University of Vermont seeks extra funds for farm, federal matches
Burlington UPI reports the University of Vermont with a near 10 million dollar budget plans to ask the legislature for an additional 5 million. The funds would finish the new university farm and boost federal matching support. About 400 thousand dollars was cut from the 1967 budget, and President Shannon McCune hopes some was restored.
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UPI
University of Vermont
Uiversity Farm
Shannon McCune
Governor's Conference on Recreation Set for Monday
The 23rd annual Governor's Conference on Recreation will convene Monday at the State House with keynote by Dr. Harold Meyer on recreation. Howard Jeffrey says the luncheon at Pavilion Hotel includes topics on the federal role, family camping area standards, and senior citizen programs.
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UPI
State House
Howard Jeffrey
Harold Meyer
Pavilion Hotel
Simpson urges fiscal restraint as bond plan looms
Lyndonville veteran liberal Republican W. Arthur Simpson plans to campaign on fiscal responsibility after being seen as a re-election shoo-in. He warns against erosion of revenue raising and mortgaging future generations while Gov Hoff pushes a 20 to 25 million dollar bond issue to refinance a highway crash plan and Simpson calls for a cautious legislative review.
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UPI
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General Assembly
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Philip H. Hoff
Marlboro College Elects New Trustees Leaders
Marlboro Rayner Naess economist associated with banking and investment circles joins the board. Charles Merrill headmaster of Commonwealth School Boston and Bernard Brooks Marlboro College graduate and Sheffield Plastics president Massachusetts are also elected trustees of the college.
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Charles Merrill
Commonwealth School
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Bernard Brooks
Marlboro College
Sheffield Plastics
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Kenyan UN Official to Address Plainfield Students
Kenya's Nge'ethe Mjoroge, political committee representative to the United Nations, will speak at Goddard College in Plainfield on Saturday. He will discuss Black Versus White in Southern Rhodesia, and holds a journalism master’s degree from Boston University after serving as senior assistant secretary in Kenya's External Affairs Ministry.
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Rockefeller defends sales tax at Greene County GOP dinner
Governor Rockefeller told Greene County Republicans that without the sales tax and higher aid to schools communities state and local governments would have faced about a 16 percent rise in property taxes. He said no alternatives existed beyond higher business and personal taxes or deep state program cuts.
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Rockefeller
Greene County Republican Club
Troy area citizens form anti smut committee meeting
Nearly 300 Troy area residents gathered at The Hendrick Hudson on Thursday night to organize a nonsecretarian, area wide panel targeting smut peddlers and urging swift action under a new state law. The Decent Literature Committee of Troy Council, K of C, organized the meeting.
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Cambridge Farm Bureau elects Cambridgie president
Ben W. English was named president of the Washington County Farm Bureau at Hartford School. Ernest Smith Jr. of Salem is vice president. Directors for two years are Jack Kelly Eagle Bridge Marjorie Wilson Salem Frank Humphrey Middle Falls and Merritt Tooley Whitehall. The president leads the Empire State Shepherd's Co op and is a former justice of the peace and Cambridge town supervisor.
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Ben W. English
Washington County Farm Bureau
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Ernest Smith Jr
Salem
Jack Kelly
Eagle Bridge
Marjorie Wilson
Frank Humphrey
Middle Falls
Merritt Tooley
Whitehall
Empire State Shepherd’s Co-op
Adams Redevelopment Plan Forces Moves in Berkshire
Tenants and property owners in the Adams proposed urban renewal area are told they must vacate homes and businesses this winter. Donald R. Sommer, chairman of the Adams Redevelopment Authority, says property buying will start next spring or early summer.
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Donald R. Sommer
The
Adams Redevelopment Authority
Walkout threatened at GE Pittsfield plant over grievances
IUE Local 255 officials declined comment on a possible walkout by GE distribution protective equipment workers. The move would be the sixth in the current series, based on 58 grievances. About 350 first shift workers are expected to leave at 2 p.m.
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Pittsfield
IUE
General Electric
Distribution Protective Equipment Department
Three men arraigned in North Adams over bull shooting
Police stopped a North Adams car after reports of a two year old Holstein bull shot in a pasture. Gerald Cole John Pratt and Warren Wright faced drunkenness and related charges with Cole also charged with DWI and disorderly conduct. The gun and shells were found in the car. pleas entered and cases set for Nov 6.
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Harry L. Bernard
Notch Road
Gerald E. Cole
John Pratt
Warren Wright
Cole
Bull
North Adams Houghton School Closure Shifts Pupils
North Adams Houghton School on Union Street closed after 68 years as a public school. Pupils moved to the new East School while Superintendent Robert N. Taylor considers future use for the building under an Antipoverty program and will present disposition recommendations at the School Committee meeting Tuesday.
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Houghton
Union Street
New East School
Robert N. Taylor
Defense Dept Answers Charges by Admirals
Washington officials staged a press meeting to defuse a dispute as Rear Admiral Brockett and Rear Admiral Curtze retire early over opposition to Pentagon centralization. Deputy Defense Secretary Cy Vance led the briefing to project unity while signaling broader concerns within the Navy hierarchy.
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UPI
Defense Department
Trevolt
William A. Brockett
Navy
Bureau of Ships
Charles A. Curtze
Pentagon
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Navy chief McDonald on defense centralization and unification
Chief of Naval Operations David L. M. McDonald, a soft-spoken Georgian, weighed in on Defense Department centralization. He said there are both positives and negatives, recalling the 18 year battle over force unification, noting the Navy never wanted it but allowing that it may work out for the best.
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David LM McDonald
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Defense Department
Ethan Allen BSA Council Seeks Funds for Campaign
The Ethan Allen Council of the Boy Scouts of America held its annual meeting in Rutland at the Central Vermont Public Service Building. Vice President Carlo Zezza chaired. Council Treasurer Russell Carpenter reviewed accounts. Donald Ross outlined the need for funds and the upcoming campaign. membership stands at 3,653 Scouts and 1,147 adults in 145 units. Plans include Camp Plymouth and Camp Sunrise for six weeks next summer and a Philmont trip to Cimarron, New Mexico with registration urged to secure a spot.
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Ethan Allen Council
Boy Scouts of America
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Carlo Zezza
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Donald Ross
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New Bird Survival Rules Urged by Officials
KEMPTON PA Migratory birds face habitat loss despite existing laws and treaties. John Sullivan Northeast Regional Director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation urges stronger conservation, habitat preservation, and public awareness. He warns predation is only part of the problem and humans destroy food and cover resources.
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Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association
John Sullivan
Northeast
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Department of the Interior
Sullivan
Canada
Mexico
Miller Faces Third Charge in Draft Card Case
Syracuse NY David Miller 22 the first arrested under the new federal law banning destruction of draft cards faced a third court appearance in as many days. He previously appeared in federal court in New York on the draft card charge and in criminal court on a sit-in at a Manhattan Army recruiting station both cases continued to mid November. He also said a trespass charge was filed in Syracuse after a civil rights protest at the Niagara Mohawk plant. he remains free on bail in the earlier cases.
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UPI
David Miller
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Miller Told Newsmen
Niagara Mohawk
Visitations, Initiation Held by Hoosick Falls BPOE Leaders
In Hoosick Falls a Tuesday night visitation by District Deputy Paul J. Lynch of Troy and State Vice President William E. Yerick of Hudson included delegates from Hudson, Glens Falls, Mechanicville, Troy, Saratoga, Rensselaer and Greenwich in an initiation of six candidates. Exalted Ruler J Joseph Hayden presided with his officers. A turkey dinner was served by the Ladies' Auxiliary followed by roast beef sandwiches.
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Troy
William E. Yerick
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Hudson
Glens Falls
Mechanicville
Saratoga
Rensselaer
Greenwich
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J. Joseph Hayden
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Blink ing Lights Must Go Blinking Lights Must Go
Secretary of State Harry H. Cooley warned Vermont businessmen to remove blinking flashing and off on signs that could be mistaken for highway control devices. State law prohibits such advertising signs and noncompliance will trigger enforcement to have them removed.
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Montpelier
UPD
Harry H. Cooley
Vermont
Cooley
Secretary of State
Leslie Uggams Bows Out From The Singing Nun
Hollywood sources report Leslie Uggams is forced to bow out of The Singing Nun due to prior nightclub commitments. UPI notes the change alters casting plans for the upcoming production in Hollywood.
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UPI
Leslie Uggams
Vermont Senator Delivers Federal Food Stamp Aid to St Albans
Vermont officials in St Albans received the first federal food stamps from Sen. George D. Aiken, 10,000 dollars in stamps. The program starts Monday in Franklin, Grand Isle and LaMoille counties to aid low income families, with eligible households able to buy stamps and obtain groceries, stretching dollars by about 25 percent. Aiken cited relief from surpluses in a land of plenty. A separate New York note reports Kinney Service Corp says a 15 story office tower yields about a ton of refuse daily.
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UPI
George D. Aiken
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Grand Isle
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Aiken
New York
UPD
Kinney Service Corporation
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