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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1977
Page
3
A Norman Rockwell painting displayed in Taft Elementary School in Burlington since 1942 was appraised at $30,000. Burlington school superintendent Lans ing Reinholz confirmed the assessment and noted the artwork’s long exhibition history.
John O Leary, administrator of the Federal Energy Administration, forecast by 1980 a stockpile of 250 million barrels and by 1983 a fully built billion barrels of strategic crude reserves. He said the first fill would occur within about 30 days and referenced protection from oilboycott impacts seen in 1973 and 1974.
The Public Service Board urged utility companies to adopt an independent method for testing electric meters amid a dispute with Catamount Stadium in Milton. Catamount challenged CVPS charges for October 1975, arguing track closure and off switches. The PSB found no proof the CVPS meter was inaccurate and CVPS remained liable.
For the sixth year the Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont donated eight porch flower boxes and eight hanging baskets to adorn the Pavilion Building in Montpelier. The grant to the Vermont Historical Society funds flowers for the Pavilion Hotel porch as part of a statewide effort including shows and worthy projects. The Pavilion porches have welcomed thousands of Vermonters and visitors.
A landowners appreciation picnic is planned for noon August 7 at Lake Paran by the Shaftsbury Snow Pilots for members and landowners. A food sale to aid Licensed Practical Nurses Association District 6 is set for Saturday June 18 at 10 a.m. in front of Woolworth’s. Other notes mention MAU seniors diploma photos, new local businesses, cemetery cleaning services, and Pavilion Hotel restoration with garden club funding at the Capitol Complex in Montpelier.
Free physical examinations are available for children in Bennington and neighboring towns under the state health department. The Well Child Clinic operates monthly at the Methodist Church and Willowbrook, with physician clinics in Bennington and Oak Hill School, plus nursing visits in Pownal.
The House Family Farms Subcommittee planned two days of hearings in Washington on Rep. James Jeffords bill to stop farmland from being sold to developers. The release warns of a looming food crisis if farmland sales continue and calls for a commission plus pilot programs to keep land in food production.
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