Report urges New Hampshire exit from ski business
A subcommittee advised Governor Peterson to drop state control of Cannon Mountain and Mount Sunapee ski areas citing speculative income and private competition. It urges modernizing liquor merchandising to boost sales, loosening liquor rules for ski lodges, improving the sweepstakes program, reducing the liquor ticket fee, standardizing accounting, changing fiscal years, and closing the concrete pipe plant in prison industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
N.H
UPI
Walter Peterson
Citizens Task Force
Cannon Mountain
Mount Sunapee
State Liquor Commission
Manhattan Starts Its Return Trip
New York based 1002 foot ice breaker Manhattan has begun retracing its Northwest Passage voyage home after a 28 day Chester to Point Barrow run. It will reach Winter Harbor on Melville Island, test ice, spend a month there, then sail to New York on Oct 28 from Resolute Harbor. Interior Secretary Hickel boarded at Point Barrow and Alaska lawmakers visited the ship.
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New York
Northwest Passage
Manhattan
Chester
Point Barrow
Alaska
Sachs Harbour
Banks Island
Prince of Wales Strait
Winter Harbor
Melville Island
Melville Sound
Resolute Harbor
Canada
Walter J. Hickel
Extremist Actor Incident Disrupts Village Elections
A hazardous device hurled by an extremist actor fatally wounded six civilians and injured 27 others gathered at Thanh Tri village admin office to pick up government voter registration cards. The attack aimed to disrupt ongoing village and hamlet elections as Saigon seeks broader rural control in Quang Nam province.
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Saigon
UPD
Thanh Tri
Quang Nam
Vermont to build uniform state emergency comms network
The Vermont Health Department receives a 64000 federal grant to establish a state wide emergency communications system for ambulances and hospitals. Base and two mobile units will serve each of Vermonts 13 ambulance districts with St Johnsbury Rutland and Brattleboro already joining.
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Burlington
Vermont
Vermont Innkeeper Protests as Info Offices Closed
The Vermont Hotel Motel Association criticizes the Development Department Board for closing information offices in New York and Montreal to save 53,000 dollars, saying the move blindsided the industry. VHMA leaders plan meetings with the Development Commissioner and Board to discuss the decision. Laurence Heath of Stowe calls the action retrenchment and harmful to Vermont.
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Fairlee
UPI
Vermont Hotel Motel Association
Development Department
New York
Montreal
Borden Avery
Robert Wilson
Avery
Association
Laurence Heath
Stowe
VHMA
Vermont
Kilgallen held for state hospital in double slayings
William Kilgallen, 73, of North Wolcott, charged with the August 18 shooting deaths of Beatrice Frazer, 75, and her son Austin, 55, on his farm. A Vermont District Court judge indefinitely postponed the inquest, committing Kilgallen to the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury for examination and care. Reports on mental condition ordered to judge and counsel. Kilgallen’s nephew Francis Morley named legal guardian during commitment.
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Hyde Park
UPS
William Kilgallen
North Wolcott
Vermont State Hospital
Waterbury
Kilgallen
Beatrice Frazer
Austin
Vermont
Carl Gregg
Gregg
Francis Morley
Irasburg
Double murder rocks Calais couple in Florida ties eyed
Washington County lawmen meet to piece together clues in the bludgeoning deaths of James A. Hipp and Iola Hipp. The Florida couple, aged 67 and 62, were found in a Calais camp trailer on a back road. Their car was located eight miles away on the Montpelier East Montpelier road. State's Atty. Kimberley Cheney says a statement will be issued today but no startling news is expected.
West Danville Woman Found Burned to Death
State police probed the death of 87 year old Mrs. Sarah Blackadar in West Danville after her son Archie found the home filled with smoke and her body on the bathroom floor. Regional medical examinerDr Maurice Rowe ruled asphyxiation the cause.
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West Danville
UPI
Sarah Blackadar
Archie
Blackadar
Maurice Rowe
Blood donors in Vermont and New Hampshire tally 1071 pints
The Red Cross Blood Center in Burlington reported 1071 pints donated in 10 drawings last week by New Hampshire and Vermont residents. Shipments totaled 794 pints with 714 to regional hospitals and 80 to outside centers as transfusion replacements. IBM Essex Junction employee led with 528 pints across two days.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
New Hampshire
Red Cross Blood Center
International Business Machines Corp
Essex Junction
Mink theft at Broughton's on Fourth Street shocks New York
City detectives investigate an early Monday break in at Broughton's on 4th Street in Troy. About 30 mink furs of varying sizes colors and makers were stolen in what authorities call one of the area’s largest fur thefts in years. The store vault was undisturbed. In Saratoga Springs the city council approved a narcotics council with Dr John A Benhrmann named chairman. Dr Xavier Mastrianni, David A Wait, the Rev Allen Brown and Mrs Jeanne Turcotte will serve.
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Troy
Broughton’s
4Th Street
Saratoga
Saratoga Springs
City Hall
John A. Benhrmann
Xavier Mastrianni
David A. Wait
Allen Brown
Jeanne Turcotte
Albany names McArdle as new deputy police chief
Deputy Police Chief Edward C. McArdle, a 30year veteran of the Albany Police Department, was named Monday by Mayor Erastus Corning to succeed Chief John P. Tuffy, who moved to county civil defense director. Inspector William J. Van Amburgh, longtime head of the night squad, was appointed deputy police chief.
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Albany
Edward C. McArdle
Albany Police Department
Erastus Corning
John P. Tuffey
William J. van Amburgh
Pittsfield Officials List 37 Deteriorating Structures
Mayor Donald G. Butler announced that 37 homes garages barns and other structures in Pittsfield are at a serious deterioration stage. The list will go to the City Council and building inspector to prompt action to remove health and fire hazards and address probable tax delinquencies. Anthony Liquori 30 of Springfield was bound over to the grand jury on a $20,000 bail for receiving stolen property related to the Aug 29 City Savings Bank break in Williams Street. He pleaded innocent and was remanded to the House of Correction after turning himself in following a similar bail case in New York City.
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Pittsfield
Donald G. Butler
Fire Department
Anthony Liquori
Springfield
Grand
City Savings Bank
Williams Street
Clement A. Ferris
New York City
House of Correction
Board nears condemnation of SSS Mobilehome Park in North Adams
Two members of the North Adams Board of Health signaled near condemnation of the SSS Mobilehome Park. A month earlier the board ordered park manager Milton Spencer to submit sewer system repair plans within two weeks. no plans have been produced, raising concerns that frost could delay repairs another four to five months.
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North Adams
Board of Health
SSS
Milton Spencer
Kendell Sentenced 30 Days for DUI Fatal Hit
Ralph L. Kendell of Dalton, a truck driver, received 30 days in jail and a $500 fine after pleading guilty to driving under the influence in a Windsor collision that killed Bruce Higgins and Karen Herzog on August 25. The crash involved a motorcycle and a truck.
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Pittsfield
UPI
Ralph L. Kendell
Dalton
Bruce Higgins
Karen Herzog
Windsor
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Ington Banne
Ee Brattleboro
Brattleboro Reformer
Massachusetts
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Adams
Berkshire Eagle
Lenox
Lee
Stockbridge
Gt. Barrington
Cere
Bennington Banner
Torrington Register
Main Street
Bennington, VI
Moi
London
Sir Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
Britain
Iive
United States
U.S
Que Son
U.S. Navy
Katum
U.S. Air Force
Phan Thiet
Montpelier
Park
Interagency Committee On Natural Resources
Lake Champlain
Federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Corenco
Shelburne Museum & Marble
Superior
Rail Associates
Killington
Innkeeper
VDD
Spa Drug Council
New Albany
Down In
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