Vermont Navy Captain to Lead New Oceanographer Vessel
Captain Arthur L. Wardwell, a 1936 graduate and Coast and Geodetic Survey veteran, is named commanding officer of the Oceangrapher, one of the nation's newest research ships. A Chittenden native, he served in World War II and now leads a career shaped by federal service and maritime science.
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Burlington
Arthur L. Wardwell
Wardwell
Coast and Geodetic Survey
U.S. Navy
Chittenden
Clara A. Wardwell
Barre and Norwich to host Vermont Philharmonic concerts
The Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra opens its seventh season with two back to back performances. Thursday in Barre at Spaulding High School auditorium at 8 30 features pianist Nicholas Zumbro as soloist. Friday in Norwich University Armory at 8 30 honors General Barksdale Hamlett inauguration with violinist Sadah Suchari Start as soloist. Conducted by Jon Borowicz of Northfield, Norwich music director.
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Barre
Vermont Philharmoic Orchestra
New Spaulding High School
Norwich University
Barksdale Hamlett
Jon Borowicz
Northfield
Norwich
Nicholas Zumbro
Sadah Suchari Start
Vermont to use Kerr-Mills medical aid for welfare
Social Welfare Commissioner John J. Wackerman said Vermont will implement the Kerr Mills Bill starting next July. The program allows states to provide Medicare-like medical benefits to welfare recipients, with the federal government covering 67 percent of costs. Initially 12,000 Vermonters eligible for aid will receive coverage, with Gov. Hoff seeking full enrollment of all eligible residents. Beneficiaries under aid-for-families with dependent children and blind or disabled programs will receive the same care as elderly Vermonters under Medicare.
Vermont welfare laws to be studied by NYC experts
Legislative Council Director Lewis E. Springer announced four New York research firms will be invited to submit study proposals as part of a $17,500 inquiry into Vermont general welfare assistance laws. The subcommittee will hire a team of experts and submit recommendations to the 1967 Legislature.
Oil freights dominate Burlington port at Montpelier report
Robert E. Garside of the Vermont Petroleum Association says Burlington port moves 448,912 tons of oil and oil products annually. He notes 100 percent of water borne freight is oil, and if all were motor fuel it would power Vermont vehicles for a year. He cites U S Corps of Engineers figures showing 40 percent of national water commerce is crude oil and refined products. Oil moves by pipeline rail truck and water.
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Montpelier
Burlington
Robert E. Garside
Vermont Petroleum Association
Vermont
Garside
U.S. Corps of Engineers
RPI Kicks Off Three Day Lecture Series on Glass and Plastics
In New York about seventy top glass and plastics scientists will discuss recent developments during a three day lecture series at RPI starting Wednesday morning. The event is funded by a $45,000 grant from the New York State Science and Technology Foundation.
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Troy
RPI
New York State Science and Technology Foundation
Ravdin Awarded Albany Honorary Lectureship in 1965
Albany Medical College selects Dr Isidor S Ravdin professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania for its 1965 Honorary Lectureship Award. He will accept in ceremonies at Albany Medical College on November 11. Mrs Dorothy King aged 24 and mother of two was killed Monday night when her 1963 convertible struck an embankment and overturned in Brunswick Town.
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Albany
Isidor S. Ravdin
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Albany Medical College of
Union University
Ravdin
Albany Medical College
Troy
Dorothy King
Brunswick
Italian Art of the Book exhibit at Williams College
In Berkshire at the Chapin Library Williams College presents Italian Art of the Book 1465 1965 an exhibit of more than 50 voice items and will remain on view through November 13.
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Williamstown
Chapin
Williams College
Billboard Hearing Set On Stockbridge Road Billboards
GREAT BARRINGTON selectmen read a letter from the state Outdoor Advertising Board saying it would hold a conference in Boston Nov 10 at 11 a.m. on complaints about two billboards on Stockbridge Road installed by Maurice Callahan & Sons of Pittsfield. NORTH ADAMS Edwin Matesky, former North Adams Transcript reporter and new bureau director at Russell Sage College since 1964, has been appointed an education writer and reporter at the Hartford Times.
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Great Barrington
State Outdoor Advertising Board
OAB
Boston
Stockbridge Road
Maurice Callahan & Sons
Pittsfield
North Adams
Edwin Matesky
City Hall
North Adams Transcript
Russell Sage College
Hartford, Conn
Times
Springfield Police Hearings Continue After Dieni Cleared
Springfield Police Commission hearings into alleged brutality by six officers proceed after the dismissal of a charge against Patrolman George Dieni. Witnesses testified they had no complaint with Dieni's conduct following a July disturbance at the Octagon Lounge that sparked civil rights protests. Anthony Bonavita's case has not yet been decided.
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Springfield
Mass
UPI
Nea
Octagon Lounge
Dieni
Anthony Bonavita
Raymond Duval
Ralph Hebert
Michael Shumway
Thomas Sheehan
James Williams
Shumway
Hebert
Milne seeks $100 day apportionment fee audit
Barry City attorney Donald Milne says he will bill the attorney general's office for services at $100 a day after leading the reapportionment challenge from the now-defunct 1965 Legislature. He may appeal to the U S Supreme Court this week for an early decision while state sources question the fee as potentially beyond legislative directive.
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Milne
Attorney General’s Office
General Assembly
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Boston University Honors Seven Outstanding Alumni
Boston University will honor seven alumni for outstanding community and university service at the Alumni Awards Dinner at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel. Prescott C. Crafts Jr. will preside. Honorees include Rep. Bradford Morse, Judge Florence K. Murray, Prof. Mary E. Connelly, Dorothea B. Cogswell, Augustine S. Gannon Jr., Virginia Tierney, and Randall Weeks.
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Boston
UPI
Boston University
Sheraton Plaza
Prescott C. Crafts Jr
Wellesley
General Alumni Association
Harold C. Case
Catherine E. Comeau
Bradford Morse
R-Mass
Lowell
Florence K. Murray
Rhode Island Superior Court
United States
Mary E. Connelly
College of Business Administration
Dorothea B. Cogswell
Newton Highlands
Augustine S. Gannon Jr
Saugus
Virginia Tierney
Hingham
Randall
Weeks
Broadcasters Hear News Withheld by Government
The NAB northeast regional conference ends with speeches by FCC official Kenneth Cox and NAB chairman John Dille Jr. Rep. Torbert Macdonald urges open records law to curb secrecy, while NAB president Wasilewski and VP Comstock stress unity and Congress support for greater media freedom.
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Boston
UPI
National Association of Broadcasters
NAB
Kenneth A. Cox
Federal Communications Commission
NAB Board
John F. Dille Jr
Torbert H. Macdonald
D-Mass
Washington
Macdonald
House Commerce Committee
Vincent T. Wasilewski
Paul B. Comstock
Congress
Old Age Phenomena Studied Instituted at URI Campus
The University of Rhode Island will host the New England Institute of Gerontology led by Dr. Frank W. Reynolds as part of a six state continuing education program. Kellogg Foundation funded the project with a center at the University of New Hampshire and grants totaling $91,000 established the Rhode Island institute to study aging phenomena.
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Kingston, R.I
UPID
University of Rhode Island
New England
Hypnosis Reveals Spacemen Interrogated N H Couple
Boston Traveler reports New Hampshire couple Barney and LaDonna Hill told under hypnosis of a night of abduction by space ship occupants from another planet. They described a UFO near Franconia Notch on September 19, 1961, with examining spacemen and a leader who spoke English, after which they forgot the events.
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Boston
UPI
New Hampshire
John H. Luttrell
Hill
Franconia Notch
Earth
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