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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1974
Page
7
Manchester school directors met quickly to review a list of potential facilities concerns at the elementary school prepared by Principal Charles Skiptunas as they consider purchasing Rotary property.
Local notices report the United Methodist Women will host a Christmas dinner and party Monday December 16 at Mrs. Rodney Brownell’s home. Other items note hospital discharge for Miss Margaret Aiken and a corrected attribution about a Christmas card painting by Wilfred Robertson.
Vermont College in Montpelier will host a statewide careers program on December 12 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event, organized by Barbara Meehan, offers Vermonters of all ages an overview of today’s career options and how to prepare. Attendees will tour campus facilities, hear faculty discuss required preparation and working conditions, and learn about fields like nursing medical technology medical laboratory work child study human services mental health recreation arts liberal arts management and criminal justice.
The Manchester Lions Club donates 500 dollars to the Northside Senior Projects Center serving Arlington Dorset Manchester Peru Rupert Sandgate and Sunderland. The center has raised 1920 from 105 donations toward a 3000 goal for the drive and receives a 7600 grant from the Bennington area Office on Aging. The fiscal 1974 75 budget is 18360 with seniors contributing 1200. Center hours are 10 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday for residents 55 and older.
Cole Hall opens Dec 14 15 with Garden Club members greeting visitors Saturday 10 am 5 pm Sunday 1 4 pm. Green Show features foreign children poster display floral arrangements crafts ornaments wreaths and prizes. Sunday raffle tree skirt winner drawn. community caroling live Nativity scene and holiday cheer follow. In Peru Bromley Mountain hosts first Citizens Series race for recreational skiers on Dec 14 1 pm with 19+ registration 9 11 am at Bromley Ski Club.
The Vermont deer kill for the November season tops 11,000 with 11,167 deer reported taken in the 16 day season. All 14 counties showed increases led by Windsor with 2,037 and Rutland at 1,653. bear kills total 221, up from 165 last year. Final figures due in January.
Sen H Ward Bedford of Cornwall loses Addison County race to Seeley Reynolds by one vote after a final recount shows Reynolds 4 593 Bedford 4 592. Bedford, longtime Senate Finance Committee chair, notes close races. Sen Arthur Gibb wins other Addison County seat. Finance chair contest teases between Westphal and Gannett.
Gov. Salmon urged the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth to promote spending of revenue sharing for child programs as state funds cannot cover expansion. He called for review of archaic corporal punishment laws and suggested changes.
A revived proposal to create an off track betting corporation in Rensselaer County will be reviewed by the county legislature in January. Legislative Chairman Joseph Manupella says a Republican Democrat caucus will draft the formal plan after new information from an OTB seminar. State Sen. Manfred Ohrenstein launched a bid for Senate minority leader, asserting broad support and naming Jeremiah Bloom, Joseph Galiber, and James Griffin as possible allies. He claims 9 of 14 votes and backing from Lt. Gov. elect Mary Ann Krupsak, pledging reform and decentralization of party leadership if elected.
Berkshire Probate Court Judge Andrea Nuciforo upheld a divorced father’s right to halt $20 weekly child support when the eldest child turned 18, citing the 18 year age of majority. The mother’s lawyers argued a prior agreement to support to age 21. the court disagreed. North Adams authorities say Louis R. Sinclitico faces an assault with a dangerous weapon charge after allegedly pointing a gun at Patrolman Raymond Oakes during a liquor store burglary investigation.
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