Amish Wagon Journey Halted At Bear Mountain Bridge
Eli Garber an Amish farmer from Maine aiming for Pennsylvania to escape modern life faced a delay when a New York law barred livestock on Bear Mountain Bridge forcing his horse drawn wagon to stop. Authorities may grant a special escort to cross after radio prompts.
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Bear Mountain Bridge
Peekskill
N.Y
UPI
Eli Garber
Maine
Pennsylvania
New York State
Bear Mountain
Hudson River
Here
Sbhors
Garber
New England
Garbers
Civil Service to cut back but no mass layoffs
UPI reports that Civil Service Commission vice chairman Mrs. Jayne Baker Spain expects reductions in federal jobs but no mass cutbacks in New England or the region. She said many cuts will be handled by attrition as war winding down reduces need and overhead costs should be trimmed.
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Boston
UPI
U.S. Civil Service Commission
New England
Jayne Baker Spain
Federal Executive Board
Spain
Wreckage in Britain Believed to Be Kennedy Plane
News recounts the 1944 mission of U S Navy Lt Joseph P Kennedy Jr whose Liberator bomber exploded over England during a remote controlled suicide run. The craft coded Zoot Zoot Black carried 10 tons of explosives and vanished in flames, leaving police and locals to search for wreckage amid wartime secrecy.
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Great Britain
Joe Kennedy
London
UPS
U.S. Navy
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr
Kennedy
LE Rob Willy
France
John F. Kennedy
Saxmundham
Evans
AT&T offers stock exchange for NET shareholders
AT&T proposes to swap four AT&T shares for five NET shares to raise its NET ownership above 60 percent from 71.4. The offer, in a letter from AT&T chairman John D Debuts, could convert up to 5.0 million NET shares with a final date of January 22, 1973 for acceptance. If insufficient shares arrive, the offer will be withdrawn and deposits returned.
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At&t
Stock Exchange
New York
UPI
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
New England
Telephone and Telegraph
NET
John D. Debutts
Alburg Creamery Named in Insanitary Food Plant List
GAO report on insanitary conditions in food plants lists 33 firms including Coca Cola Pepsi Cola bottlers Lipton American Bakeries Tevitt Company Lilly Ice Cream and Alburg Creamery Inc of Alburg Vermont cited as serious cases. Aspin says 23 firms are under serious insanitary conditions with contamination risk, including Levitt Corp of Everett Massachusetts and Windsor Pepsi Cola in Windsor Connecticut.
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Alburg Creamery
Washington
UPI
General Accounting Office
GAO
Les Aspin
D-Wis
Coca Cola
Pepsi Cola
Thomas J. Lipton, Inc
American Bakeries
the Tevitt Carp
Lilly Ice Cream
The
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Aspin
Alburg Creamery, Inc
Alburg
Levitt Corp
Everett
Mass
Bow - Knot Pastries, Inc
Woodmont, Conn
Royal River Packing Co
Yarmouth
Maine
End to Education Board Proposed in Vermont
Vermont lawmakers consider abolishing the seven member Education Board with powers shifted to a governor’s education commissioner. Other measures include reclassifying two lakes for recreation and removing a drinking water label for Willoughby and Caspian Jakes. The plans were announced in Montpelier.
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Caspian Jakes
New York considers ending sheriff maintenance grant
THOY Rensselaer County Attorney Marvin I Honig proposes repealing the 4500 annual maintenance allowance for the sheriff noting the 1973 budget will raise the sheriff salary. In New York City Mayor Lindsay pushes 24 hour legal bar service by ending current closing times claiming after hours clubs will not thrive.
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Rensselaer
Marvin I. Honig
William A.R. Harkness
Honig
New York
New York State
John V. Lindsay
New York City
Lindsay
Berkshire Controversy as Pittsfield Winter Carnival Bars Men
Pittsfield officials voted to bar men from the 1972 Winter Carnival Queen contest while leaving a path for future change. Andrew J. Josephs, a 17-year-old, would not press his bid but seeks to join a study panel proposing an “outstanding youth” queen, male or female.
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Pittsfield
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Bennington, V1
Epes Adiga Lender
Joseph Bernabeo
Wakefield
Italy
Crime Busters
Rome
Interior Ministry
Finast
North Bennington
Reed
Bennington, Vermont
Spice N Nice
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Natural Organic Foods Center
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Bennington, Vi
Vermont
Davin
ABA
Winooski
American Bear Association
St. Michael's College
Robert Meserve
Meserve
James L. Oakes
U.S. Crcuit Court
Montpelier
Vermont Public Service Board
Green Mountain Power Corp
State Regulatory Agency
Allen Martin
St. Johnsbury
Green Mountain
UPL
Employment Security Department
St. Albans
White River Junction
Qover
Down In
Berkshire
New City Hall
North Adams
Joseph H. Bianco
Hunter Machine Co
Main Street
Hadley
Brodie
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Brodie Mountain
Meuntain
Francia J. Lussier
Owens Ave
Lussier
U.S. Postal Service
State Street
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