Benhi Drama Club Stages Play Tuesday Night
The Benhi Drama Club presents Cheaper by the Dozen in the Benhi Auditorium Tuesday directed by Charles Comstock. Cast members praise the play and rehearse since October with several students coordinating committees for admissions publicity and programs.
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Benhi Drama Club
Benhi
Charles Comstock
Martha Wallace
Miss Brill
Cindy Stratton
Linda Waite
Drama Club
Regina H Ley
Susan Taylor
Jane Shoemaker
Geri Winchell
Bette Grippin
Sara Pike
Prosperous Yule in Sight Despite Some Soft Spots
AP reports a strong holiday outlook with record retail, peak industrial production, high wages, and rising stock prices. Despite pockets of unemployment and drought affected areas, forecasts for 1962 point to further expansion with corporate profits and auto sales lifting overall economy.
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New York
Santa Claus
Police Charge Young Mother With Killing Twins
A 20-year-old mother in Attleboro Massachusetts was charged with two counts of murder for smothering her five month old twins Kevin and Catherine with a pillow after they cried. Deborah Hartman allegedly pressed a pillow to their faces in a third floor apartment. The infants were found dead when their grandmother returned home. The twins’ father, Pfc Norman Nevins, 26, of Taunton and stationed at Fort Devens, said he and Hartman could not marry until a divorce is finalized two years away.
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Attleboro, Mass
Deborah Hartman
Kevin
Catherine
Pfc
Norman Nevins
Taunton
Ft. Devens
Deborah
Art Students Explore Varied Mediums Under DuCharme
Benhi art students, directed by Sylvia DuCharme, practice lettering, pen landscapes, and cross hatching with ink, water color, pastels, and chalk. They study kindness to animals for a National Humane Society poster contest and keep portfolios with self-designed covers.
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Sylvia DuCharme
Benhi
National Humane Society
Old Bennington Resident Named To Sprague Post
Lawrence Becerra of Old Bennington is named international marketing manager for Sprague Electric Co. Overseas Operations Department and its subsidiaries Sprague International and Sprague World Trade Corp. He comes from Bendix Washington as military sales manager. He has degrees in aeronautical engineering and law and has studied at Emory Paris and UC Berkeley. He and his wife Mary Sellitte and six children will live in Old Bennington.
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North Adams
Mass
Lawrence Becerra
Sprague Electric Co
Sprague International, Ltd
Sprague World Trade Corp
William M. Adams
Sprague
Sprague Electric
Becerra
Bendix Corp
Washington, D.C
Richard Becerra
New York City
Mary Sellitte
Maple Shade
N.J
Old Bennington
Senior Ladies Feted at Bennington Altrusa Young in Heart Party
The Bennington Altrusa Club hosted area senior ladies for a "Young in Heart" Christmas party at the Schoolhouse in Old Bennington. Rev Ruth Smith won first prize for having seen the most Christmases, with Mrs Parma Parmenter and Mrs Charlotte Gardner taking second and third.
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Bennington
Altrusa Club
Old Bennington
Methodist Church
Earl Hamilton
Ruth Smith
Parma Parmenter
Mary Jane Hicks
Henrietta Roy
Altrusans
Herbert Lillie
Esther Parmelee
Altrusa Clubs
Federal Civil Defense program eyed at 700 million
Washington AP Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric announced a 700 million federal Civil Defense program to Congress next month. It would aid construction of fallout shelters in schools hospitals and welfare institutions with incentives for projects started after January 1. The program targets shelter space for about 20 million people in the new fiscal year.
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Washington
Congress
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Gilpatric
Soviet Fishing Fleet Disrupts Radar Testing Off New England
The appearance of a large Soviet trawler fleet near Cape Cod and Nantucket disrupts testing of experimental radar for the U S air defense system. Air Force officials say tests shut down due to the Russian fleet, which may carry sensing gear to locate radar emissions.
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Bedford
Mass
New England
Air Force
Cape Cod
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Blinded Youth Seeks Harvard Suit Despite Charity Status
Walter E. Grueninger, a 32 year old former Harvard student from New Jersey, may proceed with his $2 million negligence suit alleging medical treatment left him blind. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturned a lower ruling, allowing the case to advance if Harvard’s activities are found primarily commercial.
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Boston
Harvard University
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Harvard
Walter E. Grueninger
Palisades
N.J
Grueninger
Medical
John V. Spalding
Spalding
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Carolyn Comstock
Benhi Catamount
Kathy Graham
Debby Smith
Paul Hurlburt
Sam Dawson
AP Business News
William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Auto Industry Happy
Liggett-Bosworth
Radio
Liggett-Bosworth Motor Sales, Inc
North Bennington Road
Dial
Old
Walker
P.loin
Swift
Charlotte Gardner
Hurley
No. St
Tel
Nantucket Island
Massachusetts
Freeman
Burt. Bros
Robes
Pajamas
SOX
Fienberg
Main ST. Bennington
Winkler LP
Stewart-Warner-Winkler
Stewart-Warner
Wuttles
Vermont National and Savings Bank
Main Street
Federal Reserve System
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