Nation's health generally good despite risky life styles
The Health, United States, 1975 report finds Americans are largely healthy but alcohol and tobacco use, plus poor diet and exercise, drive cancer, heart, and respiratory diseases. Infant mortality fell from 29.2 to 16.5 per 1,000 births since 1950, yet disparities persist. Life expectancy rose nearly four years since 1950 while deaths from heart disease decline in older adults and cancer rises in the same cohort. Nonwhite infant mortality remains higher. women’s life expectancy and access to care are discussed amid rising costs and continued inequities.
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Washington
Theodore Cooper
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
United States
Congress
Cooper
Dr. Cooper
Shaftsbury settles 104000 suit over school wing defects
The Shaftsbury School District settles a year long dispute with architect Julian Goodrich of Burlington and contractor Connecticut Valley Construction Company for a total of 104000. Both parties pay, district to install permanent roof repairs and secure the new wing while awaiting landscaping and moving a mobile classroom.
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Shaftsbury
Shaftsbury School
Mary Moriarty
George A. Sleeman
Julian Goodrich
Burlington
Connecticut Valley Construction Company
North Springfield
Manfred Sinisa
Goodrich
CVC
Utilities see another 12% hike in '76
Commerce Department projections show public utilities to raise consumer rates by about 12 percent in 1976. Spenders on plant and equipment are expected to reach 24 billion dollars, up from 20.3 billion in 1975, as expansion to meet demand drives price increases.
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Washington
UPI
Public Utilities
Commerce Department
Commerce
Vermont Budget Exercise Proposes $10 Million Cut
Gov. Salmon decries a Budget and Management plan as an exercise not a proposal. It outlines potential cuts of about $10 million for fiscal 1977, with $3 million trimmed from the Human Service Agency and education aid largely spared. Several programs would be scrapped, including senatorial scholarships and the Education audiovisual service.
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Salmon
Education Department
Shriver to be here Jan. 19
Sargent Shriver, brother in law of President John F Kennedy and former ambassador to France, will campaign in Bennington Monday Jan 19. He will attend a reception at Heritage House starting at 8 30 p m. The Kennedy kin and Peace Corps founder announced he visited Vermont on Sunday stopping in Burlington Winooski Middlebury Rutland and Bennington.
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Sargent Shriver
John F. Kennedy
France
Bennington
Shriver
Heritage House
Kennedy
Peace Corps
Vermont
Burlington
Winooski
Middlebury
Rutland
Helms faces possible prosecution over 1971 break in
UPI reports potential misdemeanor charges against former CIA chief Richard Helms for approving a 1971 Fairfax City Virginia photo studio break in to trace CIA information. DOJ and White House decline to confirm. Senate panel probes renewed CIA infiltration of educational and cultural groups for covert foreign use. no firm findings yet.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Justice Department
CIA
Richard Helms
Virginia
Helms
Iran
Fairfax City
Chile
Ron Nessen
Ford
Deborah Fitzgerald
Orlando Nunez
Fidel Castro
Fitzgerald
Nunez
Budget hike on MAU budget gains review by board
Mt Anthony Union School Board reviewed a preliminary 1976 77 district budget of 3 651 762 up 16 6 percent 519 204 from 3 1 million The figure reflects taxes and assessments and is not yet approved A Feb 24 taxpayers meeting will consider final budget with a Friday item by item review scheduled at 604 Main St
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Mt. Anthony Union School
Union School Board
Ivor Pelsue
Main St
Finance Committee
Supt
George A. Sleeman
MAU
Alumni urge regional groups to discuss futures report
In Bennington College’s unresolved crisis the alumni board and council ask regional alumni to meet and relay recommendations to the board. A futures committee report is under review as a separate panel continues hearings on campus and in New York City with about 40 students, faculty, and administrators testifying.
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Bennington College
Futures Committee
Board of Trustees
Alumni Board
Alumni Council
Boston
Gail T. Parker
Thomas Parker
New York City
Committee of Trustees
See College i
Medicine costs rise in malpractice era reshapes Vermont care
In a Vermont feature, Rob Woolmington explains how soaring malpractice insurance and legal risk push doctors toward specialization, defensive medicine, and higher patient costs. Physicians warn of reduced surgical practice and earlier retirements, while some fear continued rate hikes may tighten access to care.
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Rob Woolmington
Vermont
Saturday Evening Post
Robert D. Stout
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
W. Philip Giddings
Getty Page
Vermont State Medical Society
Banner
Martinez
Oakley Frost
Frost
Vermont towns face rise in lawsuits after insurers drop public official coverage
Vermont officials warn lawsuits against public leaders will surge as Reserve Insurance cancels Public Officials Liability policies. About 60 towns lose coverage, paying roughly 1500 dollars yearly, with no insurer now offering comparable policies. Stewart urges immunity clarification and liability limits.
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Stewart
The
Reserve Insurance Co
Public Officials
Vermont
Reserve Insurance
Inside on Agatha Christie and CIA politics
A compact digest notes Agatha Christie readership surpassing Shakespeare in popularity. It also highlights Ralph Nader’s charge that cancer is linked to business, and lists local notes on PCB checks in Bennington and editorials questioning Bennington officials and CIA obfuscation.
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Agatha Christie
Ralph Nader
Bennington
Tom Braden
CIA
William Safire
U.S
Russell Baker
Manchester
Blakelys
Topping
BCRC
Shaftsbury
John Randolph
Vermont
MAU
Rutland
Prospect Mountain Club
Toble
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New York Times News Service
Richard Snelling
Shelburne
MAU Board
By John Leaning
College
By Geoffrey Chapman
By Rob Woolmington
Conrad
Torrington Register
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