Equity Cities plan aims to curb slums with shared ownership
Tucson developer Joseph Timan promotes the Equity Cities concept in which homeowners share a stake in their community through annual payments to a trust fund. Horizon Corp's Mountain Shadow Estates near El Paso, designed by Victor Gruen Associates, enforces covenants via the Horizon Communities Improvement Association to fund maintenance and improvements for 40 years.
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New York
UPI
Joseph Timan
Horizon Corp
el Paso
Texas
Timan
Johnson
Horizon Corporation
Mountain Shadow Estates
Victor Gruen
Association
HCIA
Home Builders Hold Nixon to Housing Vow
The National Association of Home Builders adopts a policy urging Nixon to use private enterprise to build 26 million housing units in the coming decade. It calls for funding FHAs and FNMA, rent subsidies, full Housing Act programs, pension fund investment incentives, land use reforms, and training, while criticizing high lumber costs and seeking material substitutes.
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Washington
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
National Association of Home Builders
Houston
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nixon
NAHB
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Federal National Mortgage Association
FNMA
Congress
Heat From Computers Helps Cut Heating Costs
In Skokie Illinois a Chicago suburb, Computer Management Consultants channels heat from its Honeywell Model 200 computer into the building’s heating system. The setup, using overhead ducts and fans, also incorporates light heat and employee body heat, with predicted savings of up to 4000 dollars a year as operations approach around the clock.
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Skokie
UPI
Computer Management Consultants Inc
Honeywell
Chicago
CMC
Carbide Consumer Division Names Vice President Carr
Eldon D. Carr appointed vice president of Union Carbide Corp Consumer Products Division. He will lead the division's international department and has a long career across carbon and consumer products units. Carr, a Purdue BChB graduate (1939), also completed UNC executive program.
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New York
Eldon D. Carr
Union Carbide Corp
James F. Warnell
International
Carr
Union Carbide
National Carbon Company
Carbon
The
Corporation
Respons
Ible
Purdue University
University of North Carolina
School of Business Administration
Bennington
Rail Excursion Firm Buys More Coaches
Rail Associates Corp of Bellows Falls buys six passenger coaches a dining car and a baggage car from Delaware and Hudson Railroad Albany N Y. The fleet, among the six largest owned by a New England concern, will be stored at the Vermont Railroad in Wallingford with air conditioning and 400 contoured seats. Renovation precedes July use and long term plans include the dining car in service on excursions.
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New England
Rail Associates Corp
Bellows Falls
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Albany
N.Y
Barrett C. Leete
Killington
Vermont
Wallingford
Leete
Rail Associates
Rail
Box 406
Vermont 1816 Icebound Year Seminar at Montpelier
The Vermont Historical Society hosts a talks series on 1816 the year Vermont froze monthly with crop losses and hardship. T. D. Seymour Bassett, UVM archivist and Wilbur Collection curator, will discuss diaries and letters from Vermonters to recount survival. The talk at 8 p.m. on March 20 in the society library is free and open to the public.
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Montpelier
Bassett
The
Vermont Historical Society
Chittenden
Home Show Prepared By Jaycees
The Mt Anthony Jaycees announce a Home Show on April 25 and 26 at Catamount Elementary School. Exhibits cover home building industry items from appliances to decor and building materials. Co chairs Paul Bohne II and Dennis Joy say buyers remodelers and decorators will find value with A to Z information in one building. Prizes include portable color TV and grand prizes daily with hourly drawings. Contact Bohne or Joy for exhibit details.
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Mt. Anthony
Catamount
Bennington Catholic High School
Jaycees
Bohne
Joy
Seek Recruits For Job Corps
A Vermont man will lead New England efforts to recruit Job Corps enrollees for the New England Labor Council drive. Stephen Bailey will canvass New Hampshire and Vermont, targeting 16 to 22 year olds with emphasis on rural youth. The Job Corps is a federal OEO program offering skill training to improve employment prospects.
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Boston
UPI
Wells River
Vermont
New Hampshire
New England Labor Council
NELC
Stephen Bailey
United Papermakers and Paperworkers
New England
Thomas Policastro
Banner ad staff reshuffled with Reeves departure
William L. Reeves, advertising manager for three years, will leave Banner on April 1 to become assistant to the Bemidji Pioneer publisher in Minnesota. Replacing him is Robert A. Beaupre from the Banner sales staff, joining Russell Gilchrist who moves from New York Daily News to the Banner advertising team. Beaupre resides in Shaftsbury with wife Louise and four children, previously worked for Southbridge Evening News in Massachusetts. Gilchrist, a University of Tampa graduate and a Catholic University attendee, is a Army veteran who served in Thailand. he and wife Maureen will stay in Pittsfield, Massachusetts for now.
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Banner
William L. Reeves
Bennington
Minnesota
Robert A. Beaupre
Beaupre
Shaftsbury
Louise
Southbridge Evening News
Massachusetts
Russell Gilchrist
Metropolitan Life
New York City
Tising
The
New York Daily News
University of Tampa
Fla
Gilchrist
Catholic University Graduate School
Washington, D.C
Thailand
Maureen
Pittsfield
Mass
The Nations Pet Industry A Billion Dollar Business
New York report surveys the booming pet sector as households lavish on dogs cats birds fish and more. It notes pet executives and services from greeting cards to pet cremations with luxury touches like Cadillac limousines.
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New York
UPI
Bowser
White House
Pet Heaven
Cadillac
Tansitor names Southfield firm as regional representative
Tansitor Electronics Inc of Bennington appoints Sterling Company of Southfield Michigan as its regional representative to distribute the Tansitor broad line of solid wet and soil tantalum capacitors for military and commercial gear. The note discusses rising pet spending and a critic’s view on pet culture, citing Kathleen Szasz and her book Petishism, and argues for focusing on human relationships and universal tolerance.
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Tansitor Electronics Inc
Bennington
S. Sterling Company
Southfield
Mich
Sterling Company
Tansitor
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Brattleboro Schools Hire Mrs Sawyer as Dental Hygienist
Brattleboro Town School District hires Mrs Darrell Sawyer formerly Betty Davis of Manchester to replace Irene J Coombs as dental hygienist for 1969 70 at a salary of 6478. Sawyer trained at University of Vermont 1954 and recently worked part time for Dr John Mann. Her husband is a former Bennington coach now at Brattleboro Union High School.
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Darrell Sawyer
Brattleboro
Betty Davis
Manchester
Bennington
Bruce C. Pulsifer
Sawyer
Irene J. Coombs
University of Vermont
John Mann
Brattleboro Union High School
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Carbide Consumer Division
Girl Scout
Sacred Heart Church
Eileen Betit
Gayle Charette
Valerie Deptula
Nancy Eustas
Hope Galipeau
Michelle Hoth
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Patty O’brien
Sharon Salem
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Debra Moffit
Anne Lundergan
Linda Bartell
Marilyn Cone
Yale University
Harvard
Burlington
UVM
Vérmont
Stephen Greene Press
Pratt ST
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Chase Manhattan Bank
Pet Industry
Mazine
Kathleen Szasz
London
United States
Europe
Mrs. Sawyer
Hollywood
Frame & Choice
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Main St
Winslow
J.H. Winslow
John M. Moore
Arlington Vermony
Arlington
Shell Heating Oil
Johnson Oil
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Shell
Johnson Oil CO
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