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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1974
Page
7
Arlington Selectmen weigh town pride after storm left town hall patio uncleared. Volunteers stepped forward to shovel, while officials discuss plowing options and budget, road signs missing, and calls for safer roadside clearances.
Hoosick Falls Boy Scout Troop 64 sponsored by the Church of the Immaculate Conception announces its second annual Ski and Skate Sale this weekend in the parish hall. Items consigned Friday 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Skis, poles, shoes, parkas, toboggans and other winter gear sought. Proceeds aid troop operations. Also noted is the Ladies Auxiliary Eagles Christmas party at Delaney's Hotel on Dec 11 with dollar grab bag gifts and transportation from the Eagles club at 6 p.m. Dinner at 7. Mrs. Ernest Malo and daughter Kim travel to Potomac, Md. to visit cousin C. Dickson Ashworth. Kim is HFCS senior at Georgetown University.
Severson, mayor of Hoosick Falls New York, sent trustees a report on a November Albany conference co sponsored by the state office for local government and Assemblyman Lane. He urges New York review of the Fair Labor Standards Act and condemns oil company profits and federal inaction.
Chem Clean shows deer reports from Arlington with names and counts across towns like Weston Windham and Sandgate. Totals reach 265 deer and two bears this year, versus 160 last year, followed by regional notices on a Bennington District environmental commission hearing, Dorset school board meeting, and a Vermont Natural Resources Council benefit film event featuring Harry and Tonto in Montpelier.
Vermont Department of Employment Security shows Barre with seven percent jobless in October, higher than Newport by eight tenths of a point. Barre construction halted, manufacturing layoffs noted. Burlington among least hurt with five point five percent unemployment, while Bennington tallies eight hundred fifty unemployed or six point one percent of a 13,900 work force.
Montpelier announces the Vermont Winter-Spring Events 1974 75 booklet listing Christmas bazaars church suppers shows and sporting events across the state from December through May. Free copies available at chambers offices Vermont Montreal office Mount Royal Hotel New York center interstate welcome centers or by writing to Department 31 Montpelier VT 05602.
Vermont Electric Cooperative of Johnson won PSB permission to borrow 1.1 million to fund the second half of its improvements plan. The ruling allows 886,000 from Rural Electrification Administration at 5 percent for 36 years and 22,000 from National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp at 7 percent for 36 years. Last September the board approved nearly 1.3 million for the first half of the program.
Eight inmates escaped from Centre County Jail, including Michael Oster of Burlington, Vermont, aged 19, who was being held on auto theft charges. Oster remained at large as police said the group overpowered guards and exited via a library window. two others were recaptured hours later.
In Buffalo, Justice Frank R. Bagger issued a temporary restraining order stopping Dairylea Cooperative Inc from collecting an $18.6 million special assessment from its members. Thirteen members filed the request, risking thousands each. The average per member is about $2,400, with first milk payment deduction due Dec. 10. a hearing is set for next Monday in Buffalo Supreme Court.
Gov elect Hugh J Carey installed Bronx leader Patrick Cunningham as state Democratic chairman at the Biltmore Hotel meeting. Cunningham succeeds Joseph F Crangle, ousted for backing Carey rival Howard Samuels, signaling Carey’s control of the party apparatus.
Edith Safford Steckel 87 of 16 Morningside Ave Adams died Saturday morning at Adams Nursing Home. A descendant of William Brewster and Richard Warren who came with the first Pilgrims she was related to Susan B Anthony. Her grandfather John W Richmond helped establish Maple Street Cemetery and the Quaker Meeting House. Her grandmother founded the first private school in Williamstown. A family member has served in every U.S. war from the Revolution to World War II. She belonged to the DAR since 1910.
In Great Barrington a 75-year-old woman Anna Finn of Holyoke died of exposure after wandering from a nursing home in a light nightgown. Missing at about 2 a.m., she was found about 7 a.m. near the area and died about an hour after reaching Fairview Hospital.
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