Vermont Economy Shows Cooling Signs In 1970
Vermont's economy may be cooling off as unemployment rises 17 percent from a year ago while employment grows 2.4 percent. Construction value declines 21 percent and new home permits drop from 47 to 25. Four Vermont firms closed this year versus none previously. However, new passenger car registrations rise 35 percent and total tax revenues jump 47 percent due largely to a new sales tax.
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Montpelier
UPI
Development Department
Vermont
Masters and Johnson Report Cure for Sexual Inadequacy
UPI Masters and Johnson report high success in treating sexual inadequacy in 448 men and 342 women at their St Louis center after two weeks of rapid therapy. They claim 80 percent improvement with low five year reversion and urge creation of sex therapy training centers nationwide. Their method treats couples as marital units with both male and female therapists.
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New York
UPI
Masters and Johnson
William H. Masters
Virginia E. Johnson
Little, Brown and Co
Reproductive Biology Research Foundation
St. Louis
Masters
Johnson
Bob Hope Headlines Boston Fourth of July Rally
About 20,000 people gathered at Boston City Hall Plaza on a sunny Fourth of July to hear Bob Hope and other celebrities in a patriotic rally. Hope led performances and remarks, energizing the crowd with festive entertainment and national pride.
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Boston
UPI
New City Hall Plaza
Bob Hope
America
Vietnam
Hope
Bob
al Capp
Jim Nance
Boston Patriots
Navy
Joe Bellino
Nance
Kep
Spiro Agnew
Boston Common
Boy Scouts
Massachusetts National Lancers
Aleppo Shrine Temple
Boston Police Patrolman’s Association
Conial Navy of
Massachusetts
Arthur Stivaletta
Dedham
Stivaletta
Nader criticizes automakers over pollution studies
Ralph Nader attacked General Motors and other car makers for not advancing pollution fight costs. He cited MIT research estimating 150 million over two years for a non polluting engine, contrasting with GM spending 250 million in a year on dealer signs. He also criticized Sen. Edmund Muskie for weakening the 1967 air pollution act to please business.
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Princeton
N.J
UPI
Ralph Nader
U.S
General Motors
Princeton University
Nader
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CIA
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Environmental concerns dominate Vermont library meeting agenda
Vermont figures including Sen. Winston Prouty and state librarian James Igoe shape a three day Woodstock Inn conclave on April 30 to discuss environmental control and future planning. Talks cover library role in environment, planning, and public policy with a closing rally praising American values as Bob Hope headlines.
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Woodstock
Winston Prouty
Vermont Library Association
Woodstock Inn
Theodore M. Riehle
James Igoe
Free Public Library Service
Marian English
Rutland
Intellectual Freedom Committee
Frank Lillie
Montpelier
Eva Leech
Brattleboro
Aurilla Gladding
St. Johnsbury
Public Library
Ronald Rood
Vermont
Sen
BPW Spelling Bee Set for Mount Anthony Junior High
The Business and Professional Women's Club of Bennington sponsors its third annual spelling bee on April 29 at 7 30 p.m. in Mount Anthony Union Junior High School multi purpose room. About 24 seventh and eighth graders from Mount Anthony and St. Francis de Sales Academy compete for $10 $5 and $3 prizes. William Holland of Mount Anthony Union High School English will be master of ceremonies. No admission charged. classmates, parents and friends invited to support the young participants.
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Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Bennington
Mount Anthony Union Junior High School
Main Street
Mount Anthony
St. Francis de Sales Academy
William Holland
Mount Anthony Union High School
Vermont VA Hospital funding increases to 5.4 million
The Veterans Administration adds 2 million to modernize the White River Junction center, bringing total to 5.4 million after a Senate Appropriations hearing. Senator Aiken notes higher costs justify the boost for a 204 bed, four story hospital project in Vermont. In Montpelier, Public Service Board sets first cable hearing for May 5 in St. Albans as St. Albans Cablevision seeks to lay a local CATV system under new regulation.
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Washington, D.C
UPI
Veterans Administration
White River Junction
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Senate Appropriations Committee
White River
Aiken
Montpelier
Public Service Board
St. Albans
PSB
Ernest Gibson
Back Pay Checks Mailed in State Run Pay Raise
MONTPELIER UPI Four thousand state workers received retroactive pay raises totaling 617000 as checks mailed Saturday part of a 7 million plan from the 1970 session with institutional and highway crews paid at week’s end and others to receive higher pay in May. Addison UPI Beth R Clark 45 died Sunday in Addison when a hunting rifle discharged accidentally in her hometown.
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Montpelier
UPI
Addison
Beth R. Clark
Vermont buys Buck Lake land from ecumenical council
Vermont Fish and Game Department purchased 335 acres around Buck Lake in Woodbury for 150000 dollars from the Vermont Ecumenical Council. The council had used the site as a camp for emotionally disturbed children.
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Woodbury
UPI
Vermont Fish and Game Department
Buck Lake
Vermont Ecumenical Council
Lefkowitz urges judge to notify courts on pollution suits
In Albany Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz called on Chief Judge Stanley Fuld to inform lower courts when private pollution cases arise so the state can intervene for public interest. He cited the Atlantic Cement case as a precedent he seeks to revisit. In Troy, city officials reported better parking downtown due to more traffic tickets.
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Albany
Louis Lefkowitz
Stanley Fuld
State Court of Appeals
Attorney General
Atlantic Cement Company
Ravena
Lefkowitz
Troy
Ralph A. DeSantis
DeSantis
Cohoes Opens Centennial Celebration With Mayor McDonald
Cohoes mayor Virginia McDonald officially opened the city centennial on City Hall steps calling Cohoes citizens to sustain their spirit for a century more. The only woman mayor in New York State urged residents to remember deeds long after words fade.
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Cohoes
Hoff warns Earth Day lull may slow energy action
Former Vermont Governor Philip Hoff spoke at Williams College Earth Week panel in Williamstown saying the weak nationwide Earth Day turnout could pressure politicians to think the public is not concerned. He predicts a temporary lull in environment legislation until a major catastrophe spurs action.
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Williamstown
Vermont
Philip Hoff
Williams College
North Adams talks move to Washington for wage talks
North Adams and Sprague Electric Co negotiate in Washington this week with three union locals and mediation officials. J Curtis Counts of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is expected to participate, following his role in ending the nationwide GE strike. Theresa Louison named executive director of Northern Berkshire Community Action. awaiting ratification and a $7500 salary.
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North Adams
Sprague Electric Co
Washington, D.C
J. Curtis Counts
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
General Electric
Theresa Louison
Northern
Berkshire Firms Named as River Polluters Under Old Law
Three Berkshire County industrial firms Rising Paper Co Housatonic Dairy Center of the Berkshires Pittsfield and Sanity Laundry of Pittsfield are listed as polluters under a 71 year old federal statute for alleged discharges into the Housatonic River.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire County
Rising Paper Co
Housatonic
Dairy Center of the Berkshires, Inc
Sanity Laundry
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