Pinsly sells St Johnsbury and Lamoille to Vermont Authority
Samuel Pinsly sells the St Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad to the Vermont Transportation Authority for 1.25 million, with 125000 cash and rest due within 90 days. Authority plans to revise enabling legislation next year to prevent abandonment of the 99 mile line. Bruno Laoti leads a local buyer group to operate the line with 100000 plus working capital, while financing deficits are underwritten by the legislature.
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Vermont
Lamoille County
Bruno Laoti
Morrisville Lumber Co
Laoti
Gilbert’s Fate: Stay or Go Amid Rising Bills
The article weighs Gilbert’s prospects as winter nears higher electric bills. He appears content to weather the storm but faces doubt about completing a full two-year term. Proximity to the opposition party could pose another issue as campaigning approaches next year.
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Gilbert
Harte Theatre Week Delivers Poor Lady Ice Slump
Harte Theatre screens Lady Ice in a disappointing run with Jennifer O’Neill delivering a weak performance and Donald Sutherland failing to lift an overcomplicated plot. Dialogue often inaudible due to sound issues, but the venue’s system offers the only bright note.
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HARTE
Harte Theatre
Jennifer O’neill
Donald Sutherland
O’neill
Lady Ice
Jennifer
Cost of Living Council cuts auto price hikes for Big Four
The Cost of Living Council ordered partial rollbacks on proposed 1974 car and truck price increases by Ford GM Chrysler and American Motors. Reductions ranged 10 to 30 percent to offset higher safety equipment costs while protecting consumers.
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Washington
UPI
Cost of Living Council
American Motors
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
CLC
John T. Dunlop
Dunlop
AGM
Council
AMC
Atlantic Richfield Co
ARCO
Exxon
Internal Revenue Service
Ashland Oil Co
Nixon
Skylab photographs solar flare lights world power
Skylab 2 space researchers Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lousma photographed a giant solar eruption powerful enough to light every person on earth for 500000 years. Scientists called it the second mammoth blast in two days and a billion times stronger than the 196 San Francisco quake. Flight controllers halted the first earth resources survey of the day across the south.
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Skylab
Houston
UPI
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack R. Lousma
San Francisco
First Earth Resources Survey
Europe
Earth
Joe Hirman
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA
Canary Islands
Jim Milligan
Marshall Spaceflight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Solar Observatory
Milligan
Tables turned on man who charged brutality
In Rutland a private detective, James F. Toal, faces a $3 million suit from two state troopers, Cpl. John Edwards and Trooper Robert Haradon, who deny his brutality claims. Sheriff J. Fred Carbine served papers as the Rutland County Court case looms, with Toal previously tied to an ad and a 1971 incident at Cortina Inn. Kenyon College names Theodore Toole Jr. chair of the financial advisory committee of its Parents Advisory Council, with two meetings planned in 1974.
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Rutland
UPI
John Edwards
Robert Haradon
James F. Toal
J. Fred Carbine
Toal
Theodore Toole Jr
Kent Hill Road
Dorset
Kenyon College
Parents’ Advisory Council
Toole
Theodore Toole III
Parents’ Council
Kenyon
Fle
Cortina Inn
Mendon
Rutland Herald
Internet Ltd
Kimberly Cheney
Cheney
Murder suspect arraignment is continued
A 32 year old New York man, William S. Sires, had his arraignment for allegedly murdering his mother continued to Sept 13 in Pittsfield District Court. Sires was ordered held without bail after being arrested in Hoosick New York and returned by Massachusetts troopers.
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Pittsfield
Mass
UPI
New York
William S. Sires
Sires
Hoosick
N.Y
Rensselaer
Massachusetts
Anna Sires
Dalton
Kuwait ends negotiations with hostage holding Arabs
Kuwait halted talks with Arab guerrillas who were holding five diplomats aboard a Kuwait Airlines Boeing 707 after officials said the claimed Saudi diplomat had been shot aboard the plane was a hoax. The militants demanded Jordan free a jailed terrorist leader and threatened to kill hostages, with an unscheduled Saudi plane in Kuwait amid silent reports of airlift to Syria.
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API
Syria
Jordan
Paris
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait Airlines
Saidi
Ali Yassin
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Yassin
Syrian Arab Airlines
Flood funds expand to repair streams in Bennington County
Emergency Conservation Funds now cover streambank and channel repairs from the June floods. Farmers may receive up to 80 percent of eligible costs. Deadline for requests is Sept 30. File at the Bennington county office in the Federal Building or call county executive director Robert Rudd Jr. at 447-7595.
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William Strohmaier
Bennington County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Strohmaier
Federal
Bennington
Robert Rudd Jr
Strike mediator says new round of Burlington talks collapsed
The 15 month Burlington labor dispute between 1000 workers and contractors collapsed on Friday as mediator Donald O Brien reported no further bargaining moves. He cited economics as the core issue and warned of possible renewed violence despite concessions at the Thursday session. Governor Salmon pledged continued mediation efforts while contractor and union leaders clashed over who bore responsibility for the stalemate.
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Burlington
O’brien
Christopher Gallagher
General Contractors Association
Arthur Deloy
Laborerers International of America Local 522
Kenneth Jones
Kenclif Construction Co
Gallagher
Deloy
Bennington Briefs on Motorist Safety and Bowling Registration
A Bennington notice urges responsible riding with essential protection from Shea Agency Inc at attractive rates covering bodily injury property damage collision fire and theft. Also announced ADV registration for children through age 18 for the Greater Bennington Junior Bowling Association at Bennington Lanes today from 4 to 7 p.m.
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Shea Agency
Shea Agency Inc
Greater Bennington Junior Bowling Association
Bennington Lanes
Florence Farrar dies at home in Bennington
Florence Farrar of 10 Willow Street Bennington and formerly of North Bennington died at her home Friday morning Born in Gardner Massachusetts on June 19 1905 she was the daughter of Frank Farrar and Annabelle MacColumbia She worked 23 years for the White family of North Bennington Survivors include her daughter Mrs William Whitney of Worcester Massachusetts a son Lemans Farrar of Orange Massachusetts three brothers Frank Herbert and Ralph Farrar and numerous nieces and nephews The funeral will be held Monday at 11 am from Mahar and Son Funeral Home with Rev Richard Sherlock officiating Burial will follow in Grove Cemetery Holden Massachusetts There are no calling hours.
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Florence Farrar
Willow St
Bennington
North Bennington
Gardner
Mass
Frank Farrar
Annabelle MacColumbia
William W. Whitney
Worcester
Lemans Farrar
Orange
Westminster
Herbert Farrar
Ralph Farrar
Fitchburg
Mahar and Son Funeral
Richard Sherlock
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Harrad
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Frenchie King
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Henry Fonda
Manchester
Ross Hunter
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Charles Butler JR
Donald O’brie
State Labor Relations Board
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Bennington Briefs
ADV
Cedar Glen North
Hickok & Boardman, Inc. Realtors
Shelburne St
Burlington, Vt
Bennington Banner
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United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
U.S
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