Protests Move To Dump Farm Family Project
A letter to the editor argues that Vermont Republicans through their agriculture commissioner oppose the Farm Family Project, which aided low income farm families. The writer, Harry Cooley of Dardanelle Arkansas, recalls 1960s support by Hoff Daley Hayes Branon Rowley and questions current policy, praising past efforts to help farm families keep homes.
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Banner
Vermont
Republican Party
Republican Commissioner of Agriculture
Phil Hoff
Jack Daley
George Hayes
Robert
Branon
Ray Rowley
House Appropriations Committee
Pinkertons
Ethan Allen
Tom Chittenden
Seth Warner
Apples and DDT: Vermont grower defends use and research
A Vermont apple grower recounts early DDT experiments from 1944 to 1960, noting heavy use and collaboration with chemical firms. The piece references Mrs. Foster’s claim in The Fruit That Kills and argues for a broader view of pollution and pesticide history.
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Vermont
Charles H. Kerg
University of Vermont
Soap For Washing Cut Pollution Says Letter To Editor
Readers urged to replace detergents with soap to reduce phosphate pollution in lakes and rivers. Instructions given for hot water washing with specific soaps, vinegar rinse, and notes on limits for synthetic fabrics. Letter cites environmental texts and prior columns, requesting public discussion and verification of DDT concerns and Elm disease programs.
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Garrett de Bell
Ballantine Books
Cub Scouts Promote Charity Show At Mt Anthony High School
In Pownal Center Jeanne Quinn urges support for a Cub Scout and Boy Scout joint show at Mt Anthony Union High School on April 25 from 11 am to 5 pm. Tickets admit a family. proceeds aid the local Cub Scout treasury and summer picnic costs. The article notes a previous Cub Scout booth won second prize.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
Boy Scouts
Cub Scouts
Pownal
Vermont Proclaims Maple Time Season Opens March 21
Vermont marks Maple Time from March 21 to April 19 with statewide maple industry events. The Maple Industry Council hosts a Capitol lawn sugar party March 26 for legislators and press. Franklin County Maple Festival leads regional celebrations as clubs, schools, and families join sugar bush visits and maple meals.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Maple Industry Council
Capitol Lawn
Franklin County
Vermont Department of Agriculture
Vermont Maple Industry Council
Vermont Extension Service
Development Department
Department of Agriculture
Vermont Sugar Makers Association
Vermont ETV Council Meets Over Public Appointee
The Vermont ETV Broadcasting Council will discuss a governor appointed member Walter R. Beer Jr. report on the station manager search and theEducation Dept.’s role, at a 2 p.m. meeting on the Ethan Allen campus of the University of Vermont. Beer, former Green Mountain College executive secretary, replaces Richard Young as public representative. The council will review legislative status and future use of ETV in education, with Donn McCafferty of the Department of Education reporting on current work and plans. Odell Skinner leaves in May to lead WCBB in Maine.
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Burlington
Vermont
ETV Broadcasting Council
Davis
ETV
State Department of Education
Ethan Allen
University of Vermont
Walter R. Beer Jr
Green Mountain College
Poultney
Richard Young
WCBB
Colby-Bates-Bowdoin
Maine
Oil leak fouls Lake Champlain threatens Burlington beaches
The Water Resources Department prepared to investigate another oil leak in Lake Champlain that surfaced Sunday. The three black veins were spotted by residents and threaten Lakeside Beach and North Beach after ice melts. Officials suspect storage tanks of Northern Oil Co. as the source, following a similar leak earlier this month. Inspectors and Army Corps of Engineers staff were to join the probe.
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Burlington
UPI
Water Resources Department
Lake Champlain
Lakeside Beach
North Beach
M. Robert Blanchard
Northern Oil Co
Lakeshore
The
Water Resources Board
Army Corps of Engineers
Autopsy Sought On Mass. Man In Barton Crash Death
Peter Lihanstanski 55 of Southboro was found dead in his car Saturday night along U S 5 near Barton. State police say car left road and rest in a snowbank and an autopsy will determine if death was natural or from the crash. Orleans County State's Attorney Leonard Pearson withheld ruling pending results. Essex Junction voters face 15 cent tax hike to fund a $275,000 community recreation center announced by the Jaycees after a 24 year plan.
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Barton
UPI
Massachusetts
Peter Lihanstanski
Southboro
Mass
U.S. 5
Orleans County
Leonard Pearson
Luhanstanski
Essex Junction
Essex Junction Jaycees
Abortion Reform debate draws clerical support in Albany
In Albany the abortion reform bill gains support from Dr. Carlyle Adams of the Albany Presbytery who argues for conscience based decisions and safeguards for infants against birth defects or cruel deprivation. On the Capitol steps over 150 people attend a spring poetry reading where police cut power for obscenities and allow the event to continue sans loudspeaker.
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Albany
State Senate
Carlyle Adams
Presty
Adams
Presbytery
Capitol Police
Berkshire Chamber To Honor Seven In Breakfast Event
North Adams will honor seven local figures at the northern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Thursday. Speakers include Robert C. Sprague Jr. of Sprague Electric. Recipients: Edward Lamarre Walter Falise George A. Fairs Guy L. Krapp Fred Dabroski William Brookman Jr. John A. Rose.
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North Adams
Northern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce
Robert C. Sprague Jr
Sprague Electric
Edward Lamarre
Drury High
Walter Falise
George A. Fairs
City Park and Recreation Commission
Guy L. Krapp
Williamstown
Fred Dabroski
Adams
William Brookman Jr
John A. Rose
Clarksburg
Selectman
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S. Second St
Dardanelle, Ark
Mary Jane Markley
Green River Road
Williamstown, Mass
H.B. Petty
Dlinois Extension
U.S.D.A
Pure Food Administration
Chemical Company
Bennington
Garden Club
Ria
AVM
Lyman C. Calahan
Gordon Nielsen
Les
Paul W. Bohne Sr. Hill
Main St
Ae Ea
Jeanne C. Quinn
Pownal Center
Volkswagen Medical
Volkswagen
Monument Motors, Inc
South
PaCconanna Ainelacl
Hanson
Walbridge
Mem
Ational
Arlington
Morticias
ETV Council
Champlain
Essex
New Center
New York
Capitol
Berkshire
Cable
United States
Britain
Justice Department
General Cable Corp
Callender’s Cables, Ltd
Electric Assembly Products Division
General Cable
Sprague
Sprague Electric Co
International Union of Electrical Workers
Walter D. Wood
Pittsfield
Yankee Airlines
Executive Airlines of
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Executive
National Utilities and Industries of
Elizabethtown
N.J
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