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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1967
Page
3
A humorous look at hosting home parties as year ends in May 1968. It highlights the burdens of cleaning, dusting, guest management, and social small stresses, finishing with a hopeful wish for a prosperous new year.
A readable list of school lunch offerings by day and meal period. Tuesday through Friday entries include entrees such as beef gravy with mashed potatoes, barbecued beef, chicken fried items, and hamburgers, plus sides like green beans corn bread fruit and assorted desserts with milk.
A 91st birthday celebration for cellist Pablo Casals anchors an NBC Tonight at 10 offering. The Bell Telephone Hour salutes Casals with Marlboro Festival rehearsals and performances captured on color film featuring Rudolf Serkin Jaime Laredo Alexander Schneider and others. Casals conducts a Beethoven cello master class and closes with the last two movements of the Haffner Symphony before Marlboro devotees.
UPI reports fashion watchers link skirt lengths to the economy. As Gross National Income rises, skirt hems lengthen, with 1967 seeing a mini trend and 1968 likely to stay above the knee. Observers note inflation, pound weakness, and tax rises as factors shaping the trend.
California spends 1 million to install sign poles and light standards that collapse when struck by vehicles to keep shoulders and roadsides smooth and obstruction free. State highway engineer John Legarra says the aim is to prevent road casualties as improvements are made amid rising national income and shifting fashion trends.
Mrs. Faith Prior of the University of Vermont outlined the state consumer program at a Washington conference. The Vermont Consumer Information Clearinghouse created in 1963 led to Dollars and Decisions, a public newsletter using specific company names to address fraud. The 1967 Fair Business Practice Act and the July 1967 Consumer Protection Office establishment under the Attorney General enhanced enforcement and remedies for unfair, deceptive practices.
George Rodell of Harpenden found a 1948 coronation stamps issue mailed from Ascension Island had taken 30 years to arrive. He recalled the stamps likely rested on a shelf in the post office before finally arriving at age 73.
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