Liability insurance hurting small business Pattison says
In Troy New York Congressman Edward W Pattison D West Sand Lake testifies before the House Small Business Committee Subcommittee on Capital Investment and Business Opportunities about the rising burden of product liability insurance on small manufacturers. He cites survey data showing premiums rising 678 percent 1970 to 1976 and notes negative effects on prices production and employment. Also reports Tufts student Katharine Hirsch plans study in Europe and Marine Pvt Vincent M Conway earns a promotion at Millington Tennessee.
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Troy
N.Y
Edward W. Pattison
West Sand Lake
Subcommittee On Capital
House
Small Business Committee
Pattison
Katharine C. Hirsch
Tufts University
Medford
Mass
Europe
University of Tuebingen
Germany
Martin H. Hirsch
East Arlington
Charles W. Whalen
Ohio
Donald J. Pease
D. Ohio
Joel Pritchard
R-Wash
Newton I. Steers Jr
Shaftsbury Cancer Crusaders announce volunteers for April drive
Shaftsbury leaders Mr and Mrs Eugene R Kosche name dozens of workers for the 1977 American Cancer Society Crusade with a Vermont statewide goal of 277069 and Shaftsbury's share 1500 Bennington County aims 21000. Sixty percent of funds stay in state for programs. forty percent funds national research. A POWNAS report notes a Trumbull Mountain Stables riding clinic led by Pam Clark in Shaftsbury improving local show riding ahead of the Bennington Horse Show in Arlington.
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Ralph Percey
Polly Runyon
Carl Bouplon
Fred Naef
Samuel Showah
Betty Newell
Howard Epping
James Gulley
Robert Whitman
Walter Hooke
Paul Hamburg
Clifford Kirkpatrick
Lewis Jones
Robert Bucknall
Barry Blatz
David McKeighan
Bernard Harris
John Schultz
Janet Schurink
Gail Bishop Howe
Sherry Lingner
ESP
Anne Brown
Shadowbrook
Pownal
Williamstown
Mass
L. Grazier
Clover Hill
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Robbins seeks U S post as CDC director in Atlanta
Former Vermont Health Commissioner Dr Anthony Robbins says he has applied for the directorship of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta with Senate endorsement from Sen Robert Stafford. Robbins previously led Colorado Health Department after leaving Vermont.
Vermont graduates chosen for national youth science camp
Vermont picks Lelani Arris of Woodstock Country School and Donald Jerry of Northfield High School for the 1977 national youth science camp in Bartow West Virginia. Gov. Richard Snelling praised them as outstanding students with strong science records.
Vermont uses less road salt this winter despite more snow
The Vermont Highway Department said total salt usage into March was 12 000 tons less than the same period last year despite more snow. Officials attributed the drop to a maintenance monitoring program.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont Highway Department
Vermont Supreme Court backs Queen City Tap line project
The Vermont Supreme Court rejected landowner arguments against the 115 kilovolt transmission line along I-89 between South Burlington and Williston. The ruling upholds Public Service Board approval, continuing a multi year dispute over property value impacts in Chittenden County.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont Electric Co
Chittenden
Vermont Supreme Court
South Burlington
Queen City
High Court
Public Service Board
Interstate 89
Williston
Convict's Escape Attempt Ends With Police Shot In Leg
In Albany Henry Wilson, a 25 year old escaped hospital patient, again attempted to flee while being taken to the county courthouse for sentencing. He wriggled free, robbed a Civil Service Employees Association union official, and was recaptured after police wounded him in the leg. Meanwhile fires in Schenectady and Albany killed two men, John Kaniff and Isaac Paul Williams, who died in separate blazes.
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Albany
Henry Wilson
Albany County
Civil Service Employes Association
Wilson
Schenectady
John Kaniff
Pauling St
Ellis Hospital
Isaac Paul Williams
Philips St
Winds Hit Berkshires. Pittsfield Man Injured on Jobsite
Strong gusts up to 50 mph in the Berkshires toppled staging and downed trees and power lines, injuring Pittsfield man John J. Moloy who was treated at Berkshire Medical Center in fair condition. Western Massachusetts Electric and Massachusetts Electric reported the March 22 storm cost about 2.5 million to repair, with overtime pay boosting a lineman’s weekly earnings to 899 after working 8042 hours. In Great Barrington Berkshire Hills Regional School District, superintendent Frederick B. Bechtold, 36, not renewed March 8, is moving to a Cincinnati post with higher pay, as a 5-5 vote failed to renew and no location was disclosed.
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Pittsfield
Berkshires
John J. Moloy
Berkshire Medical Center
Moloy
Western Massachusetts Electric Co
Massachusetts Electric Co
Western Mass
Great Barrington
Berkshire Hills
Cincinnati
Ohio
Frederick B. Bechtold
Berkshire
Bechtold
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Arlington
Helene Thompson
Hoosick Falls
Vincent M. Conway
Vincent E. Conway
Route 2
Marine Aviation Training Support Group 90
Naval Air Station, Millington, Tenn
Hoosick Falls Central High School
Marine Corps
Kelly Patterson
Richard Singleton
Jean McWaters
Shaftsbury Cancer Crusaders
Shaftsbury
Eugene R. Kosche
American Cancer Society
Clinic
Underwood
Minolta
Rockwell
Suzuki
Benningtons
Vermont
Robbins
U.S. Post
Cherington
Stowe
Secretary of State
James Guest
Guest
Velco
New York
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