Bennington Free Library hosts final story hour for preschoolers
About 50 Bennington preschoolers attend the year’s last weekly story hour at the Bennington Free Library on a Wednesday morning. Mrs. John C. Page of 323 Elm Street reads to the youngsters as movie reels are changed for the projector. At night, children join a finger game led by Mrs. Page.
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Bennington
Bennington Free Library
John C. Page
Elm St
Story Hour
Page
Wage Talks End in Stalemate at Albany Novelty Plant
Albany Novelty Division workers’ contract talks reached stalemate as union Local 806 rejected a two-cent hourly raise offered over three years after earlier wage cut proposals. Company executives, led by Robert C. Watson, indicated possible federal mediation but preferred to avoid it while maintaining talks. About 130 union members operate at the plant amid ongoing negotiations and non union staff.
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Union
Albany Novelty
North Bennington
Albany Novelty Division
United Papers Makers and Paperworkers
Robert Myers
Robert C. Watson
Myers
Watson
William H. Garrison
Garrison House Inc
Albany
Garrison
Lions Pledge $500 Toward Bennington Planetarium Drive
Bennington Lions Club directors pledge $500 to spark fundraising for the Bennington Planetarium Association community project. At least 12 members volunteered for a fundraising committee. The Lions also announced the Tri-State Music Festival host dates May 21–22 with 16 schools from Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York participating.
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Bennington Lions Club
Bennington Planetarium Association
Bennington
Paul Williams
Tri - State
Williams
Vermont
Masachusetts
New York
Bennington Catholic High School
Richard Fonteneau
Lions Festival Committee
Curly Williams
BCHS
Bennington High School
Tom Heinsohn
Boston Celtics
Heinesohn
Lions
Richard Long
Lloyd Oppenheimer
Lions Club
Basin Harbor
Lions International
Los Angeles
King Lion
Ned Winslow
Marshall Cross
Romain J. Letourneau
Edoward G. Crealese
Richard Laffin
Richard C. Pembroke
Nicholas Carbonaro
North Pownal votes on district joining bid at special meeting
Polls opened 7 30 to 10 00 in North Pownal for a second vote on joining the Pownal Town District. Moderator Charles Kokoras oversaw the session with ballot officers Richard Champney Martin Lingner and others named. No floor nominations were made and new officers take over June 1 after Winston Ford was inducted into membership.
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Gates
Union Board
David Adler
Jackson Ostrander
North Pownal
Charles Kokoras
Richard E. Champney
Martin G. Lingner
Joseph Tornabene
Marecel A. Langlais
Joseph Tornacbene
Ernest Welch
John Mason
Pownal
Mt. Anthony Union District
Harold Kramer
Winston L. Ford
Polygraphic Company of American
Cross
Hicks
Sante Arcangelo
Bennington
Edward Silver
Ex-College Trustee Mrs Swan Dies at 83 in Boca Grande
Mrs Nathalie Henderson Swan of Farmington Conn wife of Joseph R Swan a former Smith Barney partner died Tuesday at her Boca Grande winter home aged 83 She helped found the Junior League of New York organized the Public Education Association was an original trustee of Bennington College and served as a trustee at Teachers College Columbia University and the Lincoln School Providence Survivors include her husband three daughters and two grandchildren plus a scholarship fund established in her honor by her husband
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Boca Grande, Fla
Nathalie Henderson Swan
Farmington
Bennington
Swan
Colony Club
New York
Colny Dances
Civil Defense Volunteer Office
City
Brearley School
Barnard College
Teacherers College
Nathalie Rahy
Boston
Emma Hall
Joseph Junkin
Bedford Hills
N.Y
Local Births and Discharges Listed by Vermont Officials
Clarence Burdick Sr. and several others from towns including North Pownal Hoosick Falls and Shaftsbury are named alongside dischargeees Master Sharon Putnam and Sheila Cross with several Crosses and crosses from Whitingham White Creek and Bennington. Births note Arnold Griffis of Arlington and Henry Schurink of Shaftsbury welcomed a daughter and a son on April 14.
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Clarence Burdick Sr
North Pownal
Jeanette Vallee
Maureen Malone
Richard Bogardus
Bennington
Judith Burdick
Hoosick Falls
Clarence White
North Bennington
Sharon Putnam
Sheila Cross
Doris Cross
Whitingham
Mary Hulihan
White Creek
Barbara Towsley
Shaftsbury
Nancy Spinning
Arnold Griffis
Arlington
Henry Schurink
Stock Averages at Noon Report from 30 Industrials
Dow Jones Bache noon totals show 30 Industrials at 909.81 with a 3.03 rise, 20 Railroads at 212.94 up .51, 15 Utilities at 162.94 up .22, and the Composite at 318.49 up .87. Volume noted as 10,000.
Preliminary Planning Sessions For Union School Begin Today
The Mt. Anthony Union School Board opens the first of two series to review preliminary plans for a union high school before final working drawings are prepared. The sessions run this afternoon and evening and continue Saturday, covering specific portions of the building.
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Mt. Anthony Union School
Union High School
Bennington College
Union
Union Board
Marian Taylor
North Pownal
Bennington Briefs Roundup of local notices and meetings
Bennington briefs report Good Friday office closures at United Counseling Service and local churches. Knights of Columbus pay respects to William A. Myers. Veterans Hospital patient Harold Gangloff listed. Circle 1 of First Methodist Church meets. Bennington Southwest District schools close for Good Friday and spring vacation. Governors appointees include Helen Gendron, James Conroy, and Guy Harmon. Two-car crash injures two. spaghetti supper fundraiser. Stratton Mountain ski season closing. Weekly United Counseling Service lecture on Education Approach at Red Brick School. Downtown stores observe Good Friday noon to 3 pm. Classified ads, sales, and local event notes fill remaining items.
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United Counseling Service
Dewey Street
Red Brick School
Alice Miller
Lorraine Eastman
Obituary Notices From Bennington and Surrounding Areas
Bridgeport resident James F. Maloney aged 50, a Bennington native and brother of Sheriff John H. Maloney, died after a two week illness. He leaves a wife Gertrude, two daughters, his mother, five brothers, three sisters, and several relatives. Calling hours and funeral arrangements are announced. Additional notices report the death of Otto Steeger, 78, born Frieda Rust, from Great Neck NY, with services in Arlington and burial in Manchester. Jessie Zimmerman, mother of Mrs. James Bow, dies at Putnam Memorial Hospital. funeral plans are pending.
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White Creek
N.Y
William Murphy
Elizabeth Leslie
Bennington
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Melvin R. McGaughey
First Methodist Church
Murphy
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Franklin
John Hitchcock
Gordon Nesbitt
Frederick Gunzel
Dewey McCart
Lawrence Lyons
Bennington College
Park Lawn Chapel
Williamstown
Worthington
Pittsfield
Mass
Cambridge
North Bennington
Bridgeport
Conn
James F. Maloney
John H. Maloney
Bridgeport Hospital
James
Alma
LaFlamme) Maloney
St. Francis de Sales Academy
St. Joseph Business College
Raybestos
Maloney
Holy Name Society of St
Gertrude McGuire
Carrol Hubbard
Pawling
Gertrude Vital
James Maloney
Windsor Locks
Andrew
Plymouth
N.C
John
Edward
Los Angeles
Calif
Joseph
Sandwich
Richard
Lucille Hurd
Burlington
Marie Holmes
Patricia McCormack
Sunderland
Otto Steeger
Frieda Rust
Great Neck
Hamburg
Germany
Carl Rust
Steeger
Hanson- Walbridge
Arelington
Dellwood Cemetery
Manchester
Jessie Zimmerman
James A. Bow
Zimmerman
Cleveland
Ohio
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Jury Ponders Fatality Case In Rutland Trial
A seven women five men jury in Rutland begins deliberations in the case of Arthur Flanagan a 40 year old Vergennes man charged with driving while intoxicated and careless and negligent driving with death resulting in a January 1964 two car crash on U S Route 7 near Pittsford The crash killed Mrs Paul Dorey of South Burlington a 4 year old daughter and two Burlington women Eight Dorey children were orphaned by the crash The state says Flanagan was drunk and speeding at the center of the highway. An unexploded World War II bomb was also found at a Tokyo construction site.
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Rutland
UPI
Vergennes
Rutland Municipal Court
Richard Sullivan
Arthur Flanagan
Pittsford
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NY. Herald Tribune
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Ando
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Kim Stanley and
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Julie Wolf
Neil Lachant
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Benhi
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State Advisory Council
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Arleington
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West Road
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Union St
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New Planetarium
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Southern Vermont
American Association of Retired Persons
U.S. 7
Frank L. Flagg
RD 1
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Watt
Stratton Mountain
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Second Congregational Church
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Se Hed Theatre
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