GOP Gubernatorial Race Notes and Local Events
Ward Bedford of Cornwall and John L. Perry of Barre vie for lieutenant governor with Perry Merrill and David V. Anderson unopposed in the primary. Trudeau and Oakes clash over party labels as cross filing and political aims are debated. Local events include Girls Friday Night Bowling League meeting and a VFW steak barbecue with piano entertainment. Republican legislators and candidates visit Bennington area, with Hayes denouncing a proposed sales tax and backing a four lane highway program for Bennington and Rutland counties.
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Ward Bedford
Cornwall
John L. Perry
Barre
Perry H. Merrill
Montpelier
David V. Anderson
Trudeau
Oakes
Hayes
Rotary Club
GOP
Bennington
Rutland
Jay Peak builds world's fastest aerial tramway in Vermont
Construction at Jay Peak in Vermont progresses atop the mountain with 100 workers, 30,000 feet of cable, and 8,000 feet of tramway. Two 61 passenger cars will climb 2,000 vertical feet at about 32 mph, linking Rathaus base to Jay Top Restaurant with a December deadline.
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Jay Peak
Walter Foeger
Roland Albert
Vermont
Quebec
Tom Emrich
Lowerston
Air Tramway
Lake
Champlain
Lake Champlain
Jay
Jay Top
Europe
New Jay
New England
Canada
Jay Project
Thiokol
Gilbert Hawkins Earns Master's
Gilbert C. Hawkins son of Mr and Mrs Anson Hawkins of Shaftsbury earned a master’s in education with a guidance specialty at Boston University’s 43rd summer commencement in Symphony Hall. He holds a bachelor’s from Castleton Teachers College and taught math and science in Dover Massachusetts. He served four years in the U S Navy as an electronics technician. He and his wife Betty Crawford of Bennington have three children Terry Alison and Charles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Gilbert C. Hawkins
Anson Hawkins
Shaftsbury
Boston University
Symphony Hall
Hawkins
Castleton Teachers College
U.S. Navy
Do«ver
Betty Crawford
Bennington
Terry
Alison
Charles
Bennington Banner publisher details and contact lines
The Bennington Banner lists newsroom and advertising phone numbers and states it is published daily except Sundays and holidays from 425 Main St Bennington Vermont. It notes Banner Publishing Corporation is a member of United Press International and has exclusive rights to local news and UPI dispatches.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
Court Forces Company To Begin Negotiations
UPI reports a U.S. circuit judge declined to stay a court order compelling General Electric Co to negotiate with a team led by the International Union of Electrical Workers and seven allied unions. GE must continue talks begun Tuesday under protest while it appeals, with briefs due by Sept. 7 and a hearing date to be set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterman
Court of Appeals
National Labor Relations Board
David L. Benetar
Benetar
General Electric Co
New York
U.S
Marvin Frankel
Frankel
IUE
Accidents on Hunt Street and Main Street Reported
Police reported a Friday 5:05 p.m. crash on Hunt Street involving James E. Salvatore of Bennington and Willard H. Stuart of Bennington. Salvatore drove a sedan, Stuart a Polygraphic Co. pickup. both vehicles damaged, no injuries. A Flushing, New York woman, Mary Jennings, was injured lightly in a Thursday two car crash on Main Street in front of Oneida Market. she rode in a 1964 Dodge driven by Richard J. Jennings and was treated and released for head and neck injuries at Putnam Memorial Hospital. A 17-year-old Adams, Massachusetts youth, Kenneth P. Bissallion, lost control on Vermont Route 9 in Woodford Thursday night, crashing into guard rails. he was driving a 1964 Buick station wagon. A trailer-tow collision on U.S. 7 near Shaftsbury involved Stephen Routella and a cement mixer truck operated by William E. Dailey Inc.. Routella avoided a dog, the trailer sustained moderate damage, the cement mixer truck had slight damage and no injuries.
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Hunt Street
James E. Salvatore
Willard H. Stuart
Bennington
Salvatore
Stuart
Polygraphic Company
North Bennington
Flushing
N.Y
Main
Green
Adams
Mass
Woodford
Kenneth P. Bissallion
U.S. 7
Shaftsbury Village
Stephen T. Routellat
Naragansett
R.I
William E. Dailey
Clyde Mears
School Street
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Bennington Briefs
VFW
ADV
Alfred E. Arnold
Brooklyn
Perry
Bedford
Allan B. Angney
Arlington
Kena»lene Collins
Readsboro
Ira Whitney
Stamford
Joseph Caracciola
Everett Lillie
James Wallace
Daisy L. Myers
Doris Scott-Smith
Dorset
Harriet Davis
Snelling
John Lyons
Pageant Street
Montgomery
America
William F. Mort
Josephine Mort
Greenwich
Melvin R. McGaughey
First Methodist Church
Park Lawn Cemetery
Capricornus
Nile
Albert
Gilbert C, Hawkins
Gilbert Hawkins
Apple Growers
Meyer
Hackel
Vermont Labor Force
Harwood Hill Orchards
Paul W. Bohne III
Banner
Bohne
Triple
Grand Union Empire
Sta-Press
Adams Clothes Shop
Parkay
Pillsbury
Walker
Main Street
OLD
Wilmington
Frank and
Gene Warner
Court Forces Company
Fis
Westinghouse Corp
Julius G. Serot
NLRB
Bennington, VT
Dkour
Geer and Wine
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