Invitation to a March at Dorset Playhouse
Arthur Laurents comedy opens at Dorset Playhouse directed by Frederick Edell. Cast includes Camilla Jablonski Patricia Wyn Rose Lily Brown Linda Brown Rue Cary Brown Stephen Rosencrantz Deedee Grogan Patricia McGuire Schuyler Grogan James Stinson Norma Brown Elizabeth Franz Aaron Jabronski John Anthony Ryan Tucker Grogan Barry DunLeavey. The production blends wit and wisdom with relaxed charm and lively beach deck sets, offering a spirited summer stock closer through Sept. 2.
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Arthur Laurents
Dorset Playhouse
Caravan Theatre
Frederick Edell
Camilla Jablonski
Patricia Wyn Rose
Lily Brown
Linda Brown
Rue Cary Brown
Stephen Rosencrantz Deedee Grogan
Patricia McGuire
Schuyler Grogan
James Stinson
Norma Brown
Elizabeth Franz Aaron Jabronski
John Anthony Ryan Tucker Grogan
Barry Dunleavey
Linda Brown Rue
Elizabeth Franz
John Anthony Ryan
Stephen Rosencrantz
Convic
University President Warns Against Sensational News Sales
A university president decries sensational headlines and biased reporting in mass media, urging newspapers to uphold integrity and responsible, factual coverage. He warns that pressure to attract readers fosters embellishment, misrepresentation, and distorted research, while stressing education in honesty.
North Bennington church groups plan fall meetings
The Congregational Women's Fellowship meets Sept 6 at 6 30 p m at Mrs J Edward White's home with a pot luck supper and programs for next year. Mizpah Circle hosts a dessert meeting Sept 4 at 7 30 p m with slides by Mrs Harry Moses from Oberammergau. Nemerovs relocate to Virginia for Hollins College duties as David joins Red Sox alumni and Mrs Nemerov previously led PTA health efforts.
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Congregational Women’s Fellowship
J. Edward White
Charles Parsley
John Kennedy Jr
Mizpah Circle of the Baptist Church
Library Hall
North Bennington
Harry Moses
Bennington
Oberammergau
Southside
Howard Nemerov
David
Virginia
Nemerov
Hollins College
Roanoke
PTA
Red Sox
Man Fights Excessive Speed Fine Sparks Texas Ruling
Kenneth Wayne Eaves challenged a $200 speeding fine in Houston Texas arguing it was excessive. His victory established that prosecutions must prove the speed was unreasonable and imprudent, prompting many appeals and traffic ticket revisions across the state. His lawyer Howard M Wayland and Judge Billy Ragan supported the ruling.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Kenneth Wayne Eaves
Texas
Eaves
Corporation Court
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Sandra
Houston
Howard M. Wayland
Harris County Court-at-Law
Billy Ragan
Benefit Concert To Aid Meyer In Brattleboro
A Saturday evening concert at Green Street School supports William H. Meyer in the U S Senate race. Anton Kuerti Michael Tree and David Soyer perform works by Haydn Beethoven and Ravel starting 7 30 p m, preceded by a local art show. Tickets from Mrs Justin Mam is Shaftsbury.
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Brattleboro
Green Street
William H. Meyer
U.S. Senate
Haydn
Beethoven
Ravel
Anton Kuerti
Michael Tree
David Soyer
Justin Mamis
Shaftsbury
Thalidomide Deforma tions Reported in West Germany
An official said about 5 000 German children were deformed by thalidomide taken by mothers during pregnancy. The health official stated the peak has likely passed.
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Bonn
Germany
Determination Guides Sheboygan Woman’s Remarkable Comeback
Della Derrien once paralyzed from the waist down and unable to speak has regained most faculties and learned to swim. Doctors in Minneapolis say recovery began after a 19 week rehabilitation program following eight surgeries and intensive therapy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheboygan, Wis
Della Derrien
Lerron Friedrichs
Sheboygan
Derrien
Della
Kenny Institute
Schoening
Pownal Firemen to Compete at Schaghticoke Fair
Several members of the Pownal Fire Department plan to attend the Schaghticoke Fair Saturday to compete in a volunteer firemen event starting at 1 p.m. The contests include pumping, bucket brigade and midnight alarm.
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Pownal
Credit Card Firms Cut Slow-Paying Members
New York UPI reports major card issuers crack down on delinquent customers. Diners Club dropped about 40,000 members in the past year while American Express eliminated 2000 to 3000 low volume accounts and deployed agents to collect debts.
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Diners’ Club
American Express
Shaftsbury caucus to nominate justice of peace candidates
Shaftsbury Democrats hold a caucus on Saturday September 1 at 8 p m in Cole Hall Shaftsbury to nominate candidates for the office of Justice of Peace to be decided in the General Election on November 6.
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Cole Hall
Shaftsbury
Office of Justice of Peace
Dorset Parties Nominate JPs for November Election
Democrats held a caucus at Mrs Thomas H Burns home nominating Peter Schoffstall Edward Malloy and John Kelleher for justice of the peace. Republicans met at Dorset Elementary School nominating Guy Stone Roy McWayne Russell Park and Henry Stone for the same post.
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Dorset
Justice of the Peace
Thomas H. Burns
Peter Schoffstall
East Dorset
Edward Malloy
South Dorset
John Kelleher
Edward Leary
Malloy
Guy Stone
Roy McWayne
Russell Park
Henry Stone
Ford Schroder
Carleton E. Howe
Rotary Pool Closes for Summer in Manchester
Manchester pool ends its season this Saturday as the Rotary Club transfers usage back to the elementary school for PE lessons weather permitting. Bar ney Duke reports a record class turnout with 223 participants and 100 Red Cross certificates amid instruction from Sunderland to Londonderries and Manchester. Virginia Clark Van Loon joined as a new assistant replacing Betty Treat, and several children earned season passes for next year through water ballet race wins.
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Manchester
Rotary Club
Barney Duke
Water Ballet
Red Cross
Sunderland
Dorset
Peru
Landgrove
Londonderries
Virginia Clark van Loon
Wilton
Conn
Betty Treat
Carol Bresko
Harold Croft
Kathe Dillmann
Louis Lorenzo
Henry Reynolds
Kath Tetreault
Televised animal surgeries draw crowds at Canadian exhibit
Live telecasts of surgery on small animals at the Canadian National Exhibition cause spectators to faint and require assistance. More than 60 visitors have been carried out and some treated in hospital as the vet escope exhibit, a $1 million feature by Canada’s 2,000 veterinarians, unfolds twice daily.
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Toronto
Canada
New Noise Probe Tops Cotton Warning Of Public Spending
Sen. Norris Cotton lauds a $42 000 Defense Dept effort to find a novel warning device while critiquing inflation and waste. He warns of a drifting ship of state and calls for cutting nonessential spending, bringing federal costs to home. He notes New Hampshire’s share of the $92 billion state budget.
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Washington
Defense Department
Norris Cotton
R-N. H
Cotton
New Hampshire
Labor Day Dedication for Pownal War Memorial
The granite War Memorial in Pownal will be dedicated at 11 am Labor Day at the Pownal Center site. A veterans plaque will be hung in the town office. Bennington VFW and American Posts lead the program with guest speakers Bartley Nourse and Raymond Lovely.
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Pownal
Pownals
Pownal Center
Bennington Veterans of Foreign Wars
Bartley Nourse
Green Mountain Council
Rutland
Raymond Lovely
Manchester
Taconic Council
Bennington National Guard
Benjamin L. Powell
North Pownal
David
Pacific
Pownal Boy Scout Troop 47
Rocket Seeks Data On Heat Shield Tests
A four stage Scout rocket was launched from Wallops Island Virginia to study heat shield requirements for re entry at about 18 000 miles per hour. The test reached roughly 6 miles in altitude and was expected to land in the Atlantic about 100 miles east of Bermuda with no payload recovery attempted.
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Wallops Island
Space Agency
Atlantic
Bermuda
Pownall Voter Registration Opens for September Primary
The Board of Civil Authority meets Saturday 2 to 4 at the town office for eligibility checks to add names to the voter checklist for the September primary. Absentee ballot applications must be to the town clerk by 9 p.m. September 7 with a final meeting at 7 p.m. September 8. The Pownal Democratic Party caucus gathers at 7 p.m. in Town Hall to nominate Justices of the Peace for the November ballot. Supt Leon E. Wagner announces Florence Harries of Bennington named substitute primary room teacher at North Pownal Graded School. Harries brings three years of teacher training and four and a half years teaching experience.
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Board of Civil Authority
Pownal
Leon E. Wagner
North Pownal Graded School
Florence Harries
Bennington
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America
mrIreay
Merc
Fittie San
Bennington Garage Corp
Main
Elizabeth Dwyer
Women’s Fellowship
Mizpah
Miriam Cole
Florence Heck
Geneva
N.Y
Clarissa Peacock
Allen Skiff
Peacock Home
Rochester
Cape Cod
Skiff
Phyllis Peacock
William H. Nolan
Houghton Street
Bennington County Home Demonstration Council
National Home
Tion
Lexington
Alaska
Hawaii
Blue Grass
Tate
Meyer
Josef Stralau
Dennis
Friedrichs
The
New York
Fran Stacy
Fight U.S. Ownership
Pownal War Memorial
Joseph Danforth
Isabelle G. King
Vera Langlais
Assignment Books
Marion Webster
Sheaffer
Bennington Bookshop Inc
Noveck-Shultz
Bennington, Vermont
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