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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1966
Page
6
The Board of Selectmen names Town Treasurer Clinton G. McDonald as their clerk to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mrs. Ruth B. Lack.
Organist Harriette Slack Richardson, renowned from Springfield, will perform at First Congregational Church on April 12 at 8 p.m. under SVAC. The program features Mozart Fantasie in F minor, Bach chorale preludes, Franck Prelude Fugue and Variation, plus modern works including Richardson’s Choral Fantasy on Leoni and Sowerby Invocations. No admission fee. all are invited.
Manchester residents share details of spring travels to Europe including stops in Germany Austria and Hungary with return via ship to the United States. Local appointments include David Brown named to succeed Atty. Robert E. West as advisor to Explorer Post 33. Parishioners from Zion Episcopal Church celebrate an early birthday for Mrs. Frank W. Hall who turned 90 and now resides in a Bennington nursing home.
Manchester selectmen and Planning Commission refused to judge the new four lane U S 7 route, calling plans vague. A public hearing is set for April 27 at Manchester Elementary School to gather opinions before a revote on regional planning, with broader county implications if Manchester rejects again.
Scouts from the local troop will attend a Scout-A Rama at the Rutland Fairgrounds May 13 15 and run a leather craft booth. An Easter ham project by the Pownal Parent Teacher Group earned three awards for Leonard Duval David Mason and Fred Babcock. The next Pownal PTA meeting is April 12 at 8 p.m. Center School urged all parents to attend for discussion on modern math.
Hoosick Falls Mrs. Lena Robertson celebrated her 96th birthday Monday at Twin Brooks Nursing Home East Hoosick where she is a patient. Robert Harrington returned home last week to resume work at Dodge Fibers after two years in the U S Army stationed at Fort Gordon Ga. Plain Banquet officers of the Hoosick Falls Central School Alumni Association meet tonight at 8 at the home of Mrs. Joseph Magiiano on NY 7 Hoosick. Plans are set for the 93rd annual alumni banquet after graduation in June honoring the Class of 1916 the 25 Year Class of 1941 the 10 Year Class of 1956 and the graduating Class of 1966. Members who wish to help are sought.
Robert C. Brewster, vice president of the SVAC Property Committee, announced the G &H Gravel Co. of Manchester Center won the entrance road contract. Work starts immediately on a one mile private road from West Road to the gallery circle, with safety features including widened sections, guard rails on the Arkell curve, and improved grades. A second capital project for heating downstairs galleries is awarded to Winslow Plumbing Heating and Contracting Co. of Manchester Center.
At the Manchester Business and Professional Women’s Club annual meeting Mrs Irma Zentz was re elected president with Edna Wright Kamber Burnham Finnegan Keller as officers. Miss Margaret Dougherty led the nominating committee. Valerie Crane of Manchester, a Bennington College graduate and Dorset Elementary School practicum student, addressed the group as the club’s Vermont Young Careerist candidate.
In Shaftsbury Democrats caucused Wednesday night and nominated two candidates for lister to be filled at a May 3 town meeting. William Stufflebeam and Alfred Wade were named. Wade defeated Stufflebeam by three votes in the subsequent ballot. Twenty four people attended.
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