Vermont AG Takes Interest in Haystack Collapse
Vermont Attorney General Kimberly Cheney has taken an active role amid a $5 million foreclosure against Haystack Corp in Wilmington. A scheduled Oct 23 Brattleboro meeting aims to scope a solution, with the state a party due to a tax lien but not replacing private counsel. Haystack plans to operate this winter despite $3.8 million development loan, $1.2 million ski area loan, and other liens totaling over $900,000 alongside taxes due to Wilmington and Dover.
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Windham County Superior Court
Haystack
Associated Mortgage
Brattleboro
Cheney
Tl Am
Windham County
Wilmington
Dover
Happy Rockefeller Recovering After Mastectomy
Margaret Home Rockefeller wife of Vice President designate Nelson Rockefeller is reported in excellent condition after surgery to remove her left breast cancer. Sloan Kettering bulletin says she passed a very comfortable night and may return home by next Friday. Doctors gave an optimistic view, with a pathology briefing set and rehabilitation begun, aiding recovery and mobility.
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New York
UPI
Margaretta
Rockefeller
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Memorial Sloan- Kettering Institute
Jerome A. Urban
Edward J. Beattie Jr
Urban
Mrs. Rockefeller
Happy
Inflation Up While GNP Falls in Third Quarter 1974
Washington reports inflation at 11.5 percent while real GNP declined 2.9 percent in the third quarter of 1974. Commerce says slump is uneven, driven by autos early, oil prices later, with housing and exports contributing to the decline despite a total GDP rise when inflation is included.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
Department
Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Commerce
Frederick B. Dent
Mills Apologizes to Little Rock Jaycees in Campaign Opener
In Little Rock Arkansas Rep Wilbur Mills sought support after a drinking incident in Washington Oct 7. He apologized to the Jaycees for embarrassment and defended his wife Polly while denying any affair with Anabell Battistella aka Fanne Fox. Mills admitted drinking champagne and said he learned not to drink it.
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Jaycees
Wilbur
Mills
U.S. Park Police
Washington
Arkansas
Judy Petty
Mrs. Battistella
Gene Goss
Anabell Battistella
Fanne Fox
Jefferson Memorial
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur Mills
Little Rock
U.S. Park
Washington, D.C
Dean Nixon clemency talks surface in Watergate trial
John W. Dean III testified that Charles Colson discussed clemency for Watergate defendants with President Nixon in January 1973. Dean described late 1972 to early 1973 cover up efforts and noted forthcoming tapes from March 1973. He recalled Colson urging seriousness as Hunt’s plea bargain considerations emerged.
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Washington
UPI
John W. Dean III
Charles W. Colson
Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Dean
White House
Hunt
Colson
John
Lee Watergate
Nixon health improves as he sues Ford on tapes
Nixon lawyers say the former president’s health has improved and he may provide sworn testimony next month for the Watergate cover up trial. They filed suit to block release of tapes and documents not subpoenaed and to allow review of all subpoenaed materials. A hearing on a temporary injunction was set for Monday.
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Washington
UPI
Richard Nixon
Ford Administration
Nixon
U.S
Charles R. Richey
John J. Sirica
Inside Guess Why Sugar Vanishes From Tables
A multi page feature examines sugar usage in restaurants, noting vanished sugar on tables and questioning the trend while exploring potential causes and implications for diners and industry practices.
Pact to ease emigration of Russian Jews signed
UPI reports a U S Soviet agreement to ease Jewish emigration from Russia. Senator Henry Jackson says the two years of talks with Nixon Ford administrations and Soviet leaders produced a historic understanding on human rights and paves way for Congress to grant nondiscriminatory trade treatment.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Henry Jackson
Jackson
Nixon
Ford
Congress
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
Bennington region eyed for boosted federal funds district
The Bennington County Regional Commission explored forming an economic development district with southern Vermont counties. If approved, federally funded public works in the district could receive 10 percent extra EDA money, aiding projects like Manchester sewer upgrades and Bennington water systems. EDA aims to create jobs by funding long term projects. Bartram noted current Vermont efforts include two half million dollar projects in Newport and Ludlow.
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Arlington
Bennington
Federal Economic Development Administration
EDA
Bennington County
Manchester Town
BCRC
John Simson
Philip Bartram
New England
Bartram
U.S. Department of Commerce
Public Works Agency
Vermont
Newport
Ludlow
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Happy’s Operation
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House Subcommittee On Criminal Justice
Judiciary Committee
William S. Cohen
Maine
Subcommittee
Donahue
Rodine
Holtzman
Mann
Edwards
Kastenmeier
Hungate
Smith
Dennis
Mayne
Hogan
Little Rock, Ark
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Chamber of Commerce
Mills Comes
E. Howard Hunt Jr
James W. McCord Jr
Sirica
Wadsworths
Pete Horton
Fortney
Ms. Hackel
Davis
North Bennington School Board
Eagles
Patriots
Feds
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