Bennington gas crisis spurs calls for emergency powers
Bennington Rep. Joseph Caracciola pressed Gov. Salmon for emergency energy powers after briefing state energy chief Forrest Orr on suspected gas diversions to ski areas. Orr backs restoring Bennington’s allotment to 1972 sales, and Caracciola plans to pressure Washington for action while citing road conditions as a factor in shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Dwyer
Bennington
Montpelier
Bennington County
Joseph Caracciola
Forrest Orr
Caracciola
Orr
Salmon
Gasland
Lehigh
VIP
Washington
U.S
Richard W. Mallory
Agriculture resumes at Hall Farm with Hill family tradition
Alan Hill, 29, returns to Hall Farm North Bennington after its sale and closure last year. He and his wife Barbara, three children, and a Hoosick Falls partner will farm 200 acres, moving to the main house next fall. High prices and labor costs dominate concerns as they revive a 100 plus year farming enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Hill
Hill
Sunderland
Hill Farm
Alan
Hall Farm
North Bennington
John G. McCullough
Barbara
Park Street
Hoosick
N.Y
Barbara Hill
Vermont
Gordon Kenyon
Vermont Seeks Dismissal of Land Use Plan Suit
The state asks Orange County Court to dismiss a lawsuit by three Morrisville area farmers challenging the Environmental Board’s statewide land use plan. The motion argues the plan lacks maps and that the suit has no legal basis while Gov. Salmon plans to revise and forward the plan to the 1974 legislature.
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Chelsea
UPI
State of
Vermont
Orange County Court
State Environmental Board
Thomas P. Salmon
Morrisville
Bruce Graham
Vermont House
Scotch
Environmental Board
Schuyler Jackson
Graham
Orange County
Weather Update: Cloudy with Snow Chance Ahead
Partly sunny this morning then increasing clouds this afternoon and evening. Highs in the low 30s, tonight dipping to the teens to 20s. Sunday will be cloudy with a chance of snow and highs in the mid 30s.
Daylight Time Arrives Sunday Across Most States
United Press International reports most Americans set clocks one hour ahead as Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday and runs until October 1975. Federal action exempts Arizona Idaho Oregon, with Kentucky zone changes and other jurisdictions granted automatic or temporary exemptions.
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Washington
Transportation
Claude S. Brinegar
Arizona
Idaho
Oregon
Kentucky
Brinegar
Stephen Grossman
Department
Indiana
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Alaska
Florida
Kansas
Michigan
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Grossman
Wendell H. Ford
Bennington Officials Meet With Gasoline Executives
Town officials hold a breakfast session with Vermont New Hampshire Gasoline Dealers Association leaders to map out solutions amid Bennington's severe gas shortage. Attendees include Town Manager Edward Lamb, Selectmen J Duncan Campbell and J C Jerome, Reps Caracciola Foster Heaslip, Sen Harwood, and local organizer Tom Bluto of the Knotty Pine Motel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Publik House
Vermont-New Hampshire Gasoline Dealers Association
Robert Doucette
John MacDonald
New England
Doucette
MacDonald
Edward R. Lamb
J. Duncan Campbell
J.C. Jerome
Max Perrotta
Paul Sheridan
Joseph J. Caracciola
Thomas H. Foster
George Heaslip
Manchester
Madeline Harwood
Tom Bluto
Knotty Pine Motel
Nixon reshapes White House watergate legal team
President Nixon names James D. St. Clair to lead Watergate defense and take full charge of the White House legal staff. St. Clair, 53, will earn 42 500 a year and replaces J. Fred Buzhardt as special counsel. Garment remains assistant to the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buzhardt
White House
Watergate
Leonard Garment
John W. Dean III
Nixon
Garment
Gerald L. Warren
St. Clair
William Sloane Coffin
Joseph Welch
Warren
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Ervin
Senate Watergate Committee
Office of the Presidency
Judiciary
Congress
Executive Branch
Leon Jaworski
Mallary’s Washington arc puzzles Vermont GOP veterans
UPI reports Rep. Richard W. Mallary of Vermont, once seen as a bright conservative, has drawn criticism from fellow Republicans and Democrats who question what Washington did to him. He cites Watergate and Nixon’s handling as turning points, signaling possible resignation and altered political appeal ahead of the 1974 elections.
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Charles Butler Jr
Montpelier
UPI
Richard W. Mallary
Washington
Dick Mallary
Vermont
Mallary
Fairlee
House
Senate
Orange County
Deane C. Davis
Republican Party
Mallory
Nixon
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John Leaning
Benson Scotch
Environmental Conservation
Martin Johnson
United Press International
Bennington Banner
N.E
Town
Weate Law
Rep. Mallary
Rep
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