Women of Moose Plan Fall Sale in Bennington
The Bennington Women of the Moose set plans for a fall rummage sale and homebake event. Alice Garant leads the rummage sale and Helen Galipeau the homebake table at Knights of Columbus Hall on Sept 6 7 with open hours. A large committee supports the chairs and the next meeting Sept 4 will include a candidate initiation. Chapter Night on publicity will be led by Gladys Knapp. Reminder for the Sept 15 clambake and Sept 27-29 Northeast Moose Convention in Bellows Falls.
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Bennington Women of the Moose
Alice Garant
Helen Galipeau
Knights of Columbus
Main Street
Gladys Knapp
Bellows Falls
Chittenden Brook Campground Opens in Green Mountain Forest
Paul S. Newcomb announces the new Chittenden Brook Campground off Vermont 73 about six miles west of Rochester. The site offers 17 camping units spaced 75 to 100 feet apart with parking spurs tent pads picnic tables and fireplaces plus two toilets two wells for drinking water and a council fire ring with seating for 100.
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Rutland
Paul S. Newcomb
Green Mountain National Forest
Chittenden Brook
Vermont 73
Rochester
Drivers Escape Injury In Two Vermont Accidents
Bennington County motorists escaped injury in two weekend accidents investigated by state police. In Peru on Vermont 11, James H. Twitchell and Ellen S. Corey were involved after Corey's car rear ended Twitchell's vehicle as Twitchell slowed for a turn. In Pownal, Richard H. Vachon III's car left U.S. 7 to strike a road sign when he reached down to pick up a wallet.
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Bennington County
Vermont
Peru
James H. Twitchell
South Londonderry
Ellen S. Corey
Arlington
Spargo Objects to Court Prayer Ruling Urges State Action
Historian John Spargo of Old Bennington condemns the Supreme Court ruling banning school prayer as overreaching federal power. He urges Vermont and other states to enact laws requiring daily display of the Stars and Stripes and the state flag, sing the national anthem, and display the motto In God We Trust in all schools.
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John Spargo
Supreme Court of the United States
John Sprage
Bennington
Congress
Spargo
Inter
Supreme Court
Vermont
Canada To Restore Colonial Louisburg
Washington special reports plans by the Canadian government to restore Fort Louisburg on Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia in a 12 million dollar project modeled on Colonial Williamsburg. The revived complex will include governor's palace barracks store houses hospital chapel homes and a 20 square mile area around the historic site. Louisburg once held a grand fortress built after 1713 to command St Lawrence routes and protect French interests in the region.
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Washington
Fort Louisburg
France
Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia
Louisburg
National Geographic Society
Williamsburg
Governor’s Palace
Battlegrounds
Old Louisburg
Louis XV
St. Lawrence
Vermont Tuberculosis Association names De Turk director
David A. De Turk was named executive director of the Vermont Tuberculosis and Health Association by president Dr. Frank E. Woodruff. He will supervise mobile chest X ray surveys, public health education, the Christmas Seal Campaign, and health-standards outreach with private and public groups in Vermont. De Turk hails from Pennsylvania and has a background in public health research and education, with recent teaching at St. Francis College in Biddeford Maine and prior work at Harvard School of Public Health and educational radio and TV projects.
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TB Association
de Turk
Burlington
David A. de Turk
Vermont Tuberculosis and Health Association
Frank E. Woodruff
Prvate
Vermont
Pennsylvania
St. Francis College
Biddeford
Maine
Harvard School of Public Health
Princeton
New Jersey
50 Attend Bendi Class Reunions
Fifty members and guests from the North Bennington High School classes of 1953 and 1954 held a Mt. Anthony Country Club reunion. John Elwell of Portland, Maine traveled furthest. Honors went to Mr. and Mrs. Dick Lasher for longest marriage and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Johnston for shortest. Largest families were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gorman and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Becker with five children each. Door prize went to Lew Levin. A joint reunion may be held next year with dancing to the Keynotes. Organizers included members of both classes.
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Mt. Anthony Country Club
North Bensington High School
John Elwell
Portland
Maine
Dick Lasher
Hugh Johnston
Connecticut
Jack Gorman
Paul Becker
Lew Levin
Art Paulin
Charles Harris
Fran Constantino
Phillip Bushee
Philip Anderson
Joseph Wassick
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Moose Plan
Eacas
Louis Levine
Bell Laundry
Putnam
Henry W. Putnam
Scott Sherman
Safford Street
Melford Bushee
Levine
Bennington Water Company
Goodkind
Texas
Austin
Tex
UPI
Kansas City
New York
Monument Avenue
Supreme Court de
Clare
the Vermont Bank and Trust CO
Brattleboro
Gellows Falls
Chester
Noveck - Shultz, Inc
Main ST
Bennington, VT
American Gem Society
Canada
Louis
New England
England
New
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Bendi
Chicago
Bennington Village
the College OF Saint Rose
Albany, New York
New York State
Siena College
Mercury
Bennington Garage Corp
Main
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