Bennington Hosts 20th Annual Composers Conference
About 25 young composers from across the United States begin the two week Bennington Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center at Bennington College under Alan Carter. Max Pollikoff serves as associate director with staff composers Wolpe Feldman Trimble Randall. Scholarships aid about half the visiting composers from Bernstein Loeb Ditson BMI and ASCAP. 40 Green Mountain Fiddlers join activities with five public concerts August 15 18 21 25 and 28 at 8 15 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bennington Composers Conference
Chamber Music Center
Bennington College
Alan Carter
Middlebury College
Max Pollikoff
New York City
Stefan Wolpe
Morton Feldman
Lester Trimble
University of Maryland
James Randall
Princeton University
Leonard Bernstein Foundation
James and Ellen Loeb
Bennington
Green Mountain Fiddlers
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association
Village Rural School Boards Meet Tonight
Bennington Village and Bennington Rural school board members who form the merged Bennington Elementary School District govern the district. They meet at 7:30 p m at Bennington Elementary to plan for the merger taking over in 1966. Stewart E Allen chairs, Ronald Knapp vice chairs, John Riddle clerk. They will form committees and discuss fall 1966 operations with Ford Foundation project director James H Morgan.
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Bennington Village
Bennington
Bennington School District Inc
Stewart E. Allen
Prudential Committee
Ronald R. Knapp
John P. Riddle
Allen
James H.morgan
Ford Foundation
Vermont
Labor Seminar Works To Draft County Master Contract
Bennington County Central Labor Council voted to hold a one day October seminar to draft a county master contract for AFL CIO locals. Representatives from all county locals affiliated with the county or state councils will participate. eight locals exist, with some state only. Details to be set at the September meeting. the final contract would be distributed thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington County Central Labor Council
Afl-Cio
State Council
County Council
Funeral for Miss Victorine Noel Held at Sacred Heart
The funeral for Miss Victorine M. Noel, who died Sunday at Monroe Park Nursing Home after a long illness, was held Tuesday at Sacred Heart Church with a Requiem High Mass by Rev. Joseph Wiseman. Burial followed in Park Lawn Cemetery. bearers included Louis Bellemare and Albert Clifford, with relatives from Troy plus several New England towns in attendance.
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Victorine M. Noel
Monroe Park
Sacred Heart Church
Joseph Wiseman
C.S.C
Mahar & Son
Father Wiseman
Louis Bellemare
Albert Clifford
Frank Whitman
Irving Webster
Plane Crash Victim Unimproved In Albany Report
Miss Cynthia Marvin 19 of Dorset remained in critical condition at Albany Medical Center Hospital after a July 17 light plane crash in Manchester. Pilot Richard Bovey Sr. 51 of Manchester Depot is in good condition at Putnam Memorial Hospital, while his son Richard Bovey Jr. 21 was discharged from Bennington hospital.
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Albany
N.Y
Medical Center
Cynthia Marvin
Dorset
Manchester
Marvin
Richard Bovey Sr
Manchester Depot
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Richard Bovey Jr
Bennington Hospital
Salvation Army Launches Annual Drive for Funds
Salvation Army Bennington area chair Fred H. Welling announces the annual fund drive now under way. Local letters request donations to support services in Bennington and surrounding towns, with funds aiding medical care, food, clothing, and shelter. The Bennington unit serves Bennington, North Bennington, Old Bennington, Pownal, Shaftsbury and Woodford. contributions may be mailed to treasurer James Merunowicz at County National Bank.
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Fred H. Welling
Salvation Army
Bennington
New England
United States
William Booth
London
Nington
Pownal
Shaftsbury
Woodford
James W. Merunowicz
John R. Litster Jr
Alfred Hertz
Lucien Loomis
Burton W. Potter
George van Santvoord
Herbert H. Leonard
James Merunowicz
County National Bank
Main St
Cars Damaged In Minor East Arlington Collision
State police investigated a minor crash Tuesday afternoon in East Arlington. Carole A. Cross, 24, of East Arlington, pulled from a side road onto the highway toward Sunderland and collided with Pauline A. Ennis, 28, of Arlington, who was traveling north.
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East Arlington
Carole A. Cross
Sunderland
Pauline A. Ennis
Arlington
Twenty seven county men take pre induction physicals
Twenty seven young men traveled to Albany New York today for their pre induction physicals announced by the selective service office. The list includes Samuel Candib Stephen Hitchey Robert Andrew Bernard Guerard Hugh Briody Richard Cameron Norman Robinson Gary Patterson Edward Farrar Leon Turgeon Readsboro James Dickie Pownal Jack Hoag David Atwood North Bennington Ronald Lyson Ronald Greene George Peacock Shaftsbury Leon Galli Arlington George Breen Robert Solari Terry Halsey William Whitman Robert Reynolds Donald Gaddette Manchester Howard Nichols Arnold Lake Dorset and others from the region.
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Samuel Candib
Stephen Hitchey
Robert Andrew
Bernard Guerard
Hugh Briody
Richard Cameron
Norman Robinson
Gary Patterson
Edward Farrar
Leon Turgeon
Bennington
Donald Gordon
Stephen Sprague
Readsboro
James Dickie
Pownal
Jack Hoag
David Atwood
North Bennington
Ronald Lyson
Ronald Greene
George Peacock
Shaftsbury
Leon Galli
Arlington
George Breen
Robert Solari
Terry Halsey
William Whitman
Robert Reynolds
Donald Gaudette
Manchester
Howard Nichols
Arnold Lake
Dorset
Rural Schools Tackle Housekeeping and Merged Board Meet
The Greater Bennington School District held a housekeeping meeting to review summer maintenance, bus specifications, and library use by teachers. They reported Hicks School improvements ready for Sept first and discussed flooding funding for buses. Allen urged closer ties with Mt Anthony Union High School Board and noted plans for district committees and a new planetarium fund.
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Greater Bennington
Bennington
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Nington Road
Hicks Avenue
Stewart E. Allen
Molly Stark
John B. Rothrock
Rothrock
Allen
Obituary of John W Beadle 67 Coila resident dies
CAMBRIDGE NY John W Beadle 67 of Coila died unexpectedly Monday at home A lifelong Cambridge native he was a member of Coila United Presbyterian Church Vigilant Lodge 100S and Pleasant Valley Grange Survivors include wife Theresa Bailey daughter Rita Brown of Redmond WA and sister Nora Bailey of Buskirk Funeral from William A Ackley Funeral Home Rev Clinton H Carter Embury Methodist Church will officiate Burial in Woodlands Cemetery
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Cambridge
N.Y
John W. Beadle
Coila
William A. Ackley
Clinton H. Carter
Embury
Box Lunches For Scotch Foursomes At Mt Anthony CC
Harold Kramer chairs a charity Scotch foursome golf event this Sunday at Mt Anthony Country Club starting at 2 p.m. Lady golfers should bring a lunch for two, auctioned by Gerry Finnegan. highest bidder plays with the lady and shares lunch. A hard boiled egg in the shell is required and no tuna sandwiches allowed. Bob and Mary Lou Nadeau donate the nearest to pin prize on the 13th hole from the Country Store and Wood Craft Gift Shop.
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Harold Kramer
Box Lunch
Mt. Anthony
Gerry Finnegan
Bob
Mary Lou Nadeau
Woodcraft Gift Shop
Beatles Beat Continues as Leaders Praise Powerful President
A speaker praised a president with power to shape Congress and abolish itself, while John Birch Society head Robert Welch linked Communist influence from civil rights to furniture design. Douglas May, 18, of Detroit, received the Christian Crusade’s 1965 Joe McCarthy Award for top student in its university and pledged a life of anti Communist fighting.
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Dor
Congress
Robert Welch
John Birch Society
Belmont
Mass
Douglas May
Detroit
Christian Crusade
Joe McCarthy
Bennington Rescue Squad Rides for Coin Card Drive
The Bennington Rescue Squad ambulance will be on Main Street four corners Friday August 13 from 6 to 9 p.m. to collect coin cards and distribute extra cards. Help wanted immediately for electricians and electricians helpers, apply in person Griffin Electric Co Inc 473 Main St ADV.
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Bennington
Main Street
Four Corners
Griffin Electric Co., Inc
Main St
College Officials Probe Admissions
John M. Duggan of the College Entrance Examination Board will join Vermont college admissions officials at St. Michael's College on Wednesday August 18 for an NDEA guidance workshop. He will open at 9 with The Numbers Game in the Mid Sixties a talk on admissions trends followed by a discussion led by Daniel F. MacDonald associate dean of St. Michael's.
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Winooski Park
John M. Duggan
College Entrance Examination Board
Vermont
St. Michael’s College
NDEA
Duggan
CEEB
Daniel F. MacDonald
St. Michael's
Probation Violation Leads to House of Correction Term
In Municipal Court a 22 year old Wilmington man Charles B Morse was found in violation of probation and ordered to serve a suspended four to six month sentence in the state House of Correction. Probation official Daniel Holland testified Morse had violated terms by drinking despite a prohibition on alcohol. Judge George M Fienberg supported the recommendation urging Morse to enter the programs at the state facility to address his long drinking problem. Other actions included Sydney N Stokes Jr pleading guilty to speeding and paying a fine, and John W Leonard facing charges of driving while intoxicated and careless driving with bail set at 200 dollars.
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Wilmington
State House of Correction
Daniel Holland
Charles B. Morse
Brattleboro
Morse
Holland
George M. Fienberg
Fienberg
John W. Leonard
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Pownal
Pownal Center
North Pownal
Atty
John B. Harte
Sydney N. Stokes Jr
Arlington
Manchester Village
U.S. 7
Selectmen Hear Complaints About Town Landfill Hours
Bennington selectmen reported multiple complaints about the town sanitary landfill closing early at 4 p.m. Theophile LaFlamme was asked to ensure hours allow 4:30 p.m. for small refuse. Also noted was a lease renewal request for the former Girls' Club building and town meeting consideration next March.
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Bennington Selectman
Theophile LaFlamme
Joseph E. Higgins
William H. Fox
LaFlamme
Thomas W. Hall Jr
Greater Bennington Association
GBA
Girls’ Club
Elm Streets
Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Norwich Plans Vermont Art Exhibit
Norwich University prepares the second annual Vermont Art Exhibit opening August 19 at Plumley Armory. The juried show features Vermont artists and a sculpture exhibit by Green Mountain sculptors with cash prizes. Judges include Stan Marc Wright and Jay Connaway. The exhibit runs 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and is free.
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Northfield
Norwich University
Vermont
The
Military College
Plumley Armory
Green Mountain State
Stan Marc Wright
Stowe
Richard Janson
University of Vermont
Walter Dyck
Johnson State College
Jay Connaway
Pawlet
Winslow B. Eaves
Dartmouth College
Sandy
Caroline Paton
Patons
Huntington
England
Ireland
Scotland
United States
Adirondacks
Douglas Merrilees
Lifeboat Fund Donor Frances Wilson Gives 8.40
Lyme Regis in England reports 102 year old Frances Wilson donated 5.60 pounds for the lifeboat fund and 2.80 pounds to purchase drinks for the crew.
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Lyme Regis
England
UPI
Frances Wilson
Vermont Chamber Executives Attend Syracuse Management Institute
Donald C Hicks executive director of the Greater Bennington Association has finished his third summer at the Management Institute in Syracuse University learning principals of management. The full course spans six summers with nine of Vermonts 13 full time chamber executives attending this summer.
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Chamber of Commerce
Donald C. Hicks
Management Institute
Syracuse University
Hicks
Greater Bennington Association
Vermont
Syracuse
Hospital Notes Admissions and Births Placed
Hospital admissions include William Hayes Jr Thomas J Bushee Mrs Hilda Pratt Ben nington Mrs Mary Kelly Arlington Discharges list Miss Brenda Cross George Burgess Mrs Berneice Kelley and baby boy Bennington Master Vincent Bushee Manchester Depot Mrs Susan Bernardi and baby girl Williamstown Mass Mrs Jeanne McDermott and baby girl Danbury Conn Births record a girl to Mr and Mrs Robert Dean 108 Grant St and a boy to Mr and Mrs Timothy Walsh Sunderland Mass
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William Hayes Jr
Thomas J. Bushee
Hilda Pratt
Bennington
Mary Kelly
Arlington
Brenda Cross
George Burgess
Berneice Kelley
Vincent Bushee
Manchester Depot
Susan Bernardi
Williamstown
Mass
Jeanne McDermott
Danbury
Conn
Robert Dean
Grant St
Timothy Walsh
Sunderland
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Liz of
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Bennington Rural Fires Department
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Edward Coyne
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Keith Young
William Potter
Leonard Cross
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Omer
Sam) Durant
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Joan W. Beadle
Bennington Briefs
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