No Additions Planned To Paved Roads Here
Bennington selectmen say 18 miles of paved roads, about 35 percent of their system, are enough for now and no hardtopping of additional dirt roads is planned. They note costs of maintaining paved roads greatly exceed gravel roads and rely on traffic counts to justify further blacktopping, with no projects scheduled for this summer. Ov erlea Road to receive funds in the 1964 budget.
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Bennington
Town Highway Department
Ivor S. Pelsue
Selectmen
Leon R. Eldred
Richard van Santvoord
General Fund
State Highway Department
Unemployment Compensation Talk At Bennington Luncheon
James Mereness of Montpelier will discuss amendments to Vermont Unemployment Compensation Law at a 12 15 p.m. luncheon hosted by the Greater Bennington Association Industry Division at Paradise Restaurant. He will address impacts on business and new tax schedules to maintain the unemployment reserve fund above a $3600 wage base.
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James Mereness
Montpelier
Associated Industries of Vermont
Vermont
Greater Bennington Association
Paradise Restaurant
GBA
Mereness
Shrine dining hall at Auriesville dedicated Sunday
The new Auriesville Shrine dining hall capable of serving over 500 per hour will be dedicated at 3 p.m. Sunday. Rev. William J. Schlaerth notes its location on the westerly hill overlooking Mo hawk Valley with large picture windows. The hall marks the shrine’s largest project since 1930, drawing pilgrims since 1885 and attracting over 250,000 visitors in recent years.
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Auriesville
N.Y
William J. Schlaerth
J.J
Mohawk Valley
New York Thurway
New York U-S
Ossernenon
Interstatesmen Drum Corps to Perform at Giants Bears Game
The Interstatesmen Senior Drum and Bugle Corps, representing Berkshire County Council American Legion and Charles Brady Post in Waterford New York, will halftime perform at the Giants Bears NFL exhibition in Ithaca at Cornell Schoolkopf Field. The event airs on delayed TV from New York and Chicago. That Saturday night they compete in Fulton under the Fulton Gauchos.
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Interstatesmen
Berkshire County Council
American Legion
Charles Brady American Legion
Waterford
N.Y
New York Giants
Chicago Bears
Cornell University
Schoolkopf Field
Ithaca
New York
Chicago
Fulton
The
Fulton Gauchos
Eagles Conclude Conclave Gift for Max Baer Lab
At the 65th annual National State Order of Eagles conclave Earl Tripp reports a $25,000 grant to establish a Max Baer Heart Research Laboratory in Sacramento in connection with Sut ter Hospital. James J. Braddock presented the money to Jimmy Durante for later delivery at the California State Fair. The Eagles plan up to $100,000 for medical research and Baer was a longtime Eagle who died in 1959. Oscar Godbout Jr. travels abroad for stories and photos. Pauline Lamb named insurance consultant for North Adams MetLife district, the district's first woman in the role, after X ray training and hospital service and varied work in Massachusetts and New York.
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Earl Tripp
North Branch Street
Chicago
National State Order of Eagles
Max Baer Heart Research Laboratory
Tripp
Max Baer Heart Fund
Sutter Hospital
Sacramento
Calif
James J. Braddock
Jimmy Durante
Max Baer
Baer
Pauline A. Lamb
North Adams
Mass
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Franklin County Public Hospital
Franklin County Hospital
Greenfield
Doctors Park
Williamstown
Western Massachusetts
Electronic Computer Programming Institute of
New York City
Wall Streeter Shoe Co
Green Sabres Day Parade Highlights Ninth Corps Event
County residents joined Schuylerville NY festivities for Green Sabres Day marking the ninth annual celebration of the Green Sabres Drum and Bugle Corps. The parade featured six divisions and Ange lo Gentile serves as business manager.
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Bennington
Schuylerville
N.Y
Green Sabres
Angelo Gentile
Bennington County Shows 7 Percent of July Vermont Car Crashes
Vermont motor vehicle records show 1,174 crashes in July with Bennington County accounting for 82 incidents, 7 percent. Chittenden led with 197 crashes, while 11 fatalities and about 510 injuries occurred overall. most crashes happened in daylight and most drivers were Vermont residents.
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Vermont
Bennington County
New England
New York
Lodging Guide Now Available In Vermont 1963 Red Book
Burlington report announces the 1963 edition of the Hotel and Motel Red Book, the world’s oldest lodging directory. Harold L. Wheeler states it covers hotels motels and resorts across the United States Canada and the Western Hemisphere. The book is AH and MA official and Vermont members are listed. Copies are at AH&MA member properties and information for purchase is available from executive secretary Robert L Allcott at 212 Gryphon Building Rutland.
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Burlington
Vermont
Harold L. Wheeler
Vermont Hotel Motel Association
Wheeler
United States
Canada
American Hotel and Motel Association
The
Ah&ma
Robert L. Allcott
Gryphon Building
Rutland
Delinquent Parking Tickets Said Settled
A Bennington Village crackdown on delinquent parking tickets has led to settlement of 165 tickets issued in 1962 or earlier. Village Atty. John H. Williams II told trustees that owners of the remaining three tickets have warrants to appear in Municipal Court. Williams said current penalties cover 1962 registrations and 1963 violations are improving in payment, with future notices to be stricter and no more pay-up-please letters.
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Bennington
John H. Williams II
Williams
Bennington Library highlights selective reading ladder display
A special ladder mounted display at the Bennington Library promotes books labeled Strictly Male covering topics from technical reports and home projects to career guides. The library notes a growing pamphlet file and catalogued 169 books including 89 adult nonfiction and 33 juvenile titles with recent additions from local and regional authors.
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Men of
Bennington
Garden Club Hears Talks On Landscape Designing
The Bennington Garden Club met at Miss Juliette McC Shields home Tuesday to hear landscape design talks by Miss Shields Mrs Frederick Beecher and Mrs Kel Lee Cole. Mrs Thomas P Brockway received the Zone 1 conservation award of the Garden Club of America at a Keene N H zonemeet last month. Ruth Mattison North Bennington earned a two week Audubon Society camp scholarship and will report on her studies to the club. A hort committee panel will meet Aug 20 at 10 30 a m in Old Bennington School.
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Thomas P. Brockway
Garden Club of America
Bennington Garden Club
Juliette McC. Shields
Brockway
Keene, N.H
Fabian W. Kunzelmann
Stowell D. Baxter
Bennington Club
Audubon Society
Maine
Ruth Mattison
North Bennington
Mattison
Miss Shields
Frederick J. Beecher
Kelley Cole
Playground Contests at Memorial Park Continue Week
Memorial Park hosts multiple contests this week with free passes donated by Mrs. Donald Abrams of the Harte Theatre. Winners include Scott Longtin and Pamela Hollister from the third coloring contest. Tournaments run Monday to Thursday with events in zell ball badminton tether ball four square and chess and a social gathering Monday afternoon.
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Donald Abrams
Harte Theatre
Memorial Park
Scott Longtin
Pamela Hollister
Stark Street
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Thomas Foster Sr
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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