Rescue effort for 22 students and teachers in Vermont woods
North Shire volunteers mobilized around 50 snow machines to locate 22 Shenendahowa Central School students and two teachers lost near Griffith Lake, Mt. Tabor, after a bus breakout and overnight marooning. They were found Sunday morning and ferried to safety. Weather and machine failures challenged the rescue, with frostbite cases reported and large community aid poured into Manchester and Peru.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
New York State
Shenendahowa Central School
Clifton Park
N.Y
Griffith Lake
Norman Brown
Arlington
Ray Heard
Larry Grant
Lewis B. Tuttle Jr
Richard Towsley
Clifford Tarbell
Leonard Bretton
Calude Casey
Douglas Bretton
Dorset
Steel Bridge
Mt. Tabor
Winhall
Brown, Bretton
Griffith
Hunters Cabins
Danby
William Nichols
Robert Millard
William Ackert
Harry Ralph Jr
Robert Burnham
Larry
David
Bud Carabeau
Leo
South Londonderry
Clifford B. Harwood
Mad Tom Road
Peru
Michael Miller
Bromley Mountain Tucker
Mount Tabor
Bromley
Christmas Dinner for Churchwomen at North Bennington
Women of the North Bennington Baptist Church Women’s Fellowship held their annual Christmas dinner in the church social rooms. Decorations were arranged by Mrs. Arthur Pierce, with a program on Birth of Christ in Prophecy led by Mrs. Scott. Officers for next year include Mrs. Whitman president and Mrs. Peckham vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Women’s Fellowship of the
North Bennington Baptist Church
Bernard Whitman
Alfred Scott
Robert Peckham
Ray Crosier
John Cook
John Briggs
Grace Reed
Arthur Pierce
Christ
Scott
Grace Cherbonneau
Church Women United
First Congregational Church
Whitman
Peckham
Edith Burns
Cook
Reed
Love Gift
Frank Kenyon
White Cross
Hoosick Grange Past Masters Night Observed
Eight past masters attended Hoosick Grange meeting, lighting a memorial candle for 17 deceased members. Ralph J. Griswold led programs on ships, worship, leadership, and friendship with poems and solos. plans for New Year events and a Jan 8 Kiwanis program were announced. Mrs Verda Philpott is ill in Valley Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Grange
Ralph J. Griswold
Harold Prebble
Robert Bentley
Fremont Haswell
N. Clifford Cottrell
Carleton Philpott
Ellsworth Stevens
Charles Filkins
Clifford Cottrell
Griswold
David Filkins
Carl Jester
Elks Auxiliary Holds Annual Christmas Party
Hoosick Falls New York Ladies' Auxiliary of the Hoosick Falls Lodge of Elks held its annual Christmas party with a 6 30 reception and baked ham dinner. A business meeting set plans for a Feb 19 public card party and a Viet Nam holiday package project for 24 servicemen. A $25 donation to the Town of Hoosick Community Center was approved and two ill members to receive Christmas remembrances. Members were urged to bring paperback books for the troops. an initiation is planned for January with various committees named and a program of entertainment by members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick Falls Lodge of Elks
Joan Reppel
Anne Pappas
Vietnam
Charles Frazier
William Andrick
Town of Hoosick
Christmas Party Planned by Pleasant Valley Grange
The Pleasant Valley subordinate and junior granges will hold their Christmas party on Friday Dec 20 at 8 p.m. at the hall. United Methodist Church services are 11 30 a.m. with Rev Oswald A Muller and Sunday school at 10 30 a.m. A combined circuit candlelight communion will be held Dec 24 at 8 p.m. in North Hosick with Rev Muller leading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale T. MacNeil
United Methodist Church
North Hoosick
Muller
Miss Bromley Contest Seeks Entrants for 1969 Event
Time is running out for young women to enter the Miss Bromley of 1969 contest. The winner will receive a season pass to the Bromley ski area, a complete outfit from Bromley Pro Ski Shop, and travel expenses for Washington's Birthday weekend. Judging will be held Saturday, December 28 at Big Bromley. Entrants must be single women 18 to 25 and may obtain an entry blank and fact sheet from the Miss Bromley Contest, Big Bromley, Manchester Vermont 05255.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bromley
Big Bromley
Nancy Lapham
Richard Lathrop
Bromley Pro
Washington
P.O. Box
Manchester
Vermont
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Thaler
Town CD
Hardy Woodsmen
Fred Rogers
Howard Prouty
Junior Gabert
Joseph Grover
Buster Warner
Stubb Sheldon
Charles Potters
Jerry Dean
Rogers
Fred Pabst
Howard G. Brophy
Jack McWilliams
Bromley House
McWilliams
Fanny Patterson
William Johnson
Peru General Store
Carmen Meschia
Taffeta
Tricot
Gores
Drysdale’s
Mammoth Mart
Bennington
Nichols
Edith Beaumont
Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club
Grange
Forrest Reed
Junior Grange
Hoosick
Ada M. Breer
All Saints Church
Grange Hall
Ralph Griswold
Paul Cipperly
Verda Philpott
Charles Yarter
Valley Falls
Byam
Monument Plaza
the Bank
Elks Auxiliary
John Delarey
Robert Shea
Leo Mahar Jr
John Capano
Willam Fitzpatrick
Walter Wirmusky
Albert DeLuca
Michael Brewster
South Cambridge
Margaret Aiken
Triple ‘‘S
Grand Union Empire
Shultz
Jewelers
American Gem Society
Main St
Firestone
Philco
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Big
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Fiirseotore Vbich
Philco Portables
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NTT
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