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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1974
Page
3
Vermont extends its anti billboard law to cover all areas after adding Highway Districts 7 and 9. The law prohibits private signs while state owned informational signs are planned. A court appeal pursues compensation disputes raised by billboard owners. The Bennington area shops post holiday hours and list assorted items for sale.
In Vermont a poll shows incumbent Democrat Thomas Salmon leading Republican Walter Kennedy for governor. Kennedy, a car dealer nicknamed Peanut, trails as voters cite Watergate and economy fatigue. Jeffords leads in Congress, Mallory tops the Senate race, and Liberty Union threatens to win 5 percent and gain major party status.
Garnet Harvey, executive director of the Vermont State Employees Association, told reporters Tuesday that $10 million cannot be trimmed from the state budget without ending programs residents rely on. He said VSEA is cooperating with Gov. Thomas Salmon to reduce about 500 state positions while preserving essential services.
The Supreme Court directed Vermont and International Paper Co to pay $50,000 to retired Massachusetts Justice R. Ammi Cutter for services in the Lake Champlain pollution dispute. Cutter was appointed to make recommendations in a Vermont versus New York lawsuit and the courts favor an out of court agreement. Government posts may be cut, with potential 500 postings eliminated by January 1976, cutting about $3.75 million in state spending. Republican candidate Walter Kennedy calls for $10 million in budget cuts.
A notice updates tax payment deadlines with the first installment due by November 25 and the final town tax due in March. It notes all three payments may be made at once and mentions the district 6 Practical Nurses Association dinner in Manchester with officers elected. Also lists a free pap smear clinic in Barre on November 1, a DAV meeting in Bennington, a Brockway toy exhibit viewing, and Shaftsbury voters urged to support Pearl Hoyt for town representative. Transport numbers provided.
The U S Supreme Court accepts a second out of court settlement between Vermont, IPC, and New York on Lake Champlain pollution. IPC will pay 500000 to Vermont and 50,000 to retired Justice R Ammi Cutter, with pollution limits at the Ticonderoga NY plant. The sludge bed remains and the court ends its monitoring role. Vermont Attorney General Kimberly Cheney calls it historic. opponent M Jerome Diamond criticizes cost and effort.
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