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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1962
Page
8
Voters rejected the new municipal building by 254 to 188 at a special meeting in Manchester. A $76,000 bond for construction was also defeated 299 to 154. The nonvoting option to begin the annual town meeting a half hour earlier passed 331 to 111. Total ballots 454, with blanks contributing to totals.
Mt Holyoke alumnae from southern Vermont will gather September 13 at the Brattleboro home of Mrs James C Irish Upper Dummerston Road for a Fund for the Future tea. Special guests from the college, Mrs Ralph V Longyear and Mrs John H B Mills, will discuss alumnae response from the west middle west and south. Brattleboro hostess Mrs John C Worden is the southern Vermont area chairman. All Vermont alumnae are invited.
Local notes list visitors and residents at Sunderland and East Arlington including Janet Jones returning home after surgery at Putnam Memorial Hospital Bennington and several guests at Maple Hill Road summer cottages. Freeman McManus hosts George Maher and others. Manila study trip for Freeman Grout. Union Church service set for Sunday with sermon on Our Heritage.
Judy Humphreys reys and Hollis Rinehart perform folk songs at Church On the Hill Weston. The Friday August 31 concert at 8 30 p m has free admission with a collection for the Weston Playhouse Rebuilding Fund. Both artists have Shakespeare Festival and Weston Playhouse ties.
Mrs. Moira Pearce of New York widow of Dr. John M. Pearce married Silas M R Giddings of Brooklyn Heights and Awosting in Dorset on August 15 1962. The Caffee family returned early to Washington DC from Dorset and East Rupert.
A series of Sunday visits and family gatherings across Walloomsac Hoosick Falls and neighboring towns includes Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arnold hosting guests from Troy Gloversville and Salem. Other groups visited family homes in Schenectady Albany and Long Island with several residents traveling through Pennsylvania and Maryland. A cleanup team ventured to Schaghticoke to prep for the upcoming fair opening August 30.
Washington reports nearly 39 million public school students and 1.5 million staff will return as enrollment rises 3.4 percent from last year. Overcrowding and half day sessions affect New York Florida and Illinois with many pupils on abbreviated schedules.
North Bennington announces a Sept 5 start for kindergarten through 12th grade with a half day first session. Kindergarten will alternate morning and afternoon sessions, groups assigned before school starts. Holiday and vacation dates, mid year exams, and book purchases set by principal Miss Catherine Corcoran.
LAS VEGAS NEV. Local observers describe Fremont Street as Glitter Gulch the heart of downtown gambling where neon never sleeps. The scene blends 24 hour casinos with nightly shows high rollers and five cent slots as visitors chase fortune under perpetual lights.
Hollywood's service pictures face extinction due to Pentagon rules. Sy Bartlett notes the clash over using military personnel for films like A Gathering of Eagles. He cites LeMay and Kennedy backing to proceed and explains limits would cripple service cinema.
White Creek Mrs. Donald George prepares exhibits for the White Creek Juvenile Grange to show at the Washington County Fair in Greenwich New York August 21 26. Several visitors call on local families including Mr and Mrs Arthur Ure and daughter Margaret of Nutley New Jersey. At the White Creek Grange No 1390 meeting men won the competition and will host a covered dish supper for the women on September 7.
Stratton Road from Bondville to Stratton Mountain base nears completion after months of work by North Haven Construction. Finishing surface expected by Oct. 1, 1962 with tack coating underway and some September detours to the Base Lodge. Lifts planned to operate during the fall foliage season.
New York UPI About 5 million people who could not obtain life coverage a generation ago because of health or dangerous occupations are now insurable. The Institute of Life Insurance attributes this to ongoing liberalization of policy acceptance by insurers in recent years.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co says drivers with two or more violations show 134 percent more accidents than expected in an Iowa study. Speeding improper passing and failure to observe stop signs were most linked to crashes.
Senior high students work this summer as members of a Protestant peace corps in the inner city. They serve as teachers helpers in Vacation Bible Schools and supervise recreation and playgrounds. Some repair old church buildings or visit elderly residents living alone.
George Raymond Breen son of Mr and Mrs George B Breen left Monday for Miami Florida to begin a two year course in aircraft maintenance at Embry Riddle School of Aeronautics Bennington Airport Manager Joel T Whittemore reported Breen received his private pilot license Monday His father earned his in June.
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