Vermont to run energy extension service by 1979
Vermont’s State Energy Office says an energy extension service will launch by 1979 to assist small homeowners and businesses with energy conservation and heat source conversions. A $1.2 million ERDA grant is being prepared this year, with Vermont seen as a potential early recipient for its rural coordination model.
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Montpelier
Vermont
State Energy Office
Brendan Whittaker
Federal Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
David Goldberg
Vermont Tomorrow
Whittaker
University of Vermont
Agricultural Extension Service
State Energy
Going Solar: local series on harnessing sun power
This first of four local articles outlines solar heating in New England homes, from high tech systems to DIY builds. It notes a shortage of qualified designers, highlights government grants for hot water units, and lists resources from the Vermont Energy Office and Total Environmental Action in Harrisville, NH.
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Carter
Doug Mahone
Vermont
New Hampshire
Paris
New England
State Energy Office
Montpelier
Federal
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Francis Tucker
Energy Office
HUD
Total Environmental Action
Church Hill
Harrisville
N.H
Anderson
Energy panel failure marks setback at North-South talks
The United States voiced disappointment as the North-South conference failed to set up a permanent producer consumer energy panel. The talks, extended into an overtime fourth day, aimed to salvage other agreements including funds to reduce world poverty and stabilize raw material prices for poorer nations. Vance and other cabinet heads headed home as negotiators pursued remaining accords.
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Paris
UPI
United States
Cyrus Vance
Haves
Have-Nots
U.S
Jacob K. Javits
Mitchell and Haldeman to enter jail June 22
District Judge John Sirica set June 22 as the start date for John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman to begin prison terms for Watergate cover up. He noted the three weeks permit appeals to the Supreme Court and personal affairs before sentences of 30 months to eight years, with Ehrlichman already serving. The ruling follows the Supreme Court's denial of appeals and delays.
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Washington
UPI
USS
John Sirica
John Mitchell
H.R. Haldeman
Sirica
Supreme Court
Richard Nixon
Haldeman
Mitchell
Democratic National Committee
Nixon
John Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman
New Hampshire mulls dogs and hoses for nuke protest
Attorney General David Souter said NH could use attack dogs and fire hoses to deter future Seabrook plant occupiers. He testified to a Senate panel seeking 169000 for National Guard per diem and meals after 1414 demonstrators were arrested May 1.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
David Souter
Seabrook
Souter
John Blatsos
National Guard
Senate Finance Committee
Alan Rock
Aashua
C.R. Trowbridge
Dublin
Col
Paul Doyon
Rockingham County
Blatsos
Public Service Co
New Hampshire
Moluccan gunmen fire at police post near hijacked train
In Assen Netherlands UPI reports South Moluccan gunmen holding over 50 hostages on a hijacked train fired on a police observation post after authorities refused to remove two antennas used for video monitoring. The post sits a few hundred yards from the stranded train where some 56 passengers remain under terrorist control.
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Assen
Netherlands
UPI
Inside Edits and Op Eds Highlight Local Topics
Page 4 covers comments on graduates and labeling by Kit Foster with planting guidelines. Page 5 features Russell Baker on oppression for fun and profit. Page 6 reports a 28 house Hoosick development and Hildene fate. Pages 10 and 11 note Tom Seaver’s posture amid Mets talk. Page 12 announces Stella Pevsner’s award and an upcoming film in Hoosick Falls.
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Kit Foster
Russell Baker
County
Hoosick
Hildene
Mimybus
Connecticut
Tom Seaver
Mets
Stella Pevsner
Kid
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Hoosick Falls
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Grassy Brook Village
Brookline
Windham County
By Rob Woolmington
Bruce Anderson
Watergate
Charles Ruff
John Wilson
Lee Watergate
Javits
Robert Levine
Vance
State Department
Paul Doucet
Doucet
David Owen
Prospect School
North Bennington
Bennington
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