CD Crews Mop Up Mock Disaster Response
District 3 headquarters in Bute land and Brattleboro directed fire trucks from Bennington Bennington Rural and North Bennington Fire Departments and the Bennington Rescue Squad to a statewide mock disaster. Communications staff relayed instructions by radio. auxiliary police and a priest assisted in crowd control. Fire trucks and ambulances were dispatched to multiple factories and schools including Polygraphic Co and Molly Stark School, with relay links between Bennington and Brattleboro and Mt Equinox.
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District 3
Buteland
Brattleboro
Ormal Pierce Sr
Bennington
North Bennington
Gerald Cornell
Montpellier
Hansone Walbridge
Polygraphic Co
Franklin Frantz
BCHS
Kenneth Thomson
Scarseburg
Raedio
Rutland
Rodney Rice
Shaftsbury CD
Mt. Equinox
Keneneth Thomson
Shaftsbury
Pierce
Rene Mont
Thomson Manufacturing Co
Union Carbide
Bijur Lubricating Corp
Bennington Brush
Bennington Display
Bennington Pottery
Lally Manufacturing Co
Sibley Manufacturing Co
Lauzon’s Machine Shop
H. T. Cushman Co
Shea Inc
Vermont Tissue Paper Co
Tanssitor Electronics Co
Heald Plastics
Globe + Union
Vermont Container
Molly Stark
Beech Street
Bennington Counsy
Public Session Tonight To Air Union School Plans
Residents of the Mt. Anthony Union School District are reminded of a 7:30 public session at Bennington Elementary School to review and suggest changes to the new union high school. Representatives from The Architects Collaborative will discuss preliminary plans and revisions from prior meetings. The union board will meet at 9 to finalize review and authorize final drawings for bids and construction.
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Union
Mt. Anthony Union School
Union Board
Union High School
Bennington
School Street
Architects Collaborative
Leopold Signs Rights Law Statement
MONTPELIER Mental Health Commissioner Jonathan Leopold announced he signed a statement confirming the department complies with the Civil Rights Act. The pledge bars discrimination by race color or national origin in services or employment and is required to receive federal mental health funds. The Health Department signed a similar statement last month.
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Montpelier
UPD
Jonathan Leopold
Leopold
Health Department
Scotch Foursome Play Opens at Mt Anthony Club
The Scotch Foursome at Mt Anthony Country Club starts Wednesday night with play ending at the 4th 5th or 7th hole as darkness falls. If rain forces cessation, an early dinner and discussions on movies dance to records. Burt Hartington prizes include first 3 titlists second 2 titlists third 1 titlist.
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Scotch Foursome
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Burt Hartington
Reapportioners Hope For Plan This Week
Montpelier House Reapportionment Committee aims to finish a 150 member plan with two alternatives based on adjusted population and legal voters and to consider a 210 member plan also with two options this week. The plans target floor action soon with parallel options for both sizes.
Annual Meeting Set May 11 For Old Bennington
Old Bennington residents plan the annual village meeting on Tuesday May 11 at 8 p.m. in the Old Bennington Schoolhouse. The warning calls for four articles including annual village reports tax rate for 1965 borrowing authority in anticipation of taxes and election of officers. The fifth article covers any other necessary business.
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Old Bennington
Obituary of George Oathout in Watervliet NY
George Oathout 83 former Watervliet resident dies after long illness at Van Rensselaer Manor North Greenbush aged 83. He worked for Tilley Ladder Co Watervliet retiring 1953 and belonged to Jermain Memorial Presbyterian Church and United Mine Workers Union. Survived by sister and two grandchildren. Funeral Thursday 11 am Bowen Funeral Home Watervliet with Rev. Richard W. Evans officiating. Interment Albany Rural Cemetery.
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Hoolick Falls
N. Y
George Oathout
van Rensselaer Manor
North Greenbush
Oathout
Waetervliet
Tilley Ladder Co
Jermain Memorial Presbyterian Church
Wastervliet
United Mine Workers Union
Married couple weds in Brabner home double ring ceremony
Miss Norma Jean Gauthier of Pownal Road and Gerod Sanders of Burlington were married Friday afternoon in a double ring ceremony at the Barber home. Officiating was William M. Barber, justice of the peace.
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Shaftsbury
Norma Jean Gauthier
Pownal Road
Gerod Sanders
Bennington
William M. Barber
Barber
Lincoln Visits Carnegie Class in Spirit at Dale Carnegie Course
Abe Lincoln inspired a Bennington Dale Carnegie class where members shared experiences. Awards for best talks went to Walter Vassara Dean Drysdale and Ivan Atwood from a 35 student cohort. Gifts included copies of Lincoln the Unknown. Awards presented by graduate assistants Salvatore and Ethel Santarcangelo and instructor Murt Edson.
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Abraham Lincoln
Bennington
Dale Carnegie
Lincoln the
Walter Vassara
Dean Drysdale
Ivan Atwood
Salvatore
Ethel Santarcangelo
Murt Edson
Hearing Set on Bill To End Interlocking Directors
The Vermont House Banking and Corporations Committee will hear Wednesday a bill to outlaw interlocking directorates in state banks and savings and loan associations. Backed by the Banking and Insurance Department and Gov. Hoff, the measure would end individuals serving on competing bank boards in Vermont.
Vermont lawmakers face $10 daily penalty for unexcused absences
A bill from Rep. Dwight Pickard would dock legislators ten dollars per day for each legislative session they miss without a valid excuse. A Monday night roll call showed 78 members were absent, a figure used to argue the bill’s potential fiscal impact on the state legislature.
School Age Bill Sent To Hoff
The Senate concurred with House amendments and sent to the governor a bill raising Vermont’s school age attendance to 16 years or 10th grade, whichever comes first. The House approved it without dissent. a prior Senate version would set 17 or 10th grade. The existing law requires attendance until 16 or end of 8th grade.
Legislature debates council membership and per diem changes
The Senate will hear a bill to set equal House and Senate membership on the council with seven members each and a per diem of 25 dollars. The Senate version also shortens the council’s life to 1967. The House passed the bill amid strong opposition. amendments could jeopardize final approval.
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Montpelier
Senate
House
Trading Stamp Use in U S Supermarkets in 1963
Trading Stamp Drake of the Bureau of Labor Statistics notes about 65 percent of U S supermarkets and chain stores used stamp plans in mid 1963. The article contrasts stamps as cash discounts versus a business cost akin to advertising, arguing price changes for store improvements and taxes should be reflected in the CPI.
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Drake
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Monthly Labor Review
U. S
Civil Rights Victory in West Helena Eviction Reversal
In West Helena Arkansas a Black family faced eviction for civil rights activity. After SNCC and local voters league pled with the real estate firm, the firm reversed policy and accepted April rent, signaling a broader Southern unity against economic retaliation for civil rights work.
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West Helena
Ark
South
Lazarus Lamar
Lamar
West Side Voters League
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Lamars
SNCC
League
Hospital Notes Admissions List With multiple names
Hospital notes show admissions including Theresa Watson Paul Watson Janet Vince Dawn Becerra Mary Jane Cone Autumn Main and Alta Davis with locations Bennington Petersburg Searsburg Hoosick Falls. Discharges include Peter Panos Evelyn Braedish Gordon Crookes Buskirk North Bennington. Births record two daughters for Carl Crawford Searsburg and Donald Moberg 385 Prospect St on April 26.
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Theresa Watson
Paul Watson
Janet Vince
Dawn Becerra
Mary Jane Cone
Bennington
Autumn Main
Petersburg
Alta Davis
Searsburg
Havery Shaw
Hoosick Falls
Peter Panos
Evelyn Braedish
North Bennington
Gordon Crookes
Buskirk
N.Y
Bennington Unification Study Seeks Town Fire Department Merger
Bennington's Unification Study Committee weighs merging three fire departments into a single town unit led by a paid fire commissioner while keeping current chiefs in charge locally. Debate over mandatory post vs discretionary creation, and how many selectmen to elect, dominates as tax and district questions loom.
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Bennington
Fire and Water
North Bennington
George Horst
Fire Department
Rural Fire Department
Prudential Committee
Horst
Arthur D. Taylor
Unification Committee
Tee
Taylor
Highway and Police
Sules Committee
Stock Averages At Noon On Industrial and Rail Groups
The stock market at noon shows the industrials up 4.05 to 920.91 and railroads advancing 0.43 to 212.60. Utilities gain 0.41 to 161.92 with the composite average at 320.18, up 1.11. Totals indicate 2,920,000 shares traded.
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Buckler
Bennington Fire Department
County Street
David Gil
Civil Defense Auxiliary
William Carroll
Leo Boutin
Boutin
Jack Lemmon
Technicolor
United Artists
Bennington Briefs
F.C. Eagles
Emblem Club
Elks Barn
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
St. Philip and St. James
Josephine Ballou
American Legion Auxiliary
St. Francis de Sales Ptg
St. Peter’s
BPO Elks
Mammoth Monickers
San Diego
Calif
UPI
Balboa Park
Channarong Ratanaseangsuang
Thailand
Vanchai Sansaniyakulvlai
San Diego State College
Abe Lincoln
Carnegie
Vermont
Hoff
Goddard College
Atlanta
By Michael T. Bayer
Carl Crawford
Donald Moberg
Prospect St
Springfield
Danny Allen
Caverly Child Health Center
Pittsford
Mike Armtrong
St. Albans
Pack 20
Cub Scouts
Danny
Edward Allen
Caverly
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Jay
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