New trial ordered in Burlington woman's careless driving case
Rutland District Judge Edward G. McClellan set aside a July 21 verdict of guilty against Susan E. Carpenter 21 in the death of Kathleen Ross 19 after ruling an expert witness testimony was prejudicial. A new trial was ordered with State's Attorney West to seek a fresh jury verdict on whether Carpenter was careless and negligent in the Benson Vermont Route 22 A crash one year ago.
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Rutland
UPI
Burlington
Edward G. McClellan
Susan E. Carpenter
Miss Carpenter
Joseph O’rourke
Robert E. West
Vermont Unemployment Claims Dip Slightly in Week
Vermont unemployment claims totaled 1 862 for the week, down 144 from the prior period and 336 above last year. The insured jobless rate held at 1.7 percent as new claims fell 122 to 264, with apparel and construction, service, private households, and wholesale retail trades driving most of the activity. gains appeared in St Albans and White River Junction while Bennington, Middlebury, Rutland, and St Johnsbury saw declines.
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UPI
Vermont
Department of Employment Security
Bennington
Middlebury
Rutland
St. Johnsbury
St. Albans
White River Junction
Interstate 89 to Montpelier area to open by Dec. 1
Interstate 89 work from Colchester to Georgia advances on schedule with a 7.7 million project. Nearly nine miles to be traffic ready by December 1, leaving 15.2 miles to complete to the Canadian border. By January 1969 the Georgia to Swanton segment should be finished, with remaining White River Junction to Brookfield work ongoing and the Barre Montpelier to Brookfield stretch due in the early 1970s.
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Colchester
Georgia
Milton
Highway Department
U.S. 7
Swanton
White River Junction
Brookfield
Barre-Montpelier
St Michael's College to raise undergraduate fees in 1968
St Michael's College announced a tuition increase for undergraduate resident students, raising annual tuition from 1,350 to 1,500. Board and room will rise by 150 to 1,000, with the higher charges effective starting the 1968 summer session.
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Winooski Park
UPI
St. Michael’s College
Roman Catholic Liberal Arts College
Albany education centers to curb narcotics addiction
Governor Rockefeller announced a state plan opening seven education centers on narcotics addiction to educate communities about addiction and rehabilitation. Most centers will be upstate in the soft drug area describing student marijuana use. A $2.8 million chemistry building was dedicated at Albany State University, part of a new academic complex.
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State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission
Rockefeller
Albany State University
Electric Car 5 Years Away
SCHENECTADY Dr. Arthur M. Bueche GE vice president and head of R D Center discussed last week's unveiling of its experimental electric powered car. He said the car is more than five years from practicality but GE aims to supply solid state controls high energy batteries or fuel cells and motors for the car.
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Schenectady
Arthur M. Bueche
General Electric Co
Burns children participate in Washington protest at Pentagon
Williamstown based Stewart Burns, son of Prof James MacGregor Burns, was fined 25 in Washington DC after taking part in a Pentagon protest. His siblings David H a Harvard junior and Margaret 14 a Mt Greylock sophomore also joined the demonstration with other students.
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Stewart Burns
James MacGregor Burns
Washington, D.C
Pentagon
Columbia University
Burns
David H
Harvard University
Margaret
Mt. Greylock
Vietnam
Greylock
Pittsfield withholds approval for four relocatable classrooms
State Building Inspector James Goggins in Pittsfield refused to authorize four Highland and Stearns elementary relocatable classrooms after finding inadequate floor and roof construction. Crown Mfg Co of Bristol must supply engineering data proving adequacy before use. The $58,000 project faced bidding controversy when the lower bid was not accepted by the School Building Additions Commission. North Adams boiler blast causes extensive damage to Beth Israel Synagogue. custodian Ronald Perras lightly burned.
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Pittsfield
James Goggins
Highland and Stearns
Crown Mfg. Co
Bristol
North Adams
Ronald Perras
Beth Israel Synagogue
New England Power Co Cuts Wholesale Electric Rates
The Federal Power Commission accepts for filing a 5.1 million annual reduction in wholesale rates and charges from New England Power Co of Boston, a subsidiary of the New England Electric System. Refunds are effective as announced.
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UPI
Federal Power Commission
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New England Power Co
Boston
New England Power
New England Electric System
Royalton Denied Review of Finances
The Vermont Education Board voted 3-2 against initiating a special financial review of Royalton College in South Royalton. Acting President Anthony Doria defended the college, noting a $30,000 additional donation and that an accountant had been appointed, amid prior questions about its finances.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont Education Board
Royalton College
South Royalton
Anthony Doria
Andrew Rudtke
Doria
Fish Story: Warden Rules Woman Attending Pole in Court
In Freeley Colorado a game warden ticketed Joan Marquez for lacking a fishing license while she held a baited pole for her 9 year old son. In court Judge Sidney A Emerson upheld her case ruling she was merely attending the pole.
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Freeley
Colo
Upid
Joan Marquez
Sidney A. Emerson
Rutland Mayor Presses Annexation and Growth Limits
Vermont lawmakers heard Rutland and Burlington officials clash over city town relations. Mayor Harold J. Nichols painted Rutland as a hole in the doughnut, citing limited land for expansion and future need to provide water and sewer services to surrounding towns. Francis Cain argued Rutland can meet its own and nearby communities’ needs, while noting a housing shortage for middle income and elderly residents and plans for more public housing by next spring.
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Rutland
Nichols
Rutland City
John Hanson
Orzell
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