North Bennington to restore historic railroad station with gift
North Bennington voters approved taking title to the old 19th century railroad station after a gift offer by Mr. and Mrs. William R. Scott to underwrite exterior restoration. The Scotts would fund brickwork, windows, roof work, and canopies and the village would own the property from the state. The plan aims to transform the eyesore into a usable space, possibly an environmental resource center, with interior restoration later and limited annual insurance costs.
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North Bennington
Fred Welling
William R. Scott
Riverside
State of
Vermont
Rutland Railroad
Scott
Ethel McCullough
Hall Park McCullough
McCullough
Welling
Scotts
Vermont Public Service Board
The
Duncan Argyll Campbell
Bennington
Vermont Natural Resources Council
Campbell
Jobless claims rise to five-year high in Vermont
Vermont reports 5.0 percent of eligible workers filed unemployment claims for the week ending December 7, the highest since 1963 and five-year peak. Total claims 6,379, up 657 from the prior week, with St. Albans at 9.8 percent insured unemployment and White River Junction at 2.0 percent.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Employment Security Department
St. Albans
White River Junction
One rail union balks at back-to-work order
Washington UPI report on a nationwide rail strike as BRAC refused a 3 a.m. back-to-work ruling while 425,000 members faced government action. The fight affected 600,000 commuters, postal service parcel deliveries, and auto plant shifts amid a 13 percent wage increase approved by Congress and signed by President Nixon.
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Washington
UPI
Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks
BRAC
United Transportation Union
UTU
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Big City
White House
Con
Gress
Nixon
U.S
John H. Pratt
Chevy Chase
James D. Hodgson
Hodgson
Congress
C.L. Dennis
Oversight delays Vermont antibillboard law meeting
Vermont Travel Information Council delays discuss of the 1968 antibillboard law as opponents win a legal round over an official oversight. Windham County Court challenge threatens constitutionality, with injunction blocking removal of about 60 signs in southeastern Vermont and a March hearing planned.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Travel Information Council
Richard Thomas
Windham
Empty chair marks Solzhenitsyn at Nobel Prize ceremony
An empty chair on the laureates’ podium symbolized Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn at the 1970 Nobel Prize awards in Stockholm. He declined to attend fearing he could not return home, while the ceremony honored winners in medicine physics chemistry economics and peace.
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Stockholm
UPI
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
Gustav VI Adolf
Solzhenitsyn
First Circle
Moscow
Nobel Foundation
Sweden
Nobel
Oslo
Norman Ernest
Borlaug
Julius Axelrod
U.S. National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda
Sir Bernard Katz
University College
London
Ulf von Euler
Caroline Institute
Paul A. Samuelson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Louis Neel
University of Grenoble
France
Hannes Alfven
Stockholm University of Technology
University of
Luis F. Leloir
Buenos Aires
Alfred Nobel
Allies renew Nixon prisoner exchange offer in Vietnam talks
PARIS UPI The United States and South Vietnam renewed Nixon’s offer to exchange all Communist war prisoners in South Vietnam for American and allied captives in North Vietnam and proposed daily talks starting Friday. Madame Binh demanded unconditional U.S. troop withdrawal by June 30, 1971 before any cease fire.
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Paris
UPI
United States
South Vietnam
Nixon
North Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Binh
U.S
David K. E. Bruce
Pham Dang Lam
Bruce
Madame Binh
Washington
Saigon
Hanoi
Sam
Mme Binh
Bennington program and editorial items overview
Inside The Bennington Program presents participants exploring drama as Page 3. An editorial debates roles of press and elected officials on Page 4. Housing Authority reports progress on Page 5. First Monday's Newsletter appears on Page 7. Pownal School expansion glimpse on Page 8. Shaftsbury selectmen approve Topping Tavern tax exemption on Page 8.
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Shaftsbury
Embargo Halts Most Mail Past 300 Miles Across U.S.
Washington reports an embargo on movement of second third and fourth class mail beyond 300 miles of origin. Postmaster General Winton M Blount ordered the step ahead of the rail strike to avoid tying up post offices during the Christmas mail load. First class mail and air mail would continue without distance limits.
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Washington
UPS
U.S. Postal Service
Winton M. Blount
Blount
Air Parcel Post
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Harlow
Bryce N. Harlow
Procter & Gamble
St. Johnsbury
Sanford Buxbaum
Robert Lerner
George H. Elwell III
North Bennington Railroad
North Bennington Village
Pratt
New York City
Chicago
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Maintenace of
Way
Billboard
Attorney General’s Office
Soviet Union
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Bennington’s
Housing Authority
Pownal
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