Fire tears through Ruskin Building on Main Street
A massive morning fire leveled the former Ruskin Building on Main Street, destroying the Upstreet Boutique and Magic Flute record store. The Bennington Volunteer Fire Department saved the nearby Methodist Church with no serious injuries reported. The blaze, likely starting mid building and spreading quickly, is under investigation by the state police.
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Ruskin
Main Street
Bennington Volunteer Fire Department
Methodist Church
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
BCI
Robert Horton
Shaftsbury
Chittenden Bank and Trust Co
Traims Luksus
Old Bennington
Upstreet
Luksus
Farron
First Vermont Bank and Trust Co
Joseph Wassick
Bennington
Richard D. Campbell
John Hubbard
New fuel rules aim to cut gasoline and lift prices
Washington administration proposes mandatory fuel allocations to boost distillates and heating oils while reducing gasoline output about 15 percent. Emergency users gain 100 percent of needs. others about 90 percent. Utilities may face power cuts as heavy heating oil shortages spread, with airlines and stations affected but no consumer rationing declared.
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Washington
UPI
New Energy
William E. Simon
Federal Register
Washington Star-News
Simon
Delta crash survivor dies after 19 weeks fighting for life
Leopold Chouinard the 20 year old Vermont native who became the Delta DC9 crash sole survivor died in Massachusetts General Hospital after 19 weeks of extensive burn treatment. He suffered third degree burns on 80 percent of his body from the July 31 Logan International crash that killed 88. He was engaged the night before departure to Alaska and was hospitalized while doctors tried pioneering burn care methods.
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Boston
UPI
Leopold Chouinard
Chouinard
Marshfield
Massachusetts General Hospital
Air Force
Delta
Logan International Airport
Burlington
Alaska
Brenda Newton
Brenda
Grand jury to probe Kent State slayings impaneled
Washington reports the Justice Department will impanel a federal grand jury in Cleveland on December 18 to investigate the 1970 Kent State University killings by Ohio National Guardsmen. The action signals inquiry scope but not indictments. The case follows protests after the Cambodia invasion. state actions faced indictments against some protesters.
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Cambodia
Supreme Court
Nixon shifts radiation standards from EPA to AEC
Washington reports President Nixon moved authority for radiation standards at nuclear plants from EPA to the Atomic Energy Commission. The policy reversal seeks to avoid confusion as nuclear power expands, but critics warn looser rules may raise public radiation exposure and cancer risk. The Ash memorandum directs AEC to set uranium fuel cycle standards while EPA stops new facility specific rules, keeping ambient environment standards under EPA.
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Washington
Nixon
Environmental Protection Agency
Atomic Energy Commission
Environmental Agency
AEC
Atomic Power Industry
Roy L. Ash
Office of Management and Budget
White House
Russell E. Train
EPA
Dixy Lee Ray
New York Times
Charles L. Elkins
Environment Agency
Office of Hazardous Materials Control
Elkins
Light Snow and Clouds Mark Seasonal Start
The forecast calls for light snow with considerable cloudiness and a high in the 30s. Clear to partly cloudy tonight with a teens low. More clouds Thursday with a chance of snow and a high in the 30s. A trace of snow from yesterday is noted, the first of the season and the latest since 1970. Sunset 4 15, sunrise 7 17.
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First Methodist
Tzaims Luksus
Kathy Guma
Martin Bander
Turkey
Kent State
William B. Saxbe
Ohio
U.S
John N. Mitchell
Pottinger
Saxbe
Robert H. Bork
N.Y. Times News Service
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