Converting homes to sun power
In 1975 experts weigh solar heating for homes. TEA leaders say retrofit possible and economical on many existing houses while others face limits. Costs around 6000 dollars may halve fuel bills but payback depends on tax credits and rising energy prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Michal Jr
Total Environmental Action
TEA
Bruce N. Anderson
Con Michal
New Hampshire
House
Senate Banking Committee
Michal
Cushman
Opinion: Students misjudge business profits, Gallup finds
Chicago Daily News reports George Gallup’s campus poll of 904 students showing widespread anti-business sentiment built on false beliefs. Students overestimate corporate profits, with a median guess of 45 percent vs a real 5 percent on average. Ignorance of economics persists despite higher college enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gallup
Gallup
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Bennington youths on summer camp trips in two towns
Several Bennington boys and girls are spending their vacations at Kamp Kaatershill in Pownal and Camp Woodland in Londonderry run by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lorenz. Attorney Reuben Levin canvassed the village after a call from the Albany baseball manager seeking Joe Bokina, a former Paradise Diners pitcher who moved to Albany International League play this season. A list of district school children from about 50 years ago was found atop a bookcase in the graded school room now taught by Miss Elizabeth Welch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Kamp Kaatershill
Pownal
Camp Woodland
Londonderry
Herbert Lorenz
Reuben Levin
Albany
Joe Bokina
Paradise Diners
Albany International League
Elizabeth Welch
Letters to the Editor raise war critique and peace views
The Letter to the Banner writer laments perpetual conflict and cites Washington Post debating limited nuclear war under Ford and Schlesinger. It references Japan's postwar pacifism, the Paris Peace Accords, and U S reconstruction duties in Indochina, followed by a poem signed Bennington, Dick Winslow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Washington Post
U.S
United States
Air Force
Ford
James R. Schlesinger
AFSC seeks licenses to aid Vietnam after war ends
July 31 1975 Quaker AFSC report details postwar aid efforts in Vietnam. It notes licenses granted for food medicines and school supplies but denied for agricultural gear and workshop equipment. It cites past licenses in 1973 sending $100000 to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam and references bombing casualties and calls for peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Friends Service Committee
AFSC
Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary Government
South Vietnam
Kham Thien Street
Hanoi
U.S. Air Force
Specifically Denied
Quang Ngai
Banner Reader Letters and Local Notes Gathered
A compilation of letters and short items from Shaftsbury and Bennington areas. Includes praise for Thom Spargo's essay, bid notices for Roaring Branch flood control, charity open house for Lord Gosford's home, opinions on U S policy toward Indochina, Hiroshima Nagasaki memorials, local remarks on sex discrimination, pheasant feeding by Ronald Knapp, a 30 inch pike catch by Harold Bleau, and notes on parking signs and historical milestones from 1782 to 1971.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roaring Branch
Bennington
New York
The
Corps of Engineers of
Army
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Sun
Harry B. Ellis
Washington
Ron Larson
Office of Technology Assessment
Christian Science Publishing Society
Chicago Daily News
RE. P. Wright
Dunham Sandals
Connie
Main St
Japan
Paris
Dick Winslow
Hiroshima
North Bennington
the Banner
Thom Spargo
Irving Fineman
Shaftsbury
Lord and Lady Gosford
East Road
Shaftsbury Health Association
North
South
Indochina
Nagasaki
Peace Park
Doris L. Bahan
Ronald R. Knapp
Harold Bleau
Burgess Road
Woodford Pond
Kenneth Bleau
North Street
Windsor State Prison
Ivor S. Pelsne
Bennington Village
Order of the Purple Heart
George Washington
America
Guadalcanal
Pacific
John Kennedy
White House
Grover Cleveland
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Earth
Swifts Premium
Daisy Ham
Kraft
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
Liva
Motts Beefamato Juice
Lestoil
Spinelli Field
Chuck Roast
Chuck
Hamburg
River Valley
Howard Johnson Macaroni & Cheese
New Virginia
En Veal
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