Southie headmaster faces hostile welcome in Boston
Jerome Winegar began as headmaster of South Boston High amid 200 white student protests and windows with hostile messages. Citywide attendance fell to 69.6 percent, the lowest since September, with junior highs and high schools in South Boston down about 50 percent. Police described the night as comparatively quiet amid ongoing racial violence. A proposed city curfew for youths drew council debate, with some members backing a 10 pm to 5 am measure and others opposing. The violence followed an April 5 incident involving a white assailant beating a black attorney, with bail for one suspect set at 25,000 dollars. Winegar walked through the booing crowd, saying he did not feel unwelcome and noting he expected testy reception.
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Boston
South Boston
Jerome
Jerome Winegar
Lawrence S. DiCara
Suffolk
Maine Poets Festival at College of the Atlantic
A poetry and writing festival unfolds at The College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor on three Wednesdays May 5 12 and 19. Afternoon discussions and work exchanges precede evening readings led by the North Coast Review Machias and Skowhegan groups with further program details to be announced. The event is funded by a Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities grant matched by the college.
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Maine
College of the Atlantic
Bar Harbor
Poets of the
North Coast Review
Machias
Skowhegan
Maine State Commission On the Arts and Humanities
Governors propose New England finance agency to aid small firms
New England governors endorse a proposed New England Capital Corporation with a $100 000 appropriation to attract about 150 million from banks and insurers. The agency would lend to small tech firms, aiming to spur regional growth while five of six members review the plan in June in Massachusetts.
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Farmington, Conn
New England
New Finance Agency
New England Capital Corporation
New Englandegional Commission
Massachusetts
Michael S. Dukakis
Dukakis
Commission
Rhode Island
Philip Noel
Chatham
Mass
Maine
James B. Longley
Connecticut
Ella Grasso
New England Board of Higher Education
New Hampshire
Meldrim Thompson
New England River Basin Commission
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
New England economic fears linked to statistical aberration
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston economists say regional fears of a New England disaster stem from statistical aberration. The report notes national unemployment estimates come from 50 000 household surveys while state rates use unemployment claims, often overstating New England unemployment. Revised figures later usually lower the apparent gap.
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Boston
New England
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Lynn E. Browne
Richard F. Syron
Bank Report
Jobless rate comparison for New England states 1973 74
The report presents unemployment rates for each New England state for 1973 and 1974, showing original figures and later revisions. It focuses on how early releases differed from revised estimates across the region.
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Boston
New England
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
United States
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General Electric
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