Hidden electricity costs in rent drive waste, study says
A UPI report notes master metered apartments inflate electricity use by 35 to 37 percent, wasting millions of barrels of oil yearly. The Midwest Research Institute study for the Federal Energy Administration urges banning new master meters and retrofitting existing ones, with federal action possible via executive orders and tax incentives.
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Kansas City, Mo
UPI
Midwest Research Institute For
Federal Energy Administration
Chicago
Boston Edison Co
United States
Congress
Was the unicorn horn really narwhal tusks in history
The unicorn horn myths of medieval Europe traced to narwhal tusks. Narwhals, about 20,000 animals, inhabit the Arctic and grow a long left front tooth up to ten feet. Males bear the tusk, used possibly for mating or feeding, while Eskimos hunt narwhals for meat, blubber, and muktuk, the vitamin C rich skin eaten as a treat.
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Ranger
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Nature
National Wildlife Federation
North Pole
Arctic
For
Children’s Magazine
Arctic Ocean
Greenland
Boston Office Names New England Preservation Director
Bruce MacDougal, architectural historian and former North Carolina deputy state historic preservation officer, named director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and SPNEA New England Regional Field Office in Boston. He will advise preservation groups across six New England states from 141 Cambridge Street.
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Bruce MacDougal
North Carolina
New England
National Trust For Historic Preservation
The
Society For the Preservation of New England Antiquities
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North Carolina Division of Archives and History
Historic Preservation Society of
National Trust
National Trust- Spnea
Cambridge St
Secret Service guards for presidential candidates detailed
In Manchester New Hampshire agents guard a candidate outside a motel as part of a nationwide effort by the Secret Service Treasury Department to protect contenders for the presidency. The piece describes lead and backup cars, air travel subsidies, and the tension between protection and public access. It notes protection offered to most federally funded candidates while two candidates declined.
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Sargent Shriver
Secret Service
Treasury Department
United States
Fred Harris
Oklahoma
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Harris
American archeologist links prison to Socrates death in Athens
UPI reports American archeologist Eugene Vanderpool identifies a stone building near Athens Agora as the state jail where Socrates drank hemlock, disputing the cave theory. He cites Plato’s account, prison furnishings, a bath, water basin, a cistern with medicine pots, and a Hellenistic marble statue as key evidence.
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Athens
Greece
UPI
Acropolis
Eugene Vanderpool
Athens’ American School of Classical Studies
Plato
Poros
B.C
Vanderpool
Smelt Shanties Drift As Ice Floes Break Up
ARROWSIC Maine UPI more than 65 smelt shanties drifted on shifting Sasnoa River ice Monday fishermen trying to save their shanties were forced to wait until the ice settled WATERBURY Vermont State Hospital Bicentennial Committee seeks mannequins donations in any condition to assist a display contact Volunteer Services 244 7331 ext 393 or 394
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Maine
UPI
Sasnoa River
Waterbury
Vermont State Hospital
Sagadahoc
Frederick E. Pecci
Woolwich
Pecci
Bath Iron Works
Bath Memorial Hospital
Porter cited for meritorious service at Pease AFB NH
Staff Sergeant Gregory C. Porter, son of Mrs Oakley K Porter, a personnel specialist in the U S Air Force, was cited for meritorious service at Pease AFB New Hampshire. He now serves at Yokota Japan with the 475th Air Base Wing of the Pacific Air Forces and is a 1970 Burr and Burton Seminary graduate.
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Gregory C. Porter
Oakley K. Porter
U.S. Air Force
Pease Afb
N.H
Yokota
Japan
475Th Air Base Wing
Pacific Air Forces
Burr and Burton Seminary
Hoosick Falls Wins 87 000 Block Grant for 1975
Hoosick Falls officials announced an $87,000 Community Block Grant for 1975 approved through HUD and Congressman Edward Pattison. The plan, drafted by Cambridge engineer Peter Kent, allocates 22 000 for sidewalks 18 000 for decayed buildings 40 000 to rehabilitate blighted houses and 7 000 for administration. Also announced is birth of Daniel John to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tabor on Jan 14 in Boston with Jason Tabor recovering from heart surgery.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Donald Bogardus
Office of Housing and Urban Development
Edward Pattison
Peter Kent
Cambridge
Richard Tabor
Daniel John
Lying In Hospital
Boston
Mass
Tabors
Jason
BCA meets to update Town Meeting checklist
Shaftsbury BCA convenes Saturday in town clerk’s office from 11 a.m. to noon to revise the March 2 Town Meeting checklist. Residents wishing to be listed must contact the town clerk before noon Saturday.
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Correction clears Leroy Martin in Hoosick incident
The Leroy Martin in Rensselaer County Jail after a Friday Hoosick Falls spree is identified as 33 year old Leroy Martin of West Hoosick. He was charged with reckless endangerment coercion and attempted escape from police after incidents in two local bars, not LeRoy Martin of 38 Center St as yesterday’s Banner claimed.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Leroy Martin
Rensselaer County
West Hoosick
Center St
Londonderry Student Daniel Smith Excels at Kurn Hattin
Daniel Smith of Londonderry an eighth grader at Kurn Hattin School Westminster was highlighted in the weekly newsletter for strong academic performance this past semester.
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Londonderry
Daniel Smith
Westminster
Windham College Offers Interinstitutional Special Education Courses
Windham College announces two spring special education courses offered as part of a cooperative effort with the state Division of Continuing Education Castleton State College Antioch Graduate School Keene NH and Community College of Vermont Educators and students pursuing teaching credentials can earn graduate or undergraduate credit through Windham Castleton SIT and CCSU The courses include The Special Needs Learner hosted by SIT and Understanding Your Children led by Dr Rudolph Dreikurs with Monday and Tuesday sessions to fit working teachers Contact Windham Registrar or Professor Hammond for details.
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Windham
State Division of Continuing Education
Graduate School
Castleton State College
Antioch Graduate School
Keene
N.H
Community College of Vermont
Castleton
The
School For International
Rudolph Dreikurs
Dreikurs
S.I.T
Windham College
Lee Hammond
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