Seven firms eyeing life for Economy Graphics plant site
A North Bennington facility formerly Economy Graphics is reviving with Arken Industries in production and Vermont Woodstove Inc moving offices and planning April 1 production. VIDA may lease space and oversee the rehabilitation while BCIC negotiates.
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Judson Brown
Economy Graphics
Route 67A
North Bennington
Arken Industries
Vermont Woodstove Inc
Vermont Industrial Development Agency
VIDA
Melvin A. Dyson
Bennington
Vermont
Frasier
Vermont Woodstone
West Road
Vermont Woodcrafters
BCIC
Dyson
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Brown
Ken Olney
Arlin Brown
Vermont Woodstone Co
Town union balks at new personnel policy amid contract fears
AFSCME official David Chisholm and Town Manager Louis Savelas urged Local 490 members to view the policy as unrelated to their current contract. Union 27 public works employees worry vacation cuts and dependent child hospitalization costs. Policy limits on political activity and strikes also upset workers. policy would prevail if no new contract by June 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Chisholm
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
SCME
Afl-Cio
Louis C. Savelas
Chisholm
Vance to press PLO peace path on Middle East trip
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance refuels en route to the Middle East to seek Arab Israeli views on Palestinian representation at Geneva. Officials say he aims to overcome the impasse with ideas on timing and format, while noting Israel will not accept a separate Palestinian delegation. The trip comes as a reported positive signal from a retired Israeli general and as Washington rebukes Israeli oil drilling near Sinai.
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PLO
Israel
Matti Peled
Vance
Middle East
Carter
Carter and Portillo affirm friendship in White House meeting
President Carter and Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo held a second working session to solidify pledges of friendship and mutual support during Portillo's four day state visit. A joint statement was planned to outline continued cooperation on shared problems and closer North American ties.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Jose Lopez Portillo
Oval Office
Mexico
United States
Lopez
White House
Leahy warns volunteer army costly. favors draft talk
UPI reports Sen. Patrick Leahy says the all volunteer army may cost the government about 200 billion in retirement benefits and questions long term feasibility. He urges five to six year study and a return to draft discussion, while criticizing Soviet and NATO gaps in conventional arms and standard equipment. He also notes human rights should not be tied to arms or trade, and mentions Helsinki Commission comments. See LEAHY on back page.
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Leahy
U.S
Soviet Union
North
Commission On Security and Cooperation In Europe
Helsinki Commission
United States
Carter
Rutland judges order eviction of Vermont from center
Two Rutland County Superior Court judges ruled to evict the state of Vermont from the Rutland Community Correctional Center. Justice Michael Brown called conditions deplorable and overcrowded, unsafe and unsanitary, with a deadline set for April 1. Frederic Elwert joined in the decision.
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Rutland
UPI
Rutland County Superior Court
State of Vermont
Rutland Community Correctional Center
Michael Brown
Rutland County
Frederic Elwert
Mt Anthony Union explores 95 acre site for new junior high
Mt Anthony Union School directors asked Superintendent Sleeman to draft a rough plan for a Grades 7 through 9 facility to address overcrowding. A 95 acre North Bennington Shaftsbury tract near Paran Road is under consideration with possible May ballot action if the proposal advances.
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Mt. Anthony Union
George A. Sleeman
Mt. Anthony
Bennington
Shaftsbury
Robert J. Dimke
David Humphreys
Sleeman
McGuire
Paran Road
Shaftsbury Flats
Michael McGuire
North Bennington
Murray McGuire
Rights unit backs metro bus to end school segregation
The UPI report notes the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights calls busing students from cities to suburbs the only effective path to desegregation and urges vigorous Carter administration leadership. It argues metropolitan scales address most racial isolation in schools and housing integration comes too late for current children. The panel cites two of every three Black children in the nation attend predominantly minority schools and warns city-only plans fail to deliver stable solutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Carter
Griffin Bell
Civil Rights Commission
Arthur S. Flemming
AAUW panel on women in government local focus
Inside Local reports an AAUW panel on women in government. District Court news updates, and a local day care center awarded a federal grant illuminate community progress.
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AAUW
Tom Braden
Carter
Buckley
Melvin Maddocks
Wilmington
Rep. Colvin
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Sibley Manufacturing Co
By John Leaning
State Department
Gulf of Suez
Sinai
Egypt
Cyrus R. Vance
Frederick Z. Brown
Portillo
By Jennifer Small
Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
MAU
Hyde Park High School
Shiftsbury Selectmen
Manchester School Board
BBS
Mets
New York
John Randolph
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