Vermont Canfield Award Presented to Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary, winner of the 1966 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, travels from Berkeley to Proctorsville Vermont to receive the honor at the Vermont PTA Convention banquet. The event celebrates a Vermonter and promotes reading among children. Ribsy, Henry Huggins’ dog, wins reader approval from Grades 4-8 after a committee list.
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Proctorsville
Beverly Cleary
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Vermont
Berkeley
Calif
Vermont Pta
Free Public Library Service
Cleary
PTA
Bavarian Castle
Ribsey
Henry Huggins
Vermont New Hampshire blood donations plunge last week
UPI reports a sharp drop in blood donations across Vermont and New Hampshire, totaling 367 pints from seven drawings, down 490 pints from the prior week. Mansfield Avenue Red Cross Center in Burlington distributed 696 pints, with 669 sent to 62 regional hospitals and 27 to other centers as local reserves deplete after a shipment excess of 329 pints. Exeter New Hampshire led with 105 pints.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
New Hampshire
Mansfield Avenue
Low bid set for Hartford U S 5 White River bridge
The Vermont Highway Department announced Curran-Laval, Inc. and Kenneth Curran, Inc. submitted the apparent low bid of $1,850,646 for a 57 foot bridge on U S Route 5 over the White River at Hartford. Completion is planned for December 1, 1968, replacing the temporary structure used since the 1964 flood damaged the old Hartford bridge.
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Montpelier
UPD
Littleton
N.H
U.S. Route 5
White River
Hartford
Vermont Highway Department
Curran-Laval, Inc
Kenneth Curran, Inc
U.S. 5
Young Williamstown youth burned in gas tank explosion
James Joyal son of Mr and Mrs George Joyal was seriously burned when a gas tank exploded on a car he was cutting with an acetylene torch. He is in Burlington hospital with second and third degree burns over about forty percent of his body. Fire Chief Irving Stephenson said the blast shook windows as firemen arrived at the scene yesterday.
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Burlington
YPD
Williamstown
James Joyal
George Joyal
Irving Stephenson
Young Royal
Longacre to head Vermont Military Science Dept at UVM
Col. David Longacre a 24 year Army veteran named head of the University of Vermont Military Science Department succeeding Col. Leonard Robinson. He is finishing four years in Taiwan with MAAG in the Republic of China and has served with OSS teams in Mongolia and North China and fought in the Korean War. Democratic campaign headquarters open in Montpelier Tuesday at the Pavilion Hotel hosted by Laurence Henderson for Gov Hoff with Washington County Women’s Club and Democratic Committee participation.
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Burlington
UPI
David Longacre
University of Vermont Military Science Department
Leonard Robinson
Longacre
Taiwan
Formosa
Republic of China
Office of Strategic Services
OSS
Mongolia
North China
Montpelier
OPS
Pavilion Hotel
Laurence Henderson
Philip H. Hoff
Washington County Women’s Club
Democratic Committee
Hoff
Grafton Hicks to Speak at State Teachers Conference
Troy Granville Hicks, Grafton teacher, author and critic, will address the English meeting of the State Teachers Association at Lishakill Junior High. He has taught at Smith College, RPI, NY School for Social Research, NYU and Syracuse University and authored novels and criticism including a John Reed biography and Small Town. Since 1958 he has contributed to The Saturday Review with a weekly Literary Horizons column.
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Troy — Granville Hicks
Grafton
State Teachers Association
Lishakill
Hicks
Smith College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
New York School For Social Research
New York University
Syracuse University
John Reed
The
Saturday Review
Meredith to Speak on Racial Peace at St Rose
James Meredith civil rights figure and first black student at the University of Mississippi will speak tonight at St. Rose College on racial peace in America. His talk in St Joseph's Hall is set for 8 PM. A separate note from East Greenbush reports a 400 pound black bear sighting moving north past residents Sunday night, described by a state trooper as merely passing through.
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Albany
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
College of St. Rose
America
Meredith
St. Joseph’s Hall
Adams-Cheshire votes names for regional high school
The Adams-Cheshire Regional School District Committee lists candidates for the new regional high school. One proposed name is Susan B Anthony Regional High School. The school, in planning stages, would be located in the neighborhood where the suffragist Susan B Anthony once played and walked as a child.
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Adams
Adams-Cheshire
Susan B. Anthony Regional High School
Bowes gets four month extension on housing order
North Adams Board of Health grants County Commissioner James A. Bowes a four month extension to fix Prospect Street tenement housing code violations. He says 30 days were insufficient and repairs may be costly, with razing or boarding up possible if needed.
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North Adams
Board of Health
James A. Bowes
Prospect Street
Hagerman Wins Four Photography Prizes at Stratton Arts Festival
Stratton Arts Festival opened over the weekend with Hagerman earning Best Black and White Landscape Best Animal Photography Best Use of Farm Abstract and Best Abstraction for four prize winning prints. Jack Breed took Best in Show for The Coming of New England Spring. other awardees included Emil Grunsweig Clemens Kalisher John Wendell and Jon Hardie who coordinated the show. The exhibit features Carved Vermont works, crafts and sculptures with multiple regional exhibitors and music and architectural tours scheduled.
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Stratton
Bennington
Robert L. Hagerman
Hagerman
Stowe
Walloomsac River
Jack Breed
New England
Breed
Emil
Grunsweig
Clemens Kalisher
John Wendell
Jon Hardie
Hardie
Lunenburg
Eric Henrich
David Plowden
Vermont
Trixie Comins
Dorothy Howe
Manchester Depot
Sam Ogden Jr
Manchester Center
Charmion
Horst Bodies
Arlington
Ed Levin
Esther Knipe
Ted Scatchard
Arlington youth admits malt beverage possession and probation violation
Thomas A. Lane, 20, pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to possessing malt beverages and was fined 50 dollars. He was found in violation of probation from a 1965 suspended sentence and ordered to serve 15 days in county jail after evidence tied to the new offense. A warden and state police had found two six packs in his car during a roadside stop. Lane had recently left the state for work and failed to obtain permission. The judge warned him to abstain from alcohol, highlighting lessons from three chronic alcoholics charged that day.
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Arlington
Thomas A. Lane
Lane
George M. Fienberg
James F. Williams
Fienberg
Ford Unveils Inexpensive High-Energy Battery For City Cars
Ford Motor Co unveiled a low cost high energy battery to power small city cars, claiming up to 15 times the energy of lead acid. The system uses crystalline ceramic, sodium and sulphur materials. A rugged low cost electric motor is also described, with a new approach to vehicle engineering. Ford England is engineering a compact city car for two adults and two children, construction underway and due next spring.
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Ford
Dearborn
Mich
UPI
Ford Motor Co
Michael Ference Jr
Ference
England
U.S
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