Real Vermont turkeys now limited to four growers
Vermont turkey growers number only four as federal rules keep the birds out of interstate commerce. The Shawny Shores operation in Panton, Addison County, raises about 4,500 birds annually, with total Vermont production estimated between 9,000 and 10,000 birds.
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Vermont
George D. Aiken
Shawny Shores
Panton
Addison County
Alfred E. Janowicz
Vermont Livestock Division
State Department of Agriculture
Carter seeks Congress power to reorganize federal government
President elect Jimmy Carter asked Congress to grant authority to reorganize the executive branch, a process he said would take two to three years. Key Democrats reacted cautiously but publicly voiced cooperation. Carter met with leaders at Sen. Herman E. Talmadge’s home near Lovejoy, Georgia, and reiterated the Hoover-era reorganization authority as a model.
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Herman E. Talmadge
Lovejoy
Carter
Georgia
Hoover
Congress
House
Thomas “Tip’’ O’neill
Massachusetts
O’neill
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
GNP growth rate revised down to 3.8 percent
The Commerce Department cut real GNP growth for July through September to 3.8 percent, down from 4.5 percent in Q2 and below the 4 percent preliminary figure used before the election. Officials say weaker consumer spending by about 400 million contributed to the revision, signaling slower production and consumption and higher unemployment.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
Con Ed selects two Hudson sites for new power plant
Con Ed announced two Hudson Valley sites Lloyd Ulster County and upper Red Hook Dutchess County as possible locations for a massive new generating station to serve New York City in the 1990s. Environmental groups oppose the plan amid safety, ecological, and visual concerns while other pending Hudson Valley proposals add to the controversy over nuclear coal and pumped storage plants.
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Harold Faber
N.Y
Times
Poughkeepsie
Consolidated Edison
mid-Hudson Valley
Lloyd
Ulster County
Hudson River
New Paltz
Upper Red Hook
Dutchess County
Columbia County
Hudson Valley
New York City
Albany
Great Lakes
Susquehanna Valley
State Public Service Commission
Cementon
Greene County
Stuyvesant
New York State Electric and Gas Corporation
Cornwall
Orange County
Indian Point
Westchester County
Hudson
Mrs Snelling resigns Vermont Education Board
Barbara Snelling wife of Gov elect Richard Snelling resigns from the Vermont Education Board effective January 6 the day his term begins. Her six year term ends in March she will keep her University of Vermont development post drawing faculty criticism from Sidney Pager and Michael Stanton.
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University
Lattie Coor
Sidney Pager
Michael Stanton
Snelling
Zoning snags block plan for 50 more Colonial Garden apartments
The Bennington Planning Commission heard preliminary plans by Norman Greenberg to expand the Colonial Garden Apartment complex from 24 to 75 units. The eight acre MR 10 site would need rezoning to MR 4 and would require multiple buildings inside a 6 unit per building limit, raising questions about precedent for similar parcels.
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Bennington
Greenberg
Colonial Gardens
Planning Commission
Inside In the World China explodes powerful bomb
Summary of a newspaper page notes international report on China detonating its most powerful nuclear device, alongside local briefs on UCS fund drive Halloween window winners, and editorials about Kit Foster and MAU Board minutes.
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China
UCS Fund
Kit Foster
Questio
MAU
Snelling
UVM
First Snelling casualty in Vermont budget shakeup
Veteran Budget and Management Commissioner Ronald Crisman is not being reappointed as part of Richard Snelling’s administration change. The move aims to strip policy making from the office and assign budget and spending priorities to secretaries and commissioners. Crisman, 49, will leave the $25,700 yearly post with no immediate successor named.
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Rod Clarke Montpelier
UPI
Ronald Crisman
Richard Snelling
Crisman
Snelling
Charles Butler
Budget and Management Office
Butler
Crisman Seeks New State Administration Post
Crisman, once a grocery operator, announced for a state administration job amid praise from Snelling for his service and technical competence. His budgeting style drew criticism from department heads. A proposed merger of all state laboratories sparked outraged opposition, with officials claiming crippling effects.
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Butler
Snelling
Crisman
State Department
Levi questions earlier DOJ wiretap approvals
Attorney General Edward H. Levi said former Justice Department leaders may have rushed approving warrantless FBI national security wiretaps. He began reviewing practices after taking office February 2, 1975, recounting an FBI agent presenting a warrantless wiretap for his signature.
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Los Angeles
API
Edward H. Levi
Justice Department
FBI
Levi
Los Angeles County Bar Association
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Peterson Turkey Farm
Cambridge
Vergennes
Con Ed
Hudson River Valley Power Plants
Connecticut River Valley
Mary Monroe Hawkins Library Group
Arlington Iba
Manchester
HFCS
Ringo Starr
Johnny Bench
U.S
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