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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1973
Page
2
A catalog of winter clothing includes jeans ski hats snowmobile suits mittens knit hats robes gowns undies tights coats. The reader is shown a broad sample of warm wear available in this seasonal roundup.
Madrid reports show right wing demonstrators shouting assassin at Cardinal Enrique Vicente y Taracon during Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco’s state funeral. Franco stayed away amid security as police protected the archbishop. Carrero’s death followed a Thursday bomb blast near the U.S. Embassy, marking Franco era’s first major political assassination in 34 years.
The energy crunch risks stalling the environmental movement as gains by ecologists are gutted or sidelined. Alaska pipeline moves forward, oil drilling expands, and stricter auto emission plans lag. Coal reconversion and a proposed oil superport draw congressional support, while activists decry a public disgrace energy emergency bill. The outcome hinges on crisis depth and public tolerance for slower ecology change.
A series of IRA bomb blasts and hoax warnings hit London and Dublin in a two country pre Christmas campaign. Two bombs exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Mayfair causing minor damage but no injuries. In Dublin 13 letter bombs were found and defused, with authorities noting 66 people injured overall in nine blasts since Monday.
Hollister California rancher Howard Harris hosts researchers from University of California Stanford and the U S Geological Survey who monitor quakes along the San Andreas fault on his 3500 acre spread The area near Hollister dubbed the Earthquake Capital of the United States has seen few quakes this year despite a spring prediction and Harris jokes he can predict a quake next Tuesday based on cattle and bird behavior and a low rumble heard before events Researchers install devices to measure movement sound and magnetic fields and discuss forecasts with Harris noting the fault shifts about two inches yearly and a 50 foot wide crack marks the terrain
HEW reports four of ten AFDC families are ineligible or over/underpaid, costing taxpayers 1.17 billion annually. Weinberger notes new evidence that guaranteed minimum income would not reduce work effort. State rates: New York 17.5% ineligible, New Hampshire 40.9% overpayments, North Carolina 19.2% underpayments. About 7.8 million children and 3 million adults receive AFDC. federal share 54% at risk if targets aren’t met by July 1975.
The Coast Guard reported 27 crew members were found dead in the water after the Liberian freighter Oriental Monarch sank about 500 miles northwest of Vancouver Island. The 15,000-ton ship with 40 aboard was en route to Japan with American wheat when an engine room issue was reported. All victims wore life jackets as search for other missing continued.
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