Subway Cars Roar Across Desert Test Ground
In Pueblo Colorado a federal High Speed Ground Test Center near Pike's Peak tests rapid transit ideas. A New York City subway car races on metal rails at 234 mph using a linear induction motor LIM propulsion. The plant houses aerospace firms like Garrett and Boeing advancing LIM and fast streetcar concepts for urban use, with Verge and Silien highlighting plans for desert trolley cars and potential world speed records.
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Puebla
Colo
Prairie Dog Town
Pike’s Peak
New York City
BMT Rockaway
Department of Transportation
Federal Railroad Administration
LIM
Garrett Corporation
California
LIM Motor
Boeing Company
Philadelphia Verto
Boeing
San Francisco
Boston
Pueblo
Joseph Silien
Urban Mass Transportation On Administration
Desert
Red Cross marks founder birth with World Day theme
World Red Cross Day on May 8 honors founder Henri Dunant born in 1827 in Geneva and recalls Clara Barton in America. In Bennington a Bloodmobile visit on April 24 at First Baptist Church Colgate Hall from 11 30 a.m. to 5 p.m. aims to boost donations with local volunteers and medical staff coordinating the event.
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Red Cross
Henri Dunant
Geneva
Switzerland
Clara Barton
America
Bennington
First Baptist Church
Colgate Hall
Main St
Lifeline bill push vows continuation by VPIRG director
Vermont Public Interest Research Group Director Scott Skinner says the Lifeline proposal will be reworked and reintroduced in the 1975 legislature after its defeat in the House. He criticizes Gov Salmon and PSB changes, urging action to curb utility rate pressures and protect small electricity users.
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Skinner
Public Service Board
PSB
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Green Mountain Power
Retired teachers' organizational lunch meeting
An organizational luncheon of the Bennington County NRTA is set for Paradise Restaurant Tuesday April 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. Local chairman Therese Goodermore invites all retired teachers. Guest speakers include J Newton Perrin NRTA director and Max Barrows. Call 442 3417 by Saturday for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington County National
Retired Teachers’ Association
Paradise Restaurant
Therese Goodermore
J. Newton Perrin
NRTA
Max Barrows
Mt Anthony senior class party planning postponed
A meeting of parents for Mt Anthony Union High School senior class all night party planning is postponed to Thursday April 25 at 6 30 p m in Room 104 at the school. Bennington brief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony Union High School
John E. Murray
Michael Povsner
Citizens Educational Forum
CEF
Clarence Pelkie
John A. Lynch
Church of the Immaculate Heart
Rutland
Bennington
Kenneth W. Costin
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Povsner
DAR April meeting names new trustee
Members of the Bennington chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met in the social rooms of the First Baptist Church of Bennington with several guests. Mrs William Eddington was elected a trustee of the Park McCullough House Association replacing Miss Anna Vaughn whose term expired. A birthday card was circulated for Mrs William Bradford who turns 97 on May 13, the oldest member of the chapter.
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Bennington
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
First Baptist Church of
Osborne Gaines
Donald
Obituaries from Hoosick Falls and area services
Obituary items note James P. O Malley Jr 71 Hoosick Falls former custodian dies at St Marys Hospital Troy NY. Funeral Saturday 9 30 a m Church of the Immaculate Conception with Mass burial St Marys Cemetery. Also notices Lawrence A Thomas 24 dies after Route 22 crash East Arlington Federated Church service Harriet Hewson William Hewson Carl Wesley Brown obituary notices include calling hours and tentative Brattleboro/North Adams details.
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James P. O’malley Jr
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Church of the Immaculate Conception
St. Mary’s Cemetery
St. Mary’s Hospital
Troy
Mahar Funeral
Second St
James F. O’malley Sr
Myra Dowd O’malley
St. Mary’s Academy
AOH
John T. O'Malley
Nora Mathers
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Bennington
Lawrence A. Thomas
John Geer
Federated Church
East Arlington
George Pendlebury
Robert Waters
Richard Curtis
David Whitman
Jerry Webster
Benny Ranzona
Park Lawn Cemetery
Grandview Cemetery
North Bennington
Thomas
William Hewson
Hoosick Falls Health Center
Mahar
Pittston
James
Rose
Lyons) Hewson
Hoosick
Walloomsac
Noble and Wood Machine Co
Dodge Industries
Hoosick Barracks
Leo Hewson
Kathryn Hulihan
White Creek
State St
North Adams
Mass
Brattleboro
Christ Church
Guilford
Rowe
William and
Frances
Sibley
Brown
Doris, Chapman
Stamford
Elliot
Claremont
N.H
Dora Hardger
Doris Spicer
Bratstleboro
Jeanette Schulman
Vienna
Leon Brown
Millers Falls
Kerr Funeral Home
Senior Citizens' Center rummage sale planned in Bennington
A rummage sale at the Senior Citizens' Center on Ben Mont Avenue will run Friday April 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. and Saturday April 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Proceeds benefit the center and donations are welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris Oakman
Woodstock Avenue
Rutland
Oakmans
Eastwood Animal Clinic
Senior Citizens’ Center
Ben Mont Avenue
Senior Citizens Center
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John A. Volpe
Italy
Denver
New York
Margaret D. Clark
Eugene V. Clark
Richard B. Leake III
Bennington County
Francis Herrick
Eugene Grabowski
Dorothy Hager
Barth
Vander Els
F.P. Carrigan
Ardell Hanson
Nancy Cross
Jane Verderosa
Helen Pezzulich
Marguerite Banks
Marie Ray
Natalie Wolfe
Elizabeth Davis
Barbara Bennett
Hazel MacDonald
George Jenkins
Eupha Bonham
Robert LaPorte
Richard Gerken
Bernard Leamy
John Oglivie
VPIRG
Vermont
William Gilbert
Richard Norton
Bennington Briefs
UPS
National Weather Service
New England
Bennington Club
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Ben Mont
Texas Instruments
Bennington ‘S
Office Products Center
Main Street
Bennington, Vt
DAR
Gilbert Vaughn
Leon Orr
William Eddington
Edward Emmons
Williamston
Carl Wesley Brown
Mill Road
South Street
U.S
Friendly
North St
Niceington
Linda Ricker
Dolorese, Harrington
Benénington
Robert Burdick
Pownal
Lydia Wilcox
Manchester
Herman Saunders
West Rupert
Theresa Farrara
Marsha Peters
Eagle Bridge
George Surdam
Donna Moon
Valley Falls
Florence Bump
Dorothy Gibbons
Douglas Whitman Jr
Beatrice Marra
Mark Brislin
Paul Hyde
Bonnie Brown
Nancy Foster
Ruth Nowik
Raymond Pelletier
Woodford
Nichols
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