Vermont Prison Escape Case Raises Questions About Identity
The Pray case centers on Gary Pray's suspected escape after a brief release from Waterbury prison. Police search for a visitor who used a false identity and left with Pray and a car found abandoned near Moretown. Pray, previously acquitted on murder charges and ordered to hospital for mental illness, had shown no escape attempts before this incident. Energy news notes a 1975 Kansu conservation drive saving vast electricity and coal.
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Keough
Pray
Waterbury
Moretown
Northfield
Isabell Pray
Gary
Windsor State Prison
Bennington
St. Albans
William C. Hill
Edouard Garneau
East Arlington
Addison County Superior Court
State Supreme Court
Hong Kong
UPS
China
Kansu Province
Kansu Radio
Heat Windham County Proposal for State Government Panel
A plan to form a special panel like the Little Hoover Commission would reexamine the structure of State government. The idea recalls the late 1950s panel whose 1960s and 1970s recommendations influenced Gov. Deane Davis’s consolidation of state agencies into a Super agency system. Davis, a Republican, was seen as a reformist governor.
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Windham County
Little Hoover Commission
Deane Davis
Davis
Administration
Transportation Agency
Moore pleads not guilty to attempt on Ford’s life
A federal defendant, Miss Moore, seeks to change her plea to guilty for the September attempt on President Gerald R. Ford with a handgun. Judge Conti will hear psychiatric testimony on competence to change plea as Moore, who has a long history of mental illness, claims she acted consciously and legally.
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Gerald R. Ford
United States
Conti
Miss Moore
James Hewitt
Bennington Pony Club Holds Third Mini Show Sunday
The Bennington pony club hosts its third mini-show at Dornhof Farm in Shaftsbury from 1 to 4 p.m. Adult riders compete in schooling equitation and jumping classes. Judges assess improvement after instruction.
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Bennington Pony Club
Dornhof Farm
Shaftsbury
Dinner Downtown birthday celebration and upcoming meals
Five residents celebrated at Dinner Downtown for about 360 years combined. Senior Center volunteers decorated and provided favors, while Sue Buck organized music and Muriel Renard led songs. Next week senior meals will be served daily at the Senior Apartment House and Community Center with reservations by phone. Meals are 60 and over via the Nutrition Program for the Elderly, supported locally by United Counseling Service, costing nothing to $1 with self selecting donations.
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Nellie Galipeau
May Gropler
Mary LaVoie
John Shapiro
Caroll White
Elizabeth Armstrong
Senior Citizen’s Center
Sue Buck
Muriel Renard
South
Senior Citizen's Community Center
BenMont Ave
Pownal
Baptist Church
Bennington
Paddy’s
North Bennington
Nutrition
Office On Aging
United Counseling Service
Harvard
Bus Stalls at Toronto Level Crossing. Train Cannot Stop
Police and CN spokesman describe a Toronto incident where a bus stalled between lowered barriers at a GO level crossing. The express train, traveling over 70 mph between Pickering and Union Station, could not brake in time. all dead and injured were on the bus.
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Cryderman
Ontario
Maurice Simms
Canadian National
Pickering
Union Station
Toronto
Touchpoint comedy explores human bonds at St Pauls Cathedral
Burlington Unity Players present Touchpoint an original Vermont women’s theatre piece exploring human relationships at St Pauls Cathedral Pearl and Battery Streets on Friday December 19 at 8 p.m. Donations are $2.
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Burlington
Unity Players
Vermont
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Pearl and Battery Sts
Obituary: Grace Balz of West Sandgate dies in hospital
Mrs Grace Balz aged 70 with family in West Sandgate died Friday after long illness at Putnam Memorial Hospital Bennington Born in Brooklyn Feb 12 1891 parents Frank M Sands Emma H Ball married George J Balz in Brooklyn Balz died 1918 survivors include daughter in law Hazel Hasenzahl and grandson George W Bowers funeral in Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn no calling hours comital service at Greenwood Cemetery pending burial details. Lydia J Wilcox 76 dies in Putnam Memorial Hospital Bennington.
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Grace Balz
West Sandgate
George Hasenzahl
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Brooklyn
N.Y
Frank M. Sands
Emma H. Ball
Balz
George J. Balz
Lydia J. Wilcox
Bennington
Landgrove
George
Mary (Warner) Babbitt
Manchester
Roland Wilcox
Hoosick Falls
Cambridge
Maine
Flossie Fisher
Brewster Funeral Home
Accident injures driver in Beech Street collision
Elizabeth C. Baker 29 of Beech Street struck a Gareth Bus Lines bus driven by Francis Beevis 62 of Shaftsbury Friday at 3 05 p m at the Kocher Drive US 7 intersection. Baker sought a fire caused by a falling cigarette and suffered cuts and bruises. Estimated vehicle damage 800 dollars. Beevis remained at fault and the bus sustained damage.
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Elizabeth C. Baker
Beech Street
Gareth Bus Lines
Francis Beevis
Shaftsbury
Kocher Drive
US. 7
Bennington Crisis Deepens As Trustees Storm Meet
The Bennington College dispute centers on a power struggle between faculty and the 28 trustees who hold the charter. Trustees plan a meeting with van der Linde and Dean Cohen while reaffirming Gail Parker as president in fact. Faculty leaders invite trustees to join a steering group amid calls to resolve the crisis.
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New York
Parker
Sungwisci
Lirias Na Bu
David Houle
Houle
Bennington College
Bennington
Gail T. Parker
Bennington Banner Advertising Rates and Contact Details
The Bennington Banner lists publication details, address at 425 Main St Bennington VT 05201, newspaper affiliations with United Press International and New York Times News Service, and national ad contact Matthews Shannon Cullen. It shows home delivery options and subscription rates by mail within a 50 mile radius and Vermont as well as rates for elsewhere in the United States.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times News Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
U.S
Estate Conserva tion Analysis sales pitch by John Peckham
Metropolitan Life presents a computerized Estate Conservation Analysis to determine if a family inherits less than deserved. The sales pitch invites a demonstration and offers contact details for John Peckham at 108 Union St with phone numbers 447-7225 and 442-2482, advertising Metropolitan Life of New York.
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Metropolitan Life
Union ST
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Fish and Game
Edward F. Kehoe
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Fox
Carl Leon D. Jacobs
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