Vets Home Hosts Area Lions Clubs Dinner
Brig Gen Edward H Giles commandant of the Veterans Home hosted a buffet dinner last Tuesday for 90 Lions members from Bennington North Bennington and Pownal. Lion zone chairman Paul Johnson presided at the head table with King Lions John Morrison and Joseph Morse, and District leaders including Thomas Bluto and Bernard Bellemare. Lions toured the new nursing care and domiciliary facilities, praised the additions, and presented Gen Giles with a donation to support holiday membership.
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Edward H. Giles
Veterans’ Home
Lions
Bennington
North Bennington
Pownal
Paul Johnson
Lion Zone
King Lion
John Morrison
Joseph Morse
Lawrence Powers
King Lio
Norshaft
Bernard Bellemare
Thomas Bluto
Theodore Thomas
Ed Lauzon
Cy Bluto
Erwin Dunham
Tri-Lion Club
Donna Wright
Gen. Giles
Board of Trustees
Group Pushes Land Use Tax Goals In Vermont
The Fair Tax and Equal Education Coalition proposed reforms to tax land by use rather than fair market value, expand land tax rebates, and adopt a change of use tax. They argue current taxes burden farmers and timber land, seek offset via higher state aid for education, and note rural towns pay more tax yet receive less aid.
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Belcher
Vermont
Alaska
Contention Over GOP Chief Emerges At Conference
Vermont Governor Richard Snelling and New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson clash over the next GOP chairman. Thomson backs Navy Secretary J William Middendorf Jr while Snelling favors a state party chair with strong organization. Both warn against a conservative liberal rift and call for unity as the Republican Governors Conference continues.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
Richard Snelling
New Hampshire
Meldrim Thomson
New England
Tomson
J. William Middendorf Jr
Navy
National Pary
Snelling
Mary Louise Smith
Iowa
Thomson
Middendorf
GOP
Bennington College screens lung and heart films
The science division will show two public service health films on Monday December 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 148 Dickinson Science Building. Smoking Emphysema A Fight for Breath illustrates lung function while The Heart Attack explains heart structure and common abuses, using animation and live footage.
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Bennington College
Dickinson Science Building
Wilderness trip to Hudson Bay described to Rotary Club
At the Bennington Rotary Club meeting John Jock Irons III of Middlebury College detailed a six week wilderness expedition to Hudson Bay. With Timothy Viereck and Bart Howe, they bought a car for 200 dollars, started June 14 for Lake Wollaston, faced car troubles, then paddled July 20 using three kayaks. They saw rapids, 14 foot tides, Cree and Eskimo Point camps, and ended after 680 miles with a sale of kayaks to locals.
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Bennington Rotary Club
John
Jock
Irons III
Middlebury College
John Irons
Timothy Viereck
Bart Howe
Lake Wollaston
Upper Saskatchewan
Canada
Rapids
Manitoba
Lake Knowlton
Eskimo Point
Hudson Bay
Churchill
Montreal
Who Finances Home Loans In The U S Today
The article outlines major sources of residential mortgages led by savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks, and commercial banks. Life insurance companies still participate though less than in the 1950s, with Federal and State agencies, pension funds, REITs, and individuals also lending. Savings and loan associations hold about half of all mortgage debt as of 1974, making them the dominant source.
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Savings and Loan Associations
Mrs Hoisington Leads Sw Vermont Realtors and Institutes
Mrs Hoisington, Principal Broker of Hoisington Realty, serves as President of the Southwestern Vermont Board of Realtors and Assistant Dean of the Tri-State Real Estate Institute. She holds real estate licenses in Vermont and New York through Hoisington Realty.
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Hoisington
Hoisington Realty
Southwestern Vermont Board of Realtors
Tri-State Real Estate Institute, Inc
Vermont
New York States
New Hampshire deer season tops eight-year total
Virtually complete figures show New Hampshire's deer season was the best in eight years with 9,065 deer killed, up 8.5 percent from 8,334 last year. Grafton led counties with 2,047 fatalities, while bear kills dropped to 203 from 318. seasons ran Sept 1 to Nov 24 for bears and Nov 1 to Nov 24 for deer.
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Concord
N.H
Lee Salber
State Fish and Game Department
Salber
Grafton County
Coos
Carroll
Merrimack
Grafton
Public hearing on federal vocational education rules
U S Health Education and Welfare officials scheduled a hearing in Montpelier to gather Vermonters views on proposed regulations implementing a new federal vocational education law. The aim is to involve the public in identifying problems before federal regulatory decisions are made, HEW spokesmen said.
Funeral notices for Lorenzo and Lahy from Manchester
The funeral of Gary C. Lorenzo of Manchester who died in a Nov 22 automobile crash was held Nov 25 at St Pauls Church with burial in Dellwood Cemetery. Wake service occurred Nov 21 at Brewster Funeral Home. A memorial service for Gui P Lahy, killed in a Nov 22 crash, was held Nov 24 at Brewster Home with graveside committal Nov 27 at Dellwood Cemetery.
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Gary C. Lorenzo
Manchester
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church
Martin F. Clancy
Brewster Funeral Home
Fr. Clancy
Gui P. Lahy
Robert L. Clayton
Zion Episcopal Church
Dellwood Cemetery
Clayton
WCAX bans Maude episode over wire swapping
WCAX TV in Burlington refused to air CBSs Maude Monday night citing the shows wire swapping topic as offensive to a significant portion of the audience. The blackout prompted irate viewer calls and followed past disputes over a cancer documentary the station deemed misleading.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
New York
New Hampshire
Quebec
CBS
Peter Martin
WCAX
Lost pets urged to contact shelter at Arlington border
The Bennington County Humane Society reminds families with missing pets to contact the shelter on Route 7 at the Arlington Shaftsbury border. Officials say several well kept dogs and cats are at the shelter and urge owners to check there. unwanted strays should be brought in so owners can reclaim them or they can be adopted if unclaimed. Space is limited and unclaimed animals cannot be kept indefinitely.
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Bennington
Science Club
Mt. Anthony Union High School
American Museum of Natural History
New York City
Science Department
Mauhs
Miss Paulsen
Vermont Deputy Offers to Cut His Own Job
Deputy Vermont Agriculture Commissioner Ronald Allbee proposed eliminating his own job if a 10 percent state spending cut becomes necessary. He spoke after submitting the contingency budget requested by Gov elect Richard Snelling, which calls for a ten percent reduction and would affect about $110,000 in Agriculture Department spending. Snelling has said a 10 percent cut is unlikely next year.
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Snelling
Vermont Environmental Board rejects Snelling budget cut
The Vermont Environmental Board refused Gov elect Richard Snelling's demand for a 10 percent budget cut for next year. Dissent from Vermont State College trustees warned cuts could harm higher education. The board said the $24,000 reduction would be absorbed by the Environmental Protection Agency instead of closing two regional centers.
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State
Environmental Protection Agency
Feds reject Vermont bid for health planning agency
Federal officials rejected Vermont’s bid to establish a state health planning agency and extend the deadline for private groups to seek planning authority. The chosen Health Systems Agency would decide the use of federal funds, while Gov. Salmon’s push for a state-led plan has been rebuffed.
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Health, Education and Welfare Department
Vermont college faculty pact nears ratification after long talks
After more than 10 months of negotiations, the Vermont State Colleges system and teachers reached a tentative contract last week. Details remain secret as both sides aim to have the pact ratified by the VSC board and the faculty by December 18. The agreement covers salaries and working conditions across the five state colleges.
Grasso calls Northeast to end subsidizing rest of nation
Gov. Ella Grasso told a Farmington meeting that the Northeast cannot keep subsidizing other regions. She urged redefining federal aid and a larger regional return, citing 22 percent of the population paying 25 percent of taxes while receiving 86 cents per dollar.
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Farmington, Conn
UPI
Ella T. Grasso
Washington
Northeast
South
West
Connecticut
Matthiessen to speak at Bennington College on December 2
Naturalist Peter Matthiessen will give a talk titled To Crystal Mountain at 8 15 p m in Tishman Auditorium Bennington College. He has written on Arctic North South America Africa and New Guinea and is finishing a Nepal Tibet experience. He led and edited works including Race and Rock At Play in the Fields of the Lord Under the Forest Wall The Cloud Forest Far Tortuga The Tree Where Man Was Born The Partisans Wildlife. Also notes signing deadlines for Eagle Christmas party December 9 and other community events.
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Peter Matthiessen
Crystal Mountain
Tishman Auditorium
Bennington College
Matthiessen
Arctic
South America
Africa
New Guinea
Nepal
Tibet
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National Institute of Arts and Letters
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