VFW Dinner-Dance Nets 629 For Legion Building Fund
Hoosick Falls reports a dinner-dance by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars, held last Saturday, raised 629 dollars for the American Legion building fund. Contributions included donations from VFW members and the auxiliary plus money from McInerney's Orchestra members.
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American Legion Building Fund
VFW
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Legion
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American Legion Organization
Arlington Church catechism registration after Masses
Registration for grammar and high school catechism at St. Margaret Mary’s will follow Saturday evening and Sunday morning Masses. Those unable to attend should contact Mrs. Kenneth Smith, Mrs. John de Brun, or Miss J. Smith. The Arlington Fish and Game Club announces a public safety event this Sunday at Lemberg place opposite the Town Hall in Sandgate, billed as a turkey shoot with chickens as targets.
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Kenneth Smith
John de Brun
J. Smith
Arlington Fish and Game Club
Lemberg Place
Town Hall
Sandgate
Arson suspect held on rifle theft charge in Falls
Franklin Ruggles, jailed on arson allegations tied to a Municipal Building fire, faced a preliminary hearing on criminal possession of stolen property in Hoosick Falls. William Bryant, detained on the same weapons theft charge, appeared with him as witnesses identified two rifles tied to the case. The judge ordered grand jury action and Ruggles was returned to county jail.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Franklin Ruggles
Rensselaer County
Town of Hoosick
John Mahar
Mahar
William Bryant
Pine Valley Road
Hugh Amaroso
Buskirk
Ruggles
Bryant
Dewey Brownell
North Hoosick
Pierce Russell
Jack Teliska
William McGovern
People
Church Street
Fall crop looks promising cash registers return to Scribner's
New york book trade eyes a strong fall season as Scribner's Fifth Avenue store brings cash registers to the fore to speed sales. Publishers report a mixed outlook with innovations in fiction by Greene Vidal Wiesel Wilder Singer and gimmick novels alongside serious non fiction. despite high publicity for televised Watergate coverage, overall book production climbs from 1971 to 1972.
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Gore Vidal
Elie Wiesel
Thornton Wilder
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher’s Weekly
Trade Journal
Thomas H. Gainzburg
Viking Press
Dupont Royal Marionettes return to Big E stage
The Dupont Royal Marionettes perform daily on the Coca-Cola Stage at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield Massachusetts from September 14 to 23. Free shows at 2:30 and 5:30 with other acts including Burger King daily. The troupe, with a history of royal and international performances, travels the world with marionette acts.
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Mass
Dupont Royal Marionettes
Duponts
Big E
London Palladium
Iran
Paris
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Sorbonne
Eve Dupont
Follies Bergere
New Zealand
Dupont
Four Thousand Soda Cans Case Links Connecticut Man
Ellis Spaulding of Farmington Connecticut said he bought 4000 cans at a Stop and Shop in North Haven. The cans were found by Ellis Harrington of White River Junction in his basement and Spaulding planned to sell them at a Labor Day festival in Holland US Virgin Islands but the event had closed. Police were alerted after Harrington learned of the cans. Stop and Shop cites serial numbers and logs showing shipment to another store, not direct sale. The case is affected by Vermont's bottle deposit law as the cans lacked the five cent stamp.
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Spaulding
Holland
White River Junction
Harrington
Vermont Yankee back in service at reduced capacity
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp plant resumed operation after an early-week shutdown caused by an explosion knocking out equipment. The plant will run at 70 percent capacity for an undetermined period due to feedwater issues, while an Atomic Energy Commission ruling caps output at 78 percent because of fuel densification concerns. Spokesman Lawrence Keyes said the explosion’s cause is not yet determined.
Albany probes corruption in Police Department hearings to start
The State Investigation Committee will open public hearings in Albany next week into possible Albany Police Department corruption. The probe follows an earlier SIC review of city purchasing waste and contractor ties. Defense calls it a political hatchet job.
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Albany
Albany Police Department
State Investigation Committee
SIC
Albany Department
Police Department
Richard Kohn
Pittsfield council blasts Arco station blight crackdown
Pittsfield city council condemns an Elm Street and Holmes Road Arco site calling it junkyard like and orders screening of wrecked cars. outdoor displays must stay within 15 feet of the building. Owner Dickinson pledges cleanup, fencing, and new storage, while tank permit is withheld until cleanup is done. In a separate item, the International Meditation Society expands to larger HQ at 181 Bartlett Ave by Berkshire County, led by Christopher Curren, with about 500 county meditators and 30 new entrants monthly.
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Pittsfield
Arco
Elm Street
Holmes Road
Robert M. Dickson
Dickinson
International Meditation Society
Bartlett Ave
Christopher B. Curren
Massachusetts
Curren
Berkshire County
Maharishi Mahesh
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
North Adams rabbi darts minyan plan with men’s vow
North Adams Congregation Beth Israel will not count women in the minyan despite a rabbinical ruling allowing it. Rabbi Paul Silton said some men will skip synagogue if their wives can be counted, and he will not accept women in the minyan until men show greater piety.
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Beth Israel
Paul Silton
Silton
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