Gas Stations Plan Four Day Shutdown Over Profit Margin
About 25 Bennington County gas station operators voted to shut down from September 28 to October 1 unless a ruling permits a 20 to 25 percent gross profit margin. Manchester and Arlington groups joined the protest as the Cost of Living Council planned a meeting next Tuesday to address Phase IV guidelines allowing higher wholesale prices but restricting pass through to customers. Ken Smith of Ken's Mobil urged a sustained margin to cover rising costs, arguing retailers face inflation and higher labor and utility costs.
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Elizabeth Dwyer
Cost of Living Council
Bennington County
Manchester
Arlington
Ken Smith
Ken’s Mobil
Northside Drive
Smith
Nixon moves to relieve housing credit squeeze
President Nixon announced plans to inject 5.5 billion into the housing sector, with 2.5 billion in new loan commitments from thrift institutions and forward commitments from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Aimed at easing the short term squeeze, the plan also seeks private funds totaling 3 billion via a tandem program to support FHA mortgages at below market rates. Credit is the lifeblood of housing.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Treasury
House
Senate
Vermont to issue up to six million in housing bonds
Vermont Banking and Insurance Commissioner James Guest announced plans to issue up to $6 million in bonds to ease the home mortgage shortage. He cited the mortgage purchase program under the Vermont Home Mortgage Credit Agency and said the initial bond issue could occur within four months, aiming for action by year end 1973.
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House
Walter Kennedy
Chelsea
Thomas Salmon
Giuliani
Guest
Vermont
Home Mortgage Credit Agency
Frank Davis
Robert Wilson
Veterans Administration
Federal Housing Administration
Salmon
Davis
Agnew Aide Blames White House for Resignation Rumor
A source close to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew says the White House seeded reports he may resign, while Agnew vows to fight and not quit. Thomson notes the talk may reflect mood, not intent, as Agnew attends a state dinner with Nixon and Bhutto amid ongoing Maryland kickback probes.
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Agnew
White House
Washington
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Washington Post
J. Marsh Thomson
Thomson
Nixon
Pakistan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Gerald L. Warren
Barry M. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Goldwater
U.S
George Beall
Maryland
Defense questions Battick shot on December 12
In Chittenden County Court defense lawyer Saul Agel urged the jury to doubt that Edward M. Battick actually fired the fatal shot that killed Manchester Town Police Chief Dana Thompson and wounded Battick. Witnesses including Manchester Village Chief George F. Hoag described the shootout and sequence of events, as prosecutors presented six area witnesses about Battick and a second suspect, Brian Lee.
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Burlington
Edward M. Battick
Manchester
Dana Thompson
Chittenden
Battick
Thompson
Saul Agel
George F. Hoag
Hoag
Bennington County
Neil S. Moss
William T. Keefe
Manchester Area
Vernon to shut down to work out the bugs
Vernon to shut down the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant for a planned month long halt starting September 28. Officials say the downtime will address operating problems from its first year, with a $9 million charcoal filtration system and replacement of several radioactive fuel assemblies while idle. The $220 million, 540000 kilowatt plant on the Connecticut River has run at about 70 percent output under an Atomic Energy Commission rule.
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Keyes
Connecticut River
Atomic Energy Commission
Inside Roosevelt News Digest Bits
A brief page list summarizes district court news and a Reston column on Mondale’s candidacy. Connelly urges ending the TV blackout on pro football. Manchester School introduces a new curriculum pleasing students. Experts warn food prices won’t drop soon. Fall planting tips follow. MAU’s soccer scene reviewed. Bobby Riggs and more noted on page twelve.
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Roosevelt
District Court News
James Reston
Sen. Mondale
George Connelly
Manchester
John Hubbard
MAU
Bobby Riggs
Shaftsbury Keeps Residential Zoning by Narrow Margin
Shaftsbury voters rejected a reclassification of Route 7 north of Center Shaftsbury to commercial by 239 to 232, reversing a July vote that authorized a Ruege cheese shop. The revote turnout rose by 122 from July, with debate over zoning along Route 7 and the cemetery.
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Shaftsbury
Clifford Ruege
Shaftsbury Cemetery
Ruege
Vermont
New Bennington Free Library hires Meris Eggert as head librarian
Meris M. Eggert, 35, of Claremont New Hampshire, will start as head librarian at Bennington Free Library on October 1 at a salary of 9500. She was chosen from 70 applicants, replaces Elizabeth Howlett, and will move to Bennington with her two children. Eggert has worked as a library consultant and at NH Vocational Technical College, and has prior roles at the University of Massachusetts and Texas Southern University.
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Bennington
Eggert
University of Massachusetts
Texas Southern University
Indiana University
William Hoisington
Hoisington
Bennington Canoe Trip Heads into Algonquin Park Trial
Bennington Program prepares 15 canoes and 31 participants for an 18 day wilderness trek into Ontario's Algonquin Park. Weather brings rain as crews practice safety, portage, swimming basics, and canoe handling under staff guidance.
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John
Canoe Lake
Bennington
Algonquin Provincial Park
Ontario
Canada
Algonquin Provinae Park
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Harry A. Dundore Sr
Brian Lee Battck
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Tony
Beef Heart
Krulikowski
Lee Bennington
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