Wood energy advocates clash with Carter program
Wood Energy Institute officials and MIT chemist Thomas Reed criticized President Carter for neglecting wood as a renewable energy source. They cited potential to meet 20 percent of U.S. energy needs and urged more ERDA funding and research for safer, more efficient wood energy solutions.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Carter
Wood Energy Institute
ERDA
Energy Research and Development Administration
Wood
Andrew Shapiro
Canada
Thomas Reed
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reed
University of Maine
Agricultural Engineering
Chasing an Elephant theme at Hoosick Grange meeting
Hoosick Grange held neighbor night with Master Ralph J Griswold presiding. Lectures covered Easter story quizzes and elephant tales by Mable Hewitt and Mrs Wesley Hall, plus a peanut rolling contest won by David Cornell and Lillian Melan. A mortgage burning ceremony for the Grange HQ in Washington was observed with Mrs Carleton Philpott and others taking part. Plans were made for a May 19 chicken barbecue and a next meeting on April 27 with a Windows of the Grange theme.
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Hoosick
N.Y
Hoosick Grange
Ralph J. Griswold
Wilfred Knapp
Mable Hewitt
Mildred Kilmartin
Women’s Activities Committee
Lawrence Welk
Hewitt
Wesley Hall
David Cornell
Lillian Melan
Grange National
Washington, D.C
Carleton Philpott
Donald S. Hewitt
N. Clifford Cottrell
Grange Digest
Bennington Grange
West Arlington Grange
Middletown Springs
Vermont
Belle Decker
Helen Cleveland
Shirley Mattison
Charles Cornell
the Grange
Waldo Cipperly
Coleman Mason
Roy Crofut
Battenkill Grange
West Arlington
Vermont Aims for Uniform Property Assessments in State
The Vermont Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed a bill to create a uniform property assessment division replacing the tax division. It would expand educational aid to towns and grant tax breaks to farmers and timberland owners, with House support likely if Senate amendments pass. A separate Vermont Legal Aid suit seeks court consent before property attachments, targeting a Montpelier case and asking Rutland federal court to hold involved parties in contempt.
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Ratland
UPI
Vermont
Legal Aid
U.S. District Court
James Holden
Montpelier
Florence DeVaughn
Northern Design
Vermont Legal Aid
Rutland
Holden
Farm couple suffers second disaster in two years
Berkshire UP International reports Herbert and Corinne Sweet faced another farm loss when a Thursday fire razed their cow barn, killing 68 of 70 cows. The couple had previously lost a 116 head herd to brucellosis in 1975, marking their two-year string of misfortune.
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Berkshire
UPI
Herbert
Corinne Sweet
Vermont lawmakers' rep Durkee sidelined after suspected stroke
Rep Irene Durkee of Rutland was hospitalized in Berlin after a Thursday House debate on an anti obscenity bill. A hospital spokesman said she spent the night comfortable and would undergo tests today. In Burlington, a Shelburne service station was fined 1000 dollars for discharging over 21000 gallons of unleaded gasoline into Monroe Brook near Lake Champlain.
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Berlin
UPI
Irene Durkee
D-Rutland
Central Vermont Medical Center
House of Representatives
Burlington
Shelburne
Lake Champlain
Vermont
Amoco Oil Co
Monroe Brook
Chittenden County
Alan Coulman
U.S. Coast Guard
Mechanicville Board Fires Schools Superintendent Kearns
Mechanicville board votes to terminate Donald Kearns as of June 30 after adding two charges to a 17 count list. Dissenters question legality. Kearns had previously had board actions overturned by Education Commissioner Nyquist. A charge alleges he threatened to hinder a student’s college admission if she did not withdraw a school paper article. Albany Airport expansion plans proceed despite neighbor protests.
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Mechanicville
Donald Kearns
Board of Education
Kearns
Ewald Nyquist
Rich mond pleads to negligent use of firearm in beach incident
Pittsfield scene recounts 1975 Windsor Pond firing that injured 11 month old Jill Mendel of Adams. Ralph G. Rich mond, 73, pleads guilty to negligent use of a firearm and is fined 125 dollars. Charged with assault with a deadly weapon and hunting law violations were dismissed. Earlier, a 500000 suit by the girl's parents remains pending.
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Pittsfield
Ralph G. Richmond
Windsor Pond
Jill Mendel
Adams
Richmond
Raymond R. Cross
Judge Cross
Berkshire Community College Business Law
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Pownal
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Women’s Fellowship
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George Carroll
Howard Hill
Shaker Village Plans
Hancock
Mass
Hancock Shaker Village
Westport
Conn
Royal Oak Foundation
Price
Sherwin-Williams
Sherwin-Williams Company
Hhabaman
BankAmericard
Main St
Peru
Janice J. Finkbohner
University of Vermont
UVM
Miss Finkbohner
Arlington
Arlington School Board
Ken Nicholson
William Towne
Fisher
Daniel Foster
Robert E. Jones
East Arlington
Jones
Herd
Gas Station
New York
Albany
Airport
American Airlines
Down In
Dalton
Robert E. Kirchner
Conrail
Chatham
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