Shaftsbury Garden Club hosts Green Show and Sale success
Town of Shaftsbury residents thanks go to helpers for the weekend Garden Club event despite a Sunday wind storm that cut power at Cole Hall. Prize tablecloth winner was Ruth Martin. tickets picked by Eileen Keene. A sixth grade cross country skiing clinic will be led by Marion Cummings on Dec 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Shaftsbury School room 6. Carol Crossman led Hilltop 4-H activities with new members Debbie Wood and Mary Kuebler. Club plans Dec 15 meeting at Mrs. Crossman’s East Street home. Diane McDonald's class will visit the Soldier’s Home nursing unit Dec 19 and the Bloodmobile the same afternoon. Red Cross acknowledged.
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Shaftsbury Garden Club
Cole Hall
Garden Club
Dorothy Jones
Ruth Martin
Shaftsbury School
Eileen Keene
Marion Cummings
Shaftsbury
Wood
McCullough Mansion
North Bennington
Debbie Wood
Mary Kuebler
Candle Mill
Crossman
East Street
Diane McDonald
Soldier's Home
Bennington
Red Cross
WWI
Veterans of Manchester
Arlington
Legion Rooms
Arlington Snowmobile Club
Firehouse
East Arlington
Arlington Garden Club
Bailey Hall
St. Margaret Mary’s Hall
American Legion Auxiliary
Leland & Gray
Arlington Rescue Squad
Red’ Mt
OES
Masonic
Pownal Library and Fire Dept Schedule Update
The Solomon Wright Library in Pownal will be open Monday and Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. The East Pownal Volunteer Fire Department meets at 7:30 tonight at the firehouse on South Stream Road. The East Pownal Fire Auxiliary plans a Christmas party for members' children Sunday December 16 at 2 p.m. at the firehouse. Auxiliary members are reminded of the supper and work session Thursday December 13 at 6:30 at the firehouse.
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Solomon Wright
East Pownal
Pownal
Pownal community events and notices recap
Arlington residents urged to bring personal place settings and scissors for a work session while a $1 grab bag gift exchange is planned. A Pownal Preschool bake sale is set for Saturday December 15 at the Pownal Recreation Center from 1 to 4 pm. donations accepted via Mrs. Early Southgate at 823-5085. Community calendar notes meetings and games in Arlington and area towns, a rescue squad drill, and a library book drive for Sunderland students. Marine Pvt David L Grusendorf of Pownal completed infantry training at Camp Lejeune, receiving instruction in weapons and tactics.
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Pownal
Pownal Recreation Community Center
Oak Hill School
Early Southgate
David L. Grusendorf
Lyle Grusendorf
Marine Corps
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Sunderland students collect books for school library drive
Over the next two weeks Sunderland Elementary 7th and 8th graders will collect books to stock the school library. Organizer Steven Zimmer of Arlington, a Castleton State College senior practice teaching locally, invites donations of children's books ages 5 to 15 plus other usable volumes in sports, history, science, outdoor life, fiction or nonfiction. Donors may call 375-6436 between 4 and 6 pm any day before Dec 20 to arrange delivery or pickup and note the number of books and whether cartons are needed.
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Sunderland
Steven Zimmer
Arlington
Castleton State College
Sunday gasoline stations fewer open around Vermont
In Montpelier and across Vermont, the number of open gas stations on Sunday declined after President Nixon urged conservation. Police reported only a handful open, with several last week’s outlets closing now, except Shelburne where the Broughtons kept pumps running. Overall business on Sunday dipped about 75 percent.
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Broughtons
Barre taxi driver cited for driving too slow
Barre, UP I report Clarence Parker a 21 year old taxi driver was arrested on North Main Street for traveling too slowly to conserve gasoline. Patrolman Alfred Wolters charged him under a new uniform traffic law with holding up traffic a $10 fine is expected. Parker’s boss Daniel Garr calls it peculiar saying he told his drivers to slow down due to the energy crisis.
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Garr
Parker
Mays Named Supervisor of Green Mountain National Forest
L Kent Mays, previously deputy state forest supervisor of Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest, is appointed supervisor of Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest. He succeeds Floyd Marita, who moves to Montana’s Kootenai National Forest. Mays joined the Forest Service in 1958.
Essex Junction Foreman Dies in Industrial Accident
Stanley Phillips aged 42 of Essex Junction died from injuries sustained in an October 26 industrial accident in East Middlebury. He was burned when a remote-control boom he operated contacted a 7,200 volt overhead line while working as a foreman for the S. T. Griswold Co.
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Essex Junction
UPI
Stanley Phillips
East Middlebury
Phillips
S. T. Griswold Co
Governor's Medical Care Commission to meet in Montpelier
The Governor's Commission on Medical Care led by Daniel O'Brien will hold its fourth meeting this Tuesday from 2 to 4 at the Tavern Motor Inn Montpelier. The session will be open to the public and will discuss Vermont's role in health insurance.
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Montpelier
Governor’s Commission On Medical Care
Daniel O’brien
Rockefeller resignation threatens delay in college trustee pick
In New York Albany observers expect Governor Rockefeller to resign soon, risking a year-long delay in naming the ninth Hudson Valley Community College trustee as Mary Casey of Troy withdrew, leaving Democrats split on a successor acceptable to Rockefeller. Meanwhile in Albany several Capital District gas stations stayed open Sunday defying Nixon’s ban, reducing traffic but pumping large volumes.
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Troy
Rockefeller
Hudson Valley Community College Board
Mary Casey
Albany
Capital District
Nixon
Pittsfield Plant Warns of Shutdown Over Fuel Supply
Eaton Paper Co in Pittsfield warns a four week shutdown without state permission to burn higher-sulfur fuel. Plant Engineer Edward Bryan says low-sulfur fuel will run out in four weeks. company employs 800 at three local plants. Mayor urged quick state hearing on the fuel request. Another item reports vandalism to automobiles with a Plymouth stolen from a Dalton Avenue lot, damaged $1,500, smashed into a boulder, windows broken, sand poured into the carburetors.
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Pittsfield
Edward Bryan
Eaton Paper Co
Bryan
Eaton
Donald Butler
State Public Health Department
Bureau of Air Quality Control
Dalton Avenue
East Street
Former provisional officer Kaigle faces district court charge
A complaint for breaking and entering in the nighttime with intent to commit a misdemeanor will be issued in District Court against Stephen A. Kaigle 22 in a show cause hearing December 7 by Clerk Morton Freedman. Kaigle was charged after being found on the hospital cafeteria roof in the early morning of November 15 and had resigned his provisional police post nearly two weeks earlier.
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North Adams
Stephen A. Kaigle
Morton Freedman
Kaigle
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