Aiken Plans Flood Wall Financing by Corps of Engineers
Vermont Senator Aiken told Bennington selectmen that extending the Roaring Branch flood wall would be financed by the Corps of Engineers after a preliminary study. The move followed Mt Anthony Union School Board selecting part of the Soldiers Home site for a proposed union high school and concerns about flood exposure. In a Montpelier scene a 71-year-old former governor, Joseph B Johnson, joked with three tourists about legislative control amid a GOP majority.
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Bennington
Vermont
George D. Aiken
Roaring Branch
Mt. Anthony
Aiken
Corps of Engineers
Montpelier
UPI
Joseph B. Johnson
Springsfield
Green Mountaineers Year-End Event and Plans
The Bennington section of the Green Mountain Club hosts a year end get together with a 6 p.m. covered dish supper at Drysdale's camp in Woodford after a 2:30 walk from the Woodford state park entrance. Separate notes cover local civic matters, a Barn TV appearance by Cambridge dancers, and town maintenance needs at the sewage treatment plant including water source and pipe issues.
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Bennington
Green Mountain Club
Alexander Drysdale
Woodford
New Woodford State Park
Red Hill Pond
Drysdale
Woodford Lake
Woodford Road
Eighth Consecutive Jump In Vermont Jobs Noted
Vermont manufacturing employment edged higher for the eighth straight month with a net payroll gain of about six production workers per thousand, while turnover rose overall. Commissioner Stella B. Hackel noted increases in both payroll additions and removals versus September and October of the prior year, with durable and non durable goods showing varied industry results.
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Vermont
Montpelier
Stella B. Hackel
Sandra Mouroutsos Honored at a Tea
Miss Sandra Mouroutsos of Bennington was honored at a Sunday tea hosted by Mrs. Peter C. Sigalos at 59 Church Street Hoosick Falls. Thirty guests attended including family members from Bennington and guests from South Cambridge Troy Albany and Hoosick Falls. The event featured pink white and orchid decorations a bridal cake and orchid corsages with almonds reflecting Greek wedding tradition.
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James Mouroutsos
Georgiene Mouroutsos
Peter Kapetan
Bennington
Sigalos
South Cambridge
Troy
Albany
Hoosick Falls
Mouroutsos
Trustees Win Praise For New Street Lights
Bennington Village Trustees were praised for a three year plan to replace old street lights with mercury vapor units. Elmer Hansen lauded the new lights on Grand View Street between South and Silver. Trustees Heard Pierce reported cemetery vandalism with twenty five gravestones toppled and discussed fencing. They deferred a second police car, plan to close books, budget final figures, and await pension plan signatures from Massachusetts Mutual Life.
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Bennington Village
Elmer Hansen
Grandview St
Bennington
Grandview Street
South and
Silver
Charles Bodine
Joseph A. Pello Jr
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co
Yule Tide Tea Planned by St. Peter’s Parish Women
Mrs Joseph Wilson chairs the culinary committee for the Yule Tide Tea to be held Friday from 3 to 5 pm at St. Peter’s Episcopal Parish House on Pleasant Street. The event, annual in the village, invites neighbors and friends. tickets available at the parish house office.
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Ginny Kemmerer
Beth Ann Maier
Janett Matteson
Cheryl Pratt
Elizabeth Rockwood
Caroline Staines
Julie Wolf
Martha Wolf
James Wolfe
St. Peter’s
Bennington Library Offers Informal Math for Adults
Librarian John B. Rothrock announced Bennington Library will host an informal adult class titled Mathematics for Use and Enjoyment. The program aims for 12 to 15 students and begins Tuesday December 8 at 8 p.m. in the library social room, led by Michael Powsner of Pine Cobble School. No advanced math background is required.
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John B. Rothrock
Bennington Library
Rothrock
Michael Powsner
Pine Cobble School
Williamstown
Powsner
Vermont Calendar of Events Published by Vermont Development Dept
Vermont's Calendar of Events lists nearly 300 happenings from December through April across the state. Ski meets, basketball, hockey, church suppers, and concerts highlight top regional and national sports plus year round museum exhibits. Free copies are available by writing Vermont Development Dept Events Montpelier VT 05602.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Development Department
Vermont Development Dept
Father Fradet Named A Papal Chamberlain
The Rev. W. John Fradet director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in Burlington has been named a Papal Chamberlain with the title Very Reverend by Pope Paul VI. The investiture will be announced later. Fradet expanded Vermont CCD to 36,768 students in 1963 64 and directed the Vermont Catholic Information Center. Born 1925 in Swanton he studied at St. Anne's Academy and St Thomas Seminary prior to ordination in 1950.
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Burlington
W. John Fradet
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
St. Francis de Sales
Bennington
Paul VI
Msgr
Frader
Robert F. Joyce
CCD
Edward Fitzsimons
Christ the King
Vermont Catholic Information Center
Vermont
Msgr. Frader
Swanton
Sheldon
St. Anne’s Academy
Congo Colonel Burgess Gradwell Remembered Locally
U S Air Force Col Burgess Gradwell, who led American pilots in Congo and received Belgium’s Order of Leopold II at Brussels Airport, is cousin to several Bennington area residents. He summers in Woodford, now lives in Oneida, and commanded Dist 1 322nd Air Div in Eureux France last year. In World War II he served in Africa and on Dec 7 1961 piloted a C 124 bound for UN troops when ground fire struck near Elizabethville Congo, yet he kept the landing path clear. Local viewers saw him on television Tuesday night during a Brussels Airport interview.
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U.S. Air Force
Burgess Gradwell
Congo
Leopold II
Belgium
King Baudouin
Brussels
Kathryn Young
Eugene C. Burt
Barbara Burt
Orrin Bowen
Bennington
Woodford
Oneida
N.Y
Eureux
France
Africa
United Nations
Elizabethville
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