Molly Stark staff change and tuition rise discussed
The Prudential Committee of the Greater Bennington School District names Lenore Marken to replace Janet Gallagher as seventh grade English and social studies teacher at Molly Stark School effective Jan 1. The board raises Molly Stark Junior High tuition for 1964 65 from 425 to 450 and votes a $5 weekly raise for custodian Jessie Dewey for a new basement classroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prudential Committee
Greater Bennington
Lenore Marken
Janet Gallagher
Molly Stark
Gallagher
Marken
University of North Dakota
Minnesota
Jessie Dewey
Beech Street School
Woodford
Harriet M. Davis
Bennington Southwest
Local Births and Family Notices From Hoosick Falls Area
Hospital notes list births and family announcements including Miss Catherine Cavenders Master Thomas Griffin Bene dict Nowik Hoosick Falls Mrs Virginia Woodward Mrs Beatrice Forrest Mrs Elizabeth Pearson Bennington Master Donald Latif Mrs Josephine LaFountain and daughter Mrs Margaret Revett and son Mrs Nancy Krystowiak and son Bennington Mrs Celia Batonick William Myers Shafts bury William Pratt Hoosick Falls Mr and Mrs Donald Bovey Manchester a daughter Dec 10 Mr and Mrs Doyle Frost Manchester Depot a daughter Dec 10 Mr and Mrs Lincoln Rice Shaftsbury a daughter Dec 10 Mr and Mrs Edward Ennis Water Street Arlington a daughter Dec 10 Mr and Mrs John Dence 220 Washington Ave a son Dec 10
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Cavenders
Thomas Griffin
Benedict Nowik
Hoosick Falls
Virginia Woodward
Beatrice Forrest
Elizabeth Pearson
Bennington
Donald Latif
Josephine LaFountain
Margaret Revett
Nancy Krystowiak
Celia Batonick
William Myers
Shaftsbury
William Pratt
Donald Bovey
Manchester
Doyle Frost
Manchester Depot
Lincoln Rice
Edward Ennis
Water Street
Arlington
John Dence
Washington Ave
Funeral rites for Mrs Margaret A Stitt held at Mahar Son
Funeral services were conducted for Mrs Margaret A Stitt a longtime book keeper and clerk at Art Wards Store with Rev H Glenn Payne officiating Entombment followed at Park Lawn Chapel and Riverview Cemetery Whit ingham Mass relatives attended from Green field and Woodford Two people injured in separate accidents police reported involving drivers Theodore Ripley and John A Young at Gage Park streets and East Main Burgess roads
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret A. Stitt
Art Ward
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
H. Glenn Payne
First Baptist Church
Harold Smith
Avery Smith
John Flanagan
Raymond Prouty
Virgil Gregory
Gordon Hier
Park Lawn Chapel
Riverview
Whitingham
Greenfield
Mass
Woodford
Bennington Village
Theodore Ripley
Gage Street
John A. Young
Carrigan Lane
Gage
Park Streets
Ripley
Young
East Main Street
Burgess Road
David Mercier
Division St
Main Street
Frank A. Wood
White Creek
N.Y
Harry S. Baldwin
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Mr. Baldwin
Salem
Samuel and
May (Bentley) Baldwin
Eagle Square Mig. Co
Shaftsbury
Elizabeth Gilbar
Hoosick Falls
Woodland Cemetery
Cambridge
Bennington Community Briefs Schedule of Local Meetings
Committeemen and den mothers of Cub Scout Pack 53 meet at 7 30 tonight at the Second Congregational Church. James W Williams funeral calling hours today 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm at Mahar Son Funeral Home. Welcome Wagon Club meets Dec 12 at 8 pm in Old Bennington Schoolhouse to wrap gifts and assemble cookbooks for sale. Yule Tea decorations planned for 3 to 5 pm Friday at St Peters parish house Pleasant Street with Juliette Mc C Shields chairing. Misses Sara Pike and Sherrill Pratt assist serving. Local Selective Service board office closes today at noon until Monday noon.
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Cub Scout Pack 53
Second Congregational Church
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
James W. Williams
Bennington Welcome Wagon Club
Bennington
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Pleasant Street
Juliette McC. Shields
T. Garry Buckley
Francis B. Engelhart
Richard B. Leake Jr
Townsend Wellington
William Williams
Sara Pike
Sherrill Pratt
Heating bids rejected as too high by village trustees
Three bids for a new heating plant in the Depot Street village garage were rejected by Bennington Village Trustees as too high. They plan to revise plans to use a cast iron steam boiler, reusing unit heaters and piping to cut costs, with architect Richard B. Diamond to prepare new plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Depot Street
Bennington Village
George Ryan
Richard B. Diamond
505
Main St
Diamond
Johnson Oil Co
J.H. Winslow Plumbing and Heating Supply Co
Harrington Heating and Plumbing Co
Pittsfield
Mass
Highway Department
Youth fined for speeding in Adams Municipal Court
In Adams Massachusetts Municipal Court Ron ald Bedard twenty was fined fifty five dollars ten cents after pleading guilty to speeding and violating the law of the road. State's Atty R Marshall Witten said a state police trooper clocked Bedard at up to seventy mph on U S 7 in Pownal early Sunday morning. Judge George M Fienberg noted the lighter sentence compared with other youths caught speeding near the New York border. Bedard said he had been visiting a friend in Hoosick Falls New York.
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Adams
Mass
Ronald Bedard
Atty. R. Marshall Witten
Bedard
Vermont 346
Pownal
Witten
U.S
George M. Fienberg
New York Line
Massachusetts
Fienberg
Hoosick Falls
Jack R. Elwell
Scott St
Vermont 67
John P. Morrissey
Donald J. Gaudette
Manchester Depot
Leroy Musick
Breaks Investigated at Morse C and Red Barn Restaurant
State police investigate two burglaries at The Morse C and B Block Co at Harwood Hill and the Red Barn Restaurant in Shaftsbury. Burglars pried open vending machines and stole their contents after entering through the front doors Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harwood Hill
Red Barn
Shaftsbury
Lyndon Institute to be considered a public high school
The board approved Lyndon Town School Districts request that Lyndon Institute be treated as a public high school. It also set Chelsea and other towns as designated areas for South Royalton High School. Commissioner A John Holden Jr cautioned Chelsea may not retain its high school much longer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sistant
Hoff
Lyndon Town
Lyndon Institute
South Royalton High School
Chelsea
Sharon
Strafford
Tunbridge
A. John Holden Jr
Morse Succeeds Holden on Town Airport Commission
Selectmen name William H. Morse of North Bennington Road to the Town Airport Commission replacing Robert T. Holden who had expressed his wish to resign and who served as chairman. Morse is a local contractor and active flyer who owns a long wooden hangar at the airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selectmen
William H. Morse
North Bennington Road
Robert T. Holden
West Road
Holden
Morse
Alma Langlois
Vail Road
New York
Tansitor Electronics
North Bennington
Ivor S. Pelsue
Overlea
Vail
Silk Road
Airport Road
First
Fire Marshals Aid Sought On Main Street Blaze
Bennington Fire Department seeks state Fire Marshal help to determine the cause of a Wednesday apartment-house fire at 544 546 Main Street. The upper story and roof suffered heavy damage before extinguished. Damages estimated at 8 10 thousand dollars for building and contents. owner Loner gan and Thomas Insurance Agency cites 12 14 thousand in building damages. All six apartments were occupied. residents evacuated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Richard Hollister
Hollister
Lonergan and Thomas _ Insurance Agency
John Lonergan
Obituary Notices for Brooks Baldwin Burnham
Coventry widow Mary Brooks 58 dies suddenly in Coventry. Survivors include seven sons and two daughters. Requiem High Mass at St. Pauls Manchester Vt. Burial St Jerome Cemetery East Dorset Vt. Also notices for Harry S Baldwin 62 of White Creek and Forrest E Burnham 70 of Stoughton with funeral details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coventry, Conn
Mary Brooks
William H. Brooks
St. Mary’s Church
St. Rita
Catholic Daughters of America
St. Paul’s Church
Manchester
Brooks
Whitehall
N.Y
Mary Hubbard
Elmira
Adella
D.C. Kelley
St. Jerome
East Dorset
Brewster Funeral Home
Manchester Center
Kelly
Stock Averages Dow Jones at Noon
The Noon readings show the Dow Jones industrials at 758.30 down 0.95, rails at 176.83 up 0.42, utilities at 137.71 up 4.26, with the composite at 266.21 up 0.63. Total sales reached 2,040,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
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Bennington Banner
Mrs
Margaret Stitt
Bolivia
Andes
la Paz
Union
Thomas Martin
Michael A. Kristula
Cadillac
Mich
Bernard Rifkin
Montclair
N.J
Robert Federstrom
Honolulu
Beech Street
Sinatra
Ron
Carson City
Ron’s
Frank
Los Angeles
Lake Tahoe
Mountain Lake
California-Nevada
Reno
Dist. Atty
William J. Baggio
Sinatra Sr
Bennington Briefs
Selective Service Board
Richard J. Bovey
Bovey
Howard J. Davis
Hamlin Ave
Davis
W.H. Morse
Town Airport Commission
North Benning
Ton
Eldred
Tansitor
Stone Church
Vermont 67A
Vermont 9
Gypsy Lane
Walloomsac Road
Hard-Sur
Bennington County
A and W Artesian Well Co
Salvatore, Anthony
Charles Tornabene
Tornabenes
William C. Sennett
Tornabene
American Legion
Hinsdillville
Legionnaires
James Cross
Legionaires
Legion Post
Kenneth Baker
William J. Horst
Hugh Clark
Joseph Lee
Forrest E. Burnham
Stoughton
Perry St
William Burnham
Ira
Fannie (Wiggins) Burnham
Stoughton High School
Bryant & Stratton Business College
Boston
Burnham
13Th Regiment
U.S. Marine Corps
Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion
Chicatabut Club
San Salvadore Knights of Columbus
Holy Name Society of the Immaculate Conception
Evelyn LaGarde
John Burnham
Williamstown
Arthur L. Burnham
New Egypt
Walter
Francine) Murphy
Dedham
Allan
Evelyn) Gately
Edward Hall
Ruey Burnham
Beverly
James B. Cotter
Grove St
Immaculate Conception
Holy Sepulchre
DIAL
South ST. Bennington
Walker
Grand Union Ee
Triplesf
Grand Union
Westinghouse
SANTA
Vermont
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