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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1964
Page
10
Montpelier administration commissioner William F. Kearns Jr ordered tighter controls on state telephone use. He cited employees using lines for dates and personal calls and warned agencies to cut costs or be charged directly to their appropriations. The state spent 268000 on phone bills last year as justification.
Hospital notes list admissions and discharges around Bennington Hoosick Falls and North Bennington. Notable entries include Mrs May Lewis Ethel Camp Master Robert Welch Walter Austin and several others with dates April 24 25 or 26 for newborns and transfers. A separate line mentions playes divulging trunk line dial in numbers once kept confidential.
Local registration for September kindergarten enrollment opens in Bennington. Young Mothers Group meets Tuesday at 8 p.m. at a North Bennington home. Cooties from Green Mountain Pup Tent No. 2 distributed 2500 lollipops at Manchester Loyalty Day parade. Bennington Little League and VFW Auxiliary hold Tuesday meetings. Veterans Memorial Committee to meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the VFW Hall. Dennis Harper, 12, caught three native trout on opening day behind Paper Mill Village. Spring shrub sale announces limited stock including lilacs and butterfly bushes. Shrubs contact 442-6222. Bennington Lanes new bowling hours posted.
The funeral for Douglas L. Stewart of Albany and formerly of Bennington was held Wednesday at the Sullivan Minehan Funeral Home in Glens Falls. The Rev. William Montgomery officiated with bearers LeRoy Marsden Hugh Mathieson Alpha Barber Kenneth Mason Dr. Preston Evans and Richard Dodge. Burial followed at Park Lawn Cemetery with Rev. Stephen C. Greene officiating. Stewart died Sunday morning at the U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany.
Walter F. Atwood Sr. 80 of 131 Home St Hoosick Falls died Saturday after a long illness. He leaves wife Mabel and children Raye mond Florence and Myron, plus 12 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday 2 p.m. at Leo J Mahar Funeral Home. Donald C. Mork 35 of South Ashfield Mass known as Seraffyn died Friday in a head on collision in Har dee ville S.C. Born Newton Mass, he studied at Harvard and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art London and won a Wales festival prize. He billed himself as the Last great troubadour and played flute in medieval attire. He was household bard for the Treadway Inns. He married Anna Romaine in 1959 and performed in Vermont and Berkshire areas.
Loyalists gathered as Manchester marked Loyalty Day with VFW and American Legion participants from Dorset, Rutland, Bennington, and Manchester. Scouts, fire and police departments, school bands, and units from Pittsfield and Schuylerville joined a tradition dating to 1951, with state proclamation in 1958.
The Spring Formal is set at Mt Anthony Country Club for Saturday. Reservations are filling quickly and should be phoned in early this week. Dick Hurlburt's orchestra will provide music and a sandwich buffet will be served at midnight. Tuxedo or dark suit attire is encouraged.
A West Rutland woman and two of her grandchildren were injured on Vermont Routes 11 and 30 Sunday night. They were taken to Rutland Hospital. the driver was 17 year old Carolin Zullo and the victims include Leocadia Duszkiewicz 69 and Elaine A. Ziffle 10.
Mrs William Slater wife of the Addison County Independent publisher was named president of the Vermont Wellesley Club. The annual meeting in Montpelier elected James Monahan Essex Junction first vice president Adelaide Mayo Woodstock second vice president Catherine Ashburner Middlebury secretary Robert Holt Montpelier treasurer and Clarence Howard Old Bennington nominating chair. Guest speaker was A John Holden Jr Vermont Commissioner of Education. Plans were set for a summer picnic at Joseph Bates home in Manchester.
Dow Jones industrial average at 811.79 down 3.10 points led by declines in 30 stocks while the rail index slipped to 194.96 and utilities held at 139.97. Composite average stood at 284.18 down 1.05 with about 2.14 million shares traded.
Vermont accidents claim two lives over the weekend. In North Williston two year old Ralph Geraw was killed when struck by a CVR train after being dragged about 150 feet. In Cornwall 20 year old William Granger died when a car careened off Route 30 and flipped, trapping him under the vehicle.
Two motorists died in a near head-on collision on U S Route 2 in Charlotte. Donald L. Clark of Burlington aged 62 and Alva Vincent of Vergennes aged 20 were killed. both cars were demolished and left the roadway. State Police Medical Examiner H B Levine ruled both dead at the scene. The crash raised this year’s road fatalities to 35, compared with none at the same point last year.
Eloise Rabideau 37 of Wallingford pleads not guilty in Municipal Court to six counts of breach of the peace after alleged April disturbances and an assault on Tina Lorenz. Bail set at 100 dollars. trial planned for May 14.
Opposition to a shared time plan in Chicago seeks a court ruling on constitutionality. The proposal would allow students from a parochial school to attend a public high school under construction on the South Side while remaining enrolled in the church school. The Chicago School Board approved the experiment slated for September 1965, with opponents planning a Supreme Court challenge and the ACLU weighing involvement.
A Burlington area hearing was set in county court on a motion to compel Leo Durocher to return to Vermont in a $150000 alienation of affection suit. Rene Morin alleges Durocher harmed his wife Anna, 51, while Durocher denies the charge amid support from Morin’s wife and four daughters. Durocher’s Vermont attorney counters the return order, amid ties to plaintiff’s daughter Carolyn Morin and a January arrest after an American Legion speech.
Ellen Geer Sangster, Buxton School co director, will address the North Shaftsbury Community Club on Wednesday April 29 at 8 pm in the club rooms. She will discuss Ghana from her visits there. Public invited, no admission charge, refreshments served.
Five of six Bennington boys injured in a one car crash on Vermont 9 near the Bennington Village line were listed in fair to good condition at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Driver John Cornell 20 suffered chest face and neck burns and possible concussion.
The Vermont Church Council sponsors an interfaith civil rights mass meeting in Montpelier Tuesday at 8 p.m. It opens on the Capitol lawn with Gov Hoff speech, then moves to the city auditorium for brief remarks by leaders of Jewish Catholic and Protestant churches. A civil rights legislation expert will deliver the main address.
The Unitarian Fellowship in Bennington re elected Paul E. Kirsch as chair for the coming year at its fifth annual meeting. Phillip Viereck and Lloyd Oppenheimer were re elected as vice chair and secretary, with John Bischof as treasurer and several women and men named to standing committees. The budget was deferred until June, and the group unanimously donated 100 to the Goodall Hutton Memorial Scholarship Fund for Bennington High School graduates pursuing teaching.
Two Arlington men, Howard Jennings and Thomas A. Lane, were treated at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a car left U S 7 near the Yankee Restaurant and rolled over following a sharp curve. The car was a total loss. The incident accompanies an hourlong National Council of Churches influenced observance with Vermont officials via telephone and clergy coordinated by the Vermont Church Council Social Action Committee urging attendance for a demonstration on human rights and dignity.
Mrs. Cecile Watson was elected president of the Bennington Rural Fire Dept Auxiliary at a meeting in the Willow Road firehouse. Other officers named include vice president Anna Krawczyk and secretary Olive Macauley. the group formed Jan 27 1954 and planned events through May including pins, dinners, a refreshment concession, and a May 14 auxiliary dinner.
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