Energy alternative Let the sun shine in
Colman McCarthy reflects on solar energy as a growing political and practical option. He cites Wilson Clark and the Solar Heating and Cooling Act of 1973, notes high initial costs offset by long term savings, and argues fossil fuel limits require urgent shift to sun powered systems in farming, industry, and homes.
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Clark
Congress
Energy For Survival
Doubleday
Environmental Policy Center
America
Florida
University of Florida
George P. Miller
Calif
House Committee On Science and Astronautics
Bennington Absentee Voting Racket Hints Mark Primary Campaign
Amid early signs of a pending primary a Bennington County focus emerges on absentee ballots with inquiries traced to former campaign activity. A town trustees and selectmen meeting earmarked 21 000 for a Morgan Street sanitary sewer project while water restrictions were lifted but advise careful use.
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United States
Bennington
Bennington County
Morgan Street
Winds of change in power hearse in our landscape
Letter to The Banner notes Smithsonian Magazine predicts windmills will become common like in Holland. Henry Clews in Maine has Solar Wind Co selling wind machines, Windworks in Wisconsin develops an inexpensive plant, and a Shaftsbury resident eyeing Maple Hill installation after high fall heating costs. The writer describes two power sources: fuels from within the earth and naturally energetic sources.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C
Holland
Henry Clews
Maine
Solar Wind Co
Windworks
Wisconsin
Maple Hill
Shaftsbury
Wind, Water, Sun Power Debate in Bennington Letter
An Irving Fineman letter to The Banner argues kinetic energy sources wind water and sun offer clean inexhaustible power. He notes class 2 energy is locally usable with limited transport, while class 1 fossil fuels are exhaustible and export-linked. He endorses prioritizing wind water and sun plants where available and cites aviation noise complaints in a 1916 context.
Letter urging end to X rated movie ads in local paper
In a Bennington letter, Mrs. Robert L. Orleck demands the paper stop advertising X rated films like The Cheerleaders. She cites studies linking pornography to sex crimes and urges support for the Harte Theater, arguing the paper bears public responsibility as the town’s only newspaper.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Reader’s Digest
Bennington
Harte Theater
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