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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1973
Page
7
University of Vermont weighing a four day work week as a contingency to save fuel oil electricity and gasoline. State and national officials are being consulted and students are notified by mail that such a schedule change could occur in coming months.
Twelve color television sets donated by Mr. and Mrs. Mason C. Harrison will be installed in Hoosick Falls Health Center rooms with remote controls and pillow speakers. Sanford L. Cluett Jr. announced the gift, praised by the center’s administration, staff, and patients.
Burlington. Camel's Hump serves as a natural laboratory for University of Vermont zoology professor Dr. Ross T. Bell and his students. Research maps invertebrate diversity across six vegetation zones from sugar maple to alpine heath. Studies include climate, vegetation, small mammals, and aquatic insects in Preston Brook, with graduate work on beetles and brook habitats. concern exists over human impact on rare alpine flora.
Miss Joan Davendonis of Hoosick Falls has earned a B.A. in Education with a science minor from Plattsburgh University College. She taught eighth grade earth science at Tupper Lake Central School. William J. Murphy, elected first county executive of Rensselaer County, will take the oath New Year’s Day in Troy with family attending. Justice DeForrest C. Pitt will officiate.
Pamela Blakeman lists Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at Oak Hill School on Saturday at 8 p.m. The Pownal Baptist Church announces a New Year’s Eve service from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Kenneth J. Fleming of Johnsonville, a deputy sheriff, declined the Hoosick Falls police chief post citing unsatisfactory salary for hours. Police Sgt. William Chapones also refused to change to the sewer plant understudy due to loss of civil service rights and weekend duty shift. Both decisions were to take effect Jan 1.
Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club presses state for Route 7 improvements at weekly luncheon and directors meeting. They plan to contact Governor Woe and Assemblymen, urge warning signs at dangerous curves, including a Vermont border sign warning motorists of curves toward Troy.
Admission list includes David H. Adams Schuylerville Jean Ames Eagle Bridge Janet Case North Hoosick Teresa Furfare Cambridge Cassie Hyatt Victory Mills Mary Jane Marcoux Granville Carolyn Schaffer Argyle Emma Smith Hoosick Falls Robly H. Tucker Buskirk Pamela Van Avery Greenwich Vincent K. White Salem. Discharges include Richard G. Brownell Greenwich Janet Case North Hoosick Beatrice Chadwick Salem William Dornan Greenwich Mark B. Gurry Cambridge William Hewson Hoosick Falls George C. Houser III Greenwich Patricia K. Mead Johnsonville Paul J. Moriarty Greenwich William Nolan Cambridge Albert Pratt Schaghticoke Carolyn L. Schaffer Argyle Emma C. Smith Hoosick Falls Robley H. Tucker Buskirk Pamela J. Van Avery Greenwich Vincent K. White Salem.
In Rutland, IBEW Local 300 voted 49 to 48 to walk out if Central Vermont Public Service fails to offer a one year contract with immediate cost of living adjustments. About 275 workers would be affected. Separately, officials discuss regional police forces as towns consider local funding and contracts with sheriffs. Vermont faces uninsured flood losses prompting a proposed disaster insurance bill covering up to 60 percent of damages for low income households.
The body of Martha Bessette, a patient on leave from the state hospital in Waterbury, was found Thursday floating in Burlington Harbor. Death was ruled a drowning.
Albert Aleschus Jr. a 29 year old ex patrolman, and Peter J Rozditsky, 30, both of Cohoes, were arrested by state police on warrants charging first degree robbery, first degree burglary, and second degree grand larceny for a June home invasion in Defreestville. An unidentified accomplice aided the break in.
Pittsfield council approved a snowmobile racing permit for Pontoosuc Lake after Dr. Christopher Mamonas warned excessive noise could reduce sexual drive. In Williamstown, a looming gasoline drought threatens supplies as few stations expect full reopens by Jan 15. General Electric in Pittsfield lands a $12.1 million ordnance contract for MK45 gun mounts.
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