County Motorists Unhurt In Weekend Accidents
State police report three weekend accidents on Bennington County roads with no injuries. A two car collision on South Stream Road in Pownal involved Greg ory P. Dwyer and Alfred G. Bostwick, both noted with ages and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
South Stream Road
Pownal
Gregory P. Dwyer
Beech St
Alfred G. Bostwick
North Bennington Road
Dwyer
Bostwick
Motors Plea Plea Guilty In Municipal Court Notice
In a rare Monday session there were no arraignments as several motorists pleaded guilty by waiver to motor vehicle violations. Defendants included Leon N. King Sr. of Williamstown Massachusetts who paid 105.10 for transporting a truck without highway use permit on April 20 in Pownal Vermont. Deborah R. Bick of North Bennington paid 25 for driving on Vermont 67A without a license on April 18. Donald R. Haas of Pownal pleaded guilty to speeding and paid 20 and 10 for failing to stop at a stop sign while entering Vermont 346 from old U.S. 7. Theodore J. Nowak of Cheshire Massachusetts paid 15.10 for driving a truck on Vermont 346 in Pownal with four front-seat passengers on April 20. Marshall A. Fillmore of White Creek New York pleaded guilty for failing to stop at the Monument Avenue and U.S. intersection, with a 10 fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon N. King Sr
Williamstown
Mass
Powe Nal
Deborah R Bick
North Bennington
Vermont
Donald R. Haas
Pownal
U.S
Haas
Theodore J. Nowak
Cheshire
Marshall A. Fillmore
White Creek
N.Y
Monument Avenue
County Court Judge Natt L Divoll in Bennington for December term
Superior Judge Natt L Divoll of Bellows Falls is in Bennington today to complete business for the December term of Bennington County Court. This morning he will hear divorce cases and motions in pending civil suits and a civil case by Donald S Roach against Gordon Hier. On Tuesday the court will hear a civil suit by A and W Artesian Well Co of Vermont Inc against Sam Batonick, with Sennett representing the plaintiff and Waldo C Holden the defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natt L. Divoll
Bellows Falls
Bennington
Decemeer
Donald S. Roach
Gordon Hier
A and W Artesian Well Co
Vermont
Weapons of Viet Cong seized in Chuong Thien battle
McNamara reported 101 captured weapons from the Chuong Thien engagement on April 5 and 6 showing 72 modern rifles and carbines and other arms of Chinese Communist origin. He noted units withdrew to U Minh Forest to train with new Chinese weapons and that ammunition must be infiltrated from North Vietnam.
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Chuong Thien
U.S
U Minh Forest
Viet Nam
Johnson
Bennington Briefs: Local News and Events
Fireman Richard J. LaFlamme USN son of Mr and Mrs Walter J LaFlamme of 62 Pageant St serves aboard USS Midway operating in the South China Sea as part of air strike operations against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese targets. Miss Jean GarvinMontpelier educator will speak at 1 pm Tuesday at United Counseling Service. Serra Club father son dinner set for Wednesday at Mt Anthony Country Club with Father Cuniffe as guest speaker. VFW Auxiliary meets Tuesday at 8 pm at VFW rooms, FOE Eagles meet Tuesday with officer nominations, Emblem Club holds special meeting at Elks Barn to prep for installation. Mr and Mrs Leslie Soper return from two weeks in Baltimore Washington and New York. Soper attends hospital engineers convention. Wanted dishwasher apply in person Iron Kettle Restaurant Shaftsbury ADV April 26.
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Richard J. LaFlamme
USN
Walter J. LaFlamme
Midway
South China Sea
Viet Nam
U.S. Seventh Fleet
Jean Garvin
Montpelier
State Department of Education
United Counseling Service
UCS
Serra Club
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Father Cuniffe
Sacred Heart Fathers of
Great Barrington
Mass
VFW
North Street
FOE Eagles
Emblem Club
Elks Barn
Leslie Soper
School Street
Balimore
Washington
New York
Baltimore
Soper
Convention of
Hospital Engineers
Hospital Notes Admissions and Births Include Several Names
A hospital notes column lists admissions and discharges across Bennington Manchester Center Hoosick Falls and surrounding towns. Admissions include Steven Therriault Mrs Flaevilla Elwell Mrs Bertha Hamileton Carr Sweet Peter Shepard Sr Charles Robinson Master Erwin Robin East Rupert Mrs Roberta Cramer Harold D Best and many others. Discharges name Jacqueline Squiers Joanna Reed Master John Carpenter Barbara Breese John Bakaitis and more. A birth announced for Sally Ann Howe rd Guare Jr to Mr and Mrs Howard T Guare Jr in Peoria Ill with details on the families involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steven Therriault
Flaevilla Elwell
Bertha Hamileton
Carr Sweet
Bennington
Peter Shepard Sr
North Benenington
Charles Robinson
Shaftsbury
Erwin Robin
East Rupert
Roberta Cramer
Hoosick Falls
Jacqueline Squiers
Joanna Reed
John Carpenter
Benningston
Barbara Breese
John Bakaitis
Stock Averages at Noon on Dow Jones Board
The noon report shows the Dow Jones industrials at 914.21, down 2 points. The railroads average slips 0.15 to 211.97, utilities fall 0.41 to 161.95, and the composite stands at 318.63, down 0.64. Total turnover reaches 2,310,000 shares.
Sirens Sound Tonight For State Civil Defense Test
Sirens will wail and fire horns hoot between 7 and 10 tonight signaling the start of a statewide Civil Defense test. William Mattison heads Bennington CD organization with volunteers from the town fire departments police and Rescue Squad to solve five sealed problems and establish a communications net. Fallout information will be transmitted to CD District 3 headquarters in Rutland by communications personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Mattison
Bennington
Franklin Frantz
CD District 3
Rutland
Bill Would Put State Workers Under Unemployment Benefits
Montpelier lawmakers reconvene to consider a bill granting state workers unemployment compensation eligibility while excluding elected officials. The package also proposes higher vehicle inspection sticker fees, up to 1.50, and funding moves for Rutland City tax limits and Montpelier payments in lieu of tax status. A separate measure would levy a 1000 penalty for altering a stream without Water Resources Board permission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland City
Montpelier
Water Resources Board
Hammond elected vice chairman of AMA National Security Council
Dr. James P. Hammond M D of Bennington has been elected vice chairman of the Council on National Security of the American Medical Association. Reappointed by Dr. Percy Hopkins the council advises on medical and health aspects of national security and coordinates military medical affairs with DoD and the U S Public Health Service to improve care for armed forces personnel.
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Dr. Hammond
AMA Council
Chicago
James P. Hammond, M
Bennington
Council On National Security
American Medical Association
Percy E. Hopkins
The
AMA
Council
Department of Defense
Surgeons General of the Armed Forces
U.S. Public Health Service
Strike Ends For Vt IBM Workers
Several hundred workers returned to the IBM plant in Essex Junction Vermont after a four day stoppage by Laborers Local 522. The walkout, sparked by a jurisdictional dispute with Carpenters Local 683 over truck unloading, delayed construction ahead of partial occupancy planned for the end of the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essex Junction
UPI
International Business Machines Corp
Laborers Union Local 522
Carpenters Union Local 683
IBM
Marked Drop in Unemployment in Vermont March
Vermont unemployment fell in March for the first time since September, per the Department of Employment Security. About 9,400 without work, down from February by 3,000, marking the largest March drop since 1958 and roughly double last year’s decline.
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Montpelier
Vermont
DES
Anglers Rescue Boy After Ice Break At Woodford Pond
A six year old, Matthew Pietryka, slipped into icy water when the Red Mill Pond ice broke near the stream mouth in Woodford. Alden Harbour and the boy’s father quickly pulled him to safety, clothes were swapped, and the boy returned home with his prize trout.
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Woodford
Red Mill Pond
Matthew Pietryka
Napoleon Pietryka
Bennington
Alden Harbour
Red Mill
Matthew
Molly Stark School
Ralph Thurber
Spring Street
Breech Split Injures Hand in Gun Test
Bruce Bird 22 of Bennington was treated at Putnam Memorial Hospital after the breech of an 8 mm rifle portion of a combined shotgun rifle exploded during a test firing. Bird, of 246 School Street, sustained injuries to his left hand.
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Bennington
Putenam Memorial Hospital
Bruce Bird
School St
North Adams Driver To Face Charges
Hoosick Falls, N Y. Theodore Bridges of North Adams will face charges of driving while intoxicated after a 3 30 a m Monday collision with Katherine Dooley s parked 1957 Dodge on 10 Hoosick Street The Dooley vehicle was totaled Bridges in a 1959 Ford was hospitalized briefly for a cut lip and released at Putnam Memorial Hospital Bennigton
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
North Adams
Mass
Theodore Bridges
Katherine Dooley
Hoosick St
Dooley
Dunns Observe 45th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Leroy Dunn of 1015 Main Street quietly observe their 45th wedding anniversary today. He was formerly the Bennington agent for the Railway Express Agency and they now run the Pico Motel and Cabins in Clarendon. Their two children live in Bennington Larry Dunn on Chapel Road and Mrs Myron J Woodward on 940 Gage Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy Dunn
Main St
Dunn
Bennington
Railway Express Agency
Pico
Clarendon
Larry Dunn
Chapel Road
Myron J. Woodward
Gage St
Budget Bill Expected Out This Week
The House Appropriations Committee plans to bring a large biennial budget bill to the House floor this week. Governor Hoff seeks a $94 million two year budget beginning July 1 with most programs kept intact. Chairman Mallary signals cuts to administration but additions to special education.
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Hoff
Mallory
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Killington
Augustine Patrick Flynn
Avondale Meadows
West Shaftsbury
Avondale
Newfoundland
Quincy
Brainstree
Fore River
Bethelehem Steel Co
St. John the Baptist Church
M. Matthew Flynn
St. Joseph’s Abbey
Spencer
Robert
William
Youngstown
Ohio
Thomas Tabbot
Swampscott
Phyllis
Lillian
Gregery
Machar & Son Funeral
Benenington
St. John’s Cemetery
Harry R. Bickford
Wilmington
Harry Ray Bickford
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Congregational Church
Albert G
Mary
Ray) Bickford
Lottie Capen
Harry Jr
Brattleboro
George E
Nashville, Tenn
Roy E
Kathryn Sumner
Fitchburg, Mass
Dorothy Sparrow
Goldie Bickford
Wallace A
Everett F
J. Wendell Smith
Rock of Ages Corp
Rock of Ages
Washington County
Donald Smith
McNamara
Mary Petras
West Main Street
Arlington
U.S. 7
Sunderland
Phillip C. Ver Hoeve
Brooklyn
Regina K. Tierney
Airport Road
Joel T. Whittemore Jr
Whipstock Road
Thomas P. Kinney Jr
Union St
Kinney
Old Bennington
Bennington Briefs
Iron Kettle Restaurant
Rose Brown
Elizabeth Congdon
Fern DeConnick
David Beckwith
Manchester Center
Mars
Garet Weyers
North Pownal
Brian Edwards
Pownal Center
Alice Baker
Erwin Tobin
Jessie Bowen
East Dorset
Chad Phillips
F. Siemeon Crosier
Harold D. Best
East Arlington
Helen Sherman
R.D. 1
Michele Howard
Hoossick Falls
Richard D. Bogardus
Flavilla Elwell
Heli J. Mercier
Manchester Depot
George Briggs
Jacksonville
Gladys Hareris
Donald E. Winselow
McKinley St
George Cross
Rene D. DuBois
Park Street Extension
William Szirbik
Church Street
Dorset
Sally Ann
Howeard T. Guare Jr
Peoria, Ill
Guare
Nancy Holden
Robert T. Holden
Mt. Anthony Road
New Arc
Howard T. Guare
Grandview St
Iwyn Mayes
Deri Ry
James Evamarie Rod
Dow Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Walter
Hagerman
Tony Longtin
Chris Gates
Edward Raetz
Richard Longtin
Tony
Congress St. Richard
Dunns
Bennington, VT
East Main ST
Johnson$ Breakfast Club
Howard Johnson's
Inas
Howard Johnsons
Nnington
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