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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1970
Page
5
NSM National Selected Ians endorses coast to coast firms for strict Code of Good Funeral Practice adherence. Membership hinges on daily high standards, sustaining NSM recognition. The network, part of NSM’s leading funeral directors, briefs readers via Time and major outlets.
Urho Kekkonen president of Finland concludes Massachusetts visit with Woods Hole tour and voyage aboard the Knorr in Nantucket Sound. He meets U Thant in New York, dines aboard, and revisits Fitchburg for Finnish American Day ceremonies honoring Oskari Tokoi.
A small unidentified device exploded in the Financial District near a Bank of America branch. No injuries or extensive damage were reported. A deliveryman, Mike Tureck, narrowly escaped after seeing a valise and smelling smoke near the entrance.
In Pittsburgh a 19-year-old known as Skip obtains narcotics by writing his own prescriptions from neighborhood drug stores. UPI reports he and about a dozen teens discuss easy access to Dilaudid and other drugs, noting forged prescriptions and the difficulty for pharmacists to detect fraud. Three other brief items cover two Persian leopards born at Cincinnati Zoo and related outcomes.
Concord report says New Hampshire begins full scale lab testing of fish from 130 water bodies to gauge mercury levels under FDA safety standards. Initial findings show some fish from the Bellows Falls pool contain mercury but within federal limits. state chemist Francis D. Hughton expects more positives. Vermont bans commercial fish sales amid widespread contamination concerns. A federal expert compares southern Lake Champlain conditions to the Hudson River.
Edgartown Mass Sen Edward M Kenney is released from one year of probation for leaving the scene of the fatal 1969 Chappaquiddick accident. Probation officer notified court that Kennedy fulfilled terms. he must still pass a driving test before license res issue.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory reports the Delta Aquarid meteor shower will peak in the pre dawn hours Wednesday. Observers in the southern U S may see the best show with 20 plus meteors per hour radiating from Aquarius. The event is annual and followed by the Perseids in August.
Vermont Champlain Valley OEO directors unanimously reject the Oklahoma Experiment that would route bloc grants to state offices for local agency distribution. They plan to send the resolution to Vermont’s congressional delegation and state officials as Congress recently limited state veto power over local OEO programs.
A 56-year-old Canadian man, John Loepfe of Dunverway, Que., was decapitated Sunday morning when his head struck a cement overpass while riding on a load of peat moss on a tractor trailer. The accident occurred as the trailer passed under the overpass near Bethlehem-A.
In Williamstown Dr. Arthur D. Hasler of the University of Wisconsin warned immediate steps are needed to stop eutrophication draining oxygen from lake bottoms worldwide. He cited phosphates and nitrates entering waters, with Hoosac Lake in Cheshire as a long-running example from sewage runoff and septic seepage affecting lakefront homes.
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