Construction Index Slips Despite Strong Housing Market
February construction activity fell 2 percent as nonresidential and public works contracts weakened, offsetting housing gains. Dodge notes credit tightening and cutbacks in public programs as main drags, while private projects show strength. Residential building up 31 percent year over year supported by single family and apartment work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dodge
F.W. Dodge Company
McGraw-Hill, Inc
George A. Christie
Christie
Dodge Economist
Named For New Bank In Wilmington Planned By Vermont National Bank
Vermont National Bank president Jack Hunter Jr. announces the firm of James A. Britton of Greenfield Mass. will design a new Georgian Colonial bank on the former Roger Moody property in Wilmington. The one story front with possible two story rear, drive in, parking, and a community meeting room are planned with occupancy targeted for Fall 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Jack Hunter Jr
Vermont National Bank
James A. Britton
Roger Moody
Greenfield
Mass
A.I. A
Harvey H. Hatheway
A.I.A
Ed Turgeon
Pownal Deed Transfers Reported in Town Clerk Records
Transfers of deeds recorded in Pownal from Jan 1 to Apr 1 show Washette Inc to D and L Stebbins in Hartford for 8 110 acres on Jackson Road and multiple other pairs exchanging houses, lots, and land across East and South Pownal, Northwest Hill, and nearby properties including Ladd Brook Motel, with names like Bee Hill Barber's Pond Road and Ostrander Reynolds properties prominent. In Portsmouth NH, the 24th Eastern Seaboard Apprenticeship Conference announced for June 4-6 1968 at Wentworth by the Sea, featuring Viet Nam veteran apprenticeships and minority group programs. NH Labor Commissioner Duvall notes it is the oldest such conference, run with labor, management, government support from eight states and federal agencies. over 1000 conferees expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal
Washette, Inc
D. and
L. Stebbins
Hartford
Jackson Road
Fred
Barbara Bishop
Carl Mendel
Huntington
N.Y
Bee Hill
South Pownal
Robert
Hazel Bleau
Susan Buck
Bennington
Lot
East Pownal
Leon Hall
Harold and
Marilyn Rhodes
Walter Atwood
Richard Clark Sr
Richard Clark Jr
Danbury
Conn
John and
Barbara Kelley
Gordon F. Dyndor
Adams
Mass
Barber’s Pond Road
Henry W
Nancy Bassen
Lillian Bassen
Janet Wilcox
Donald
Margaret Wilcox
Ladd Brook
Charles Jr
Ellen Tornadene
Charles
Myrtle Bartolotta
Ansonia
Portsmouth
N.H
Wentworth-by-the-Sea
New Hampshire
Robert M. Duvall
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
Vermont
I & II
U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Apprenticeship & Training
Regional Employment Declines in New England February data
New England nonagricultural employment totaled 4,236,600 in February, down 2,100 from January but up about 58,000 from February 1967. Manufacturing rose 8,000 jobs from December–January, with durable and nondurable goods both gaining. Nonmanufacturing jobs declined due to seasonal cuts in construction and trade, offset by gains in transportation utilities finance service and government. Vermont life policy death payments reached 10.5 million in 1967, up 14.1 percent from 1966, with 4,500 policies paying out and the largest single payment at 6 million for ordinary individual life. National death payments totaled 5,665,300,000 in 1967, up 8.6 percent from 1966.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England
Wendell D. Macdonald
U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
New York
Vermont
Institute of Life Insurance
Old Map Adds To Sisters' Bennington Collection
The Sisters' office displays an 1887 Bennington town map donated by T. Everett Corbett. It joins earlier maps from 1835 and 1852 to 1894, each gifted by local residents, detailing wards, lot sizes and owners across Bennington and surrounding villages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Sisters
T. Everett Corbett
Jefferson Ave
Corbett
Sisters’ Office
Walter Berry Sr
Bennington Village
Hilda Orr
Elmer F. Rockwood
Robert Langlais
Paul Jewett
North Bennington
Old Bennington
Five Day Boston Forecast From UPI Report
Five day outlook says New England temperatures run well above seasonal norms from Saturday to Wednesday with daytime highs in the upper 40s to upper 50s and nightly lows in the low 30s to low 40s. Colder today then warmer afterward. A Bennington memory page and large aerial photos were presented to town with a tribute to Richard Van Santvoord and a 1964 Banner feature recalling Mt Anthony landmarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
UPI
New England
Weather Bureau
Bennington
Anthony
Ruby van Santvoord
Richard van Santvoord
Sisters
Francis J. Hogan
Mt. Anthony
Bennington Native Wins Promotion in Keene Office
Bennington native Frank A. Reynolds, Brattleboro resident formerly of Bennington, is named agency manager of the Metropolitan Life in Keene at 86 West Street. A Bennington High School graduate and 1943 46 Army sergeant, Reynolds joined Metropolitan in 1957. He serves on Brattleboro Outing Club board, is Civitan Club treasurer, and vestryman at St. Michael's. His wife Barbara Burgess and their children Deborah and Frank Jr. share in the milestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keene
N.H
Frank A. Reynolds
Western Ave
Brattleboro
Bennington
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
West St
Rolland G. Wood
Reynolds
Bennington High School
U.S. Army
Metropolitan
Life Underwriters Training Council
Civitan Club
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
Barbara Burgess
Deborah
Frank Jr
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Dodge Industries
McCaffrey Street
Hoosick Falls
Wirmusky Bros
Owl
Church Street
International Dodge Inc
Cleveland E. Dodge Jr
Beaumont
Harris Brothers
Burlington
Nathan
Ben Harris
Nate’s Inc
Parker House
New Bank
Firestone
Naat Ce Stores, Inc
Main ST
Bennington VT
By Decker
EL Street
Lloyd Linscott
Joseph A. Nadeau Co
John O. Lewis
Frost Co
Mower Company
Gregg
Greenberg
Main Street
Bennington Native
Arlington Memorial High School
Connecticut Valley Construction Company of
Springfield
Alfred T. Granger
Haynes
Kane, Inc
DIAL
Pratt ST
of New
Free Architectural Services
A. J. Dewey & Sons
Mckinley Street
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