Bloodmobile draws 105 pints amid winter illness
Bennington residents donated 105 pints to the Red Cross Bloodmobile in town despite illness and cold. New Gallon Club members include Edward Kennedy and John Galvagni with 5 and 3 gallons respectively. others earned 2 gallons or 1 gallon. Canteen volunteers served coffee and sandwiches under Mrs. George Atwood. WTEN interview spotted Rev Edward B Geyer Jr at St Peters Episcopal with Dr William H Browning. five members reportedly left over a racial issue. Motor Corps and Elks Barn crews supported Bloodmobile setup. Senior Citizens Center offered 48 flu shots to 55 and over, with Dr Francis L Herrick administering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Red Cross
Edward Kennedy
John Galvagni
David Tripp
Gary Bashaw
John Bellow
George Harrington
Robert Hill
David Leake
Catherine Marsden
George Atwood
Lottie Brash
Arthur Dewey
Albert Edmundson
Arthur Hall
Dean Hanson
Rob
Channel 10
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Edward B. Geyer Jr
WTEN
Frederick B. Wolf
Maine
Portland
William H. Browning
Father Geyer
Bennington Senior Citizens Center
Francis L. Herrick
Alice Howes
Vermont
Total Jobs Set Record In Vermont
In Vermont, non-farm wage and salaried employment reached a new high for November at 139,000, per the Department of Employment Security. While overall jobs rose year over year by 4,450, October saw declines in hotels, motels, camps, and contractor construction due to seasonal slowdowns. Unemployment benefits rose to 272,650 for November, up 70,900 from October but 36,350 below last November. Seasonal layoffs in trade, services, and construction accounted for 59 percent of payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Vermont
Department of Employment Security
Bennington Chooses Five Segments For Town Water Plan
The water project outlines five segments to boost fire flows with 1000 gpm through new reservoirs on Squaw Hill Road Route 9 near Fairdale Farms and Middle Pownal Road a 12 inch main on Burgess Road a 16 inch loop from West Main Street to Fairdale Farms a 16 inch line on Barney Road to East Main Street and a 16 inch Route 67A line to 67A US 7 and Jefferson Heights storage tanks. officials aim for priority ranking and seven month planning. A sewer plan recommends converting the plant to secondary treatment at about 1.5 million dollars with state and federal aid covering 85 percent and urges a one year study of current lines for infiltration and repair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squaw Hill Road
Route 9
Fairdale Farms
Middle Pownal Road
Bennington
Pittendreigh
Commission
Hamilton Shields
Burgess Road
West Main Street
Old Bennington
Vermont 9
Barney Road
East Main Street
North Branch Street
Chapel Road
North Bennington
U.S. 7
Jefferson Heights
Monument Avenue Extension
Dewey Street
Clarence E. Howard
Dufresne
Johnson
Lover’s Lane
Fillmore
Beech
Branch Streets
Vermont Jail Escapee Nabbed In Connecticut
FBI agents arrested Robert Mosher 25 of Hartford Conn on federal warrants charging interstate transportation of fraudulent checks. Mosher escaped from Chittenden County jail after overpowering a deputy sheriff and is held on 50000 bail after arraignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
UPI
Chittenden
Burlington
Connecticut
FBI
Robert Mosher
Mosher
Gregory Duffy
Duffy
Chittenden County
Atty
Patrick Leahy
Funeral of Mrs Elizabeth Hogan Held at St Francis de Sales
The funeral for Mrs Elizabeth Hogan widow of Michael J Hogan Sr. was held at St Francis de Sales Church with a Requiem High Mass offered by Msgr Francis B Flanagan. Bearers included Robert Wadsworth James Hogan William J Hurley Jr and Arthur Teberge. Relatives attend from New York City Williamstown Manchester and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Hogan
Michael J. Hogan Sr
Putnam Memorial Hospital
St. Francis de Sales Church
Francis B. Flanagan
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Robert Wadsworth
James H. Hogan
William J. Hurley Jr
Arthur Theberge
Altar Rosary Society
Helen Keough
Marjorie Pleasant
Marion Ryan
Margaret Ryan
Bennington Board Studies Old High School for Elementary Use
Bennington School District members inspected the 1913 Bennington High School campus used as a junior high, eyeing conversion for Grades 4 6. A tour led by George A Sleeman and Francis M Fischer reviewed the three sections, noting that 1939 wing and gym remain usable with minor modernization already done.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Bennington High School
Mt. Anthony Union
Bendi
BSD
George
A. Sleeman
Bennington South Supervisory Union
Francis M. Fischer
Count Private Pupils For State Aid Fairbanks Urges Broad Basis
MONTPELIER UPD Dr Henry Fairbanks of Winooski member of the state Board of Education says all children in private and public schools should be counted as the basis for calculating state aid to education He also notes the grave financial strain on sectarian schools urging the board not to bury our heads in the sand Mrs Mary Miller of Waterbury adds she wants to see further action.
Bennington Briefs Highlight Local 295 Meeting and New Double Chair
Local 295 of Bijur Lubricating Corp. will hold a 7:30 a.m. Friday meeting at Moose Hall. The new 6,000-foot double chair ride, longest and highest in the state, opened for test rides and will open to the public Saturday with a Dec. 28 official opening. Admiral color TV ads tout prices as low as 279 dollars, with a 3-year warranty on the color picture tube. Also listed are Friday specials at Iron Kettle and Electronic Service Center contact details. The remainder references documents board actions on Fairbanks proposals and parochial school issues, noting prior school board actions and department study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bijur Lubricating Corp
Moose Hall
Brodieski
Jim Kelly
Dot
Admiral
Electronic Service Center
School St
Bedazzled and classic films headline Williamstown cinema listings
The notice lists showings at the Harte Theatre and Williamstown Cinema including Bedazzled with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore directed by Stanley Donen at 6:30 and 8:30, To Sir With Love and A Man for All Seasons with Sidney Poitier at seven and nine, and Coogan's Bluff starring Clint Eastwood. It also notes a new wing at the Manchester Cinema and details about Bennington School District's building conversion plans and state approval discussions at Mt. Anthony Union High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Cook
Dudley Moore
Stanley Donen
Faust
Harte Theatre
Sir
Sidney Poitier
Poitier
James Clavell
Robert Bolt
Williamstown
Coogan
Clint Eastwood
Don Seigel
Eastwood
New York
Manchester
First Lt. Paul Hurlburt serves at ACIC in St Louis
Lt. Paul Hurlburt son of Mr and Mrs Paul Hurlburt of Putnam Street begins his first Air Force assignment at the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center in St Louis Missouri He was assigned on November 15 He helped with the plant newspaper and has ties to The Banner as a former summer reporter The ACIC staff includes about 4000 employees mostly civilians His family includes brothers Capt Harley Hurlburt stationed at Offutt AFB Omaha and Roy Hurlburt a Mt Anthony Union High School student He studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin before entering the service
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Hurlburt
Putnam Street
U.S Air Force
Aeronautical Chart and Information Center
St. Louis
ACIC
Hurlburt
Banner
University of Wisconsin Journalism School
Capt
Harley Hurlburt
U.S.A.F
Offut Afb
Omaha
Neb
Roy Hurlburt
Mt. Anthony Union
Alaska
Obituary of Grafton L. Wilson 74 in Cambridge
Grafton L. Wilson 74 of 2 Berkeley Place Cambridge died Wednesday in Mt. Auburn Hospital. Born in Providence April 11 1893 he attended Moses Brown School Harvard magna cum laude 1915 and earned an LL B from Harvard Law 1919. He practiced corporate law in Boston for 49 years with Hale Dorr and was survived by his wife Dorothy Usher and four sons Grafton L. Jr Leonard waitfields Roger Douglas and Leonard A. Wilson, two sisters and 14 grandchildren. Funeral services will be private.
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Cambridge
Mass
Grafton L. Wilson
Berkeley Place
Leonard A. Wilson
Waitsfield
Bennington
Vermont Central Planning Office
Mt. Auburn Hospital
Providence
R.I
Moses’ Brown
Harvard
Harvard Law
Wilson
George C. Wilson
France
Boston
Hale & Dorr
Dorothy Usher
Grafton
Grafton L. Jr
Roger B
Lexington
Douglas U
Brattleboro
Paul H. Arthur
New York City
Rose Anderson
Natick
Funeral Notices For Nugent and Savage
Daniel Nugent of Jamaica Long Island died last week in Hoosick Falls native and longtime lawyer who received a 50 year anniversary dinner. He is survived by wife Anna Hustler two sons John and Daniel Jr and brother John Nugent of Jamaica. Funeral services were in Jamaica. George Savage of Windsor Connecticut died in Windsor aged in his early 60s a Loomis School professor. He bought Peru farmland in the 1930s and built a Peru home survived by wife Esther and a married son and daughter.
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Hoosek Falls
N.Y
Daniel Nugent
Jamaica
L.I
Hoosick Falls
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Andrew and
Anna (Carr) Nugent
Hoosick Falls High School
Main Street
New York City
Anna Hustler
Atty
Daniel Nugent Jr
John Nugent
Madison Ave
William
Petersburg
Andrew
Peru
George Savage
Windsor
Conn
Mr. Savage
Loomis School
Batchelder Farm
Esther
Norman Thomas, famed socialist dissenter, dies at 84
Norman Thomas, known as the glorious dissenter, died at 10 10 a m at Hilaire Farms Nursing Home after a stroke last year. On his 75th birthday he spoke of socialism under a party banner and his 15th book due next year.
Hospital Notes December 15 1968 Admissions and Discharges
Admissions include Charles Vail North Bennington Linda Zimmer Hoosick Falls Matilda R Barr Whitingham Discharges list Lucy LaPorte Mary Barnard Mavis Synex Manchester Arnold Coombs Jacksonville Thelma Holland Readsboro Katherine Thurber Hoosick Falls Barbara Parks Williamstown Joseph Murray Eagle Bridge New York City reads as of Wednesday December 15 1968 with multiple names and towns attached.
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Charles Vail
North Bennington
Linda Zimmer
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Matilda R. Barr
Whitingham
Lucy LaPorte
Mary Barnard
Bennington
Mavis Synex
Manchester
Arnold Coombs
Jacksonville
Thelma Holland
Readsboro
Katherine Thurber
Barbara Parks
Williamstown
Joseph Murray
Eagle Bridge
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Cotillion
United Counseling Service
Bennington County
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Country Club
Ert LaPorte
Walter Lapham
Arthur Murphy
Leroy Marsden
Joel Whittemore
Motor Corps
Louis Levin
Hugh Scott
Fred Gunzel
Col
Charles Hayward
Gloria Gil
Janet Bellemare
William Haynes
Elks Barn
Howard Goodwin
David
Alan Leake
Kimball
Tom Clark
Steve Shoemaker
Chris Bergquist
Rusty Dunham
Scott Whittemore
George Kerbs
Ricky Caswell
Buzzy Becker
Truman Southworth Jr
Chris Caswell
Richard Hollister
Truman Southworth
John Miller
Corey Road
Philmont
Ernest Dowd
Jimmy Lewis
Foster
YOTT
Turkeys
Safford and Gage Sts
Msgr. Flanagan
Park Lawn Chapel
Fairbanks
Bennington Briefs
Kimberley Cheney
Rutland School
Bennington School District Inc
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Anthony J. Pello
Benhi
Mt. Anthony
George Sleeman
Rupert Spencer
Board of Education
Pello
Richard Sleeman
Louis Perrotta
Perrotta
Allen
Anthony
Bernard C. Winslow
William F. D. Smith
University of Vermont
BSSA
James F. Farmer
Farmer
Treasury
Gail E. Wynn
Miss Wynn
Grafton Wilson
Saratoga Street
Theodore Galipeau Sr
Norman Thomas
Snoopy
Uncle Wiggily
Chimney Mouse
Australia
Noah’s Ark
East
Arlington
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