Lawrence urges ballot voting to shorten Vermont House sessions
Outgoing Vermont House Speaker Leroy E. Lawrence of Stamford proposes ballot voting to replace roll calls. He argues it would save time, reduce recording errors, and expose constituents to clearer votes. He notes 50 roll calls per session and favors blanks checked yeas or nays with member identifiers.
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Stamford
Vermont General Assembly
House
Leroy E. Lawrence
Lawrence
Franklin S. Billings Jr
Woodstock
John D. Masterton
Goshen
Christmas Dinners Shared in Hoosick Falls Families
West Hoosick and surrounding residents plan Christmas Day meals with extended kin from Pine Bartoski Wenzel Higgin s Lewis Hunt and Siefert families. Henry Street resident Henry has returned home after hospital treatment. Baptism and church reception planned for Hoosick Falls Baptist Church with several neighbors. Youth Fellowship and Filkins family held a turkey supper at Fellowship Hall.
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LeRoy Pine
Raymond Pine
Hugh Pine
Michael Bartoski
Hoosick Falls
William Pine
Lawrence Wenzel
Scotia
Henry Street
Albany Hospital
Earl Sherman
Linda
Mercie Manchester
John Manchester
Troy
Lloyd Pine
Robert Higgins
George Lewis
Petersburg
Burton Pine
Northeastern College
Boston
LaVerne Davis
Cambridge
William Hendrey
James Hunt
Edgar Hunt
Robert Hunt
Lester Pine
Roland Bugbee
White Creek
Ronald Siefert
Jessie Pine
Charles Hunt
Jane Filkins
Stephen
Richard Ingraham
Carl Brownell
Ronald
Susan Eddy
Hoosick Falls Baptist Church
Charles Filkins
Light
Fellowship Hall
Catamount Radio Club Reorganizes
Catamount Radio Club held a reorganizational meeting at Bennington High School. Officers elected: President Conrad Hoffman. Vice President G Chester Mallory Jr. Secretary-Treasurer Ronald Alderman. Publicity and Social Director Gerald Cornell. Regular meetings at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday monthly. Tuesday evenings to form a local net on 28.6 megacycles. All ham operators invited.
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Catamount Radio Club
Bennington High School
Conrad Hoffman
Jefferson Heights
G. Chester Mallory Jr
Ronald Alderman
Weeks St
Gerald Cornell
Beech Street Extension
Episcopal Bishop Ordains New Priest in Burlington
The Rt. Rev. Harvey D. Butterfield ordains the Rev. Charles M. Miller to the priesthood at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Burlington. Miller, a Middlebury College alumnus and General Theological Seminary graduate, will remain on staff at St. Paul’s with duties in acolyte training junior youth work and adult study programs. He is married to Barbara Ann Lynch and has two children.
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Harvey D. Butterfield
Vermont
Charles M. Miller
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Burlington
Robert S. Kerr
St. Paul’s Parish
Fr. Miller
Steele Martin
St. Michael’s Church
Brattleboro
Brazil
Miller
Middlebury College
St. Stephen’s Parish
General Theological Seminary
New York City
Barbara Ann Lynch
South Pasadena
Calif
Burlington Parish
Atlas ICBM explodes after launch at Vandenberg
An Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile blew up about a minute after launch during a training mission at Vandenberg Air Force Base California. No injuries or facility damage were reported. The Air Force spokesman said the cause is under investigation.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Christmas church schedules and creche display in North Bennington
The article lists altered choir and confessions timings for Congregational and St. John the Baptist churches. It notes a midnight Mass on Monday, Christmas day Masses at 8 9 and 10 am, and Confessions on Dec 22 23 and 24 with specific times. It also describes a life size creche at the Congregational Church directed by Rev. Charles Parsley with nativity figures lit at night attracting schoolchildren.
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St. John the Baptist Church
Lovely
Congregational Church
Charles Parsley
Sevral Boys
Red Brick School
Bank Street
Mountain Towns Ski Weekend At Mount Snow
Vincent L. Nesci and his sons David and Ralph joined a Mount Snow getaway for their first ski venture of the season. Anders Olsen and his son Arnold of Mamaroneck NY spent three days at the Olsen log cabin on South Road and returned to New York on Monday.
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Vincent L. Nesci
David
Ralph
Anders Olsen
Arnold
Mamaroneck
Olsen
South Road
New York
Levin Elected Again To Lead Broadway Theaters League
Herman Levin, producer of My Fair Lady, is re elected president of the League of New York Theaters, the Broadway trade body. He succeeds Robert Whitehead after heading the group before the musical closed its six and a half year run.
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NEW York
Herman Levin
League of New York Theaters
Levin
Robert Whitehead
Biggest Beaver Trapped In Cambridge Weighs 50 Pounds
In Cambridge New York Herman Blanchfield trapped a 50 pound beaver on a farm owned by Gar diner Cullinan editor of the Washington County Post. The beaver was caught near Thurber Pond or Crystal Lake south of the village off Turnpike Road and was said to be the largest seen in the area. Cullinan noted the animal had appeared before and was kept in the lake so children could view it. Beavers around 35 pounds are typically the largest locally.
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Cambridge
N.Y
Herman Blanchfield
Academy Street
Gardiner Cullinan
Washington County Post
Blanchfield
Thurber Pond
Crystal Lake
Turnpike Road
Cullinan
West Arlington Sandgate family moves. local merry notes
Mr and Mrs George L Fowler moved back to North Branford Conn selling their Sandgate Road home to Mr and Mrs Robert Hill and their three children Michael Melinda and Melissa moved in last weekend. Neighbors cheer Glenn Crofu t s recovery and plans for a full Bedell family gathering next week. Chip Stokes returns from skiing near Montreal for the holidays and Willies Pond in Sandgate serves as a popular skating spot with a dozen youths noted on Sunday.
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George L. Fowler
Sandgate Road
North Branford
Conn
Robert Hill
Arlington
the Hills
Michael
Melinda
Melissa
Roy
Bedells
Chip” Stokes
Montreal
Sandgate
Stokes
Christmas exercises at North Pownal graded school
The annual Christmas program at North Pownal Graded School will be Thursday at 7 30 in the school auditorium with music, skits, and plays by all grades. The event is well attended by townspeople of all ages. James Lounsbury, town representative elect, attended a county delegates meeting in Bennington Sunday night where George Heaslip was named chairman and Tracy Kenyon was secretary treasurer for the coming session.
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North Pownal
James Lounsbury
Pownal
Bennington
George Heaslip
Manchester
Tracy Kenyon
Shaftsbury
Lounsbury
Pownall attorney joins Taconic Racing group
The article notes VA 83 7716 representing Pownal for a second time and mentions recent employment with the Taconic Racing and Breeding Association. It describes the Warren Wire Company Christmas party at Eagles Hall Bennington with a buffet lunch and dancing. John R. Cook announced a 10 year club for tenured workers and listed fifteen residents of The Pownall as eligible members.
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Pownal
The
Taconic Racing and Breeding Association
Warren Wire Company
Eagles Hall
Bennington
John R. Cook
the Pownall
John Maxmillian
Arthur George
Otis Dorman
Charles Mason
Anna Thompson
Earl Wright
Charles Gates
Charles Tornabene
William O’dell
Earl Ryder
John C. Barber
Ernest Welch
Andrew Lasson Jr
John Sweet
Byron E. Towslee
Pine Cobble students stage Christmas program in barn
In Williamstown Massachusetts Pine Cobble School presents The Christmas Story cantata with flute by Walter Lehmann on Friday December 21 at 11 30 a m The seventh grade adapts The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell directed by Ruth Hunt with cast including Linda Kirwin Mary Dickerson Marc Hall and others The event follows a Thursday December 20 viewing for nursery and kindergarten and invites parents alumni and friends Friday’s show ends the term classes resume January 7.
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Williamstown
Mass
Pine Cobble School
Walter Lehmann
Charles ‘Tazewell
Ruth Hunt
Linda Kirwin
Mary Dickerson
Marc Hall
Guy Lemon
Helen Cook
Ellen Gilman
Diane Baxter
Ann Davis
Sarah Doane
Harriet Dubin
Susan Hunter
Sally Jenkins
Eleanor Waterhouse
Christmas Music Program at North Bennington School
The annual Christmas music program for kindergarten through sixth grade will be held in the school gym on Thursday December 20 at 7 15 p m directed by Mrs Marjorie Porter All children will take part and all parents and friends are invited.
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North Bennington
Marjorie Porter
Uniform Retired for Morehead State Track Star
Morehead Kentucky March Banks the first trackman to have his uniform retired by Morehead State College He earned four letters and was the first African American to win an athletic letter in the Ohio Valley Conference He graduated in June.
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Morehead
Marshall Banks
Morehead State College
Banks
Hoosick Falls Community Notes Include Visits and Birthdays
Walloomsac and Hoosick Falls residents are listed with weekend and weekday visits. Families like the Coles move from Wall Street to Madison Avenue. Notables include SP5 Freddie Weir returning from Fort Belvoir and Jennie Weir’s 88th birthday at Mary McClellan Hospital.
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Forrest Luke
Schenectady
Fred
Jennie Weir
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cam
Williams College Dean Begins Africa Recruitment Tour
Williams College economist and Center for Development Economics head Robert R. Brooks travels to Africa for three weeks to recruit prospective MA students for Cluett House in Ghana and other countries. He will discuss junior year study options and meet alumni and proposals with students Henry Gwaizda and Leo Murray.
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Williamstown
Mass
Robert R. Brooks
Williams College
Center For Development Economics
Africa
Brooks
Cluett House
Ghana
Nigeria
Uganda
Kenya
Tanganyika
Sudan
Egypt
Lebanon
Cyprus
Turkey
Williams
Henry Gwaizda
University of Ghana
Leo Murray
University College
Ibadan
Williams Press Teach Science At Brattleboro
Two Williams College professors and a Dartmouth College scientist taught space science to Brattleboro Union students. The program, sponsored by the New England Academy of Science with NSF support, reached 1,052 students and about 30 teachers across 40 to 80 students per session.
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Brattleboro
Williams College
Dartmouth College
Brattleboro Union High School
Theodore G. Mehlin
Field Memorial
Robert T. Ward
C. J. Lyon
New England Academy of Science
National Science Foundation
New England
Tree Getting Day Becomes A Yearly Family Tradition
WEST ARLINGTON A Christmas tree gathering with the Sanders and Hardings in Londonderry becomes a family tradition. The group selects a tree, shares carols and stories, and reenacts Dickens with Paul as narrator and Jim Harding as Tiny Tim.
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West Arlington
Paul Sanders
Londonderry
Paul
Little Jim Harding
Tiny Tim
Air Corps Films Shown by Arlington Legion
Three Air Corps movies will be screened at 8 p m Saturday December 22 at Fisher Elementary School in Arlington by the Arlington American Legion Post. The program features a loop the loop a barrel roll by a fighter pilot and skin diving scenes with no admission charge.
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Arlington
Air Corps
Fisher
Arlington American Legion Post
Be yond the Fringe signs Hugh Alexander as triple understudy
New York AP reports Toronto actor Hugh Alexander has been signed as the triple understudy for Broadway revue Be yond the Fringe. He serves as standby for Alan Bennett Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, the show's co authors.
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New York
Hugh Alexander
Toronto
Alexander
Alan Bennett
Peter Cook
Jonathan Miller
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