Jobless Rate Drops to 5 Percent in January
Washington reports unemployment at 5.0 percent in January, down from 5.1 percent in December after a revision. 4.7 million jobless, nonfarm payrolls show mixed shifts with teenagers easing to 14.3 percent, adults and white workers near previous levels, and overall labor force adjustments noted.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Nixon
Adul
Funeral notices and local incidents reported in Bennington area
Multiple funeral services are detailed for Quincy Harrington Margaret Morrison and Martha Kunz with services at Mahar Son Funeral Home Sacred Heart Church St Columban's Cemetery and North Bennington church. Separate police reports describe two incest collisions in Bennington with minor injuries and property damage. The text also notes economic data from the BLS including earnings unemployment and Vietnam era veterans figures.
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Quincy T. Harrington
Bennington
Leominster
Mass
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Floyd L. la Bombard
First Baptist Church
Joseph Latif
Myron Woodward
Theodore, Sausville
Thomas Harrington
Nicholas Harrington
Martin Daigneault
Bennington High School
Harrington
Bennington Banner
Troy Record
Leominster Enterprise
Weeks
Putnam Streets
Katherine Y. Mayer
Julius H. Mantes
Mayer
Putnam
Manes
Ben Mont Avenue
Wallace R. Peare
Manchester
Thomas R. Coyne
Peare
Ben Mont
Coyne
Boy wins Homemaker of Tomorrow award at Conrad High
Daniel McIntyre wins Conrad High School Betty Crocker competition title as Homemaker of Tomorrow, in a contest opened to men for the first time this year, according to UPI from Conrad Montana.
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Parker
Late Life Magazine
Agnew
Spiro T. Agnew
Olive Vadakin Green obituary in North Bennington
Mrs Olive Vadakin Green 54 of North Bennington died Friday at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Born August 1917 in Bennington to Hollis and Nellie Dunican she trained in Pownal schools. Survived by six sisters and a brother, funeral Monday at North Bennington Congregational Church with burial in Grandview Cemetery. Memorials may go to Bennington Rescue Squad through Mahar and Son Funeral Home.
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Martha Kunz
Arthur Kunz
Shaftsbury
St. John the Baptist Church
North Bennington
Michael A. Demasi
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Father Demasi
Ark Lawn Chapel
SL Columban
Arlington
Olive Vadakin Green
North Kennington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Hollis and
Nellie
Bent) Dunican
Pownal
Hoosick Falls
Clarence Vadakin
Carl Green
Raynham
Mass
BenMont Paper Co
Adalf
Jennie) Strohmaier
Pawnal
Edward
Pauline} Pettibone
Lownal
Virginia
Mahar and Son Funeral Home
North Bennington Congregational Church
J. Richard Sherlock
Grandview Cemetery
College and town seek closer Bennington ties at Rotary
At a Rotary Club meeting Bennington College leaders Gail Parker and Thomas Parker discussed strengthening town gown relations. They highlighted the winter school offering seven courses including anthropology and contemporary fiction and welcomed proposals for community access to local history courses.
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Bennington College
Bennington
Rotary Club
Gail T. Parker
Thomas
Richard F. Bower
Te Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Vermont
Parker
Vermont bills clear hurdles on zoning teacher retirement and transport
In Montpelier the Vermont House passed bills extending zoning act deadlines and enabling retirement at 55 with benefits, while approving longer than 60 foot motor transport on state highways. The Senate unanimously backed a wild turkey protection bill and sent a health department recreation waters measure to the governor for signing.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont House
Senate
State Health Department
House
Roy. Thomas Salmon
Robert Graf
R-Rupert
Health Department
Fred Smith
Chittenden County
Senate Natural Resources Council
Vermont
Two Die In Green Mountain Stock Farm Blaze
A fire at the Green Mountain Stock Farm near Randolph killed two people Gary Phurston a Randolph firefighter and Rolland Tabor 12 of Randolph who were in the riding arena when the roof collapsed three others were injured and treated at Pifford Memorial Hospital. Firefighters from Randolph Randolph Center and East Randolph battled the blaze which began about 1 30 p m and was controlled within an hour. Injured included Michael Cahoon 15 Rolland Burkine 22 and Arthur Churchille 28 all from nearby towns.
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Randoph
UPI
Green Mountain
Here
Randolph
Gary Phurston
Rolland Tabor
Ellsworth Tewksbury
Phurston
Tabor
Pifford Memorial Hospita
Michael Cahoon
Ranald Burkine
South Royalton
Arthur Churchille
Randolph Center
East Randolph
Reapportionment Debate Sees Unicameral Idea Reemerge
Vermont legislators hear critiques of Senate districting as Freshmen lawmakers Frank Smallwood and Andrew Nuquist discuss the impact of redistricting math. A computer printout suggested 6000 variations for Windsor County and up to 6,000,000 statewide possibilities. Nuquist defends the board’s plan, noting arguments favor one man one vote but dismissing them as irrelevant to equality of representation.
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Vermont
Frank Smallwood
Ri - Windsor County
Dartmouth College
Senate
Andrew Nuquist
University of Vermont
Naquist
Guments
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William Hurley Jr
Park Lawn Chapel
Mrs
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Margaret Morrison
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Sacred Heart Church
Joseph Quinn
C.S.C
Mahar & Son Funeral
Henry Bourgeois
St. Columban’s Cemetery
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Gore Road
Grand Union Empire
Snnington Banner
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United Hess International
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Rotary
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Bennington Briefs
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St. Anselm's College
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Overlea Road
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