Owney the Albany dog travels to world fame at Smithsonian
Owney the Albany post office mutt and former Railway Mail Service mascot is displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum of History and Technology. Traveled 1,017 tags and medals on global trips, including a 1895 world voyage from Tacoma to New York.
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Shaftsbury EDA Funds Repeatedly Kept as Being Processed
Shaftsbury learned on Thursday that its funding requests to the Economic Development Administration remain in the status of being processed. The town had previously seen an $886,000 public works grant and a $750,000 school addition request withdrawn after initial approvals.
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Shaftsbury
Federal Economic Development Administration
Thomson leads drive to remove U N ambassador Young
Governor Meldrim Thomson in Manchester heads a two week old campaign through the Conservative Caucus shadow cabinet to urge President Carter to oust U N Ambassador Andrew Young for remarks that allegedly place the United States toward the Third World. Rep Louis Jenkins says funds are not involved and many letters have been sent nationally. An Arlington CPR course and an advanced first aid class are offered by the Arlington Rescue Squad on Aug 1 2 and 4 with enrollment open to ages 15 and up.
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Meldrim Thomson
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Andrew Young
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Manchester Union
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Atlanta Constitution
New Hampshire
Louisiana
Louis Jenkins
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Red Cross
Pownal Community Church Hosts Country Market and Services
The Pownal Center Community Church plans a Saturday country market from 9 am to noon in the Carriage Barn with fresh produce jams jellies crafts and flea market items. Sunday worship at North Pownal Congregational Church starts 10 15 am with a sermon on Christianity's Object Lessons from II Corinthians 3 2 and a junior sermon on How Things Grow. Visitors welcome.
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Leahy backs Burns for FHA regional director post
Senator Patrick Leahy says he is confident former Vermont Lt. Gov Brian Burns will be named regional director of the Farmers Home Administration. Burns met FHA Administrator Gordon Cavanaugh in Washington and would accept if offered a reasonable proposal. Burns, a real estate broker, was recommended by Leahy’s patronage committee, though Carter has passed over two other Burns recommendations for U.S. attorney and federal marshal.
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Brian Burns
Farmers Home Administration
Burns
Washington
FHA
Gordon Cavanaugh
McClaughry pushes tax repeal for regional planning funding
Former Rep. John McClaughry proposes scrapping Vermonts $5 per person old age tax in favor of a $3 levy to fund regional planning commissions. He urges commissions not to take federal money and for members to be elected at Town Meeting. He criticizes Act 250 as cumbersome and polarizing, advocating cooperative state help for environmentally and socially sound development.
Vermont Hospital to close one floor amid high occupancy
Medical Center Hospital in Burlington plans to close a Mary Fletcher Unit floor on October 1 as patients spend less time in the hospital. President Herluf Olsen noted the fifth floor has been shut temporarily since Memorial Day and may not be the permanent option. He called the move ironic given record occupancy.
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Medical Center Hospital
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Herluf Olsen
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Veteran Rep Stewart Rouse resigns from Vermont House
White River Jct UPI report says Rep Stewart Rouse D Hartford resigns after moving to another district. He is chair of the House Institutions Committee and has served seven years. unclear if he will run again in 1978.
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White River
Boundary line dispute in Rensselaer splits school districts
In Rensselaer New York parents and the Board of Education clash over moving the city street that divides Fort Craile and Van Rensselaer elementary zones. An informal committee seeks a permanent line but School Superintendent Joseph Reilly dismisses the idea as unlikely to ever be established.
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Rensselaer
Board of Education
Fort Craile
van Rensselaer
Joseph Reilly
Troy seeks restore federal aid for neighborhoods
Troy councilmen and neighborhood representatives met federal officials to restore aid after HUD proposed cutting 20 percent from the 1977 Community Development grant of 1.414 million. Neighborhood groups worried about approved projects, but officials say nonspent funds this year may cover most of the reduction.
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Troy
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Berkshire court sends man to six months for grand jury contempt
In Pittsfield a 30 year old man Bruce Eulian was sentenced to six months in Hampshire County House of Correction for refusing to testify before a western Massachusetts grand jury. Judge Raymond Cross held him in contempt for failing to testify June 28. Two Northampton men named him as contact in a case involving betting on regional football games. Meanwhile in North Adams Kellie Quirk, 7, suffered 40 stitches after a partial German shepherd bite. owner Maureen Taft was arraigned on leash-law violation.
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Hampshire County House of Correction
Massachusetts
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Raymond Cross
House of Correction
Northampton
University of Massachusetts At Amherst
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North Adams Regional Hospital
Kellie Quirk
Richard Quirk
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