Manchester selectmen keep police and road crew wages flat
The Manchester board voted unanimously to not grant pay hikes for police and the road crew in 1976, while setting higher wages for four fulltime dispatchers at 3.20 an hour and two parttime dispatchers at 2.75. They plan to hire a fulltime mechanic if affordability permits and will add the second secretary to town payroll when federal funds expire. A town meeting brought in about 11,000 extra budget, and officials discussed revenue sharing totaling 66,506 by March. A fund was set up for Mrs. Georgia Stewart and her grandson after a house fire on Water Street. The board warned groups to petition for funding and considered items such as a chain-link fence for the town shed and a new loader. They signed a plowing agreement with Sunderland and urged Dorset to upgrade Town Highway 29 to class two. The next meeting is Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
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Manchester
Henry R. Lambert
Selectmen
Vermont
Manchester Rescue Squad
Factory Point
Manchester Health Services and Fire Department
Bennington
Lambert
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Sunderland
Bentley Hill Road
Lathrop Lane
Dorset Selectmen
Dorset
Ice age unlikely says NOAA researchers
Scientists from NOAA say a new ice age may not be developing as once predicted after reviewing satellite images from 1966 to present. They found snow and ice cover in North America unchanged, while Eurasia shows yearly fluctuations. A cooler climate could still lower crop yields and raise heating demand, affecting the farm belt. The Shaftsbury town plan hearing is postponed with a new date to be announced.
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Washington
UPI
Donald Wiesner
Michael Matson
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
United States
Canada
Matson
Wiesner
North America
Montana
U.S
Americans
Hemisphere
Shaftsbury
Two Car Collision Injures Three in Hoosick Falls
In Hoosick Falls New York a snow slick intersection crash at routes 7 and 22 injures three. Abbey E Pope 18 of Housatonia Missouri and Harry M Brickwell 50 of Verona New Jersey led to injuries and hospital treatment for Brickwell and two passengers, with tow trucks removing both cars and no arrests.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick
Abbey E. Pope
Housatonia
Harry M. Brickwell
Verona
N.J
Center Brunswick
Brickwell
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Town of
Christopher J. Brickwell
Christopher J. Wulf
Steve
Rip rap work at Red Mill site near Arlington
W H Morse Construction of Bennington will finish rip rapping the Battenkill River banks at the old Red Mill dam site this week for $16,000 funded by the state Fish and Game Department. The project includes 1000 feet of bank rip rap on both sides and adds a parking area picnic tables and a railing to aid disabled anglers.
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Judson Brown
Arlington
Battenkill
Red Mill
W. H. Morse Construction Co
Bennington
State Fish and Game Department
Fish and Game Department
Vermont
Eugene Pelham
New York Graphic Society
Pelham
Jerome Viault
Jerome C. Viault
Fish and Game
Edward F. Keough
Winooski
Keough
Roberson Law of
State Line Diner
Change of pace in Santa Monica caller case
In Santa Monica a widow in her late sixties admitted placing silent nuisance calls to a man who would later call back. General Telephone of California traced the calls to her nearby house and described the elderly woman as dating the anonymous man.
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Santa Monica
Calif
UPI
General Telephone of
California
McIntire Plans Binghamton Prayers to Battle Devil
Fundamentalist preacher Carl McIntire announces outdoor prayer meetings in Binghamton and Maine to pray for missing minister Donald La Rose and keep the devil on the run. La Rose disappeared Nov 4. his car was found outside a Binghamton bus station amid fears of a Satanic cult. Organizers say hundreds will attend from nearby states.
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Binghamton
N.Y
UPI
Carl McIntire
Maine
Donald la Rose
la Rose
McIntire
First Baptist
Pennsylvania
McIintire
International Council of Christian Churches
New Jersey
Maryland
Collingswood N.J
Threat to ozone is played down by safety panel
The UPI report states the Consumer Product Safety Commission split 3 to 2 over LA’s call for a blanket fluorocarbon ban in sprays and as air conditioner and refrigerant coolants. LA warned fluorocarbons erode the ozone layer, risking higher skin cancer, while dissenters urged quicker action citing ample evidence for an immediate ban.
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Washington
UPI
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Los Angeles
R. David Pittle
Agency
Richard ©. Simpson
Constance Newman
Lawrence
Inaugural Sherlock Holmes Group Meets at Park-McCullough House
Sally Sugarman Molly Rahe and Tony Carruthers lead the first meeting of The Friends of Sherlock Holmes on January 6 at 8 p m at the Park McCullough House. Attendees will hear Tony Carruthers read artifacts and books show items elect officers and toast Sherlock Holmes Dr Watson Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Irene Adler. Open to the public.
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Sally Sugarman
Molly Rahe
Tony Carruthers
Friends of
Sherlock Holmes
Park-McCullough House
Dr. Watson
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irene Adler
Seven social classes mapped by Harvard study
Cambridge based study finds Americans deny classism yet use social standing in judgments. Richard Coleman reports 900 interviews from 1971 72 revealing seven economic layers with 1975 incomes from 50 000 for the top to under 6 000 for the struggling. He notes glamour clubs and schooling shape status beyond money.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Richard P. Coleman
Harvard-Mit Joint Center For Urban Studies
America
New York
Coleman
U.S.A
Social Register
Fire damages rooms at 6 Abbott Street in Hoosick Falls
At 9 37 last night the Hoosick Falls Fire Department responded to a fire that heavily damaged the downstairs apartment of Leif Eriksen at 6 Abbott Street. Eriksen worked in New York City and was away. police have not reached him. Fire Chief Walter Sprague said the fire is of suspicious origin and under investigation. Two rooms were engulfed by flames. other areas suffered smoke and heat damage. An upstairs rented apartment was undamaged. With one truck in service, Chief Sprague called North Hoosick Fire Department to standby at the firehouse until the blaze was declared under control at 11 43 p.m.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Leif Eriksen
Abbott St
Walter Sprague
Sprague
North Hoosick
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