Grants totaling 157000 aid Bennington County historic sites
Vermont Gov. Salmon announced 157000 in federal funds for 11 preservation projects in Bennington County plus related work in Arlington and Manchester. Key grants cover Putnam Square restoration, Walloomsac Inn painting, Palace Hotel exterior work, and Ames Grist Mill improvements with supporting funds for several nearby sites.
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Bennington County
Thomas P. Salmon
Putnam Square
Bennington
Walloomsac Inn
Old Bennington
Palace Hotel
Manchester
Old Tavern
Ames Grist Mill
Arlington
Vermont
Eric Gilbertson
State Division of Historic Preservation
Gilbertson
Vermont News Guide
St. James Church
Arlington Inn
Pownal Center
Park-McCullough
North Bennington
Vermont Bicentennial Commission
Division of Historic Preservation
Scape Unlimited
Springfield
Mass
Labor split forces Wilson to seek confidence vote
Prime Minister Harold Wilson, facing a left wing revolt and a crushing 284 256 defeat in Parliament, orders an immediate confidence vote in the House of Commons at 10 p.m. A leftist abstention sparked the setback, threatening the government’s prestige and the pound.
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London
VPI
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Wilson
Downing St
House of Commons
Arthur Latham
Bank of England
Premier Karami resigns as Lebanon teeters toward new civil war
Premier Rashid Karami quit amid rebel assaults across Lebanon, likening the nation to a sinking ship. The resignation follows weeks of cabinet departures and renewed clashes as Moslem rebels challenge loyalists from Tripoli to Beirut amid Syrian peacekeeping moves.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Rashid Karami
Karami
Tripoli
Syria
Zghorta
Suleiman Franjieh
Kobbeh
Bahjat Ghanem
Hilayel
Beirut-Tripoli
Abdel Majid Shehab
Shehab
Ras Naabeh
Hafez Assad
Palestine Liberation Army
Prager sentenced for lewd conduct involving a juvenile
Alan Bradley Prager faced a six month term on a single count of lewd and lascivious conduct with a juvenile boy in Bennington District Court. The judge imposed six months of a six month to three year sentence with balance suspended, pending a brief re sentencing to conform to law. The stay allows Prager to begin serving at Rutland Regional Correctional Facility next Tuesday while awaiting possible transfer to Windsor prison farm after classification review.
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Alan Bradley Prager
Bennington District Court
Prager
Champlain Valley
Susan
Thomas P. Whalen
Manchester
Kimberly Cheney
Montpelier
George M. Fienberg
Rutland
Cheney
Fienberg
Prison Classification Committee
Windsor
Salaries dispute delays MAU negotiations resume today
Mt Anthony Union teachers and the school board meet at 1 pm after an overwhelming teacher vote to continue talks. Supt George Sleeman stressed salary increases will be a key issue as the district eyes a new budget, possible April 20 vote, and debate over advisory ballot items remains unsettled. Norman Lariviere of the Southwest Vermont Education Association echoed cautious optimism about a settlement.
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Mt. Anthony
Norman Lariviere
Southwest Vermont Education Association
Sleeman
Lariviere
Stephen Brandwene
Degree in criminal justice at SVC gains new option
Inside Local notes a new criminal justice degree at SVC and includes John Page as a guest speaker for Plain Dirt Gardeners. Also mentions Kit Foster on Berkshire Garden Center, Tom Braden on Henry Kissinger, and a letter contesting a Banner editorial on God and politics.
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SVC
John Page
Plain Dirt Gardeners
Kit Foster
Berkshire Garden Center
Tom Braden
Falling Star
Henry Kissinger
God
MAU
Reston
Nominee to head Rotary International tied to Nazi past
Austrian industrialist Wolfgang Wick, the sole Rotary International presidential nominee, faced accusations from the Anti-Defamation League and Simon Wiesenthal of wartime Nazi affiliation. Wiesenthal alleges Wick joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and the SS by 1945, with Wick holding influential roles in Austria under German rule. Rotary clubs worldwide consider the claims as the nomination proceeds toward a June convention in New Orleans.
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Rotary International
Wolfgang Wick
Anti- Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Documentation Center For
Vienna
Wick
Wiesenthal
Austria
Harry A. Stewart
Stewart
Evanston
Ill
Rotary
Netherlands
New Orleans
Nazi Party
Germany
Nazi Germany
Schutzstaffel
Nazi Women’s Organization
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George Hadwen
Putnam Hotel
Pennysaver
Legislature
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Attorney General’s Office
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Abdel Halim Khaddam
Kamal Jumblatt
Jumblatt
Hanna Said
Tonito Hall
Brandwene
Entertainment
John Gardner
AAUW
Burr & Burton
Library Association
PTG
Shaftsbury
Hoosick Falls
J. C. Jerome
Blue Mountain
Selwyn Raab
N.Y. Times News Service
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