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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1976
Page
7
A reader seeks help for a dripping cold water bathroom faucet. The House Doctor explains the issue often lies with a worn valve seat, not just the washer, and suggests resurfacing the seat with an inexpensive tool. Turn off water, dismantle, fit tool through the cap nut, and reassemble with a new washer.
Dr Mark A Donavan named to Putnam Memorial Hospital Bennington staff. He joins Guerrero Christmas and Dundas internal medicine practice and will head an expanding oncology program with supervised chemotherapy. Born in Bennington, he trained at Williams College Vermont Medical School Queen's Medical Center University of New Mexico Albany Medical College. He practiced in Albany for two years and resides at 7 Fairview Street with his wife and two children.
Manchester Wood Co on Routes 11 and 30 is sold to the Pierce family of Pierce Industries Walden NY. Clifford Pierce Jr says the line will grow from 47 current items to 60 70 by January and up to about 100 next year with a lighter finish and new tables shelves canisters and the plaques being dropped. 26 workers remain with plan to add more as production expands to retail outlets and distributors.
High risk mutual funds offer high potential returns but no load funds from large companies provide diversified options including stock, conservative income, and money market funds. For safety, insured FDIC bank accounts remain best. J H Winslow Plumbing supplies advertises 24 hour service and heating system upgrades with phone number 442-6308.
Atlanta developer Ralph Hutchison plans a $50 million Transport City complex offering lodging, fuel, repairs, warehousing, refrigerated storage, banking, shopping, and even swimming and bowling for truck drivers. The first $12 million phase begins immediately on a 280 acre site near Moreland Ave and I-285, with completion expected next summer. Phase two would add an industrial park at a $38 million cost by 1979, expanding to multiple centers nationwide as a new concept to cut over‑the‑road costs and losses in transit.
A Los Angeles firm introduces a computerized text and photographic composing process that speeds publishing about fourfold, transmitting headlines text and halftones simultaneously. U.S. News & World Report will use it for pages to plants in Old Saybrook, Chicago and Los Angeles, with Newsweek adopting for its post election issue. The system, Information International, uses a scanner and computer to break content into coded data sent by phone to a master tape. It promises equal plate quality and lower wire costs, though upfront price is high.
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