Connecticut Tobacco Acreage Consumed for Housing Industry
Connecticut tobacco acreage has fallen as residential development and road construction encroach on fields in the Connecticut River Valley. Trade groups report 15 percent of land shifted to housing and commercial use, with acres dropping from about 6,700 to 4,300 and per acre yields rising from 940 to 1,450 pounds since 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor, Conn
UPI
Connecticut
Mark Kravitz
Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association
Travelers Records
Kennedy Road
Day Hill Road
Kravitz
Connecticut River Valley
Irving Fellows
University of Connecticut
Fellows
Extern Serves as Shelburne Health Officer Aide
Irvin L. Paradis, a University of Vermont medical student, begins a summer externship as Shelburne health officer assistant. He maps the town’s sewage unit system, reviews balding permits, and consults with local groups on health issues including Shelburne Bay pollution. The NIH funded program runs through August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Irvin L. Paradis
University of Vermont
Shelburne
David H. Gray
Eagle Lake
Maine
Paradis
National Institutes of Health
Vermont Department of Health
Shelburne Bay
Lake Champlain Committee
Selburne
Hardwick
Transfers Of Bennington Town Clerk Records July 2 to 17
Mary Hodeck reports transfers in Bennington between July 2 and 17 including Irene Barnes to Hogan on Union Street, Sennett executor to Sands on Beech Street, Douglass to D Wth on Town Road 13139, Winslow to Jacobs on Colgate Road, Foster to Bahan on Foster Drive, and Andrews to Pembroke on Vermont Route 67A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Hodeck
F. Irene Barnes
Michael J. and
Magdalene V. Hogan
Bennington
Union Street
William C. Sennett
Margaret M. Maher
Francis and
Regina Sands
Beech Street
Maurice A
Dorothy H. Douglass
Shaftsbury
Normand J
Jo-Anne
D.wth
Elaine S. Winslow
Denver
Colo
Leon I
Irene W. Jacobs
Colgate Road
Lewis T
Catherine M. Foster
John C
Catherine P. Bahan
Foster Drive
Frank R. Andrews
William M. and
Christine I. Pembroke
Realtors Object HUD Seeks To Prohibit Towns Blocking Housing
The Urban Development agenda pushes a Romney backed amendment to bar local zoning and subdivision rules from blocking subsidized housing for low and moderate income families. Critics defend local control while proponents say the measure advances fair housing and prevents exclusionary practices. Rich Port of La Grange Illinois opposes the plan, saying it invades municipal authority and zoning powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Department of Housing
Congress
George Romney
Romney
Sanaa
C. Jackson
National Association of Real Estate Boards
la Grange
Ill
House Banking Currency Committee
Jackson
Central Vermont power output up 10.63 percent from last year
CVPS reported the week ending July 10 delivered 21,636,600 kilowatt hours with St. Lawrence deliveries, 2,078,300 kWh more than a year earlier. Year to date output reached 790,919,292 kWh, up 13.14 percent from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
St. Lawrence
Idle Ears May Provide Answer To Our Information Explosion
CHICAGO IDI executives discuss cassette information explosion offering educational recordings for cars homes and offices. They claim broad interest with topics from education policy health nuclear energy to marriage counseling while noting few own playback units and likening their product to razor blades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Beatty
Anderson
Ind
IDI
Ted Donhauser
Donhauser
Sheboygan
Wis
Beatty
Woodstock Garden Tours Set For July 21 In Woodstock
Woodstock Garden Club hosts six houses and two gardens open 10 30 a m to 5 p m with tea 3 to 5 at the Woodstock Historical Society House on Elm Street. Sites include Rockefeller and Canaday properties plus the DAR house. Tickets 2 50 cover tour map tea. available day of tour at houses gardens or Woodstock Inn info bureau. Proceeds fund village beautification and three luncheon events at local inns. Reservations required at inns. phone numbers listed.
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Woodstock
Woodstock Garden Club
Norman Williams
Laurance S. Rockefeller
Ward M. Canaday
Pomfret
Robert M. Browning
North Pomfret
Thacher Hamilton
Douglas Ross
John Meyer
Reading
DAR
Woodstock Historical Society
Elm Street
Garden Club Information Bureau
Woodstock Inn
Garden Club
Woodstock Village
New Woodstock Inn
Kedron Valley Inn
South Woodstock
New England Inn
Still Time To Enroll Under GI Bill
Veterans can still enroll this fall under the GI Bill says M. Dawson Tyson M D director of the VA Center White River Junction. While large universities may be full many smaller colleges will accept new students until September. Enroll soon and contact the nearest VA office for eligibility certificates. The GI Bill covers men and women who served after January 31, 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White River Junction
M. Dawson Tyson
Veterans Administration Center
Tyson
Modular Homes Gain Abroad
A Panelfab International report shows pre engineered modular buildings expanding globally. A 240 unit four month schedule includes 200 HUD housing bedroom units and 15 two bedroom units, plus 40 standard two to four bedroom homes shipped to Ghana. The firm nears $1.2 million in modular educational and medical facilities in Puerto Rico and the U S Virgin Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
UPI
Panelfab International Corporation
Ghana
Africa
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands
Named To Head Quechee Lakes Development
Donald H. Vance of Locust Valley New York has been elected president and chief operating officer of Quechee Lakes Corporation. Quechee Lakes covers 6000 acres in Vermont with a village restoration project an 18 hole golf course ski area and lake facilities. Vance previously chaired Village of Lake Success park commission and Long Island Expressway committee and has worked on missile bases Apollo facilities and environmental control innovations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quechee
Donald H. Vance
Locust Valley
N.Y
Quechee Lakes Corporation
Quechee Lakes
Vermont
Quebec Lakes Corporation
Vance
Lake Success
Train alarm misfire triggers Carlisle scare
In Carlisle England residents panicked when a train rolled into the yard Sunday and a taped message cried for police help claiming bandits attacked the train. Police traced the voice to a mechanical fault and said no attackers were present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
England
UPI
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UVM Medical
First National Stores
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Finast
Main Street
Make US
Scorginy Auto Stores Inc
Main St
Bennington, Vt
HUD
By Norman Kempster
Chicago
API
Qurveying
Gerald E. Morrissey
Beech St
Arlene Schulman
Averill Park
Schulman
State University of New York At Albany
Albany Art Institute
Schenectady Museum
Winslow
J.H. Winslow
Lees
Haynes & Kane, Inc
ALL Lumber & Building
Greenberg
Bat Ua
Home Fabric Mills
Saratoga Rd. Rt
Scotia, N.Y
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