Vermont Brattleboro seeks new school leaders
Brattleboro directors search for a successor to School Supt Harry N Montague who retires at year end and for a new comptroller to replace Clarence E Harding. Montague has been out ill for weeks described as critical. The board also wants a separate person to supervise buildings and grounds and will hire part time Assistant Supt Albert E Lynch at about 38 percent of his time.
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Brattleboro
Harry N. Montague
Clarence E. Harding
Montague
North Bennington High School
Bennington Southwest
Harding
Albert E. Lynch
Windham Southeast Supervisory Union
Nurses urged to boost cancer fight at Stowe meeting
Miss Katherine R. Nelson, Ed.D., of Columbia University, will speak at the Vermont Nurses Association annual meeting in Stowe October 15 17 under sponsorship of the Vermont Division American Cancer Society. Dr Walter H. Rath said her participation marks a high point in professional education and stressed expanding the registered nurse role in all educational programs.
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Stowe
Vermont Nurses Association
Katherine R. Nelson
Columbia University
New York
Vermont
American Cancer Society
Walter H. Rath
St. Albans
Nelson
Stratton Mount Inn to Host Vermont Nursing Home Banquet
STRATTON Ed Walker of Miami Oklahoma will speak at the Vermont Nursing Home Association annual banquet to be held at the Stratton Mountain Inn October 23. The three day conference begins October 22 with exhibits of the latest medical equipment and services for long term patients. A Medicare progress review and future services for Vermont's aged and convalescent citizens will be discussed.
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Stratton
Ed Walker
Miami
Okla
American Nursing Home Association
Vermont Nursing Home Association
Stratton Mountain Inn
Vermont
Vermontity seeks funds for statewide community service centers
The Vermont technical assistance office drafts an application with the Office of Economic Opportunity to expand a network of community service centers offering information on state and public agency aid. Centers may also host recreational and day care programs with funds flowing to community action agencies to establish local centers. The Putney Democratic Town Committee endorses Gov. Hoff for a fourth term, hoping to spark a draft Hoff movement, despite Hoff's plans to step down next year. The Public Service Board approves Boston and Maine Railway’s plan to discontinue Wells River agency service and move it to Fairlee.
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Montpelier
UPI
State Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Thomas Davis
Putney
Democratic Town Committee
Philip H.hoff
Roy S. Richardson Jr
Richardson
Hoff
Vermont
Albany State University work halts over picket line dispute
Construction on Albany State University’s academic complex stopped Wednesday as electricians and non union workers honor picket lines in a jurisdiction dispute. Across the Capital District other plants including United Traction Tobin Meat Packing International Harvester Ford also report stoppages. A 60 year old Albany man Fraser MacIntosh died after entering the Hudson River near Dunn Memorial Bridge police say. Steelworkers on the new bridge saw him nearby but did not witness him enter the river. Ralph B. Millington of Wood Flong Corp in Hoosick Falls has been named special correspondent for Syracuse Pump and Paper Foundation’s Public Relations Committee. The foundation aims to spark youth interest in pulp and paper as a career. annual meeting set for Oct 25-26 in Syracuse.
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Albany
Albany State University
United Traction Co
Tobin Meat Packing Co
International Harvester Co
Menands
Ford Motor Co
Green Island
Hudson River
Dunn Memorial Bridge
Fraser MacIntosh
Madison Ave
Albany Medical Center
MacIntosh
Hoosick Falls
Ralph B. Millington
Wood Flong Corporation
Syracuse Pump and Paper Foundation, Inc
State University College of Forestry
Syracuse
Woman named first female chief of Berkshire Civil Defense unit
In Berkshire Cheshire the Civil Defense auxiliary police has its first woman chief Lorraine Marcil, described by Allan Zenowitz as possibly the first in the state and perhaps the entire Eastern United States. North Adams Councilor Alfred Law seeks federal fire-station aid, appealing to Sen. Kennedy for help with West End fire protection needs.
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Cheshire
Civil Defense Auxiliary
Allan Zenowitz
Great Barrington
Lorraine Marcil
United States
North Adams
Alfred E. Law
Edward M. Kennedy
West End
Law
Federal Aviation Agency
Former official removes historic tablet from Union Station
Pittsfield notes former school committeeman John J. Quinn lifted a bronze tablet from the Union Station prior to its demolition under urban renewal. The 1914 plaque, saved for Berkshire County Historical Society, marks the building’s era while Quinn, a signal inspector for the Boston and Albany division of the New York Central RR, preserves a city artifact.
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Pittsfield
John J. Quinn
Union Station
Berkshire County Historical Society
Quinn
Boston & Albany
New York Central RR
Hoff Fears Governors Parley Will Be Dominated by Politics
MONTPELIER UPI Gov Philip Hoff predicts the National Governors Conference in October will be dominated by politics. Hoff says urban problems crime control and federal state relations should be priorities and tax sharing must wait for Vietnam War hostilities to subside. He noted Romney may politicize tax sharing and the New England governors will review candidates for the conference executive director post.
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Hoff
Virgin Islands
New York City
Michigan
George Romney
Romney
New England
Reorganization Endorsed In Montpelier Plans
The Committee on Administrative Coordination endorsed two subcommittee recommendations to reorganize Vermont state government. It backs a Department of Human Resources with divisions covering health, mental health, welfare, planning, and rehabilitation and a Department of Natural Resources with six divisions. Operational start would be March 1 1969 and full operation by July 1 1970, with commissioners appointed by the governor and advised by their boards and the Senate.
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Fish and Game
Forests and Parks
Senate
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Sen. Kennedy
Ayegate
New Hampshire
U.S. 5
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Woodsville
N.H
Stephen J. Burton
Kingsley A. Smith
McIndoes
Mary Hitchcock Hospital
Hanover
Burton
Smith
Brightlock Hospital
St. Johnsbury
Leonard Cohen
Rhode Island
Bennington, VT
Bennington County
R.n.’S Association
Stephen Manes
Mount Anthony Union High School
Bennington
MAUHS
Bennington Potters
Geneva
Montel
Studio Rockwood
R.H. van der Linde
Fishman’s
Fishman's
Ladies
Dacron
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