Vermont jail break case arraigned in Orange Municipal Court
An 18 year old farm worker from Chelsea pleaded innocent to intoxication assault and battery and escape from jail after escaping Orange County Jail earlier this month. Bail set at 100 dollars for intoxication and 1500 for the other charges. Leonard Salls remains at large. Brown allegedly struck a jail trusty and aided Salls in the escape before fleeing in a stolen car later wreck.
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Chelsea
API
Orange County
John Brown
Orange
Leonard Salls
Randolph
Brown
Henry McGee
Salls
Forest Sanborn
Vermont PSB to discuss changes in telephone monitoring
The Vermont Public Service Board and New England Telephone plan a Thursday meeting to review how monitoring of long distance calls will be modified. A report suggested installing cutoff switches to remove a service monitor when an operator is switched off, but Vermont Telephone Co. doubts feasibility and cites high modification costs.
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Vermont Telephone Co
Vermont to Build Fifth State College in Four to Six Years
Vermont officials disclosed plans for a new state college to be built within four to six years as part of a broader expansion. Provost Robert Babcock said at a Vermont Higher Education Commission meeting the southeastern region, with the lowest college attendance, would host the campus, while the four existing schools undergo a $5.5 million expansion to be finished next fall.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Robert Babcock
University of Vermont
Babcock
Vermont Higher E Lucation Commission
Notable awards and rescues reported in upstate news
In Albany Dr Clinton N Woolsey of the University of Wisconsin will receive the 1966 Honorary Lectureship Award from Albany Medical College and speak on Exploring the Brain at 815 pm on November 9 in Huyck Auditorium open to physicians and scientists. In the Adirondacks, 17 year old Peter Gade was rescued by helicopter after six days lost while deer hunting and is listed in good condition. In Grafton the Senate confirmed Mary C Berger as postmaster replacing acting postmaster Earl Wager.
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Albany
Clinton N. Woolsey
Slichter
University of Wisconsin
Albany Medical College of
Union University
Woolsey
Upstate New York
Union College
Albany Medical College
Huyck Auditorium
Syracuse
Adirondacks
Racquette Lake
Peter Gade
Community General Hospital
Gade
Grafton
Senate
President Johnson
Mary C. Berger
Berger
Earl Wager
Two men face trial for $40,000 food theft scheme
Edward J. King of Adams and John R. Hancock of North Adams pleaded innocent in Superior Court Pittsfield to charges they stole $40,000 in food products over three years. King, a former Adams Super Markets meat dept manager, is among the defendants. Mt. Greylock’s summit drew about 150,000 visitors this season, a gain of roughly 10,000 from last year, per retiring custodian Joseph F. Fitzgerald.
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North Adams
Edward J. King
Adams
John R. Hancock
Superior Court
Pittsfield
King
Adams Super Markets, Inc
Mt. Greylock
Joseph F. Fitzgerald
Pittsfield plant plans bridge like six to seven stories
Pittsfield Eaton Paper Corp. plans a $700000 to $1 million addition to connect its two main buildings. Unofficial sources say the project includes a six to seven story section linking structures about 40 feet apart across South Church Street. Mrs Adaline Dawley of Pittsfield won $28888 in the Irish Sweepstakes. The ticket was a gift from her husband Charles who also gave a ticket to his daughter. Tarquogan the Dawleys’ horse ran third.
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Pittsfield
Eaton Paper Corp
South Church Street
Adaline Dawley
Charles
Pittsford Selectmen Oppose State Institution Site
Pittsford selectmen oppose locating a new state medium security institution at the former Vermont Sanatorium. They warn the town is too small for the facility and could suffer in all town operations. The Zoning Adjustment board also opposed the move citing social and economic impacts.
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Pittsford
UPI
Waterbury
Windsor
St. Albans
State Institutions Board
Hoff backs idea of permanent Vermont tax commission
Gov. Philip H Hoff said he has no objections to creating a permanent tax commission to monitor Vermont's future revenue needs. Rep. Arthur Gibb proposed the panel to keep the governor and legislature informed, potentially shortening sessions and aiding independent legislative decisions. Hoff noted Snelling favors a sales tax but critics inflationary revenue estimates in 1965, while stressing the bipartisan Independent Citizens Committee for Fair Taxes is not a front for any candidate.
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Zoning Board of Adjustment
John Connarn
Philip H. Hoff
Hoff
Permanent
Montpelier
UPD
Vermont
Arthur Gibb
R-Weybridge
Legislative Council Tax Study Committee
Sion
Ways and Means
Richard
Snelling
Thas
Ways and Means Committee
Reid Lefevre
Picket Lines Honored At Pittsfield GE Plant
Pittsfield Massachusetts 10000 worker General Electric plant saw production crippled as 400 AFTE draftsmen and 4700 IUE members refused to cross picket lines. Non union staff reported for work while cars were tampered with. mediators engaged elsewhere to end a strike. The Pittsfield plant makes transformers protective equipment resins and guidance systems for Polaris and Poseidon missiles.
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Pittsfield
Mass
UPI
General Electric Co
American Federation of Technical Engineers
AFTE
International Union of Electrical Workers
IUE
General Electric
Ashland
Lynn
Everett
Lowell
Burlington
Somersworth
N.H
Navy
Polaris
Congressmen Align on LBJ Viet War Conduct in Vermont
In SOUTH BURLINGTON Vermont UPI reports two congressional candidates Rep. Robert Stafford and William Ryan voiced broad support for President Johnson's Vietnam War approach at a League of Women Voters forum. Stafford backed Johnson's war aims but opposed expansion bombing of non strategic targets in North Vietnam while Ryan pledged 100 percent support and alignment with Johnson on policy changes. They also clashed on Taft Hartley Section 14 B repeal with Ryan favoring repeal and Stafford voting against it though both oppose corporate right to work in Vermont.
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South Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Johnson
League of Women Voters
Robert Stafford
R-Vt
North
Viet Nam
National Democratic
Ryan
Stafford
Burlington 43rd Division veterans plan 25th reunion
Burlington veterans from Vermont s 43rd Division will hold their 25th annual reunion at the Veterans Club 172 South Winooski Ave from 5 p.m. to midnight. A Delmonico steak dinner is set for 7 p.m. at 2.50 per person. Bob Lee handles tickets writing to 90 Village Green Burlington chairman of arrangements committee assisters include Tony Beauvais Dr Henry Farmer Eddie LaPlant and Art Tudhope. Dr Farmer was a major and regimental surgeon with Vermont s 172nd Infantry Regiment when the transport sank off Espiritu Island October 26 1942.
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Burlington
Vermont
Veterans’ Club
South
Winooski Ave
43Rd
Bennington County
Pacific
San Francisco
Guadalcanal
Espiritu Island
New Hebrides Islands
New Guinea
Philippines
Bob Lee
Village Green
Lee
Tony Beauvais
Henry Farmer
Eddie LaPlant
Art Tudhope
Farmer
172Nd Inf
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Vermont State Hospital
Jonathan P.A. Leopold
Proctor
Mortimer R. Proctor
Geraldine Gates
Lillian
Miss Gates
Springfield
South Hadley
Vermont Marble Co
Rutland Herald
New York
Down In
Berkshire
Paper Company
John Woodhull
The
LBJ
Veterans Plan
Cent
Berlin
East Germany
ADN
Hanoi
John F. Kennedy
W. Averell Harriman
U.S
Don K. Price
Cambridge
Harvard University
School of Administration
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Drysdale’s
Shop Oneida
Sonotone
House of Hearing
Mr. Whitney
Carroll Drug Store
Dee Ae
Pontiac Motor Division
General Motors
Pontiac
Walter L. Barber, Inc
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
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