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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1963
Page
5
About 300 youngsters took part in the Lions Club Easter Penny Hunt at Wood Memorial Park. Four age groups searched for 4 000 pennies tossed by organizers with winners in each group. Mary Ann St Hilaire led the girls and boys races in one or more divisions.
Prospective buyers from The Pownals and North Adams toured the 66 year old Maple Grove School in East Pownal. The one room building on a small lot drew interest for conversion into a summer camp site. Bids must be sealed and filed with Supt. Leon E. Wagner by 4 p.m. Thursday with the board reserving the right to reject all bids.
Howard Nemerov, newly appointed Library of Congress poetry consultant, will deliver the fourth Elizabeth Harrington Dickinson lecture on Blake and Wordsworth at Bennington College Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Carriage Barn. He recently joined Bennington after leaving Hollins College, succeeding Louis Untermeyer, and published The Next Room of the Dream in 1962.
AP Television Radio writes that ABC offered a earnest hour long Vatican tour airing Sunday night with Pope John XXIII in his private study and Sistine Chapel glimpses. It notes a bland approach and limited imagination while praising the Bob Hope Show for its sketches and the awards segment. NBC plans a Richard Boone Show repertory company with Lloyd Bochner Bethel Leslie Harry Morgan and Jeanette Nolan. David Brinkley’s Journal on Wyatt Earp and desert land sales is recommended tonight at 10 EST.
Twenty two graduates of Mary McClellan Hospital School of Practical Nursing received diplomas at Cambridge Central School. The ceremony included remarks by Michael Russo and honored graduates with awards from the hospital and Women's Auxiliary.
Robert B. Vail was unanimously reelected superintendent of schools at the Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union meeting held at Manchester Elementary School. Howard Ambrose and Mrs. Mathilda Kenny were reelected chairman and clerk for 1963 64. Twenty five of 28 directors from Danby Dorset Manchester Mt Tabor Pawlet Rupert Sandgate Sunderland attended.
Mrs. Helen Upton reports a $100 donation to the Red Cross drive for Dover with mail or office collection options. Hermitage inn owners Mr. and Mrs. Peter Zilliacus close for spring renovation and plan May 11 reopening. Girl Scouts Troop 544 set a spring hike for April 27 from Wilmington to Misty Lodge. Lions Club honors Rev. Martin and others as honorary members. Town trustees meeting open to public at 8 p.m. Ruth Horton appointed as sister to replace Karma Putnam until the next town meeting. Academic Honor Roll honors include Canedy Lavoy Pike Snow Taylor and other students across grades.
The Mayflower Chapter OES elected new officers at the Masonic Hall with Margarete Cary re elected as Worthy Matron. Officers include Lynde Kimball as Worthy Patron and Genevieve Rowell as Associate Matron. Installation is planned for Monday April 29 and the 50th anniversary date was moved to August.
Mr and Mrs Roy Hipple of Rochester Vermont visited the Dearcopp home Monday and Tuesday and then spent Wednesday and Thursday with Mr and Mrs Leo Berry in Wilmington. Also visiting were Mrs Sophie Ruckstuhl and her son William of Woodbury New Jersey who arrived Friday afternoon.
Five Wilmington 4 H Club members and two prospects met at Mrs. Doris Adams home to discuss the upcoming county 4 H dress review. The Brattleboro High School event begins at 2 p m with an afternoon session on posture modeling and criticism, followed by an 8 girl showcase of skirts blouses dresses and suits and about 130 band sewn apparels for the evening style review at 7 p m in the auditorium Parents and friends are invited. A finishing touches meeting will be held Friday at 2 p m at Mrs Adams home. Departure Saturday is 1 p m from the Adams residence.
Ada Hammer of Macedon New York daughter of Rev and Mrs Harold Hammer will graduate in June from Ottawa University Kansas and begin Peace Corps training. She plans to deploy to Costa Rica around October 15 with a 51 member team to work in inland farming communities focusing on health improvement.
Hoosick Falls residents Edith Beaumont Irving Haynes and Frank Stevens return from Florida for the winter. Hoosick Falls Baptist Youth Fellowship to hold a paper drive Saturday calling for old newspapers via Carl ton Robinson and Evelyn LeClaire at Cobleskill University home.
S J Perelman author of The Beauty Part is on a six month safari for fresh satire visiting Eastern Africa the Seychelles Islands India Celebes and Japan seeking new material for Broadway.
Sargent Webster Crenshaw and Folley submitted a master survey plan cost of 27000 with two thirds covered by the federal government and one sixth each by state and town. Town village share equals 4500 over two years. a prior Albany firm estimate was 15600 with 2600 town share. A Bardis Associates interview was deemed invalid and a new meeting will be set per state rules requiring at least three planners consulted.
Kenneth B. Smith son of Mr and Mrs James F Smith of Bovie Hill Road left for Fort Dix New Jersey induction center after enlisting in the U S Army. A 1959 Hoosick Falls Central School graduate he also studied at Hudson Valley Community College and attended the University of Hartford. He has worked in the Design Development Department of the Connecticut Highway Department in Hartford. A farewell dinner at the Alpine Club in Hartford hosted by about 50 coworkers preceded his departure and a group gift was given.
The First Baptist Church of Hoosick Falls announces that Rev. John Y. Elliott of Wickford Rhode Island has accepted the pastorate with a tentative start June 1 pending resignation from Wickford Baptist Church. Elliott, 41, is a Haverford College Crozer Seminary and Temple University trained minister with a three child family and his interim successor Dr. Robert J. Schmidt will continue until the transition.
Charles E. Canfield chairman of Canfield Paper Co. and resident of Arlington Vermont will attend the National Paper Trade Association 60th annual convention April 21 24 at The Americana Bal Harbour Florida He will join the financial management committee in the Profiles of Profitability session as NPTA treasurer Two thousand distributors and manufacturers are expected at the four day event The NPTA represents 1100 paper wholesalers handling about 3 4 billion in products annually.
Arlington residents learn the Buxton School of Williams town will bring Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent to Arlington Memorial School in May with a date to be announced. Senior class members invited to Alumni Banquet June 1 at Hotel Cambridge. Student Council elections Friday with speeches in morning and noon voting.
Arlington Calendar lists Arlington Garden Club meeting at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Harry Burgess home and Arlington Chorus at 7 30 p.m. at West Arlington Grange Hall. On Friday April 19 a color nature slide program Seven Local Friends benefits Martha Canfield Library at Fisher School. On Saturday April 20 a car wash at Jerry's Gulf 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. a rummage sale in St James Church basement 1 to 5 p.m. ham supper 5 to 7 p.m. at Fisher School with PTA sponsorship.
LA JOLLA Calif AP smog and cigarette smoke harm lung cells in test tubes. Dr Charles M Pomerat says irritants cause cells to multiply like a cancer agent and cigarette smoke raises chromosome breaks. The method could test smog reduction devices.
The April meeting of the Nor shaft Democrats has been postponed. Elizabeth Dwyer is listed as a contact with phone number 442-4519.
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