Simson named chief of state local agency
John G. Simson, executive director of the Bennington County Regional Commission, was appointed commissioner of Housing and Community Affairs by Gov. Richard A. Snelling. Simson expressed mixed feelings, noting Arlington as his home after six years at the regional commission, and called it a great opportunity for professional advancement while staying in Vermont.
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Montpelier
John G. Simson
Bennington County
Boy dies as truckhits school bus on snow hill
Burke Vermont police report a fatality and six injuries after a Mack truck collided with a crowded school bus carrying 60 children on a snow packed hill. The bus driver John Coe 26 of West Burke and truck driver Kenneth Dwyer 38 of Lyndonville may be injured. the dead boy was unnamed pending kin notification.
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Burke
UPS
Vermont
St. Johnsbury
John Coe
West Burke
Kenneth Dwyer
Lyndonville
Ford Gives Final State of the Union Address
President Ford, in his last State of the Union, said he leaves office prouder and sees the nation as more perfect. He urged Congress to pass his tax, energy, and defense plans while lamenting unemployment and criticizing slow energy action and defense spending. Carter missed the address due to a longer briefing at Blair House.
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Washington
UPI
Gerald Ford
Congress
House
Michigan
Cabinet
Supreme Court
Diplomatic Corps
Senate
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Blair House
Carter
Fidence
Soviet Union
United States
Snelling fails to fire Orr in energy agency clash
Gov Richard Snelling attempted to oust Energy Director Forrest Orr but could not due to Orr’s state civil service status. Orr agreed to take another classified position, while Choinard will push to remove the energy director post from the classified list as a key policy role reporting to the governor. Orr, a longtime state bureaucrat, previously led the Energy Office created during Thomas Salmon’s administration amid the energy crisis.
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Sonnel
Jacques-Anne Choinard
Orr
Ms. Choinard
Thomas Salmon
State Energy Office
Ethan Allen College weighs merger with Southern Vermont
Ethan Allen Community College in Manchester may become a division of Southern Vermont College in Bennington. If a merger occurs the college would likely stay on Bonnet Street and Southern Vermont’s nearby extension could close. Board chair Marshall Peck confirmed the college sent a letter to SVCs president expressing interest in talks.
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Ethan Allen Community College
Manchester
Southern Vermont College
Bennington
Timothy Stevenson
Bonnet Street
Southern Vermont
Marshall Peck
Ethan Allen
Thomas A. Gee
Peck
Vermont News Guide
Kit Foster
Bennington Selectmen
Jimmy Carter
Senate
Byrd
Future of Music
Burr & Burton
Bogardus
Falls
White Creek Board
Battle For
Connecticut
MAU
Springfield
Eagles
Proctor
Coxsee
U.S
Cowens
Celtics
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ethan Allen Merger Talks Move to Cooperative Future
The article centers on Ethan Allen College considering a merger or closer cooperation with Bennington based on ongoing financial pressures and a call for consolidated operations. Trustee leaders Peck and Gee discuss a one door one secretary model to reduce duplication, with a meeting planned between college boards to explore joint plans.
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Ethan Allen
Peck
Board of Trustees
Gee
Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Black leaders fear backlash if oppose Bell
Rep. Parren Mitchell testifies that 17 black lawmakers oppose Griffin Bell for attorney general citing his role in Georgia's massive resistance. Mitchell says blacks worry public opposition could harm judicial and federal job prospects while Roy Innis supports Bell.
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Bell
Washington
UPI
Griffin Bell
Rep
Parren Mitchell
House Black Caucus
Georgia
Mitchell
Senate Judiciary Committee
Roy Innis
Congress of Racial Equality
Justice Department
SVC Fund Drive Aims To Link Town Viability To College
Southern Vermont College under President Thomas A. Gee plans a community fund raising effort to bolster the college's future beyond its $1.1 million annual budget. With 340 students and tuition at $1,650 a year, the school seeks more money to improve programs and facilities and raise enrollment toward 500, leveraging the college’s economic benefit to Bennington.
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SVC
Southern Vermont College
Thomas A. Gee
Gee
Bennington
Southern
Vermont
Lee Svc
Hormone exposure linked to birth defects in study
A Boston University led team analyzed 50 282 pregnancies from 1958 to 1965 and found women given female hormones in early pregnancy had higher rates of major heart defects in their children. The study, in The New England Journal of Medicine, links oral contraceptives and other hormone use to increased birth defect risks.
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Jane E. Brody
N.Y. Times News Service
New England Journal of Medicine
Olli P. Heinonen
Dennis Slone
Drug Epidemiology Unit
Boston University Medical Center
Harvard School of Public Health
New York State Birth Defects Institute
Albany
James J. Nora
Audrey H. Nora
University of Colorado Medical Center
James Nora
Nora
United States
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Jokn G. Simson
Washington Press Corps
Henry Kissinger
National Press Club
Linda Dinsmore
Union
Forrest Orr
Ethan Allen College
Uvm-Johnson State
Thetford
Stevenson
Lee Ethan Allen
By John Leaning
Food and Drug Administration
Health Research Group
Washington, D.C
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