N E Coast Braces For Hurricane Gerda
Boston reports Hurricane Gerda gaining speed toward Cape Cod with up to 90 mph winds. Evacuations advised for low-lying Beach areas from Fall River to Provincetown as warnings extend from Block Island to Eastport. Schools closed in several towns. tides expected six to ten feet above normal. trains and traffic disrupted. civil defense mobilizes and repair crews stand by.
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UPI
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Massachusetts Civil Defense
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Cape
Weather Bureau
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Massachusetts
Wareham
Mattaossett
Marion
Rochester
Block Island
R.I
Penn Central
Rain and Cold Fails To Dim Guards' Welcome
Rain and cold greeted 150 men of the 131st Engineer Company Vermont National Guard as they returned from a year on active duty in South Vietnam. After four days of processing they head to Camp Johnson Vermont for demobilization near midnight Friday. One minor casualty was reported. Vermont Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Reginald N. Cram welcomed the unit at Hanscom Field and noted their road repair work in Vietnam.
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Fort Devens
Mass
U.S
Hanscomb Field
Bedford
South Vietnam
Vermont National Guard
Reginald N. Cram
Coordination of Farm Programs At State Institutions
In Vermont two officials urged a coordinated farm program for Wa terbury State Hospital Brandon Training School Windsor Prison and Weeks School at Vergennes The plan would form a central board to run farms and place them on a free enterprise basis with surplus used for equipment funding and cross supplying institutions The three commissioners all said farms are valuable and should not be abandoned but face efficiency and coordination issues.
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Leopold
Waterbury State Hospital
Brandon Training School
Windsor
Vergennes
Charles Adams
Weeks School
Adams
Nuke Plant OK’d at Nine Mile Point in Upstate New York
Syracuse report states the U S Atomic Energy Commission granted Niagara Mohawk a license to operate Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station on Lake Ontario. The plant, among the world’s largest, will generate up to 500000 kilowatts and enter full operation in December after initial power tests. Governor Rockefeller and other dignitaries will attend the October 9 dedication as the project marks a five year build and reshapes regional power supply.
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N.Y
Nine Mile Point
Lake Ontario
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Earle J. Machold
Machold
AEC
Niagara Mohawk
Oswego
Upstate New York
Niagara Mohawk Progress Center
South Mountain Lists This Fall's Concerts
Pittsfield Mass. announces the 51st South Mountain concert season beginning Sept 21 with the Beaux Arts Trio. The lineup includes Phoenix Woodwind Quintet with Zita Carno Oct 28, the Fine Arts Quartet with a new Karel Husa piece, and two Met Opera Studio shows at Dalton High School. Tickets available from Mrs William Willeke. phone reservations to (413) 443-6517. WAMC-FM will broadcast select concerts live.
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South Mountain
South Mountain Association
U.S
Beaux Arts
Phoenix
Zita Carno
Fine Arts Quartet
Haydn
Brahms
Karel Husa
Metropolitan Opera Studio
Wehconah Regional High School
Dalton
Samuel Barber
Ron Nelson
the Infanta
GianCarlo Menotti
William Willeke
Box
Wamc-Fm
Albany
N.Y
Schools Remain Closed In Three New England Towns
United Press International reports continued closures in three New England communities as teachers in one city plan to return Wednesday. In New Bedford Massachusetts a long strike enters its fifth day with a court conference and postponement of a restraining order. Norwalk Connecticut talks fail and contempt charges loom as hearings proceed. New London Connecticut teachers return Wednesday under temporary terms amid an injunction. Manchester New Hampshire and Woodstock Connecticut resume classes after ratified contracts. New Britain Connecticut teachers approve a new contract and classes begin.
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New Bedford
Mass
Bristol County Superior Court
George P. Ponte
New Bedford Educators Association
Bridgeport Superior Court
New London
Conn
Groton
Manchester
N.H
Woodstock
New Britain
Study Panel Highlights How Racism Hurts Whites
Kenneth Wibecan of Brattleboro told the Legislative Council Equal Opportunity Study Committee that racism must end because it harms white people. He urged white action and argued the issue goes beyond hiring more Black workers or youth programs. He noted attitudinal roots and offensive campus traditions while calling for white self-examination and contact to reduce prejudice. William Mikell of Burlington urged education to change white attitudes, and Dr. Cleveland Williams of St. Michael’s College urged whites to get their house in order as Black frustration grows.
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Vermont
Cleveland Williams
St. Michael's College
Winooski
Correctional Aide Seeks Reassignment in Burlington Center
MONTPELIER UPD The Corrections Department weighs reassigning Robert Aiken acting superintendent of Burlington Correctional Center within the department Deputy Corrections Commissioner Lawrence Bershad says Aiken wants to stay in the department but leave his Burlington post Bershad calls the mismatch between Aiken and the center a basic incomparability The facility has improved since its jail conversion but ongoing physical and personnel problems persist Bershad notes Aiken cannot cope with the issues The department may hold a competitive examination for the fulltime superintendent post while also considering Aiken’s reassignment
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Bershad
Aiken
Vermont Board OKs Northeast Abandonment Plan
The Vermont Aeronautics Board endorsed Northeast Airlines proposed withdrawal from Vermont noting it would be major surgery for New England transport. Chairman Richard Snelling signed the position paper saying departure would break further promises, with Mohawk routes proposed as replacements to sustain regional service. The panel’s findings followed a Sept. 3 public hearing and were filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington. Northeast aims to transfer Vermont routes to Mohawk, Executive, and Northern Airways to target Florida and West Coast routes.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
Northeast
Vermont
Mohawk Airlines
Executive Airlines
Northern Airways
Florida
West Coast
Vermont to call 65 men in October draft
Vermont will call up 65 men in the October draft, state Selective Service director Col. William J. Burke said. He noted the September call was 69. Nationwide October draft targets 29,000 men with 1,400 slated for the Marines.
Police chiefs meet at Mt Washington Hotel Sep 14 17
The 44th conference of the New England Association of Chiefs of Police will be held at the Mt Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods New Hampshire from September 14 to September 17. Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis will address the session on September 16.
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Bennington Museum
George Michael
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Bretton Woods
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Vermont
Deane C. Davis
Principal cites arrogance and tardiness in 1966 Johnson case
Albany testimony at a state Human Rights Division hearing places Philip Schuyler High School principal Ben Becker at the center of a racial bias dispute over Lola Johnson. Becker says Johnson’s arrogance and chronic lateness justified not renewing her contract in 1966, with Dorothy Robinson also involved.
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Philip Schuyler High School
Ben Becker
State
Human Rights Division
Lola Johnson
Miss Johnson
Becker
Dorothy Robinson
Construction of Troy elementary school to start next spring
W Kenneth Doyle of the Troy School District announced plans to build a four acre elementary school bounded by Liberty Adams Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street. The project, replacing Schools 5 and 10, is set for a 18 month construction period with an estimated cost of 2.5 million dollars, easing rumors of delays into 1972.
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Liberty
Adams Streets
Fifth Avenue
Fourth Street
W. Kenneth Doyle
Albany Medical Center Faces NIH Funding Cut Fear
Albany’s clinical research center at Albany Medical College may slash medical research after NIH letters dated Aug 15 signaled potential cuts. Dean Dr Harold Wiggers confirmed a second letter but said NIH plans remain far from certain. Separate Albany note: a NY State Assembly subcommittee will review oil and gas drilling in Lake Erie with four hearings beginning Sept 9 in Dunkirk City Hall at 7 p.m.
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Albany Medical College
Federal
National Institutes of Health
NIP
NIH
Harold Wiggers
New York State
Lake Erie
Glenn H. Harris
Canada Lake
Joint Legislative Committee On Environmental Management and Natural Resources
Harris
Williams College professor marries in Berkshire home
Mrs. Joan Simpson Meyers and James MacGregor Burns wed Sunday at Burns residence in Williamstown. The bride is an author and editor, daughter of Harvard paleontology professor George G. Simpson and Anne Roe, director emeritus of the Radcliffe-Harvard Center for Research in Careers. Prof. Burns is a noted author on American government and history.
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Williamstown
Joan Simpson Meyers
James MacGregor Burns
James Phinney Baxter II
Williams College
Burns
John Eusden
Williams
George G. Simpson
Agassiz
Harvard
Anne Roe
Radcliffe - Harvard Center For Research
Wreckage Found After Plane Crash Near New Boston Center
Searchers found the wreckage of a single engine Piper Cherokee and the body of 27 year old Albert Meyer Jr of Springfield in dense woods about three miles north of New Boston Center. Meyer Jr a student pilot with 18 hours flying time. Police say the plane appeared to have headed west and struck at an angle making aerial discovery unlikely. Wreckage scattered within a 75 foot radius.
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Sandisfield
Albert Meyer Jr
Springfield
New Boston Center
Samuel R. Wilber Jr
Adams buyer eyes Hoosac land for A-frame homes
A 193 acre tract on the Hoosac range has been sold from Anselmo A. Benoni of North Adams to Wilfred J. Nadeau Jr. of Springfield. Nadeau, a wholesale food products salesman, planned subdivision and A-frame summer homes but local and state subdivision rules may block the plan.
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ADAMS
Hoosac Range
Anselmo A. Benoni
North Adams
Wilfred J. Nadeau Jr
Springfield
Nadeau
Pittsfield Chief Halts Pistol Permits Amid Legal Uncertainty
Pittsfield Police Chief John J. Killeen says no new pistol permits will be issued until government actions clarify future hand gun laws. Exceptions may be made for special police or guards in work or emergency needs. Firearm registration cards remain obtainable to keep pistols at home.
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Pittsfield
John J. Killeen
Water officials hail good recovery after fuel spill
Williamstown officials from the State Division of Water Pollution described a "very good job" in restoring the Green River to the best possible condition after an accident Thursday in which hundreds of gallons of fuel oil were discharged.
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State Division of Water Pollution
Laos
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