premiums production more than double 1961 levels, writing $634,000 in premiums last year.
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Burlington
UPI
James Hunt
Mutual
Mahar estate in Hoosick Falls leaves multiple bequests
Miss Lucy T Mahar of Hoosick Falls died September 24 leaving an estate valued above 5000 dollars in real property and above 5000 dollars in personal property. Edward P Mahar of Bennington is executor. The will gives 100 dollars to the Church of the Immaculate Conception and 500 dollars each to Alexander E Mahar Olga Mahar Kelly M Kimalie A Kristin C Mahar of Bennington and Margaret Mahar Susan J Michael L Mary L Elizabeth A Jennie M Patricia L all of Hoosick Falls. The executor receives 5 Gillespie Street real property and furnishings and one half of the residue. Leo J Mahar Jr of Hoosick Falls receives 500 dollars and the other half of the residue.
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Hoosick Falls
Lucy T. Mahar
Edward P. Mahar
Bennington
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Alexander E. Mahar
Olga Mahar
Kelly M
Kimalie A
Kristin C. Mahar
Margaret Mahar
Susan J
Michael L
Mary L
Elizabeth A
Jennie M
Patricia L. Mahar
Gillespie St
Leo J. Mahar Jr
Fog and smog differ in origin say Weather Bureau officials
Troy U S Weather Bureau officials explain that heavy area fog Sunday night led to airline cancellations and hazardous driving, but is unrelated to the eastern seaboard smog. The smog arose from a massive inversion trapping industrial fumes, while the fog formed from light winds and moist air over cool saturation.
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Troy
U.S. Weather Bureau
Seaboard
Christmas Greens Show at Van Rensselaer Garden Club
The annual Christmas Greens Show by the Van Rensselaer Garden Club will run December 8 to 11 at the Rensselaer County Historical Society 59 Second Street. Hours are noon to 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. A concurrent Antiques for Christmas sale will be held in the coach house December 8 to 10.
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Troy
van Rensselaer Garden Club
Rensselaer County Historical Society
Second St
The
Historical Society
Clergy urge careful vote on Sprague union sponsorship
In North Adams and nearby Williamstown churches priests urged parishioners to thoughtfully vote in the November 30 election over Sprague Electric Co. union sponsorship. Reported walkouts by some workers occurred during Sunday sermons as church leaders asked members to weigh why dues would leave the city.
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North Adams
Sprague Electric Co
Berkshire
St. Anthony’s
St. Francis
St. Patrick’s
St. Raphael’s
Williamstown
Sprague
Fire damages Busy Beaver center $50,000 blaze cause spews heat
Fire Chief Arthur H. Hathaway says a dryer likely overheated sparked the Sunday blaze at the Busy Beaver coin operated cleaning center, causing about $50,000 in damage. It marks the second major fire at a local business in weeks, following a November 1 barbershop interior fire that caused about $20,000 in damage.
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Adams
Beaver
Arthur H. Hathaway
Pittsfield GE strike enters ninth week as union rejects return to work
The walkout by 390 draftsmen at the Pittsfield General Electric plant continued into its ninth week after Local 140 AFTE members voted to persist. They reported some mediation progress but refused to end the strike in a special Sunday meeting.
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Pittsfield
UPI
General Electric GE
AFTE
Malloy Opposes Driver License Suspension Recommendation
In Montpelier Vermont Motor Vehicles Commissioner James Malloy rejects a proposal to have municipal and district court judges automatically suspend licenses for motor vehicle offenders. Malloy called the idea stinks and questioned administering a uniform motor vehicle code as studies move forward. Senator John J. O'Brien chairs the highway study committee and had received the recommendation from Robert Picher hired to study the code.
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John J. O’brien
D-Chittenden - Grand Isle
Robert Picher
Winooski
Picher
Vermont
Malloy
Motor Vehicle Department
Piccher
Tax Hike Forecast By Democratic Whip Boggs
Representative Hale Boggs, House Democratic whip, forecast a possible income tax increase of 10 to 15 billion dollars. He cited a budget deficit reported for this year up to 15 billion, the largest peacetime shortfall since 1959. Boggs spoke after Texas talks with President Johnson and warned of fiscal pressure.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Hale Boggs
House
Eisenhower
Texas
Boggs
CBS
Face
Walter Heller
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Heller
NBC
Meet the Press
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Bogg
Republicans to push tax sharing plan in new Congress
Rep Charles E Goodell outlined a federal tax sharing proposal as an alternative to the Great Society. The plan would let up to 5 percent of personal income tax receipts be distributed to state and local governments with no strings attached, totaling about 1.8 billion dollars for the current year.
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Washington
House
Hale Boggs
Goodell
GOP Committee
Richard Nathan
Brookings Institution
Great Society
USS Wasp Joins In Maneuvers
The USS Wasp joined more than 90 ships in Caribbean and mid Atlantic maneuvers for Lantflex 66 through Dec 16. Nineteen naval air squadrons and 5,000 Marines will test fleet operations with three Royal Canadian Navy ships also taking part.
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Boston
UPI
Wasp
Naval Air
Royal Canadian Navy
Navy
State Receives Federal Grant For Streambanks
Vermont wins an $11,267 matching grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund announced in Philadelphia by Rolland B. Handley of the BOR. Funds will stabilize Willoughby and Barton Rivers for fish habitat and public access, and preserve Dead Creek Marsh wildlife habitat near Ferrisburg. Elbert G. Moulton of the Vermont Development Department submitted the proposal.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Philadelphia
Rolland B. Handley
Northeast
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
BOR
Handley
Willoughby
Barton
Dead Creek Marsh
Otter Creek
Ferrisburg
Elbert G. Moulton
Vermont Development Department
Congress
Space Age Scientists Discuss Orbital Rescue and Escape
Five thousand top scientists converge for the third annual AIAA meeting at War Memorial Auditorium in Boston. Panels cover orbital rescue, deep ocean life-saving uses of space knowledge, safety car concepts, and national security in 1970s orbital flight. Werner von Braun and Gen. Bernard Schriever are among speakers with sessions on Northeast air and rail service improvements.
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Boston
UPI
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAA
War Memorial Auditorium
American Science
Werner von Braun
Huntsville
Ala
James Gavin
Arthur D. Little, Inc
Manned Orbiting Laboratories
Bernard Schriever
Air Force Systems Command
Northeast
Boston-Washington
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