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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1962
Page
2
The Interior Department awards General Electric Co of Burlington Vermont a 250000 dollar contract to build a 37000 gallon per day saline water conversion pilot plant at Wrightsville Beach North Carolina. Estimated completion cost is 386000 dollars.
Northfield Norwich University secures a $3700 National Science Foundation grant for a second year to run a 23 week mathematics institute for secondary school teachers to bolster their subject-matter competence.
Mrs Inez Stanley 90 of Montpelier dies from injuries received in an automobile crash on Route 14 last Wednesday. Two other women Grace Miller 52 and Blanche Lesperange 53 of Etters Pa were critically hurt and hospitalized at Randolph.
In North Adams several projects including Sprague Electric Laboratory McCann Industrial School and Williams College library remain halted due to a strike by had carriers and laborers. Also two St Josephs High School seniors Peter Gowdz and Robert Zabek entered a regional science fair for 25 Western Massachusetts high schools. The Northern Berkshire Development Corp launches a six meeting fund drive aiming to raise 250000 to finish and sell the industrial shell at Hodges crossroad opposite the new McCann school.
In Troy a wing of Springwood Manor, vacant since October 1959, burned heavily on Saturday. Firefighters had been called previously to a garage blaze and the manor, high on Troy's hill, was visible for miles. The property is owned by a real estate agency, formerly the William Van Every home.
Bennington High hosted the Bennington County Science and Mathematics Fair with 44 projects. First awards went to James Crozier for Fibonacci Numbers and Geometry and Barbara Paquin for Bone Development of Chicken Embryos. two more biology entries also earned firsts. Second awards highlighted math entries by Karen Killen and Ronald Pollock, chemistry by Connie Lewis, Barbara Aaron, Carol Heald, Anne Pelham, earth science by Brenda Bilbar and Sandra Fuller, and Bruce Mears in biology. Eighteen junior high entries included three firsts and eight seconds. General chairman Clyde Maxfield led the event with judges from Bennington College Burr and Burton and other organizations.
Oscar B. Glick hosted a dinner for 30 friends at a Nashville country club to express thanks. He wired each place with a microphone and used a tape recorder to capture stories, letting him revisit voices of his friends in the future.
Williamstown Adams Memorial Theatre presents Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder on Friday and Saturday April 20 and 21. Lead roles include William Gilbert of Dorset and Nina Pelikan, a Bennington College student, with cast members Pene lope Corbin Jiggs Gardner and John O Neil. Stephen Pokart directs as the first Williams student to helm main stage since 1959. tickets are free but reservations required and urged early due to quick sellouts.
The official Yankee guide book and scorecard sold at Fort Lauderdale Stadium features Yankees players with Roger Maris on page 6 leading the parade of stars. Mantle follows, then Berra, Howard and Blanchard, with Whitey Ford heading the pitchers and Arroyo listed as a key reliever.
Rep. Philip H Hoff Vermont legislator and gubernatorial candidate visits Williams College April 11 and 12 as the David Sterling Memorial Lecturer. He will lecture on Party Politics in a One-Party State in Jesup Hall and hold open discussions, meals, and class visits with students. Hoff, a 1948 Williams alumnus, practices law in Burlington with Black Wilson Coffin Hoff and is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and the Sterling Fund.
A Tulsa man misread a tax bill and mailed a $60 check to County Treasurer W E McIntosh after being billed 60 cents. McIntosh returned the check and advised destroying it and sending 60 cents. The man promptly complied.
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