Dartmouth Symposium Tackles Space Flight and Bio Warfare
National Academy of Sciences plans a four day Dartmouth meeting Oct 12 15 featuring space exploration topics including manned vs unmanned flight and Frank Bormans Apollo 8 mission. A chemical and biological warfare panel led by Matthew Meselson will discuss policies with other experts.
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Hanover
N.H
America
National Academy of Sciences
Dartmouth College
Frank Borman
Spaulding
Dartmouth
Hopkins Center
Science Division
George III
England
U.S
Thomas J. McIntyre
D-N.h
Pentagon
Accademy
William D. McElroy
Richard Nixon
National Science Foundation
Academy
Alumni Hall
Millett G. Morgan
Thayer School of Engineering
Spaulding Auditorium
Matthew S. Meselson
Harvard
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
National Academy of Science
Eli Lilly
Meselson
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Ivan L. Benedett Jr
New York University Medical Center
New York University
The
U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency
Han Swyter
U.S. Department of Defense
Walter H. Stockmayer
Albert W. Smith
National Academy
Allen King
Jaffe Friede
Philip Handler
James B. Duke
Duke University
National Science Board
Detlev W. Bronk
Rockefeller University
James B. Conant
Harvard University
West Germany
Land shortage blocks factory built homes growth
Norman Kempster reports on the push for assembly line modular housing to curb high home costs, with National Homes Corp stating land scarcity as the main bottleneck and calls for HUD to convert urban renewal land for low cost lots. Price warns against zoning and FHA clauses that hinder public housing. Chicago already builds 200 modular homes at 14500 dollars per unit including lot. Carpenters union supports the innovation and says contracts exist with several manufacturers.
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Washington
UPI
James R. Price
National Homes Corp
Price
Chicago
Peter E. Terzick
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
United Brotherhood
More Pressmen Trained for Conversion to Offset
Brattleboro hosts the final portion of a 15 week offset pressman training course. The program, funded by the Manpower Development and Training Act, aims to retrain 24 letterpress workers into offset roles as printing shops switch processes. Overall the project will train 48 people at a cost of 10965 dollars, with instructional costs totaling 8085 and trainee allowances 2880.
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Brattleboro
Stella B. Hackel
Vermont Christmas Seal Agency Seeks Staffers and Volunteers
Vermont Christmas Seal Agency calls for volunteers to support the Vermont Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association. Led by Mrs. Henry W. Caswell Jr., the drive requires hundreds of hours for envelope stuffing and outreach to 120000 Vermont families. Volunteers may call 863-6817 to join the stuffing bee October 21 to 24 at First Congregational Church.
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Vermont Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association
Henry W. Caswell Jr
South Burlington
Vermont
Burlington
TB &Rd Association
First Congregational Church
Winooski Avenue
Vergennes
Addison Northwest
Association
College St
Caswell
Amery’s garden shed incinerates wasp nest and greenhouse
Wilf Amery attempted to burn wasps in his garden shed with flaming rags on Friday. The fire spread destroying the shed and engulfed a neighbor’s greenhouse, causing about $720 in damage.
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London
UPI
Wilf Amery
Jobless Rate Holds Steady in Vermont Week
Vermont’s insured unemployment rate remained at 1.2 percent for a third week as 1,449 unemployment insurance claims were filed. Initial claims rose to 237, with apparel, lumber, service and trade workers making up 46 percent of claims. increases occurred in Barre Montpelier and several cities while declines appeared in Middlebury, Rutland, and White River Junction. Civil service electric output for Central Vermont Public Service rose 14.23 percent year over year to 23,921,600 kWh for the week ending Sept. 26, with year-to-date output up 10.17 percent to 948,679,892 kWh.
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Burlington
Newport
St. Albans
St. Johnsbury
Middlebury
Rutland
White River Junction
Springfield
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
St. Lawrence
Union Carbide Chief Binny Mason Jr to be Honored
Union Carbide Corp. chairman Binny Mason Jr. will receive the NCCJ Brotherhood Award at a Oct. 6 dinner in New York. Mason will be cited for leadership in human relations and anti bigotry efforts. He has led Union Carbide since 1966 and sits on several corporate boards.
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New York
Binny Mason Jr
Union Carbide Corp
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Mason
Nccj Brotherhood
Andrew W. Tarkington
Continental Oil Co
Joseph H. Blatchford
Peace Corps
Brownville
The
Hill School
Union Carbide
Corporation
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Presbyterian Hospital
New York City
National Industrial Conference Board
Economic Club of
Business Council
Washington, D.c
Larchmont
N.Y
Elizabeth Brownson Smith
Masons
Jerome Acheson Mason
Grandmother Makes Fourth Afghan To Help Children
Mrs. Pearl Forkas of Waterbury donates an afghan each year to the Caverly Child Health Center in Pittsford. Proceeds from raffles fund the center’s building drive. Since 1966, three afghans have raised $765 toward a planned $1,000 goal. The center, Vermont’s only 24 hour nursing care facility for handicapped children, seeks a new building and expanded services.
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Pittsford
Pearl Forkas
Waterbury
Caverly
Rutland
Vermont
Caverly Child Health Center
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Vermont Christmas Seal Agency
Emelia Hayes
Pratt ST
Monument Plaza
Bennington, VT
Caverly Center
Forkas
Fou
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Pacher
Vmirro
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