Scientist disputes Santa Barbara oil spill report
Dr. Max Blumer of Woods Hole criticizes a $240,000 industry study by Allan Hancock Foundation for underusing modern methods to analyze oil in sediments and organisms. He warns it could mislead future decisions and highlights missing data on oil composition and hazards.
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Falmouth
Mass
UPI
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Max Blumer
Woods Hole
Western Oil and Gas Association
University of California
Allan Hancock Foundation
Blumer
Environmental Magazine
State Commission
Vermont Children's Aid launches annual drive for funds
Vermonters care about Vermont children is the society slogan as the Vermont Children's Aid Society begins its fund drive through May 15 in Bennington Pownal and Shaftsbury. The nonprofit, aided by volunteers and local leaders, reports a 51 year history helping orphans, foster homes, adoptions and counseling with Miss Persis Holden retiring to Bennington after 22 years with the agency. Co chairmen Miss Helen J. Thomas and Mrs Neil Moss, with Mrs Thomas Bluto as president, lead local efforts and Cecile Wright serves as treasurer.
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Vermont
Vermont Children’s Aid Society
Bennington
Pownal
Shaftsbury
Persis Holden
Children’s Aid
Helen J. Thomas
Neil Moss
Thomas Bluto
Cecile Wright
North Bennington Woman Plans May 22 Wedding in Missouri
Lois E. Harrison, a North Bennington native and longtime Missouri extension home economist, will marry Bradley M. Sanborn May 22 in Liberty Missouri. The couple, renewing after 37 years, will travel with antiques to Vermont to the Harrington homestead. Harrison retires May 10 after 12 years with the University of Missouri Extension.
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North Bennington
Lois E. Harrison
Myron Harrington
Bradley M. Sanborn
Church Street
Second Baptist Church
Liberty
Kansas City
Star
Harrison
W.C. Link Jr
Vermont
Harringtons
Midwest
Food and Nutrition
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
University of Missouri Extension Division
North Bennington High School
University of Vermont
Golf foursomes launch wet season at Mt Anthony
On April 14 the Mount Anthony Country Club hosted an opening Scotch Foursome dinner chaired by Dot and Jim Wirthman attended by about 50 members and guests. A putting contest awarded golf balls to Jane Just Tony Lombardo Jane Winegard and Lloyd Bernheimer for lowest scores.
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Mount Anthony Country Club
Dot
Jim Wirthman
Jane Just
Tony Lombardo
Jane Winegard
Lloyd Bernheimer
Jane
Jack Winegard
Marie Williams
John Cleary
Salisbury
Elsie
Wise old owl Mansfield hails Aiken as statesman
UPI reports Sen George Aiken is hailed as a statesman for his impact on Vermont and the nation. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield praised his nonpartisan world affairs stance and landmark rural legislation at a St Michael s College testimonial. Mansfield cited Aiken s three decade Senate career and leadership on foreign relations.
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Winooski
UPI
George T. Aiken
R-Vt
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Aiken
St. Michael’s College
Mansfield
America
George Aiken
Parochial School Aid Sparks Debate in Vermont
Education Board chair warns state aid to parochial schools could burden public systems. Marion Taylor of Bennington promotes emergency aid to communities where private schools close. Governor support favors districts aiding parochials with state reimbursement. Commissioner Oakey calls it duplication and inefficient.
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Joseph Oakey
Oakey
Burlington
WCAX
Early morning fire damages Elm Tree Press in Woodstock
Fire swept through Elm Tree Press and an adjacent building in Woodstock near the village green, affecting six businesses and an apartment. Discovered around 5 am by Rutland Herald paperboy Eric Soule, with Fire Chief Eric Paige noting quick action likely saved the western business district. Cause undetermined but likely began in a lamp shop on the Elm Tree Press second floor. Vermont fire marshal investigators planned on-site searches.
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Woodstock
Elm Tree Press
Eric Soule
Rutland Herald
Eric Paige
Vermont Fire Marshal’s
Vermont Baptists rebuke name Niggerhead for Marshfield landmarks
Over the weekend the Vermont Baptist Convention, in its 147th annual session at Chester, denounced the use of the slur Niggerhead for a local mountain brook and pond. Most Rev. Robert F. Joyce addressed attendees and interfaith humor circulated. Rev. Reginald G. Illingworth of Chester was named pastor of the year, noted for 36 years as a teacher and guidance counselor in Springfield, Woodstock and Montpelier before his ministry.
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Chester
Niggerhead
Marshfield
Vermont Baptist Convention
Robert F. Joyce
Vermont
Reginald G. Illingworth
Springfield
Woodstock
Montpelier
Weekend stabbing in Winooski leads to new charges expected
Winooski authorities say George Ladabouche, 23, was stabbed in the stomach with a steak knife Saturday night in a Main Street apartment hallway and is in fair condition. James Robare, 28, of Winooski, is jailed on breach of peace with $1,000 bail. Gas tax in Vermont rose to 9 cents as a penny increase took effect, the legislature’s sole tax hike in 1971.
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Winooski
UPI
George Ladabouche
Main Street
Burlington
James Robare
Montpelier
Vermont
Albany clergymen push for POW info in Vietnam trip
Most Rev Joseph T Ryan, archbishop of Anchorage, told Albany First Friday Club leaders that pressing Nixon to exit South Vietnam plays into enemy hands. He recounted a bipartisan delegation's Holy Week journey to Europe and Asia to seek prisoner of war information, visiting Rome Stockholm Bangkok Saigon and Laos.
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Nixon
South Vietnam
Joseph T. Ryan
Anchorage
Alaska
North Vietnam
Europe
Asia
U.S
Rome
Stockholm
Bangkok
Saigon
Laos
Youth dies after fall at Thatcher State Park overlook
Daniel J. Bock a 16 year old from Schenectady apparently jumped a wall at Thatcher State Park to reach a 100 foot cliff overlook above the Albany area. Police arrived to disperse a pre dawn beer party and found his body at the base of the cliff. His address is 104 Mercer Street.
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New Scotland
N.Y
UPI
Daniel J. Bock
Schenectady
Thatcher State Park
Albany
Bock
Mercer St
No pari mutuel racing at Berkshire County Fair Hancock
Berkshire County Fair Hancock will not conduct pari mutuel horse racing this year marking a second consecutive year without racing. The state Racing Commission dismissed the fair’s six day racing application for failure to complete the process due to the fair’s inability to secure a lease from Martin DeMatteo owner of the fairgrounds and Green Mountain Park in Pownal. GE Pittsfield employment falls 500 this year to 10,400 as planned through 1971.
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Hancock
Pittsfield
General Electric
Charles J. Meloun
Plumbers Union Workers Stage Sympathy Pay Action in Pittsfield
In Pittsfield the 87 Local 297, Plumbers and Steamfitters Union, walked off jobs across the Central Berkshire area after rejecting a 6 percent wage hike from the Pittsfield Master Plumbers Association. The three year contract paying $7.18 an hour expired April 30 at midnight, and talks paused.
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Pittsfield
Plumbers and Steamfitters Union
Berkshire
Police establish temporary beat on Union Street in North Adams
The North Adams Police Department will assign a patrolman to the Union Street area where a food stand has drawn youths and witnessed several fracases. Police Chief William F. Coyne said the move is temporary and duration is undetermined.
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North Adams
Union Street
William F. Coyne
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D-N.h
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Yamasuke
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