Men leap off Magic Mountain Hang Gliding Contest
Isable Gwin Londonderry reports on a Sunday hang gliding contest at Magic Mountain where eighty competitors sought longest flight and best landings. Gusty winds caused a minor injury. Tom Peghiny of Newton Mass won overall and in duration, with Lee Keeler posting the longest flight of two hours ten minutes. The Windward Light and Glider Club and The New England Hang and Gliding Association sponsored the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel Gwinn
Londonderry
Magic Mountain
Springfield
United States
Blue Gentian Lodge
Route 11
The
Windward Light and Glider Club
Fitchburg, Mass
New England Hang and Gliding Association
Sunderland School Board Approves Insurance Update and Programs
Sunderland school board on Sept 10 approved updating insurance policies. It accepted a parent group offer to run hot lunches when Manchester school closes. The group also seeks bingo funds, pending attorney opinion. Art and PE teachers will be hired for half days with Pamela Lundy and Natalee Everett teaching. students will attend local classes instead of Arlington due to scheduling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunderland
Manchester
Pamela Lundy
Natalee Everrett
Arlington
Economist calls for wage program at Williams College convocation
Kermit Gordon president of the Brookings Institution urged demand restraint and a voluntary wage program to curb inflation at Williams College. He backed moderating Federal Reserve restraint, easing short term rates, boosting bank deposits, and a voluntary wage price intervention with information powers and temporary standdowns while reviewed. He noted Congress might approve such powers if asked. He was one of four economists awarded honorary degrees at the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Kermit Gordon
Brookings Institution
Gordon
Kennedy
Johnson
Williams College
White House Conference of Economists
Federal Reserve
Congress
Howard R. Bowen
Avery
Claremont
Cal
Robert Vincent Roosa
Brown Brothers Harriman and Company
Regional landfill plans spark more questions in five towns
Manchester Arlington Dorset Sunderland and Sandgate officials met with BCRC and state experts to weigh options for a regional landfill. Manchester and Dorset face lease costs, Beattie offer, and possible state standard re evaluations. Debates centered on Cummings site viability and who would bear costs if towns split.
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Manchester
Sunderland
Bennington County Regional Commission
BCRC
Arlington
Dorset
Sandgate
John Simson
Michael Shay
Donald Marsh
Agency of Environmental Conservation
Benjamin Partridge
Simpson
Martin Cummings
Orrin H. Beattie
Cummings
Beattie
Manchester Selectmen
Dorset Selectmen
Vernon Squires
Shay
Marsh
Partridge
Nuclear plant one step closer to reality
SEABROOK New Hampshire AEC Safety Regulatory Agency approves the safety requirements for the Seabrook nuclear power plant subject to two changes The decision allows hearings in December on a construction permit for the 1 3 billion plant with potential construction start in April if approved Groups opposing the plant include Seacoast Anti Pollution League New Hampshire Audubon Society Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seabrook, N.H
New Hampshire
Seabrook
Pease Air Force Base
AEC
Seacoast Anti-Pollution League
The
New Hampshire Audubon Society
Society For the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
New England Coalition Against Nuclear Pollution
Gloucester
Mass
Dolly Weinhold
Weinhold
Rupert School Board Approves Ski Program and Art Addition
The Rupert School Board approved a Junior Instructional Skiing Program at Bromley for grades 3-6, requiring one afternoon weekly closure for ten weeks starting January. It also reinvested savings into a $10,000 treasury bond and approved hiring an art teacher, Mrs Natalee Everett, for one half day weekly to teach grades 1-6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rupert — the
Bromley
Treasury
Natalee Everett
Rupert
Former superintendent to sue school district
Melvin Mendelsohn, former superintendent of the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union, says he will file a $100,000 damage suit against the district. He alleges the board reneged on a three year contract granted in January after initial approval and later limited the extension to one year. Mendelsohn, noted as an educational conservative, faced several controversies with the Brattleboro Town School Board. He now leads the Chariho Regional School District in Rhode Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brattleboro
UPI
Vermont
Melvin Mendelsohn
Windham Southeast Supervisory Union
Mendelsohn
Anti busing march disrupts South Boston streets
In Boston a 200 strong white youths and parents crowd staged an anti busing march during school integration, with one arrest and minor projectiles. Police used horses motorcycles and foot patrols to contain scattered groups near South Boston High School as Mayor White urged liquor-store closures and officials reported mixed attendance at South Boston High and Gavin Middle School. NAACP leader Thomas I. Atkins rode a bus with students and urged blacks to attend for safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
UPI
South Boston
South Boston High School
East Broadway
Emerson Street
Kevin H. White
South Boston High
Gavin Middle School
Thomas I. Atkins
NAACP
Atkins
L Street
M Street Park
White
Robert diGrazia
Pownal Community Meetings Tonight Across Town
The Pownal Fire Protective Association and North Pownal Volunteer Fire Department meet tonight at their firehouses at 7. The East Pownal Fire Auxiliary gathers at 7 30 tonight to plan a bazaar on Oct 12. The Pownal P T G meets Tuesday at 7 30 at Pownal Elementary. The Baptist Church choir rehearses Tuesday at 7 pm. The Lions Club holds a board meeting Tuesday at 7 at Charles Kokoras's home.
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Arlington Garden Club
Albert J. Shaw
Shushan
N.Y
St. Margaret Mary’s Hall
Arlington Bicentennial
Community House
Arlington Sunderland
Battenhill Grange
Grange Hall
West Arlington
Pownal
North Pownal
East Pownal
Pownal P.T.G
Pownal Baptist Church
Pownal Lions Club
Charles Kokoras
Libraries and Humanities Program Meeting in Rutland
Librarians and trustees in Vermont get a Sept. 19 9 30 a m meeting at the Southwest Regional Library in Rutland with Victor R Swenson executive director of the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues. He will discuss Libraries and the Humanities Program in Vermont in the regional series coordinated with Patricia Klinck and Priscilla Page. meeting open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Park
Southwest
Vermont Council On the Humanities
Rutland
Victor R. Swenson
Vermont Council
Vermont
Patricia Klinck
Vermont Department of Libraries
Priscilla Page
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Tom Peghiny
Newton
Dick Boone
Sepulveda
Calif
Don McCabe
No. Conway
N.H
Garland
Russ Garland
Robert M. Solow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Williams
John W. Chandler
Helene Thompson
Enterprise Society
Bailey Hall
Kay M Haugsrud
Stella Williams
Marjorie Brush
Margaret Swanson
Barbara Weakley
Abbie Baker
Finger Lakes
New York State
Ronald Pero
Virginia
William Pero
James Wyman
Denise Putnam
Rupert School Board
Mos
Bennington
D.K. Flare
Pamela Blakeman
Super Duper
Pal
LEVIS
India Garments
Potters YA Smnanaron VT
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