Anti rabies vaccination drive for dogs starts in northern Vermont
Vermont Agriculture Department announces free anti rabies vaccines for dogs within a 25 mile buffer from the Canadian border covering Essex Grand Isle Orleans and Franklin counties. Clinics staffed by 10000 doses of vaccine will operate in northern counties with later statewide clinics where vaccines will not be free. The program follows detection of two rabid foxes and requires all dogs shot by April 1964.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Agricultural Department
Essex
Grand Isle
Orleans
Franklin
Windham approves new two room school plan
In Windham, 55 of 74 voters approved a new two room school for 21,260 dollars to replace the burned upper grades one room and the South Windham lower grade building. The upper grades have housed in the South Windham Church vestry since the blaze. An alternate plan would have enlarged the South Windham School.
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Windham
South Windham
Fire destroys D and H building on Green Island
A two story frame building on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad property at Green Island burned Monday. Owned by William Dunn of Troy the loss is described as extensive. The structure housed building supplies and the D and H signal equipment paint shop and was among the oldest on the property. Flames rose high as the roof caved in.
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Green Island
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
William Dunn
Troy
Dunn
D&h
Williams College Delta Phi Upsilon Reverses Sponsorship Move
Undergraduate members of Williams College's first fraternity to back a new social unit have reversed their plan to sponsor one of the units. Delta Phi Upsilon members voted last week to advise trustees they would sponsor housing and social duties but changed course after weekend meetings.
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Williamstown
Williams College
Delta Phi Upsilon
Motorists Escape Injury In Weekend Accidents
A 1957 Volkswagen rolled over on U S 7 in Pownal Sunday afternoon, but the driver escaped injury. State police said Gladys Sergeant, 64, of Williston Park New York, driving the lead car, began a left turn onto old U S 7, causing the mishap. Charles W Richardson, 54, of Claremont New Hampshire, was also involved.
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U.S. 7
Pownal
Gladys Sergeant
Williston Park
N.Y
Charles W. Richardson
Claremont
N.H
Volkswagen
Richardson
Vermont 9
Searsburg
Patricia Troumpe
North Adams
Mass
Bennington Village
Beverly Bennett
Bradford St
Arthur E. Noble
Gage St
Safford and
Gage Streets
William G. van Pelt
Chatham
Three Men Sentenced in Boston Common Underground Larceny Case
Three men Francis W. Kiernan Richard K. Gordon and Richard C. Simmers were sentenced in Boston Superior Court on larceny and conspiracy convictions. Prison terms range 21% to 3 years plus 2% years in the Suffolk County House of Correction with sentences to be served after prison terms pending appeals.
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Boston
Boston Common
Superior Court
Francis J. Quirico
Suffolk
House of Correction
Francis W. Kiernan
Richard K. Gordon
Ipswich
Lark Cigarette Test Zone Marks New Filter Design
New York Bennington area serves as the first U S test center for Liggett and Myers new Lark cigarette. The three piece Keith filter uses activated charcoal to reduce irritating gases in smoke and stems from research at Arthur D Little Life Sciences Division in Cambridge.
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New York
Bennington County
New York Capital District
United States
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Liggett & Myers
Life Sciences
Arthur D. Little, Inc
Cambridge
Mass
Orchard Owner Near Full Recovery After Seven Week Hospital Stay
Erwin W. Meyer, owner of Southern Vermont Orchards, was reportedly nearly recovered from a serious illness that kept him hospitalized in Florida for about seven weeks. George Bishop, an orchard employee, said Meyer called from Miami saying he was feeling fine and would return to Bennington about a week from Wednesday. Meyer had been released from the hospital roughly three weeks earlier after extended treatment for fatigue and a chronic heart condition.
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Erwin W. Meyer
Southern Vermont Orchards
Florida
George Bishop
Meyer
Miami
Bennington
Bishop
Well Drilling Contract To Be Granted In Williamstown
Williamstown selectmen to meet Monday evening to award a contract for drilling a second town well on the Stetson Road property. The project will aid construction and qualify the town for up to 50 percent state aid. The board also designated 32 town boards and officers as special town employees under the new conflict of interest law effective May 1, allowing them to conduct town business except within their own department.
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Williamstown
Stetson Road
J. Maynard Austin
R I Couple Buys Darling Kelly Motel
Mr and Mrs Albert W Anderson of North Providence Rhode Island bought the Darling Kelly Motel on U S 7 south of Bennington from Thomas Kelly. The Andersons take over the 23 unit motel and pool while Kelly keeps the adjacent Howard Johnson building. George Breen of Potentials Inc Manchester represented the seller.
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Darling Kelly
U.S
Bennington
Albert W. Anderson
North Providence
R.I
Thomas Kelly
Anderson
Kelly
Howard Johnson
George Breen
Potentials, Inc
Manchester
Thrift Shop raises over twenty eight thousand for community aid
The Thrift Shop has raised well over $28,000 for the United Counseling Service and its predecessor in eleven years. The effort credits all donors buyers and workers including men and town officials who provided space and services. The Banner Printer merchants and hundreds of Bennningtonians are thanked for their part.
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United Counseling Service
Banner
Killington skier wins Sugar Slalom at Stowe
AP reports Rick Chafee of Killington Ski Club captured the two day Sugar Slalom on Nosedive Trail with a 56 second run through 60 gates, beating John Clough of Middlebury by 1.6 seconds. Rosie Fortna of Mt Mansfield Ski Club won the girls race in 1:01.1, ahead of Susan Palmer of Royal Mountain Ski Club by 1.1 seconds.
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Stowe
Rick Chafee
Killington
Chafee
Vermont
John Clough
Middlebury
Rosie Fortna
Mt. Mansfield
Susan Palmer
Royal Mountain Ski Club
Migrant Labor Bill Faces Public Health Committee Review
Vermont migrant labor measure may be reassigned from the House General Committee to the Public Health Committee for a hearing. The bill would create two boards to advise on migrant worker policies and grant the health department enforceable minimum housing and sanitation standards in camps. Critics doubted a favorable report, while supporters aim for improved compliance by employers.
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Allan B. Angney Jr
Burlington
House General Committee
Public Health Committee
Citizens Advisory Committee
Department of Health
General Committee
Laine Vance
Rdanville
House
Franklin S. Billings
Rngney
Angney
Vance
Alice Landon
New Haven
Shaftsbury Methodist Church
Bennington
Amaipefere
Shaftsbury Group
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Northfield
John Shuttle
Albert Premont
Vernon V. Truman
Glen Corey
Donald Shuttle
Ricardo Diego
Rutland
Girl Scout Council of Rutland, Inc
Rutland Council
Campfire
National Council
Gibsons
U.S. Supreme Court
Vermont House of Representatives
Ernest W. Gibson III
Brattleboro
Supreme Court
House of Representatives
Senate
U.S. District Court
Ernest W. Gibson
United Press International Broadcasters Association
Eagle Mills
Explorer
Fort Ann
Federal Locks
Kennedy
Down In
Berkshire
Williams Fraternity
William Persip
North Branch Street
Ext
Persip
van Pelt
Bennington Area
Telephones Business
Newsroom
Bennington Banner
Main St
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
Elk’s
Grand Union
Triple “S
Blue Stample
Mercury
Bennington Garage Corp
Main Street
Darling Kelly Motel
Thrift Shop
Today
Vermont Transit Lines
Washington Ave
DeWalt
Darra James
H. Greenberg & Son
Vermont Bank and Trust Company
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Rutland - Bennington
Bellows Falls
Chester
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