Hoosick Falls Board Approves Urban Renewal Plan
Hoosick Falls village board unanimously backs the Urban Development Planing Program by John C. Burdis Associates with possible town participation. Fire department seeks new alert system, 10 radio receivers and ENCoder cost 1589.50 or 5 year rent options. Contracts awarded for water main repairs and filtration channel work. Little Theater banner permit approved pending property owner permissions.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
John C. Burdis
Hoosick
RTA Distributors
Albany
William Dailey
Bussey Lane
Leo Mahar Jr
Little Theater
Main Street
Pownals Bazaar Draws Funds and Festive Cheer
The Pownals Bazaar hosted by the Women’s Fellowship of Pownal Center Community Church raised 170 dollars for church interior redecorating. The event featured decorated firehouse booths, recorded music, and tea, with many helpers named. Other items note residents’ moves, church memberships, a record hop at the firehouse, and a 4H forestry project meeting detailing tree growth and pine spruce samples.
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Women’s Fellowship
Pownal Center Community Church
Fletcher Hall
Charles Rounds
Ira Chaffee
Harold Andrews
George Andrews
David Ricker Sr
David Niles
Margaret Niles
Floyd Patterson
Barbara
Linda Patterson
Mary Jane's
Pownal Center
Computer Diplomacy Aims To Predict Global Reactions
Stanford researchers led by Robert C. North feed behavior analyses of world leaders into a Burroughs 220 computer to generate a fever chart of day by day tensions. The program predicts reactions to diplomatic moves with scientific accuracy by plotting the outcomes before they occur.
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Stanford University
Robert C. North
North
Enter Laughing to Become Broadway Play
Carl Reiner’s novel Enter Laughing about a stage striver becomes a Broadway play arriving March 13. Joseph Stein adapts the piece and Gene Saks directs, taking seven weeks from A Thousand Clowns to stage the production.
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New York
Carl Reiner
Joseph Stein
Gene Saks
Vermont Delegates Represent 10 of 14 Counties at Farm Bureau Meet
Delegates from Vermont to the American Farm Bureau convention in Atlanta represent 10 of the state’s 14 counties. Leland Beebe of East Dorset chairs the Vermont Farm Bureau and serves as its director. Attendees will hear from Wirtz, Blackie, Weber, and Sen. Morton as they discuss broadening the tax base and enhancing the government farm program.
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Vermont
American Farm Bureau
Atlanta
Vermont Farm Bureau
Leland Beebe
East Dorset
Bennington County
W. Willard Wirtz
William Blackie
Caterpillar Tractor Co
Arthur D. Weber
Kansas State University
Sen
Thruston Morton
Kentucky
Pope John XXIII to deliver annual Christmas message
The Pope will broadcast his Christmas message via Vatican radio on December 22. On Christmas Eve he will celebrate Mass in his private chapel, heard on Vatican Radio at 4 p.m. EST. Tito tours Volgograd while Galbraith delays India trip. Herter sworn in as special presidential representative for trade talks.
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John XXII
Vatican Radio
Christian A. Herter
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Washington
Clumsy Cat Leads to Baby Possum Discovery
In Oklahoma at the Kroeger home a family cat’s clumsy entrance wake reveals a baby possum inside the doorway. Mrs Kroeger shooed the animal outside without harm.
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Mcalester
Okla
William H. Kroger
PTA Holds Winter Sports Sale in Manchester
The winter sports exchange sale at the Manchester elementary school totaled 400 in sales with the PTA receiving 10 percent. It aimed to serve the community rather than earn money. Committee head Mrs. George Breen declared success and many hoped for an annual event. Skates sleds skis boots and parkas were in demand. John Balch of Balch Radio and TV donated a sound track and helped announce the sale. Other committee members were Mrs. Robert J. Fisk and Mrs. Stephen Bresko.
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Manchester
PTA
George Breen
John Balch
Balch Radio and TV
Robert J. Fisk
Stephen Bresko
Bromley Talks Ski Season Opening at 25th Year
Bromley will open its 25th ski season Thursday with nine inches of fresh snow atop a four to six inch base. The resort expects a seven inch typical pack, aided by three Sno-cats. Two new trails Glade and Spring add to improved Pushover and Blue Ribbon. A new parking lot across from the Wild Boar and a second floor cocktail bar debut.
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Peru
Bromley
Local Notes From White Creek and Nearby
Jane Baldwin the 14 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Baldwin Jr was taken to Putnam Memorial Hospital with bronchial pneumonia last Thursday. Miss Celia Niles was confined to her home by illness several days last week. Mrs Margaret Hulihan has been a patient at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Miss Mary Baldwin was unable to attend school for a few days last week because of illness.
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Jane Baldwin
Harry Baldwin Jr
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Raymond
Harold Taber
Quaker Hill Road
Celia Niles
Laurence Hrbek
Kingston
N. Y
George Lobdell
Margaret Hulihan
Percy Heslink
Jamestown
N.Y
Gordon K. Byars
Mary Baldwin
Arlington O E S Christmas Party Planned
The Arlington Chapter O E S will hold its Christmas party at its regular meeting on Wednesday December 12 at 8 p m Members are asked to bring a gift for exchange.
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Arlington
Shaftsbury Fire Department
Evelyn Delaney
Ethel Farrar
Audrey Jones
Beginners Get Chance to Showcase New Musical Works
In New York fledgling composers and lyricists gain four weeks of performances before talent scouts. Sponsored by the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers, the programs follow a seminar series where top artists described facets of the creative process to students.
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New York
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Hoosick Falls Community Notices and Holiday Events
Hoosick Falls groups announce events. The Town of Hoosick Little League Auxiliary hosts a cookie sale Friday December 14 at 10 p.m. at the Cud dihy Store on John Street with home made Christmas cookies. Christmas party for the Boot and Shoe Union at the Nancy Shoe Company drew 140 attendees at Old Byars House in North Hoosick. John Guile of Buskirk won a transistor radio door prize. CES members collected gifts for shut ins during Friday’s meeting. Holman Mfg Company hosts a Saturday dinner at Hotel Cambridge for employees. Agnes Bell of High Street recently returned from Samaritan Hospital in Troy.
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Town of
Boot and Shoe Union
Nancy Shoe Company
Nobel Prizes Awarded to Cambridge Clan Members and Colleagues
Five scientists share the 1962 Nobel prizes four Britons and an American for discoveries in medicine and chemistry. James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins win medicine with Crick. Kendrew and Perutz win chemistry. John Steinbeck wins literature for California. Lev Landau wins physics in a Moscow hospital after a car crash.
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Moscow
California
Cambridge
Maurice Willins
Francis Crick
James D. Watson
Harvard University
Mass
Watson
England
John Cowdery Kendrew
Max Ferdinand Perutz
Lev Landau
Dorset Youth Among 6 Vermonters Applying for Rhodes Scholarships
Six Vermont college students will be interviewed for Rhodes Scholarships this month, announced Rutland Herald editor Robert Mitchell who chairs the Vermont Rhodes Scholarship Committee. The sole Bennington County candidate is Peter S. Godfrey of Dorset, a Yale student and son of Mrs. Stokes Godfrey. The group also includes Jerrold Brown, Eric Horsting, and Charles MacCormack of Middlebury College. William K. Corliss of Norwich. and Cadet Douglas H. Butterfield of Lyndonville, USAF Academy.
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Rutland
Vermont College
Robert Mitchell
Rutland Herald
Vermont
Bennington County
Peter S. Godfrey
Yale
Stokes Godfrey
Dorset
Jerrold Brown
Eric Horsting
Charles MacCormack
Middlebury College
William K. Corliss
Norwich
Shaftsbury Grange meets in kitchen amid heating issue
Taconic Grange members held a December meeting in the Grange Hall kitchen due to a heating problem, echoing the December 4 1867 state Grange gathering. The Home Economics Committee presented a program for 21 attendees followed by a Christmas party planning details and calls for RSVP.
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Taconic Grange
Santa Claus
Grange
Eunice Myers
Williamstown to Stage Inge Picnic Revisions
Williamstown theater presents Inge revised Summer Brave retitled Picnic with four local women in a 15 member cast. The production runs Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 30 at Adams Memorial Theater in Williamstown Mass. Tickets available at the box office and at the door.
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Williamstown
Mass
William Inge
Stockbridge
Adams Memorial Theater
Random House
Inge
Williams
Bennington College
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