Twenty Acres More or Less I Nearly Become a Barmaid
A travel vignette recounts an unexpected stop in Wyoming Idaho and Utah as Old Chariot suffers a leak and a flat tire. A sheriff hosts late night patrons at a lone wayside, offers a retirement ranch as a wild West solution, and proposes a potential dude ranch conversion. The narrator contemplates the odd prospect but concludes the place isn’t right for them, with more to come next week.
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Wyoming Teton Pass
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Sheriffs Star
Charles
Dr. Denton
Dr. D.’s
4-H Leaders Propose Food Booth At State Day 1965
Last Monday night 18 junior leaders met at North Bennington Library Hall to discuss a new food booth for State Day. The booth would sell hot dogs and soft drinks to 4-H’ers parents and visitors, with receipts going to the junior leader treasury. A committee was appointed to decide on a Christmas contribution for a county organization. The next meeting is tentatively set for January.
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North Bennington
Treasury
The Red Onion Adds Executive Room for Private Dining
Manchester Vermont welcomes chef John Gordon new manager of The Red Onion formerly The Merry Yodeler He converts part of the lounge into the Executive Room for private meetings and buffet service Gordon plans takeout catering and parties up to 75 He brings Navy training and prior posts at Copper Penny Longfellow's Wayside Inn and Crawford Inn to the Vermont venue
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Manchester
John” Gordon
the Red Onion
Gordon
Copper Penny
Winhall
Storrs
Conn
U.S. Navy
Longfellow
Arlington School Lunch Menu Schedule
Arlington and nearby towns present a weekly school lunch menu listing meals for Monday through Friday with options including spaghetti, turkey, hot dogs, tuna, beef stews, baked beans, fish sticks, and California chicken. Each day notes milk and various side dishes, with additional entries for Pownal and North Bennington schools featuring soups, sandwiches, meats, vegetables, fruits, desserts, and finishing with milk served at all meals.
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Pownal
North Bennington
Beatle fad widens in Bennington fashion circle
Miss M Scott Wiskoski writes in Datebook Magazine about the latest Bennington craze. Teens mix bright ties with old and new styles to join the Beatle influence. The piece also notes George E Condon’s Cleveland travels and activities around Bennington. The column mentions Paula Welden’s disappearance anniversary and local historical sites in Rutland and Bennington. It covers the 1964 Christmas Greens Show in Albany and Maria Tallchief receiving the Capezio award, plus Angelo Gentile’s Lions Club tribute for his Green Sabres work. It closes with a note on Hummel pictures and WTEN TV Cerebral Palsy Telethon talent tryouts.
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Datebook Magazine
M. Scott Wiskoski
John Wiskoski
Main Street
Bennington
Cleveland
George E. Condon
Ohio
Old First Church
Bennington Museum
Bennington Common
Angelo Gentile
Schuylerville
N.Y
Green Sabres
Chateau de Louis
South Glens Falls
Lions Club
Gentile
Angelo
Carleton J. King
Italy
Mechanicville
National Guard
A Merry Modern Christmas and the Heat of Comfort
The author weighs modern conveniences against old fashioned Christmas lore. She jokes about avoiding sleighs and snowshoes, preferring automatic furnaces to cold, snowbound mornings. The tone mixes humor with nostalgia for clear, hip-deep snowless holidays.
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Dobbin
Cocktail Party Politicians Deplored by Former Candidate
Former Republican lieutenant governor candidate Richard A. Snelling urged Burlington Chamber members to urge constructive government direction, criticizing excessive cocktail party politics among business and professional people. The piece also notes deer aging tips from Dr. George Burger and a separate Chicagoans-lost-bus incident in Marion Illinois.
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Cocktail Party
Burlington
UPI
Richard A. Snelling
Snelling
Burlington - Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce
Shelburne
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Breen
Chef
John
THE
Vermont
F.D.I.C
Cosco
Walker
Main St
Ada Sue Diamond
Fred Torrisi
Red Onion
Arlington
Bennington Elementary
By Agnes Rockwood
Rube’’ Levin
Paula Welden
Bennington College
Rube
St. Christopher
Mt. St. Joseph Academy
Rutland
Vermont Catholic Tribune
Christ the King School
Carol Nash
Leo Nash
McKinley Street
MSJ
Albany Institute of History and Art
Washington Ave
Maria Tallchief
New York City
Miss Tallchief
Jacob’s Pillow, Lee
Mass
Anatole Chujoy
Dance News
Emily Coleman
Martha Hill
Juilliard School of Music
Walter Terry
New York Herald Tribune
Spearer S and Sons of
Cambridge
United States
Canada
Munich
Wtentv
Albany
Lewis A. Sawyer
Pittsfield
Schenectady
Amsterdam
Kingston
Cerebral Palsy Association
George Burger
Remington Arms Co. Inc
Bridgeport
Burger
Marion, Ill
Stanley Jones
Leroy Taylor
Chicago
Nies
Noveck - Shultz, Inc
Bennington, VT
Nichols
Lady Buxton
California
New Scotchgard
Thie Mountain
Better Tv, Inc
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