Falls plane crash hospitalizes three
A Piper Aero 2 owned by a Teterboro New Jersey flying club crashed near Hoosick Falls New York. Pilot Morton Jeffe 41 of New City New York was in critical condition. Passengers Ann Viziano 22 New York City and John Mitchell 33 Kearney New Jersey were hospitalized. The plane was en route from Teterboro to Plattsburgh when engine trouble forced a crash into a field off Lester Lane. The wreckage trapped the two occupants and companies and agencies investigated the incident. The crash prompted police and rescue crews to respond as the cause remained under investigation.
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Edith Beaumont
Hoolick Falls
N.Y
Teterboro
N.J
Albany Medical Center
Morton Jeffe
New City
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Ann Viziano
New York City
John Mitchell
Kearney
New York
Center Brunswick
Plattsburgh
Lester Lane
Ehmler
Charles Foster
Mt Anthony students stage first Kenwood Theater Crafts Contest
Mt Anthony Junior High School seventh graders travel to Albany for the inaugural Kenwood Theater Crafts Contest with eight schools participating. Mt Anthony performs Lazy Jack under Jerry Wichelns, devised by Robert Sugarman who wrote the opening song.
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Mt. Anthony Junior High
Albany
N.Y
Kenwood
Mt. Anthony
Jerry Wichelns
Robert Sugarman
Mike Watson
Tracy Waters
Dawn Harrington
Tasha van der Linde
Barry Watson
John Sigsbury
Ken Singsbury
Kent Liggett
Bonnie Hollister
Molly Hapgood
Rachel Levin
Gary Thomas
Barbara Henry
Eileen Ryan
Patty Malanga
Susan Agard
Becky Lane
Eleanor Johnson
Mt. Anthony Junior High School
Albany, N.Y
US to discuss arming Saudi Arabia for defense
The United States agreed to consider supplying American war materiel to meet Saudi Arabia's defensive needs as part of expanded economic and tech cooperation. Prince Fahd Bin Abd-Al-Aziz, brother of King Faisal and interior minister, will visit the U.S. to meet President Nixon and Henry Kissinger. No pledge beyond discussion on defense and energy, and no decision on Phantom jets or other specific arms.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Saudi Arabia
State Department
Fahd bin Abd-Al-Aziz
Faisal
Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
Prince Fahd
Department
John F. King
Israel
King
U.S
Pompidou Visit May Break Campaign Schedule
President Pompidou would halt at disaster zones en route home from a Michigan campaign swing, while President Nixon with aides and a State Department representative departed Andrews AFB at 10:19 am EDT for Paris and landed at Orly at 5:29 pm EDT.
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Michigan
Nixon
State Department
Andrews Air Force Base
Paris
Orly
Laos Forms Coalition After Decade of War
After ten years of conflict the Communist and rightist factions unite under neutralist Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phouma. King Savang Vatthana formally invests the coalition government in Luang Prabang. Souvanna’s half brother Souphanouvong becomes president of the Joint Political Consultative Council, a 42 member body with powers equal to Souvanna.
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Luang Prabang
Laos
UPI
Souvanna Phouma
Savang Vatthana
Vientiane
Souvanna
Red Prince
Souphanouvong
Joint Political Consultative Council
Indochina
Southeast Asia
Pathet Lao
Consultative Council
Phoumi Vongvichit
Lao Patriotic Front
Phoumi
Tobacco Spit Contest Opens To Women In Arkansas
In Monticello Arkansas the first annual Arkansas State Tobacco Spitting Contest invites all entrants including women. Contest on April 23 on the square offers three engraved spittoons as prizes with two main categories distance and accuracy and potential additional awards. Rules require three spits from a line, no cross line walking, and a spit size of half a dollar upon landing.
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Monticello
Ark
UPI
Carol Dawson
Streaker, Stripper Steal Show at Sox Opener
Chicago fans filled the 30,041 seat opener as a stroller go go dancer paraded from right to left field deck, a topless youth in his 20s exposed himself near home plate, a second streaker flashed in left field and a gray haired man in long underwear appeared before security removed them.
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Chicago
UPI
Chicago White Sox
California Angels
Chicago Bears
Soldier Field
Home Plate
Strutter
Correction clarifies Walter Noyes lister role
The Banner corrects Friday article: Walter Noyes a Bennington Savings & Loan board member, not a finance company appraiser. He is occasionally asked to appraise property in his capacity with the bank, not as a finance firm employee.
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Walter Noyes
Bennington
Listers
Friday’s
Bennington Savings & Loan
Power outage time corrected for Bennington area
CVPS corrected a planned outage reported in Fridays Banner from Sunday 2 to 3 p.m. to Sunday 2 to 3 a.m. for Pownal and south Bennington. Also notes Palm Sunday open house 12 to 5, free roses for women, lollipops for children, Brittell's Florists ad, and Pak-A-Sak Polish Easter Kielbasa orders due by April 8.
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CVPS
Bennington
Pownal
South Bennington
Pak-A-Sak
ADV
Values by example at Rotary talk by Frank O'Meara
Frank O'Meara, director of the John XXIII Center in Bennington, urged that values are learned by environment not taught. He warned on parental influence, media, and violence in films shaping youth, and outlined a proposed Focus on Sex program for high schoolers to clarify values and cultivate authentic sexual ethics.
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Frank O’meara
Rotary Club
O'Meara
John XXIII Center
Bennington
Australia
Europe
United States
Catholic University
Paris
France
St. Michael’s College
Winooski
O’meara
Bennington Religious Education Foundation
Ecumenical Center
Bennington Notables Remembered In Obituary Notices
George O Foucher known as Georgie Hogan died Friday after brief illness at Putnam Memorial Hospital. A 62 year barber, he owned Hogan's Barber Shop and served in local fire and Knights of Columbus groups. Survived by wife? daughters and son, funeral Monday at St Francis de Sales with burial at Park Lawn. Agnes Harrington, widow of John Harrington, died Friday at Putnam Memorial Hospital. She lived at 109 Cross St for over 50 years and worked at Ben Mont Paper Co. Survived by daughter, sisters, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending with Gibney Funeral Home.
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George O. Foucher
Georgie Hogan
County St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Boston
Mass
Gaston Foucher
Florence (Roberts) Foucher
Bennington
Hogan
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Edward Cummings
Benington
River
North Streets
North Street
Hogan’s
Pleasant Street
Bennington Fire Department
Henry W.putnam Hose Co
Bennington Knights of Columbus
Agnes Harrington
John Harrington
Cross St
Edward Anson Baker
Katherine Matteson
John H. Harrington
Towart
Ben Mont Paper Co
Joseph Bresler
Jud Pierce
Hugh Galvin
Robert Plum
Thomas Harrington
Leominster
Gibney
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WMHT
Schenectady
Vermont
ETV
PBS
Burlington
Micklus
White Rocks
East Mountain
Robert Niles
Hoosick
Hoosick Falls
Robert Maderer
G.H. Gundrum
G.V. Clifford
Sam Miller
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Murray Shain
Paul Masher
Federal Aviation Agency
Chapin
Wesley
Gesell
Susan
Jacob Stein
MA Thespians
Savings & Loan Association
Main Street
OAT Housing Lender
de Age Eg
Bennington Banner
Main St
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Cohoes Mfg. CO
Joan
Mohawk Street
Cohoes
Pompidou
Aero
Bennington Briefs
Brittell’s Florists
Pleasant St
Bank
North Adams
Equal Housing Lender
Park Lawn Cemetery
Foucher
St. Francis de Sales
Funeral Home Office
Eid
Bradford House
Monument Plaza
Bennington, VT
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