Vermont grocers push referendum on beverage bottle law
Vermont Retail Grocers Association surveys eight towns and plans a Town Meeting Day referendum to repeal the beverage bottle deposit law if opposition wins. Director Ronald Goldberg cites petitions in Rutland Windsor and four other towns amid mixed public polls showing 88 percent opposed in their survey versus 80 percent in Rep. James Jeffords’ poll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Goldberg
Association
Goldberg
General Assembly
Environmental Agency
Vermont
Rutland
Windsor
James Jeffords
R-Vt
Man of La Mancha at MAUHS tonight week
Mt. Anthony Union High School presents Man of La Mancha Thursday through Saturday Aug 16 at 8 pm in the MAUHS auditorium. The Broadway musical follows an aging poet jailed before an Inquisition as prisoners become audience and cast in his story. Admission 2 for adults 1 for students. Tickets at the door.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
MAUHS
Dale Wasserman
Alonso Quianna
David Donahue
Alonso
Sancho Panza
E. J. Carroll
Kate Morgan
Aldonza
Leahy finds agency that did little for $70,000 yearly
Senator Patrick Leahy reported that the Federal Fire Council, created in 1936 to coordinate federal fire prevention rules for government buildings, held at most two meetings between 1968 and 1974 yet continued to receive about $70,000 annually in congressional funding. The council had been moved between departments during the period.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Patrick Leahy
D-Vt
Federal Fire Council
Mrs Lois Sweeney Obituary Page Notice
Mrs. Lois Sweeney, 58, died Tuesday morning at Rutland Hospital after a two day stay. Born July 2, 1917 in Bennnington to Walter and Emma Stewart, she was a Burr and Burton Seminary graduate.
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Lois Sweeney
Rutland Hospital
Bennington
Walter and
Emma (Bryant) Stewart
Burr and Burton Seminary
Vermont Faces Higher Pay Costs From Union Wage Opinion
Vermont officials warn an attorney general ruling that wages are bargainable could add at least 5 million dollars in state employee pay raises next year. Administration Secretary Robert Wilson urged the Joint Fiscal Committee to consider the opinion when planning the budget, saying wage levels may diverge from private industry. The ruling complicates collective bargaining and could prompt revisions to state labor laws.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Robert Wilson
Wilson
Legislative Joint Fiscal Committee
Louis Peck
Salmon
Bennington Briefs Highlights Civil, Fire, and Arts Notices
Poppies will be sold outside VFW Post 1332 on Aug 15 and 16 for disabled veterans with Josephine Colvin as chair. Choral Society Pops Concert is set for Oct 17 and 18. rehearsals start Aug 18 at Mt. Anthony Union HS at 7 15 p.m. Attendance invited for members and non members. Also notes National Fire Prevention Administration within the Commerce Department and Leahy staffers criticize council for inactivity and wasteful spending. Ewing plans amendment to abolish the council. William Hanbury mentions a dormant period under Laurence Hicks who died last summer. The council, mostly federal fire types, occasionally meets for demos and planning.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Josephine Colvin
Bennington County Choral Society
Mt. Anthony Union High School
National Fire Prevention and Control Administration
Commerce Department
Leahy
Jack Ewing
Ewing
Senate
William Hanbury
Laurence Hicks
Hanbury
Navy
Hospital Notes Tuesday Admission and Birth Reports
Admissions include Jeffrey Mayer Fred Goetz Bennington Russell Kelly Manchester Augustine Brownell III White Creek NY. A baby girl born to Roger and Mrs Hebert Bennington and a baby boy to Theodore Bedford Cropseyville NY. Discharges list Leo Butler Barbara Blair and baby girl Bennington Clark Bien North Bennington Blanche Mattison East Arlington Arnold Griffis Arlington. Note corrected: Robin Daigneault name misspelled in Tuesday Banner.
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Jeffrey Mayer
Fred Goetz
Bennington
Russell Kelly
Manchester
Augustine Brownell III
White Creek
N.Y
Roger Hebert
Theodore Bedford
Cropseyville, N.Y
Leo Butler
Barbara Blair
Clark Bien
North Bennington
Blanche Mattison
East Arlington
Arnold Griffis
Arlington
Robin Daigneault
Blood drive plea and Franklin quotes urge donors
In Bennington a Red Cross Bloodmobile visit is urged to prevent a life from being lost for want of a pint of blood. The event is August 20 from 11 30 a m to 5 p m at First Baptist Church Colgate Hall 601 Main St with canteen refreshments babysitting and transportation help. Local volunteers co chairmen Mrs Eugene V Clark and Mrs Richard B Leake III lead the effort. Cambridge Mass National Cancer Institute expands MIT Center for Cancer Research with volunteer workers listed under a program in Cellular and Developmental Biology of Cancer including telephoners typists nurses aides lab technicians and volunteers.
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Margaret D. Clark
Benjamin Franklin
Red Cross
Bennington
First Baptist Church
Colgate Hall
Main St
Franklin’s
Richard
Eugene V. Clark
Richard B. Leake III
Bennington County
Cambridge, Mass
UPI
National Cancer Institute
Center For Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engagement of Gordon Barbeau to Maria Pallares
Woodford and Zeferina Pallares of Chihuahua announce the engagement of Gordon Barbeau to Maria Pallares. Miss Pallares, a 1969 Rafael High School graduate, lives in Los Angeles. Barbeau, a 1965 Bennington High School graduate, is a machinist with Fisher Gear in Los Angeles after four years in the Armed Services. An October wedding is planned.
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Woodford
Stanley A. Barbeau
Gordon
Maria Pallares
Zeferina Pallares
Chihuahua
Mexico
Miss Pallares
Rafael High School
Los Angeles
Calif
Barbeau
Bennington High School
Armed Services
Fisher Gear and Screw Company
Former judge charged with embezzlement
Former Superior Court Judge Dale Brooks faces embezzlement charges for allegedly converting 973 dollars from Furgat Tractor Co. to his own use in April 1972. An arrest warrant was issued by District Judge John Lowery, and Brooks, 55, who had resigned in 1970, was arrested in Schenectady, New York, where he runs a motel. extradition to Vermont is in progress.
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Brattleboro
UPI
Superior Court
Dale Brooks
John Lowery
Brooks
Furgat Tractor Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Vermont
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Vermont Retail Grocers Association
Shakespeare Festival
Burlington
Champlain
Moliere
Albany Business College
Albany
Rawsonville
Pink Palace
Mary Lou McCooey
Judith Ann Childles
Hawthorne
N.J
Ned Bryant
Clyde Bryant Sr
Brewster Funeral Home
Robert L. Clayton
Factory Point
Londonderry Rescue Squad
Funeral Home Office
William H. Myers JR
Lansing St
Herkimer
Veteran’s Administration
Syracuse
William H
Madelene Breck Myers
Miriam Templeton
Scarsdale
Baypath Institute
Springfield, Mass
Myers
W.H. Myers Supply Co
Montgomery Ward
Army Air Force
New England Congregational Church
Edward Myers
Virginia Beach
James Myers
Webster
Gerald Myers
Rochester
Betty Ruzicka
Florham Park
Frenner Funeral Home
Park Lawn Cemetery
Thomas Steffen
Bennington Briefs
Bonnie Doon
Scotty
Viprom
Fienberg
Women’s & Children’s
S Orry
Cancer Institute
George Jenkins
Eupha Bonham
Waldo Holden
William Sennett
Richard Gerken
Lewis Stone
John Litster
Gary Button
Chris Bacon
W. Philip Giddings
Robert Pezzulich
Marguerite Banks
Grace Gross
Manindra Ghosh
Paul Crane
Edward Haddad
Charles Ray
John McLellan
Edward Paquin
Barbara Bennett
Gary Dickinson
Ferdinand Mayer
Richard Leake Jr
Edward Lusignan
Arnold Blackstone
Norman Bachand
Pallares
Natt Divoll
Bes
Gladstones
ST. Albans
Newport
Rutland Ravi Ml
Winooski
Plattsburgh
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