Vermont Foliage Tours Highlight 13 Scenic One Day Trips
The Vermont Development Department offers a free foldout brochure for Vermont Foliage Tours detailing 13 scenic one day trips over hard surfaced roads. It lists towns like Craftsbury Common East Corinth Peacham and other photogenic villages with peak color periods accommodations and off the beaten path routes. Information centers and the address in Montpelier provide the brochure.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Craftsbury Common
East Corinth
Peacham
Vermont Information Center
Fall Foliage Tours
Vermont Development Department
Vermont BOR grants total over two million dollars
Senator George Aiken announced a Bureau of Outdoor Recreation program has disbursed more than 2 million dollars across 63 projects in 30 months. Urban area grants totaled 316,761 for 15 projects while 1,684,000 supported 48 statewide ventures including 126,250 for Seven Trout and Deer Ranch in Caledonia County. Other large grants aid Lake St. Catherine State Park and Otter Creek, with 534,900 for Green Mountain National Forest land acquisition. The program began in February 1966.
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Caledonia County
Lake St. Catherine State Park
Poultney
Otter Creek
Bureau
Green Mountain National Forest
Blood donations help Vermont New Hampshire reach weekly total
Burlington residents and New Hampshire neighbors gave 762 pints to the Burlington Regional Red Cross Blood Center last week. GE Rutland employee led the week with 194 pints in seven drawings, while Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers donated 113 pints. Montpelier topped community drawings with 123 pints. A total of 740 pints were distributed, including 690 to 62 Vermont and New Hampshire hospitals.
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Burlington
UPC
Vermont
New Hampshire
Red Cross
General Electric Co
Rutland
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth
N.H
Montpelier
Miss Vermont Elizabeth Sackler Named Most Talented Dancer
Elizabeth Ann Sackler, 20, of Putney, a philosophy major at Windham College, was named most talented dancer at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. Sackler performed a dance based on James Thurber's The Last Flower. The pageant winner was Judith Anne Ford, 18, of Illinois.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Vermont
Elizabeth Ann Sackler
Putney
Windham College
James Thurber
Miss Sackler
Illinois
Judith Anne Ford
Pig farmer seeks delay in odor ruling in Albany meeting
Niskayuna New York embattled pig farmer Alexander Gorniakowski may extend the Oct. 30 deadline after a closed session with Farm Bureau and Grange aides in Albany. A July hearing drew about 50 odor complaints, with no odor standards yet set. Bureau officials pledged support if he appeals to the Air Pollution Control Board or challenges the order in civil court.
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Niskayuna
State Health Dept
Lisha Kill
Health Dept
National Farm Organization
Albany
Farm Bureau Federation
Grange
Alexander F. Gorniakowski
Gorniakowski
John Gould
State Farm Bureau
Air Pollution Control Board
Pittsfield man dies after Albany gas-station attack
Terrance S. Potter, 24, of Pittsfield Massachusetts, died 12 hours after an alleged attack outside a city gas station near Albany. Police investigated but did not release details on the assault or number of assailants. Potter worked for McCassland Truck Co. in Albany and had just returned from New York City when the incident occurred. Autopsy to determine cause of death was pending.
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Albany
Terrance S. Potter
Pittsfield
Mass
Albany Medical Center
Potter
McCassland Truck Co
New York City
Route 7 Realignment Talks Outline Bottleneck Breakthrough
WILLIAMSTOWN Berkshire county public works officials will meet with DPW Chief Engineer Daniel S. Horgan to discuss Route 7 realignment aimed at easing the bottleneck at the Route 7 Route 2 intersection near Field Park. Early studies proposing crossing the Vermont line west of the Green Mountain racetrack area were updated to consider a crossing on the east side of Williamstown. initial alignments were not pinpointed but near the Hoosac River.
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Williamstown
Department of Public Works
DPW
Daniel S. Horgan
Field Park
Vermont
Green Mountain Racetrack
Hoosac River
Stolen Car Ring Case Runs Through Berkshire Court
Berkshire Superior Court opens a criminal session amid a 1967 era stolen car ring case. Edmund and Doris Crown of Lanesboro face 100 counts from larceny to conspiracy. Crown also faces federal indictment alongside co-defendants Patrolman Anthony Crea James McCauley Everett Thompson and Charles Hudson.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire Superior Court
Edmund
Doris Crown
Lanesboro
Crown
Crowns
Anthony Crea
James McCauley
Everett Thompson
Charles Hudson
Lynn
Pittsfield DPW to measure precipitation and temp
Mayor Donald G. Butler says the Department of Public Works will temporarily take over measuring precipitation and temperature in Pittsfield after the weather bureau closed on September 1. A decision on the bureau’s future is pending.
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Pittsfield
Donald G. Butler
Department of Public Works
Weather Bureau
Humphrey Calls for a New Day in America Tour
UPI reports Hubert H. Humphrey launching a cross country campaign with stops in Philadelphia Denver and Los Angeles. He contrasts a new day for human rights with Nixon Wallace forces and warns of racial conflict while Muskie criticizes Chicago violence and police communication by force.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
America
White House
Philadelphia
Humphrey
Nixon
B'nai B’rith
Edmund S. Muskie
Texas
Chicago
Black Panther Leader Convicted of Manslaughter
Huey P Newton founder of the Black Panthers convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal October 28 shooting of Oakland Officer John Frey. Jury found him guilty on the manslaughter count and innocent on an assault charge against Officer Herbert Heanes. Newton had been charged with a prior felony.
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Oakland Calif
UPI
Black Panther Party
Huey P. Newton
Newton
Bobby Seale
Charles R. Garry
Oakland
John Frey
Herbert Heanes
Kaiser Hospital
Wallace to name running mate in Washington trip
Wallace rests at home with a cold on the eve of his Washington news conference to identify his running mate for the American Independent party. Former Georgia Gov. Marvin Griffin is listed as a stand‑in option, while Ohio ballot appeals and New York signature drives shape Wallace’s ballot chances amid speculation and denials from Louise Day Hicks.
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Montgomery Ala
UPI
George Wallace
Washington
Wallace
American Independent Party
Georgia
Marvin Griffin
Griffin
Florida
Vermont
New Hampshire
New York
Alabama
Supreme Court
Potter Stewart
U.S. Circuit
Ohio
Stewart
Albany
Louise Day Hicks
Boston
Hoff Predicts Democratic Victory in Holyoke Speech
Vermont Governor Philip Hoff told Holyoke Democrats the party faces its toughest test since FDR yet will win as diverse elements unite. He praised open debate and predicted victory in November with Humphrey and Muskie leading a unified, representative coalition. Hoff contrasted Democratic openness with Miami’s complacent bloc.
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Holyoke
Mass
UPI
Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Democratic Party
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic City Committee
Hoff
Robert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Miami
America
O’ Hoff
Robert Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Single Ticket Friday Single Ticket Saturday Single Ticket Sunday
A brief notices ticketing listing shows options for Friday Saturday and Sunday admissions. It includes categories for Children under 12 and vehicle types. Gates and seating likely indicate Automobile and Motorcycle access with Grandstand seating variants.
Crane Brinton Dies University Historian to Be Buried in Vermont
Cambridge Massachusetts dispatch reports Harvard professor emeritus Crane C Brinton died Saturday after a long illness at 70 He taught 45 years at Harvard and wrote The Anatomy of a Revolution His honors included AHA presidency OSS service Legion of Honor and Royal Historical Society fellowship Survivors include Cecilia his widow Eva Mason of Niantic Conn a daughter Mrs Peter L Gill of Wellesley Hills and six grandchildren Private funeral services will be held Tuesday in Peacham Vermont
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Cambridge
Mass
UPI
Peacham
Crane C. Brinton
McLean
Harvard University
Brinton
Stillman Infirmary
Harvard
Winsted, Conn
Office of Strategic Services
Europe
Society of Fellows
American Historical Association
Royal Historical Society
Legion of Honor
Cecilia
Eva Mason
Niantic, Conn
Peter L. Gill
Wellesley Hills
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Greenberg
Main Street
Bennington
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Dreamland
Union Agricultural Society
Tunbridge, VT
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Home Furniture Co
Depot Street Village
North Bennington
Eagle Hose
Woodford
Deane Davis
James Oakes
Daniel Ruggles
Thomas Hayes
James Jeffords
Joseph Palmisano
George Aiken
William Tufts
U.S
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Secretary of State
Richard Thomas Ted Riehle
Frank Davis
Robert King
James
Winter County
Sal Santarcangelo
T. Garry Buckley
Madeline Harwood Tracy Kenyon Jr
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House of Representatives
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David Allen
Leon Wagner
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Thomas Foster
John Williams
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