Vermont panel to study adverse effects of nuclear plants
An 800 megawatt Charlotte plant anchors a Vermont Environment Panel probe into ecological impacts. The committee, formed by the 1969 legislature, weighs regulatory needs and Public Service Board powers while considering how to curb scenic and resource damage and how much taxpayers might pay to clean streams.
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Montpelier
API
Charlotte
Vermont
Legislative Council
Electrical Energy Study Committee
Douglas Kitchel
Caledonia County
Jonathan Brownell
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Connecticut River
Vernon
Brownell
Walter Cook
Vermont Electric Cooperative of
Johnson
Cook
Howard Lewis
Central Vermont Public Service Board
Lewis
Year-Round Future Planned For Mt. Washington Hotel
Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, bought by Philadelphia groups Mount Washington Development Co and Bankers Bond and Mortgage Co. They plan a year round, multi million dollar resort with two 18 hole golf courses, two ski areas, chalets and condos. Hotel to be winterized for year round use, previously operated June to October.
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Mt. Washington
Bretton Woods, N. H
UPI
Mount Washington Development Co
Philadelphia
Mount Washington
Bankers, Bond and Mortgage Co
Mount Washington Investment Co
Morris Fleisher
Claude L. Benner
Synod Votes 1.5 Million For Racial Justice Panel
Boston based United Church of Christ Seventh General Synod pledges at least 1.5 million dollars for a Commission on Racial Justice over three years. Funds come from appeals totaling 380 thousand this year and minimums of 500 thousand in 1970 and 600 thousand in 1971. Eight of fifteen members are to be named from Ministers for Racial and Social Justice. The vote followed debate on reparations to blacks and included demands for greater black input in agency investments and withdrawal of investments from South Africa tied firms. Distinguished leaders James Forman and Albert Cleage commented on the action, which ends as the synod adjourns for 1971 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Boston
UPI
Seventh General Synod of the United Church of Christ
Tice
Commission
James Forman
National Black Economic Development Conference
Synod
South Africa
Albert Cleage
Church of the Black Madonna
Detroit
Donald Clohr
Grand Rapids
Mich
New Cable Laid Across Atlantic Ocean Links US and Europe
Officials planned the western terminal work for the fifth trans Atlantic cable connecting the United States with Spain Portugal and Italy. Rough seas delayed progress by at least 24 hours, with burying a 95 mile section two feet beneath the ocean floor to protect it from fishermen. The 3 500 mile cable will end in San Fernando Spain and is expected to carry 720 simultaneous phone conversations, five times the capacity of the prior cable.
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South Kingstown
R.L
UPI
United States
Spain
Portugal
Italy
New England Telephone Co
Long Lines Department
The
American Telephone
Boston
New England Telephone
New Jersey
France
Porpoise nicknamed Porky entertains visitors at Battleship Cove
In Fall River, Mass, a playful porpoise called Porky the Porpoise thrills visitors at Battleship Cove near the USS Massachusetts memorial. Trained by an unknown owner, he leaps, claps flippers, and performs backbends for about three hours before a motorboat scare.
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Fall River
Mass
UPI
Porky the
Porky
Battleship Cove
Dick Sullivan
Bay
Mamie
Sullivan
John Hancock Agents Strike Across United States
About 7,000 John Hancock Life Insurance district agents walked out Tuesday noon at some 400 offices nationwide after contract expiry. Talks in Washington with the Insurance Workers International Union broke off with no date set for resumption. Company says nationwide operations will continue normally. In Massachusetts 969 agents joined the strike, with 202 in Rhode Island and 433 in Connecticut among others.
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Boston
UPD
John Hancock Life Insurance Co
Washington
Insurance Workers International Union
Harold Mills
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Vermont Colleges See 1.6 Million in Reserved Housing Loans
UPI reports Senator George D. Aiken says 1.6 million in federal housing loans are reserved for five Vermont college projects Middlebury Windham Champlain and two others. An additional 36000 in annual interest grants are set aside for Vermont institutions. Final HUD approval is required before funds are released.
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Washington
UPI
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Vermont
Aiken
Housing and Urban Development Department
Middlebury College
Windham College
Putney
Champlain College
Burling
University of Vermont
Lyndon State College
Equal Opportunity Committee to hear Human Rights Commission chair
In Montpelier the Legislative Council Equal Opportunity Committee will invite the Vermont Human Rights Commission chair to explain the commission’s work on racial discrimination. The panel also plans to hear from groups promoting bi racial understanding to gauge program effectiveness.
Albany property owners face higher 1970 assessments
More than 50 Albany property owners were slated for higher 1970 assessments after last year’s court reductions. The dispute grows as annual increases are often trimmed by courts. Grievances can be filed in August with Board of Review. final 1970 figures may be appealed to the Supreme Court in October. In Troy, Rensselaer County optometrists said they will refuse Medicaid patients due to 20 percent fee cuts and extra work. Welfare cutbacks have removed about 350,000 people from Medicaid.
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Blondin
Windsor State
Albany
Board of Review
Supreme Court
Troy
Rensselaer County
Ralph Tannenbaum
Berkshire planning board backs looser livestock buffer rules
North Adams planners voted to recommend a buffer zone proposal that liberalizes livestock rules in rural zones. The plan would allow keeping livestock anywhere in a rural area except within 100 feet of a residential zone, applying only where rural districts adjoin homes. The board also tackled a separate health plea and local business dispute at Miss Adams Diner, while regional officials signaled towns may choose between combined or separate sewage plants. In Great Barrington, Butternut Basin Ski Area owners bought Satan's Ridge Ski Area in New Hartford, Conn., from a group including Harold Law and Russell Smith and from Simsbury, Conn., and Peru, Maine associates.
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North Adams
Great Barrington
Channing B. Murdock
Butternut Basin
Robert M. Murdock
Dobbs Ferry
N.Y
Satan’s Ridge
New Hartford
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Bennington, VT
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Quinlan
Main ST
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Menley & James
Racial Justice Panel
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Vasl Bank Americard
Nationalia
State Street Bank and Trust CO
Boston Service Marks
Bank America Service Corp
Lewatt
Bermuda
Coats
Aebiter
Porpoise
John Hancock
St, Johnsbury
Mary Lynn Morrill
Horace Morrill
Brightlock Hospital
Marshfield
Virginia
Groton State Forest
Jeffrey H. Coffey
Richard M. Whittington
Alexandria
Train
Georgia
George F. Rand
Central Vermont Railway
Optometrists
Down In
Berkshire
Adams
Board of Health
Miss Adams
Park Street
Herman Washington
Armand Alves
Williamstown
John B. Casazza
State Division of Water Pollution Control
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