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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1966
Page
7
Scouters Henry Freely and Philip Roach urge extra transport aid for Troop 331 BSA special activities. They plan monthly weekend campouts with church attendance required, and say participation will depend on available transportation. Each patrol will handle its own travel, but parents are asked to lend cars in rotation.
Marlboro College history of music teacher Willene B. Clark will lecture Monday evening at 8 on April 25. Topic is Musical Horrors analyzing devices to create fear in music, with operatic horror scenes of special interest. Clark holds multiple degrees from Briarcliff, UPenn, Columbia, and Yale, with studies in Belgium and Munich on fellowships.
The North Bennington PTA plans a food sale at the firehouse on Tuesday during voting hours noon to 7 p.m. Residents vote on unification, and donations are requested to balance the budget. Chairwoman Mrs. Donald Knapp leads the event with a focus on community support.
The Philathea Society of the First Baptist Church held its annual banquet in the church hall with 70 attendees. Cortland Cottrell and Douglas Sherman provided dinner music as Mrs. John Elliott presided at officer installations, seating Mrs. Carleton Roberson as president and Mrs. James F. Smith as vice president.
White Creek ef Hill honors Miss Ida Van Wert for long service as Philathea Sunday School teacher and praises Mrs. Bertha Baker for leadership. A varied program features trumpet solos by Bill Cottrell, duets by Sally Stetson and Martha Elliott, and other numbers.
A Pownal Fire Department Auxiliary sponsored record hop runs tonight 7 30 to 10 30 at the firehouse with prizes for dance contests and attendees 10 or older. A talent show to support the Pownal Pioneers 4 H camping fund is set for Saturday at 8 in the firehouse with John Foster as MC and prizes plus a door prize.
Firefighters battled a stubborn grass fire along railroad tracks beyond the station in North Bennington and another blaze on the south bank of Lake Paran, controlled after more than an hour. A village racing on Prospect Street featured homemade coast ers with George Welling and Tommy Calabro. Tommy won by one second and received a blue ribbon. Milton Pinsker, a local swimmer, noted the ice at Paran is officially broken as he swam for the season last weekend.
Wilmington Lions Club will hold its next meeting April 27 at 6 30 p.m. at the White House instead of the Long Jim Restaurant Miss Muriel Barber of Hinesburg is spending a vacation at home this week.
Arlington writer and landscaper H. Stone Ortloff urged local groups to survey needs for a more beautiful community. He called for open space preservation, improved highway aesthetics, protected riverbanks, and schoolyard beautification, stressing civic pride and education, including anti litter campaigns. He praised Arlington Garden Club and proposed a trees protection committee and replanting program.
A public meeting in the town office drew seven residents as Paul Mason and Henry Hurley petition to operate a junkyard in North Pownal Lime Kiln Hill area. The site is secluded and fenced by rock barriers with aesthetic objections raised by the Pownal Garden Club. The board will not decide until lease proof from Kate Hart of Williamstown is presented and regulations are reviewed.
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