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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1962
Page
3
In Bennington the shopping scene has rebounded with better prices and wider ranges. Merchants promote sales after recent fire damage, offering top to bottom fashion choices and note maternity gaps. A call for a major store or discount center is proposed to draw more shoppers.
Women of Moose prepare for the Northeastern convention with a ritual rehearsal Tuesday at 7 30 p m led by Senior Regent Isabelle LaBarge. A regular meeting with initiation is set for Wednesday Sept 5 at 8 p m. Chapter night, chaired by Shirley Burgess, precedes a rummage and home bake sale on Sept 8 with co chairmen Doris Babson and Arlene Joseph.
Five tobacco farm workers were slightly injured when lightning hit near a Westfield barn on South Road. Benacio River, 47, of Westfield was knocked from a ladder and taken to Nobel Hospital with back pains and leg numbness. Confessor Serrano, 26, also of Westfield, suffered scalp lacerations. Maggie Atkinson of Huntington was stunned and treated.
Arlington ceremony at St. Columban's Church will unite Miss Evelyn Ann Berge of Arlington and Richard J. Burke Jr. of Rutland this morning at 11. The double ring wedding features Rev. Gerald T. Buckley, with music by Humphrey Winn. The couple, both Castleton Teachers College graduates, plan a trip after a reception at Fisher Memorial School.
Marilyn Monroe's will filed in New York probate court leaves an estate over half a million dollars. A $100,000 trust funds her mother Gladys Baker and mentor Michael Chekhov, with remaining funds to Dr. Marianne Kris for psychiatric work. Personal effects go to Lee Strasberg to distribute to friends and associates.
Mrs. Clare Marshall, psychiatry instructor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and Bernard G. O'Shea, publisher of northern Vermont weekly newspapers and Democratic Party figure, will marry in a Quaker ceremony Sunday at 2 p.m. at Southwick Memorial, Redstone Campus, University of Vermont. The rite will follow Friends practice per the New England Yearly Meeting.
Union High School District 14 board met to review financial and administrative matters. It reported on interviews with educational consultants and building inspections in Western Massachusetts and planned further inspections in Albany and Boston areas. The board supported merging Bennington Graded and Greater Bennington School Districts and offered help to the new citizens committee.
Saturday and Sunday showings at Harte Theatre Bennington feature Adventures of a Young Man It Happened in Athens and Five Weeks in a Balloon with dates and times. Bennington Drive-In presents Lolita and Saskatchewan at dusk. Dorset Caravan Players Dorset Nightly Miss Lowlyhearts Curtain 8 40 Weston Playhouse Arsenic and Old Lace 8 30 Williamstown Summer Theatre Sea Gull 5 and 9 Colonie Summer Theater Gypsy 8 30 Advance reservations urged.
Taverns and cocktail lounges in Dover and across Delaware will be allowed to open Saturday despite the day being a primary election. The shift ends a long standing restriction that kept venues closed on primary voting day.
Marietta Laskey Otto and Samuel Newcomb Hibbard plan an October wedding. The bride, daughter of Mrs. Edward Mulgrave Laskey, is a Skidmore College graduate. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perley Nudd Hibbard, attended Bowdoin College, earned an MBA at Wharton, served as a 1st lieutenant, and works with Norton Co. in Worcester.
Town Clerk Mary Hodeck lists transfers in Bennington on Aug 10 to Aug 14 including Leon Percey to Frank Andrews on Safford Street and County National Bank executor selling Park Street property to Richard and Isabell Slee man. Other deeds cover Elm Street Ch G and Priscilla Salem, Mountain View Drive, Harwood Hill, Main Street North Bennington, and Jefferson Avenue transfers, plus Arlington sale on the old Shushan Arlington Road to Eugene and Ruth Witten with Herbert Douglas as broker.
Mr and Mrs James T McLaughlin move with sons James 16 William 12 and Sean 10 to 18 Adelbert St Willimantic Conn He works as a dyer for Angus Park Woolen Co at Hanover since May 21 Prior roles include 14 years at Old Bennington Weavers He and his wife Virginia Dockum have been active in fraternal and religious groups and civic life He is a past president and current officer in local Eagles chapters and the Little League board Mrs McLaughlin active in the Eagles Auxiliary They previously lived at 244 Bradford St
UN appeal prompts a 2019 donation of 20 Tibetan child refugees in France. The group will inhabit a prefabricated school at 2400 feet, after three years of training, they may return to Tibet or settle in asylum nations. France guarantees 50000 for temporary maintenance. The plan, backed by the Dalai Lama, aims to aid similar groups in Denmark Switzerland and Britain.
Pulitzer winner Edwin O Connor filed intentions to wed Mrs Vernette C Weil of Washington D C He listed his Boston address at 48 Beacon St and Mrs Weil s address was 6613 32nd St N W O Connor also has a Wellfleet Cape Cod home He won the year s Pulitzer for The Edge of Sadness and his The Last Hurrah was a best seller earlier.
Bennington resident James R. Crozier Jr. has been accepted to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Class of 1966. About 815 freshmen are expected on campus September 12 for orientation, with classes starting September 17. Crozier is a June graduate of Bennington High School.
Miss Deborah Ann Watson daughter of Mr and Mrs Leroy P Watson North Bennington and Richard Charles Wilkinson son of Mr and Mrs Charles Wilkinson Bennington were married in St Peter s Episcopal Church North Bennington. The couple will reside in Troy New York after a Bermuda honeymoon.
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