Fire Leaves Fourteen Homeless On BenMont Ave
Three families totaling 14 people were left homeless when an upstairs fire destroyed a 130 BenMont Avenue apartment owned by HOME Inc. in Bennington. No injuries were reported. The Levesques, Doucette, and Pettus families lived there, aided by state programs. Fire originated near a closet. cause undetermined. Cleanup and repairs planned. housing options uncertain for now.
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BenMont Avenue
Home Inc
Bennington
VHA
Doucette
Joseph A. Wassick
Levesques
Levesque
Arthur Jones
HOME
Jones
Shaftsbury
Beech Court
Beech Street
Robert B. Condon
Greater
Edward
Sandra) Levesque
Richard Pettus
Pettus
Missing plane search tightens in Vermont Hunt
Vermont CAP units and ground crews from Vermont Maine and New Hampshire continued a third day search for a twin engine Piper Aztec missing since Tuesday morning on a Burlington to North Philadelphia flight. Pilot Joe Mongi 33 and William Beyer of North Philadelphia are missing. Search teams scouted a 20 square mile Rupert area as weather hampered operations with five planes ready.
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Vermont
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Maine
New Hampshire
Burlington
North Philadelphia
Joe Mongi
William Beyer
Dealware Aviation Corp
Boston Central Air Traffic Control Center
Nashua
N.H
Mongi
Boston Control Center
Boston
Albany
Glens Falls
N.Y
Rupert
Sandgate
Rutland
Sandgate Road
Manchester
New York State
Arlington
Lee
Nixon and Chou hold private talks at Great Hall in Peking
President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai continued a lengthy private summit in Peking following a public message at the Great Wall. The two leaders explored thawing relations and expanding Chinese American contacts, with a formal communique expected after Friday’s session and a banquet plan for Nixon. Nixon later voiced hope that walls between peoples would disappear and urged openness for Americans to visit China and Chinese to visit the United States.
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Peking
UPI
Nixon
Chou En-lai
United States
China
Great Wall of China
Chou
Great Wall
The
Wall
Nixons
Ming Tombs
Stewart Hensley
Nixon-Chou
Vermont House approves emergency aid to preserve education funding
The Vermont House voted 128 to 15 to spend 750000 to aid more than 100 communities facing reduced state education funding under the 1969 formula due to new property evaluations. The funds, added to Gov Davis 297 million recommended allocation, were redirected as emergency aid.
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House Education Committee
Henry Carse
Rhinesburg
Mary Thurber
Charlotte
House
Deane C. Davis
Washington
Davis
Walter Kennedy
Chelsea
Appropriations Committee
Kennedy
Davis backs statewide property tax for education
Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis endorses a statewide property tax to finance public education. He had opposed the plan but calls it the best of two options and urges lawmakers to form a special commission after federal court rulings struck down local taxes. A Vermont suit tests the tax.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
Deane C. Davis
Spiro Agnew
Davis
Milton Shapp
Pennsylvania
Vermont Legal Aid
Agnew
Communists Walk Out of Paris Peace Talks
The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations left the Paris peace talks protesting Nixon’s air war escalation. The move followed Nixon’s trip to China and Hanoi’s warnings the talks must settle the Vietnam issue in Paris. The session lasted 14 minutes, the shortest yet, with no statements from Americans or South Vietnamese.
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Paris
UPI
Nixon
China
Hanoi
Vietnam
Xuan Thuy
Nguyen van Tien
U.S
William J. Porter
Saigon
Pham Dang Lam
Porter
Indochina
Thuy
United States
North Vietnam
ARIS
Inside Guard officers in Alabama named for soliciting funds
Grand Jury names On the Inside Guard officers in Alabama who allegedly solicited political funds. Other items note para-professionals in education to be certified in Vermont, letters on Special Ed structure in Bennington, and discussion of an American Airlines suit against the Kennedy Estate.
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Alabama
Vermont
Bennington
Tom Braden
American Airlines
Kennedy
the Times
Arthur Daley
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Evergreen People’s Commune
Exchange Applause
John Grenier
Waterbury
Carse
South Texas
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Robert G. Luna
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