Bookworms in the Garden Focus of Bennington Club
The Bennington Garden Club met Tuesday at the Bennington Free Library to discuss gardening books and sources. Librarian Betty Howlett noted gardening interest rivals sports and highlighted magazines, pamphlets, and books as key resources while reading selections on organic methods and home cultivation.
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Bennington Garden Club
Bennington Free Library
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Jeannie Darlington
Rodale Press
Diane Globus
Ferdinand Mayer
JB. Jackson
William R. Scott
Firat
Vermont Tuberculosis Group to Change Name
Burlington notes say the Vermont Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association will hold its annual meeting May 4 at the Sheraton Motor Inn Burlington with a dinner and speaker Brice D. Bennett, National TB RDAssociation consultant. The group plans a possible name change to Vermont Tang Association and trustees will handle the business portion. Reservations for the dinner are requested via the VTRDA office in South Burlington.
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Burlington
Vermont Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association
Sheraton Motor Inn
Vermont Tang Association
Tbrd Association
American ‘Lang Association
YTHDA
Brice D. Bennett
Obituary for Kenneth W. Oakes 74 in Bennington Vermont
Kenneth W. Oakes of 113 Oakes Street died Thursday at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was 74, born in Bennington on August 21, 1898, son of Arthur and Minnie Rice Oakes. He worked at Bradford and Rockwood Mills, married Elizabeth Jordan in 1922, and leaves four daughters, two sons, twenty one grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren. The funeral is Monday at Mahar and Son Funeral Home at 9:30 a.m. with the wake services this weekend at the family home.
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Kenneth W. Oakes
Oakes
Bennington
Arthur and
Minnie (Rice) Oakes
Old
St. Francis de Sales Church
Warren Cemetery
Boyntonville
Chaterine Goodrich
R.D. 1
Heosick Falls
N.Y
Gerald
Agnes) Flynner Troy
Robert
Marion) Hicks
Lee
Mass
Edward
Zane) Tetreault
Voluntown
Conn
Charles D. Gakes
Woodford
Bryan B. Gakes
John
Verna) Peters
Phyllis Peters
Canton
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Spring Swing at Mt Anthony High School Cafeteria
The freshman class sponsors a Spring Swing dance from 8 to 12 Saturday night in the Mt Anthony Union High School cafeteria. Winners of free tickets were Bill Carey Russ Pembroke and Oby Bodenstab. Music by Otis. All invited. proceeds support the freshman class treasury.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
Bill Carey
Russ Pembroke
Oby Bodenstab
Otis
W A Brown elected to head Park McCullough Associates
W A Brown was chosen to lead the Park McCullough Associates at a April 14 banquet marking the association's fifth anniversary. New officers for 1973 74 include Frances Ross vice president Ruth Dewey secretary and John Clawson treasurer. The group also renamed to Park McCullough House Associates Inc reflecting the Big House history and planned broader public appeal.
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McCullough Mansion Association
W. Averell Brown
Lucien M. Hanks
Frances Ross
Ruth Dewey
John Clawson
Whic
Park
McCullough House Associates Inc
McCullough
Park-McCullough
Douglas
the Parke Society
Stuart Park
Fred Stocking
Vermont Division of Historic Sites
Charles Liebs
Vermont Historical Society
Donald Brown
Bennington College
Ken Kensinger
Robert Condon
Barton Jenks
National Society of Colonial Dames
Thomas C. Thomas
Lawrence Powers
Gerald Raftery
Vermont Council On the Arts
John Kouwenhoven
Nixon to Visit Japan Pledged In Principle
Washington reports that Japan agrees in principle to a presidential visit, but no date has been set. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler stated that Tokyo’s foreign minister had earlier said no invitation plans, while Nixon has expressed desire to visit Japan.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Japan
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Masayoshi Ohira
Bloodmobile collects 183 pints in April Bennington visit
The Red Cross Bloodmobile drew 183 pints during an April visit to Bennington on Wednesday. Donors earning gallon pins included David Berry six gallons and John Cleary five gallons. Local industry attendance featured Eagle Square with 31 donors and Bijur Lubricating Corp with 21. Volunteers, motor corps, canteen and Gray Ladies teams are listed, with June 27 set for the next visit.
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Red Cross Bloodmobile
Bennington
David Berry
John Cleary
Ray Crosier
Robert Fletcher
Samuel Carrara
Joseph Coonradt
Margot Bartlett
Robert Beauchamp
Charles Bleau
Patricia Frnzer
Robert Kennedy
Bruce Knapp
Brice Lackey
Harold C. Percey
Thomas Rogers
Ervin Starr
Eagle Square
Bijur Lubricating Corp
Union Carbide
Green Mt. Furniture
Tansitor
Globe Union
Chemical Faberies
David Buzzell
Gary Button
Karen Hendrijus
Deborah Schultz
Fred Gunzel
Margaret Goddard
Joseph
George Atwood
Arthur My
Philip Hall
Dean Hanson
Arthur Muehmore
Bein Vail
William Sims
George Kerbs
Carroll Killen
Richard Hunt
Joale McKeon
Stanley Baczel
Albert Edmundson
Gray
William Dalley Jr
Abigail Pine
Scott Leake
Arthur Pierce
Salmon to Speak at Middlebury Environmental Talk
Gov. Thomas P. Salmon will discuss recent Vermont environmental legislation and the state scene at 8 p.m. on Tuesday May 1 in Mead Capel on the Middlebury College campus. The event is open to the public and sponsored by Environmental Quality. Afterward he will take questions in Proctor Hall Lounge during an information session.
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Middlebury
Thomas P. Salmon
Vermont
Mead Capel
Middlebury College
Governor’s Office
The
Environmental Scene
Environmental Quality
Proctor Hall
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Main Street
Santa Fe
On.m
TB Group
Augustus B. Wadsworth Jr
Audubon Ecology Workshop
Greenwich
W.A. Brown
McCullough Associates
Veronica Geannelis
Gage Street
Susan King
Park Street Extension
North Branch Street
North Branch
Bellemare & Sons
Eameneel
Faye
Northside Drive
Bencington
Angus
Tartell
Corrinne Richard
Arnold Blackstone
John Litster
Alex Mabar
James ‘Moore Jr
J.W. Fitzgerald
Loyal Nash
Charles Salem
W.F. Stow
Norton West
Robert Morton
Dudley Baker Ander
Raymond Huether
Irene Johnson
Yvonne Mattson
Marcia Laf Lamme
Salmon
A Loan Association
Main
Nancy MacMillin Miller
Anil
Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington, Wt
Peroggi
Poland
Tourtiere
French
Canada
Italy
France
Korea
City
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