CPI rise fuels questions on recovery and inflation
United Press International reports officials surprised by July CPI surge of 1.2 percent, lifting annualized inflation to 14.4 percent. They cite special factors like gasoline, grain sales to Russia, and metal price rises, but see signs of recovery with GNP up and slack in demand. Gasoline and wheat could push prices higher. experts expect CPI to stabilize in coming months.
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Russia
Treasury Department
Sidney Jones
White House
Ron Nessen
James L. Pate
GNP
Pate
Agriculture Department
Dawson Ahalt
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Ford Administration
Valcour Ferry Struck by Rock Tear Hull Searl in Lake Champlain
A rock ledge ripped the Valcour ferry hull on Lake Champlain near Ferris Rock, grounding the vessel and stranding 115 passengers and nine crew for about 90 minutes. Rescue ferries, Coast Guard boats, and helicopters aided as two people were treated at Vermont Medical Center. The vessel, on the Burlington to Port Kent run, remained afloat with about 40 cars aboard, and divers inspected the engine rooms after water intrusion.
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Burlington
UPI
Sawyer’s Island
Port Kent
N.Y
Ferris Rock
David Gelinas
New York State
Vermont Medical Center
Lake Champlain Transportation Co
Valcour
Coast Guard
Plattsburgh
Air Force Base
Governor Aiken
Adirondack
Shelburne Harbor
Craig Spafford
Alioto Concedes to Strikers in National Coverage
Inside National reports Alioto yields to labor action as Bronfman grand jury weighs if kidnapping was a lark. Local notes describe corn consumption ideas from the Wadsworths and Meris Eggert on Crazy Salad not a cookbook. Ethical tone remains steady across pages.
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Alioto
Bronfman Grand Jury
The
Wadsworths
Meris Eggert
Pete Horton
Russell Baker
County Bicentennial Group
Carmichael
Dorset
Elvis Presley
Tony C
Act 250 urged as economic revival tool in Vermont county
Arlington leaders host Bennington County Regional Commission panel on reviving the economy with ideas from four working groups. About 40 attendees discuss Act 250 and the need to market Vermont to national business leaders, while stressing land for future industry and infrastructure beyond fire engine funding.
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Arlington
Bennington County
Planning Commission
Bennington
Manchester
Vermont
Ralph Monticello
Governor’s Council of Economic
BCRC
Syria and Jordan form joint command in Middle East talks
Secretary of State Kissinger, returning from Israel to Egypt, hopes for a new Middle East agreement to avert war. Syria and Jordan announce a joint military command to coordinate against Israel, urging Arabs to reject a new Israeli Egyptian interim pact. Demonstrations erupt in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over Kissinger’s mission, while Rabin and his team report progress after four and a half hours of talks.
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Alexandria
Egypt
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Israel
Answar Sadat
Middle East
Damascus
Syria
Jordan
Kissinger
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
Yitzhak Rabin
Ismail Fahmi
Mohamed Gamassy
Sinai
Sadat
Yigal Allon
Defense
Shimon Peres
Allen
Kissinger-Rabin
Rabin
Harvard
Ben-Gurion
Federal aid sought for drought hit Vermont farmers
Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon announced plans to ask President Ford to declare parts of the state a federal disaster area. He said a disaster declaration could unlock federal aid programs, including feed grain at reduced cost and low interest loans, as drought blankets the Champlain Valley from Rutland County to the Canadian border.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Ford
Thomas Salmon
Salmon
Washington
Champlain Valley
Rutland County
Pownal man arraigned on rape charge
James D. Quinn of Pownal was arraigned in Bennington District Court on a rape charge alleging an incident June 26 in Readsboro. He pleaded not guilty, bail set at $2,000. Police named him in composite photos printed in The Banner and said they are still investigating another rape case in Pownal.
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James D. Quinn
Pownal
Bennington
Readsboro
Quinn
Pomological politics threaten Vermont apple harvest
Vermont orchard owners warn that foreign laborers from the British West Indies, mainly Jamaica, drive apple picking. They cite past shortages and delays, with Dimock and Bohne reporting substantial losses. Growers formed a Farm Labor Executive Committee and hired a Washington firm to lobby the U.S. Labor Department, which pledged certification by August 1 though no notice arrived.
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Vermont
U.S. Department of Labor
British West Indies
Jamaica
U.S
Everett Dimock
Paul Bohne
Harwood Hill Orchards
Bohne
Dimock
Virginia
Labor Department
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United Press International
Rock Tears Champlain Ferry
Hull
Joint
United States
Judson Brown
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