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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1970
Page
9
Clyde Dunlap reports a sugar season close to last year despite a late start from cold weather in March. He hung 2,600 buckets and produced 627 gallons, just one gallon shy of prior year. Quality was mostly Grade A, with no chemical pills used to inhibit bacteria, and sap flow unaffected.
Williams College announced on April 28 that New York City mayor John V. Lindsay will deliver the 181st commencement address on June 7 in Williamstown. President John E. Sawyer disclosed the plan at the annual ceremony.
The Altar Rosary Society of Immaculate Conception Church Hoosick Falls held a card party in the church hall on April 27. Door prize went to Mrs Ruth Van de Car and an embroidered tablecloth donated by Miss Edith Gigel was won by Joseph Buckley. Participants played bridge pinnacle and pitch with prizes for each.
Hoosick Falls Fire Department battled a Sunday blaze at Mrs. Chester Jones’s Carey Avenue home. The fire, caused by defective electrical wiring, damaged an upstairs bedroom and was extinguished in under an hour.
Mrs. Charlotte Dunlap, chair of the Northern Sunderland Red Cross fund drive committee, reports a very gratifying response. Workers included Marian Bahan, Nellie Hayden, Evelyn Snow, Pat Hill, Barbara Matteson, and Linda Hill, with Anna Ennis reaching out-of-town residents.
Seven members of the First Baptist Church were baptized Sunday at 7 30 p.m. Arthur Bailey Mark Colford and six women named Mrs Bonnie Davidson Mrs Barbara Oakes Mrs Phyllis Williams Miss Jane Williams and Miss Maxine Williams participated. WO Joachim s Mass schedule for St Joachim s church lists Low Mass at 7 30 p m Confessions before Mass and High Mass at 6 30 p m. May crowning on May 24 and first Holy Communion plus forty hours of devotions opening May 31 are planned. Former residents Fred and Sarah Jones visited by Rev and Mrs Geer in New Hampshire. Fred manages Waterville Valley Recreation Area. Paul Bedell and family vacationed in Maryland and attended a 40th wedding anniversary in East Greenbush New York. The West Arlington Methodist Ladies Aid meets May 4 at 8 p.m. at the Community House to plan activities.
Williamstown hosts a free poetry reading by Barbara Howes of Pownal Vermont on Thursday April 30 at 8 p.m. in the Berkshire Prospect Lounge. Howes, Boston born, edited a New York literary quarterly from 1943 to 1947 and has published multiple poetry books and short story collections including The Undersea Farmer Looking up at Leaves and The Sea-Green Horse She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955 and a Brandeis Creative Arts Poetry Grant in 1958.
A columnist laments a miserable vacation week with sunny weekends and bad weather. The piece jokes about planning school breaks around the weather and urges readers to write to Party Line for letters. It notes chores are postponed, clothesline struggles persist, and the looming return to school casts a drag on Monday.
A reflective critique contrasts youths and parents with shifting social expectations. It questions dropout labels, consumerism, tax avoidance, and college admission deceit while observing parenting patterns and adult behavior. It ponders who guides whom as children grow into self-reliant adults.
Mod Vermonter asks Berkshire Eagle readers for more space for letters and proposes forming a writing team. He discusses his aims to publish a piece on "Why We Write" and notes his interest in short articles and unsigned letters.
A reader urges a public boycott to pressure banks and lenders over high mortgage rates. They argue strong consumer action could force rate cuts, noting how waves of effect would hit realtors, builders, and dealers. Another reader asks for a simple scalloped potatoes recipe.
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