Fun and Fashion at Equinox House in Manchester
A charity evening at Equinox House benefited Mt. Laurel School for the mentally retarded drawing about 300 area residents. The event featured a buffet dinner, a fashion show with 62 outfits by 13 models, a pool pageant and floats highlighting Manchester in the Mountains with participants from local clubs and businesses.
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Equinox House
Manchester
Mt. Laurel School
Mt. Laurel
Equinox
Jimmy Farrell
Carroll
Philip
Ricky Pa
Lewis Tuttle
Bromley
Tuttle
Southern Vermont Art Center
Anne Pritchard Stanley
Linde Gibb
Nancy Jo Howard
Jackie Bell
George
Vickie Pinon
Margaret Dougherty
Tut
Bubbsie
Lindsey
Lisa
Bucky Tuttle
Breen
Firehouse to Begin Construction in Manchester
Manchester Firefighters Association president Ambrose announced that excavation for the new firehouse on Flat Road, Manchester Depot, will start in a few days. Howard Dufresne is contractor, Dudley Grifis masonry, sewer connection funded by town, with a fundraising goal of $25,000. drive is slightly short but enough to begin.
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Manchester
Howard Ambrose
Manchester Firefighters Association
Howard Dufresne
Dudley Griffis
Ambrose
Fire Auxiliary Plans Trip To Convention
Shaftsbury Fire Department Auxiliary discussed a Brattleboro Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary tour for wives of firemen attending the annual state Firefighters Convention. The Saturday outing begins at 1 p.m. from the Central Fire Station on Elliot Street and lasts about two hours, visiting the lower West River valley the old jelly mill the Newfane Country Store and a local gift shop with transport provided by the BFDA.
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Shaftsbury
Shaftsbury Fire Department
Brattleboro Fire Department
Lower West River Valley
Newfane
Elliot Street
BFDA
Bennington County Forest Association Meets Aug 28
The fourth annual Bennington County Forest Association meeting will be held Saturday August 28 at the Equinox House Manchester Village with a noon buffet and a 1 15 p m business session. Guest speaker Robert W Wood forester for International Paper Co will discuss multiple use of forests. Members and friends are asked to reserve with County Forester David C Barton or County Agent John C Page.
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Bennington County Forest Association
Equinox House
Manchester Village
Robert W. Wood
International Paper Co
David C. Barton
John C. Page
Shaker Museum Festival to Stage Recreated Service
The 10th annual Shaker Museum Festival in Old Chatham New York will feature a recreated Shaker religious service at 2 p.m Saturday. The Shaker Village Work Group from Mt. Lebanon New York composed of teenage volunteers from several states will perform with song dance and demonstrations of handcrafts using period equipment and lathes.
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Chatham
N.Y
Shaker Museum
Berkshires
Shaker Village Work Group
Mt. Lebanon
Oregon
United States Department of the Interior
Jerome Count
Williams College Students Work Under Biology Grant
Four Williams College seniors conduct summer biology research under a 5600 grant from the National Science Foundation. Projects include hormone effects on frog liver glycogen, embryonic development abnormalities in mice, postglacial vegetation history of Western New England, and hormonal control of blood glucose in sharks and skates. Research runs at Williams Thompson Biological Laboratory and Mt Desert Island Biological Laboratory.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Department of Biology
National Science Foundation
Williams
G. Lawrence Vankin
Bennett M. Caplan
Andover
David H. Goldstein
Louisville, Ky
Kenneth J. Kurtz
Pittsburgh
Stuart A. Simon
Middletown
N.Y
Thompson Biological Laboratory
Simon
William C. Grant Jr
Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory
Salisbury Cove
Maine
Pownal Tax Bills Totals and Rates for 1965
Pownal taxpayers receive tax bills totaling 191722.97 with an 8.41 rate for 1965. $1.63 funds town operations and $6.78 goes to schools, yielding 36340.83 for town and 151157.14 for schools. Poll tax net 13.41 per resident 845, with 5 for old age assistance totaling 4225. Grand list value 22294.47 including 18890.55 real estate 2558.92 personal and 845 poll. Delinquent rules and October 30 deadline noted. Correction: Gloria Jones misidentified in photo caption as Yvonne Steplight.
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Pownal
North Pownal
Mt. Anthony Union High
Rachel Mason
LBJ Dog Paw Prints On White House Concrete
Washington reports President Johnson had two dogs place paw prints in a fresh concrete slab at the White House west driveway during an underground telephone switch installation. Beagle Him left a mottled impression while Blanco the collie made a clearer mark, with Johnson amused by the beagle’s camera-ready pose and joking that Him deserved a medal.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Johnson
Hollywood
Blanco
41 Bay State Crime Reports Are Stolen
Massachusetts Crime Commission copies vanished during audit covering June 3, 1964 to June 30, 1965. Auditor Thaddeus Buczko said 41 of 1,000 printed reports were unaccounted for, worth $463.71, and noted $100.75 overpayments later recovered.
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Boston
UPI
Massachusetts Crime Commission
Thaddeus Buczko
Commission
Strange Objects Appear In Southwestern Skies
Reports of mysterious multi colored objects lit skies over Oklahoma Texas Kansas and Colorado Sunday night into today. Radar tracked a object near Wichita and sightings prompted police and media call lines to flood. Observers included law enforcement. Dallas patrols saw two triangular patterns flashing red green and blue white. Cushing and Canon City accounts followed with radar and visual shows. Tinker AFB radar trackers could not confirm details.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Colorado
Wichita
Kan
Weather Bureau
Dallas
Cushing
Okla
Colorado State Penitentiary
Canon City
Everett Tucker
Wellington
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Tinker Air Force Base
Tinker
Movie Makers Camp At Smith College
An advance man for a Warner Brothers film arrives to prep filming Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Smith College campus. Hal Polaire and staff rent 45 of 60 units at a Northampton motel for August. Stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton undecided on housing. real estate agent says local houses lack required facilities and plans to show other listings.
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Northampton
Mass
UPI
John Skibiski
Polaire
Skibiski
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Bennington Banner
Madeline Mettey
Mettey
Ion
Janet Wall
Rita Litz
Paul Todtschinder
Mary Burke
Leslie Jones
The
Manchester Garden Club
Life IN
Thomas Farley
Life
Janice Farley
Vinnie and
Verna Kayatta
Bob Farley
Sila S
U.S. Route 7
Peaceful Valley
Pownal Center
County Forest
Alice
Lawrence K
Pete) Miller
Banner
Alice Harwood
Center
Donald W. Sprague
Ringheiser
Bennington Area
Fresh Air Children
Gloria Jones
Yvonne Steplight
Mrs. Jones
Charles Lack
Miss Steplight
LBJ
the Vermont Bank and Trust Company
Bellows Falls
Chester
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Bay State
Smith College
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Burton
Miss Taylor
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