Conservancy Buys Wassaw Island For One Million Dollars
Wassaw Island at the mouth of the Savannah River off Georgia was sold by the Parsons Family Trust to the Nature Conservancy for 1 million. The 17 square mile island, praised as pristine, will be managed as a wildlife refuge by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. The purchase marks the Conservancy’s third Georgia coastal island protection this year.
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Washington
Wassaw Island
Savannah River
Georgia Coast
Nacture Conservancy
Georgia
National Conservation Organization
Parsons Family Trust
Parsons
Margaret S. Parmly
New York
Thomas W. Richards
The
Nature Conservancy
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Conservancy
Richards
America
Charles P. Yarn Jr
Atlanta
Board of Governors
Wassaw
George Parsons
New England
Georgia Natural Areas Council
Panola Mountain
Conyers
Ganization
Washington, D.C
Evanston
Ill
San Francisco
National Park Service
UVM moves to end Kake Walk tradition
University of Vermont Student Association endorses Executive Committee plan to abolish the 95 year old Kake Walk winter weekend. A 51-34 vote backed the recommendation amid a campus poll showing one third of 6,700 students split on revising activities. Critics call Kake Walk a racist relic tied to slave entertainment. changes include removing the phrase Kake Walk the song Cotton Babes the walking contest and cake prizes. Interfraternity Council favors keeping the walking but drop costuming.
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Burlington
UPD
University of Vermont Student Association
Interfraternity Council
Sweden Drives Baltic AntiPollution Push Amid East West Tensions
Sweden presses a broad Baltic anti pollution push with Finland and other nations. A Visby meeting on coastal oil spill measures yielded no concrete agreement, as East bloc demands ministerial talks clash with Western calls for administrative cooperation.
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New York Times
Stockholm
Sweden
Baltic Sea
National Board of Shipping and Navigation
Finland
Soviet Union
Poland
East
West Germany
Denmark
Visby
Gotland
Baltic
East Germany
Lennart Hennerz
Nature Conservancy Board
Hennerz
Baltic Oceanographers
United Nations General Assembly
Nature Conservancy
New England Groups Back Abortion Law Reforms
Connecticut clerics establish a counseling service for women seeking abortion information in New Haven. In Vermont, the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women votes 7 to 2 to back legal abortions as a philosophical position and reviews a bill to allow therapeutic abortions in cases of danger to the mother, rape or incest, or severe fetal defect.
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New Haven
Connecticut
Vermont
Commission On the Status of Women
Vermont House
National Officials To Speak At Farm Bureau Meeting
Vermont Farm Bureau hosts its annual meeting at the Barre Auditorium with national officials slated to speak at the noon luncheon on November 5. Roger Fleming of the American Farm Bureau will preview congressional actions and bureau growth, joined by Florence Thomas who will address the afternoon session.
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Montpelier
Roger Fleming
American Farm Bureau
Washington
Vermont Farm Bureau
Barre Auditorium
Fleming
Vermont
Iowa
Extension Service
AFBF
Congress
Florence Thomas
Thomas
Illinois
National Organization
UH Board Approves 278 Free Tuition Scholars
The UH regents list 278 students as well qualified or needing aid for free tuition. Among them is Shirley Au, divorced from Honolulu oilman Wendell Phillips, who paid $660 monthly alimony and up to $1,100 yearly for college costs if she remained single.
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Hilo, Hawaii
UPI
University of Hawaii Board of Regents
Shirley Au
Honolulu
Wendell Phillips
Phillips
Miss Au
Oct sales tax receipts set Vermont record total
Montpelier UPI reports Vermont collects 1.48 million in October with two days left, up 55 thousand from September. Since June 1, 5.2 million in 3 per cent retail tax has been received, about 55 percent of the anticipated 9.5 million. Officials caution higher yields in tourist months despite October being slow for out of state visitors.
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Montpelier
UPI
Norris Hoyt
Hoyt
Medical Auxiliary Elects New Officers in Manchester Meeting
The Woman's Auxiliary to the Bennington County Medical Society held its fall meeting at Colburn House in Manchester with Mrs. Dudley M. Baker presiding. New officers include Mrs. Roderick Humphreys as vice president and Mrs. James O'Neil as treasurer. Vermont earned AMA-ERF recognition for per capita contributions. AMA matches each auxiliary dollar with ten. A joint meeting of the medical society and auxiliary is planned for January.
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Bennington County Medical Society
Colburn House
Manchester
Dudley M. Baker
Roderick J. Humphreys
James P. O'Neil
Malcolm W. Finlayson
Richard N. Fabricius
Ama-Erf
Fabricius
Vermont
Power Firm's Earnings Rise at Green Mountain Power
Burlington UPI Green Mountain Power Corp reports earnings of 1.08 dollars per share for the first nine months ending September 30 1969, up from 0.98 a share a year earlier, signaling improved profitability.
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Burlington
UPI
Green Mountain Power Corp
Old City Hall Boston Gets Facelift and Reuse Plan
The Old City Hall in Boston, completed in 1865, is to be renovated at a $3 million cost. The project, led by the Old City Hall Landmark Corp, will create 50 000 square feet of office space on five floors and 20 000 square feet of retail and restaurant space on the two ground floors. Exterior preservation includes the mansard roof. The plan adds a pedestrian mall and display areas detailing the building's history alongside nearby landmarks. The Benjamin Franklin statue will be relocated to the site.
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UPI
Old City Hall
Benjamin Franklin
Arthur Gilman
Europe
France
Gilman
J.F. Bryant
Louvre
Paris
America
Bryant
John Francis Fitzgerald
James Michael Curley
City Hall
Government Center
Boston Redevelopment Authority Board
BRA
Msgr. Francis J. Laily
Boston Magazine
Old City Hall Landmark Corp
Architectural Heritage, Inc
School Street
King’s Chapel
Burying Ground
Boston Latin School
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