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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1974
Page
9
White Creek news notes Heritage Sunday at Jermain Church and a May 21 United Women’s Fellowship luncheon at Avalanche Motel. Raymond Taber marks 88th birthday May 13. Memorials and gifts planned by the pastor.
Elizabeth Larsen Lauer of Wilton Connecticut a 1974 alumni reunion participant at Bennington College will give an evening piano recital Friday featuring works by Beethoven Chopin Debussy and Stravinsky She opens with a sonatina written upon her 1953 Bennington graduation and titled To a Leprechaun She has an MA from Columbia a Fulbright study in Hamburg and a career in composition teaching recording and publishing including work with Columbia Records
John Stevens of the Conservation Society of Southern Vermont attacks Vermont Electric Cooperative's herbicide spraying permit. He cites weak controls and calls for a moratorium until proven safe. CSSV urges property-owner notice, broader monitoring, and alternative brush control methods.
The Pownal United Methodist Church will hold its annual strawberry supper on Thursday June 13 starting at 5 30 p m Dean Dixon can be contacted at 823 5025 for daily delivery of The Banner in the North and South Pownal area Mrs Daisy Dorman is chair man of the event.
Williamstown Massachusetts students at Williams College host Kite Day as the final project for H. Lee Hirsche's design course. More than 40 kites of varied shapes and materials will be flown if conditions permit, with families invited to join. If weather turns, the event moves to Sunday at the same time and place. this marks the 14th annual Kite Day since 1961.
Ver mont Electric Cooperative asks Vermont's U.S. senators and a House member to back the Dickey Lincoln power project in Maine. Trustees cite a 76 percent rise in wholesale power costs since 1971 and say a public power option could have saved the co op nearly $1 million in 1973, lowering annual costs for members.
UPI reports University of Vermont researchers on the Burlington campus will study how marijuana smoking affects driving using 24 volunteers in a lab setting and potentially in special cars with federal funding sought. Dr. W. M. Perrine, psychology professor, notes effects differ from alcohol and marijuana is supplied by the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs under tight security.
In Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, attorney for First National grocery stores pleads guilty to unit pricing and price misrepresentation. The chain is fined 500 dollars, cites computer issues. Windham County DA calls convictions a new break in pricing cases amid other stores awaiting AG Cheney clarification.
Clarence H. Mumley, owner of the Lake Champlain frog farm, pleaded guilty to one of three counts of wilfully failing to file a U S income tax return. He appeared before Chief Judge James S. Holden and was released on recognizance pending evaluation. IRS says taxes and penalties total over 11000 dollars.
In Lake Pleasant New York jury selection for Robert F Garrow Sr is dragging with only 54 of 500 examined viable and 800 more jurors to screen. Judge George Matthen requires a pool of at least 150 to pick 12 jurors and four alternates for the sequestered trial, a hardship cited by many potential jurors. In Troy the Uncle Sam Mall project progresses with first concrete to be poured as demolition and February excavations proceed. Caldwell Development Corp says the $96 million revitalization is on schedule with the $8 million first phase to open next spring.
The city council sent a rent control proposal back to the ordinances and rules committee while a compromise plan faces uncertainty. The alternative would require health department occupancy permits for all rentals after stricter housing code enforcement and apartment inspections.
The city council rezones 33 acres at the west end of Versailles Avenue to allow 224 condominiums. Units priced at 25000 to 35000 dollars will cost about 5 million dollars. the land was previously zoned for low density residential use.
Pittsfield Civil Defense unveils a three minute siren warning plan after last August's deadly tornado in West Stockbridge that killed four. Berkshire County faces three National Weather Service tornado watches so far this year. Lee Central School wing condemned for crumbling beams as repairs may exceed replacement.
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