Charles Dollard Dies Former Carnegie executive and Bennington trustee
Charles Dollard 70 longtime educational executive and former president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York died Wednesday at New York Hospital. He lived in Bennington and served on the Vermont State Colleges Board after being appointed in 1965. Dollard held leadership roles at Carnegie from 1938 to 1954 and served in the Army Service Forces earning the Legion of Merit. He was a trustee at Bennington College Austen Riggs Center Lyle M. Spencer Foundation and other bodies. He and his wife Elizabeth Klintrup established a travel fund at Bennington.
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Charles Dollard
Bennington College
New York Hospital
Vail Road
Bennington
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Roosevelt University
Vermont State Colleges Board
Philip H. Hoff
University of Wisconsin
Carnegie
Foundation
Devereux C. Joseph
Joseph
The
New York Life Insurance Co
Army Service Forces
Legion of Merit
Austen Riggs
Stockbridge
Mass
Lyle M. Spencer
Wisconsin Union
Science Research Associates Inc
American College Testing Program
Association For Aid To Crippled Children
University of Wisconsin Fund
Berkeley College
Yale
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
House adopts code of ethics in sweeping reform
The House approved a strict ethics code amid scandals, requiring financial disclosures and limiting outside earnings to 15 percent of salaries. The measure bans gifts over 100 dollars, restricts pay for post election travel, and outlaws private slush funds while promising enforcement if the Senate mirrors the plan.
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Washington
House
O’neill
Bill Frenzel
R-Minn
Progress slow in dig for 8 trapped miners
In Tower City Pennsylvania eight miners remain trapped after a Kocher Coal Co disaster as rescuers, aided by air drills and picks, slowly advance toward Richard Adley the only miner confirmed alive. Officials report no confirmed signs of the others and warn the escape tunnel may not reach Adley until late afternoon.
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Tower City
UPI
Kocher Coal Co
John Shutack
Richard Adley
Shutack
Adley
Kocher
Here
Revival of Ben Mont shows first profit in decade
Ben-Mont Corp of Bennington posted a 1976 profit for the first time in ten years. President Denis B. Trelewicz told the Bennington Chamber of Commerce Industrial Bureau that if 1977 stays in the black, the firm will be on the path to recovery. He cited increased employment and a shift to forecasted orders for Christmas gift wrap, with AVCO steering the turn as the parent company.
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Ben-Mont Corp
Bennington
Denis B. Trelewicz
Bennington Chamber of Commerce Industrial Bureau
Trelewicz
Ben-Mont
Bennington County Industrial Corporation
Paul Revere Life Insurance Company
AVCO
Paul Revere
Industrial Bureau
Vermont
Ben- Mont
Treewicz
Inside world and local sections recap from multiple pages
A digest lists varied items including taxpayers resisting a $50 rebate from an interview with a surviving coal miner. IPC pollution of Lake Champlain reappears. Ledbetter’s Senate panel confirmation. seed starting tips by Kit Foster. Tom Braden on Hussein bribe flap. Melvin Maddocks and Russell Baker on awards and Scout semantics. MAU dramatizes Shirley Jackson. Mayoral candidate interviews in Hoosick Falls. HFCS National Merit finalists. Manchester sewer extension info. Western drought forces farmers to migrate. BBS vaults into finals. Quinlan joins East ski team. Comaneci cancels tour. UMass upsets Rutgers.
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IPC
Lake Champlain
Ledbetter
Senate
Kit Foster
Do’s
Don’ts
Tom Braden
Hussein
Melvin Maddocks
Russell Baker
Mau
Shirley Jackson
Hoosick Falls
HFCS
Manchester
BBS
Quinlan
Comaneci
Umass
Rutgers
Factory says inspector sat on PBB discovery
In Cadillac Michigan a feed mill sold tainted feed after a state inspector found PBB contamination but the plant was not informed for five months. Firemaster mixed with Nutrimaster caused cattle deaths and residue in equipment. A dairy farmer seeks 1 million dollars, alleging a cover up by Farm Bureau Services and Michigan Chemical.
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Cadillac, Mich
UPI
Farm Bureau Services
Roy Tacoma
Falmouth
Farm Bureau Sevices
Michigan Chemical Co
Firemaster
Nutrimaster
Peter DeRuiter
Falmouth Cooperative
Tacoma
DeRuiter
Gary Schenk
Super Route 7 foes rally in North Shire towns
Manchester residents gathered Wednesday night under the Conservation Society of Southern Vermont to press for upgrading existing Route 7 instead of building a new superhighway. William Painter said the society may pursue a coordinated effort or even a lawsuit to halt construction, though the group does not claim leadership and will hold further closed discussions.
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Manchester
North Shire
The
Conservation Society of Southern Vermont
William Painter
Society
Highway Department
Painter
Conservation Society
Wall Street Journal ties Mafia to Vermont mozzarella scheme
A front page WSJ report alleges Mafia involvement in Albury Creamery Inc, founded 11 years earlier in an old ice house to skim funds from a dairy cooperative. Joseph Falcone and Joseph Curreri faced bankruptcy fraud convictions, while unpaid milk bills and credit sales drained farmers and the Milton Dairy Cooperative by 1973.
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Wall Street Journal
Albury
Alburg Creamery Inc
Journal
Albury Creamery
Joseph Falcone
Joseph Curreri
Burlington
Alburg Creamery
Falcone
Falcone Dairy Products
Brooklyn, N.Y
Alburg
Milton Dairy Cooperative
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Dudley M. Baker
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