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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1964
Page
14
A Bennington PTA meeting will host a panel from Mt. Anthony Union High School to discuss the union school proposal. Panelists include Marian Cummings John Morrissey and Marian Taylor with Allan Heath and other officials present. Questions cover school readiness schedules budgets and staffing.
Mrs George Hastings 64 of Hinsdale New Hampshire sister of Fred Bassett Madchester Vermont died Wednesday after a long illness. Funeral held Friday at O Connor Funeral Home with Rev Gerald Miller officiating. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery North Hinsdale. Born in New Bedford Massachusetts to John and Mamie Bassett she was president of the Woman's Relief Corps Brattleboro a past president of the VFW Auxiliary Hinsdale and a member of Wantasiquet Grange.
Woodford New York area voters will decide on a $10,000 mobile classroom purchase to relieve overcrowding at Woodford Hollow School. The plan parceling pupils into two groups of three grades would need three years of payments and two teachers to handle 36 students. The issue addressed is both space and educational quality for a growing district.
Obituary notices cover Abbie O Fisher 96 of Bennington and several others from Bennington, Schenectady and Hoosick Falls. Included are John G. Green 85 longtime Schenectady Gazette publisher, Mrs John J Carroll 55 of Hoosick Falls, Winifred Armstrong Thompson widow of Jay Thompson, Mrs Nelson L Payne 72 North Bennington, and Beatrice Person 63 of Louisville. Details note births, marriages, survivors, funeral plans and burial sites.
Two motorists sustained minor injuries in weekend incidents tracked by state police. Wallace Oskirko of Shushan suffered a head cut when his car skidded on Vermont 313 in Arlington and hit a power pole, with John M. Geiger of Pepperell, Massachusetts driving. Edna J. Morey of Pawlet received cuts when her car hit a guard rail at the Chiselville Bridge approach in Sunderland, leaving her 1960 Ford a total loss. A 1964 Ford Thunderbird was heavily damaged in another Friday morning crash.
Admissions list includes Mrs Helen Bishop and others from Pownal Center Hoosick Falls Dorset and Bennington. Discharges include Miss Kathleen Knight and several Bennington Hoosick Falls and North Bennington residents. Birth announcements note two sets of twins and a newborn son from Manchester Center.
The noon briefing shows the Dow Jones Industrial average at 864.53 up .19 led by market activity in Albany. Railroads slipped to 245.42 down .10 and utilities rose to 155.12 up .18. Composite index stood at 303.91 with total sales around 1,880,000.
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