Two Held in Jail On Larceny Charges
Two young men, Louis W. Pahl and Alvin R. Aiken, are jailed in Bennington County awaiting formal arraignment on grand larceny breaking and entering and petty larceny charges. Pahl faces $2,400 bail after a prior chase ended in a collision. Aiken faces $1,900 bail for chain saw theft and related break ins. Judge George M. Fienberg ordered pro forma not guilty pleas for both and said counsel would be assigned before Wednesday’s arraignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington County
George M. Fienberg
Louis W. Pahl
Sunderland
Pahl
Bennington
Daniel Fager
Fred W. Forcier
Warner, N.H
A. J. Dewey & Sons
McKinley Street
Floyd Rice
Keith Watkin
Cipperly Bros
Fienberg
Alvin R. Aiken
North Bennington
Fager
Dewey Lumber
Bennington Briefs Highlight Local Meetings And Vietnam News
Bennington briefs cover TOPS and other local group meetings at VFW Hall Moose Hall and First Methodist Church with volunteers and speakers named. Also reports on Vietnam fighting near Hue Saigon and Tuy Hoa with civilian casualties and displacements as UPI correspondents describe ongoing battles and refugee flows.
Hospital Notes February 2 1968 Admissions and Births
Friday to Sunday hospital notes list admissions James Messe of Manchester De pot. births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Walter Kent of Danby on February 4. Discharges show none. named patients include Emma Smith Hoosick Falls Louis Harris North Pownal Edda Gosselin Floyd Mattison Gertrude Bishop Bennington and others across Bennington Manchester Hoosick Falls and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Smith
Hoosick Falls
Louis Harris
North Pownal
Edda Gosselin
Floyd Mattison
Gertrude Bishop
Bennington
Jacob Webber
Diane Webber
Eagle Bridge
N.Y
James Wickenden
North Bennington
James Messe
Manchester
Helen Brodeski
Walter Kent
Danby
Knights of Columbus Mark 70th Birthday in Bennington
Alexander B Drysdale of the Vermont Development Board spoke at a banquet in Bennington celebrating Council 307 founded Feb 6 1898. The two day fest included a Saturday dance and a midnight buffet attended by 200. The booklet credits founders leaders and major donors and notes the council’s growth and the 1948 building with bowling alleys and council chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Drysdale
Vermont Development Board
Knights of Columbus
Bennington Council
K of C
Haddad
Alexander B. Drysdale
Bennington
Knights of Columbus Hall
Bennington Council 307
Kofc
Drysdale
A. J. Barron
Council 307
Harry Hurley
The
Home Association of Council 307
Hurley
K of C Council
Barron
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Charles Wallen
CSC
Walter F. Miller
St. John the Baptist Church
North Bennington
Leonard Anzivino
Henry H. Mallory
Francis B. Flanagan
Kenneth A. Littlefield
Waterbury
William Stafford
New Haven
Banner
K of C Group
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Margolin
North Street
Opera House
Main Street
U.S
George D. Aiken
Parochial High School Band Support Honored by Council 307
Stanford University figures sign foreword with church and academic leaders led by Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld. Council 307 Centennial booklet lists fifty year members and officers including Anzivino and Burke while Vermont state and Benedictine notes name Morrissey and Haddad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford University
Arthur Lelyveld
American Jewish Congress
John C. Bennett
Union Theological Seminary
Harvey Cox
Harvard Divinity School
Robert Drinan
Boston College Law School
Episcopal
C. Kilmer Myers
San Francisco
Paul Moore Jr
Washington
Brook Mosley
Wilmington
Del
John Wesley Lord
Dana McLean Greeley
Unitarian Universalit Association
Abraham Heschel
Jewish Theological Seminary
New York
Council 307
J. J. Cunning
J. F. O’brien
William McLaughlin
Earl Patten
George Foucher
Harry Hurley
Robert E. Cummings Sr
Thomas J. Donovan
Prosper Deschenes
Herbert Horst
Anzivino
Grand
Charles Holden
John Burke
Edwin Maroney
George Coutu
Joseph Carroll
Harry Short
Leo Plourde
J. Russell Carpenter Jr
Gerald E. Morrissey
Bennington
Vermont State Council
Edward Haddad
Five Accidents Reported By State Police
State Police investigated five one car accidents Saturday causing considerable damage but no serious injuries. In Winhall William C. Levensaler 23 Bondville drove into a snowbank on V1 11 30. Joyce L Peterson Pownal escaped with minor lacerations after her 1960 Dodge left the road into a brook on U S 7. Louis Dryden 18 South Londonderry hit a guard post and rolled down an embankment in Winhall. George Griffis 23 Shaftsbury on U S 7 struck a tree head on after passing another vehicle. James Lockhart Jr 51 Norwalk Conn failed to negotiate a curve near a bridge on VT 313 hitting a pole and guard posts with 1600 dollars damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Cholon
Mekong Delta
Bien Hoa
Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S
Tuy Hoa
Hue
UPI
Alvin B. Webb Jr
Webb
Thomas Corpora
Chinatown
Winhall
William C. Levensaler
Bondville
Joyce L. Peterson
Pownal
U.S. 7
Peterson
Louis Dryden
South Londonderry
Dryden
Shaftsbury
George Griffis
Grif
Fis
Funeral service for Mrs. James R. Lovett held in area
The funeral for Mrs. Jessie Sumner Lovett of 319 Pleasant St. occurred Sunday at Mahar & Son Funeral Home. Rev. H Glenn Payne officiated, with entombment in Park Lawn Chapel and burial planned later. Relatives and friends attended from Schenectady, Hoosick Falls, Albany and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Lovett
Jessie Sumner
Pleasant St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
H. Glenn Payne
First Baptist Church
Park Lawn Chapel
Schenectady
Hoosick Falls
Albany
N.Y
Eastern Star
Anthony
Francis Greenslet
Leon W. Eldred
Kenneth Pratt
Harold Humphrey
Park Lawn Cemetery
Day Funeral
Randolph
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sunderland
Henrietta Holden
Hanson - Walbridge
Arlington
Max Webster
Federated Church
Jay Mattison
Harold Mattison
Ralph Bentley
Pearl Hoyt
North Bennington
Everett Hoyt
Ernest Bentley Weeden
Rutland
Delaware
Ira Allen Cemetery
Mr. Webster
Sacred Heart Church
Holy Name Society
Pittsfield
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Ballston Spa
Hotel Fire At Burlington Hotel Kills And Injures Several
A Burlington hotel fire woke a guest who described a commotion before smoke filled the room. Firefighters broke the window and helped him and five others escape. One man suffered smoke inhalation and was hospitalized. The incident recalls deadly hotel blazes in 1913 1966 and 1963.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
City Hospital
Fullerton
Arcadia
Paramount Hotel
Sherry Biltmore Hotel
BFRC Announces Annual Meeting and Guest Speaker
The Bennington Friends of Retarded Children will hold its annual meeting on February 12 at Saint John the Baptist Parish House in North Bennington. Dinner at 6:30 p.m. features guest speaker Earl L. Long, assistant director of the Connecticut Office of Mental Retardation, who oversees grant in aid programs for day care centers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Obituary: Raymond E. LaFranchise 1894 196? World War I veteran
Raymond E. LaFranchise 73 of 205 Scott St. Bennington Vt died Sunday at Putnam Memorial Hospital after frail years. A World War I veteran who served overseas 1917 1919 he worked 16 years for General Electric in Pittsfield Mass retiring in 1959 as a guard in the ordnance department. He was born June 28 1894 to Francis and Ernestine LaFranchise and lived most of his life in Bennington. He married Anna Fanning in 1919. she died in 1962. He was a skilled painter and paperhanger and had been self employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond E. LaFranchise
Scott St
General Electric Co
Pittsfield
Mass
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Francis and
Ernestine (LePine) LaFranchise
Holden-Leonard
LaFranchise
Ordnance Department
U.S. Army
Btiy. C. 51St Artillery
Anna Fanning
Hoboken
N.J
Ray LaFranchise
Austin
Texas
Durand Felter
Robert E. Nadeau
Naples
Fla
Roscoe
Jessie (Durand) Felter
Art Students League
New York City
Hudson Valley Group
Woodstock
N.Y
England
Mon
Reader Edward Giesecke
Meeting House Hill Cemetery
West Springfield
Felter
Nadeau
West Road
Nad
Brace Judged Delinquent In Robbery
A Bennington youth pleaded guilty January 25 to armed robbery in the daylight hold up of DeMarco's Sporting Goods last November and was adjudged a delinquent minor in Bennington District Court. Judge George M. Fienberg suspended the sentence for Ronald K. Brace 19 placing him on probation at Lakeside Center Burlington for at least six months. Brace must make restitution to DeMarco as determined by probation officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
DeMarco
George M. Fienberg
Ronald K. Brace
Brace
Lakeside Center
Burlington
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Fienberg
Robert Poblocki
Checklists Required At Vermont Party Caucuses
Republican publicity co chair man Peter R Donovan III announced checklists must be used at party caucuses under a new law signed Jan 17 with secret ballots in contested nominations. The note details S 1084, Section 726a, and mentions a Feb 8 caucus at the state xory with Democratic caucus at the courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Publicity
Peter R. Donovan III
Bennington
Vermont
State Xory
Bail Set for Snyder on Nine Driving Offenses
Donald Snyder, 24, of Bennington, had bail set at 800 in Bennington District Court on nine counts of motor vehicle offenses and disturbing the peace tied to incidents in Bennington and Shaftsbury. Pro forma not guilty pleas entered. he returns Wednesday for arraignment and counsel assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington District Court
Donald Snyder
Bennington
Shaftsbury
George M. Fienberg
Snyder
BenMont Avenue
Tpr
Thomas Marcotte
Kenneth Rock
Kevin A. Mears
U.S
Charles A. Hosley
Manchester
Farrell J. Lynch
Danbury
Conn
Fienberg
Lynch
Millard Skidmore
Sandgate
Gordon Tobin
Fred Hoag
Michael de Monda
Robert Poblocki
Tobin
Senior Citizens Plan Card Party on Friday Night
The Senior Citizens Club plans a Friday card party at North Street rooms with hostesses Mrs. Ruby Schindler and Mrs. Mary Quackenbush. Playing begins at 8 pm. rooms are being remodeled. Last party featured Pitch and 500 with prizes awarded to Helen Burgess, Eva Montgomery, Alfred Davis, Sarah Stewart, Caroline Carey, Wesley Montgomery, William Schindler, and a special prize to Sarah Stewart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senior Citizens Club
North Street
Ruby Schindler
Mary Quackenbush
Alice Thompson
Valera Waite
Helen Burgess
Eva Montgomery
Alfred Davis
Sarah Stewart
Caroline Carey
Wesley Montgomery
William Schindler
Stock Averages Dow Jones Batch Noon Feb Co Albany 1968
The report shows Dow Jones industrials at 859.97 down 3.59, rail yields at 227.34 down .97, and utilities around 129.54 with the composite average at 303.64 down 1.09. Volume traded was 4,990,000 shares as noon quotes are recorded by the Albany firm.
Also Mentioned on This Page
YMCA
Mt. Anthony Jr. High
Air Force Reserve
Vt. Bank & Trust
Mt. Anthony Union High
Building Fund
Country Club
Jr. High
Armory
Bennington Briefs
Green Mountain Tops
VFW
Women of the Moose
Moose Hall
Nancy Livingston
June Kittel
Marion Charest
Valentine
King’s Daughters
Jennie Gardinier
Elm St
First Methodist Church
Clyde Garner
Mike Shane
Bennington High School
Ted Bird
Practical Nurse Association of Vermont, Inc
Nurses Home
Richard B. Davis
Court St. Andrew
Catholic Daughters of America
Pope John XXIII Institute
School Street
Africa
Franklin S. Billings Jr
Second Congregational Church
Therese Goodermote
Cecile Roy
Park Street Extension
Miss Goodermote
Miss Roy
MAUHS Drama _ Department
David and
Lisa
Evans
ADV
Albert Dean
Thomas Kelly
Edna Charbonneau
Patricia Frost
Bette Bradley
Florence Baker
Buskirk
Lillian Lancour
Area Funerals
BFRC
Karl O. Estes
Maude (Foster) Estes
Grand Chapter of
Second Congregational
Thomas D. Steffen
Estes
OES
Fleter Hall
Lady Bird
VFW Parley
Lyndon Johnson
Ladies Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
White House
Johnson
Keep
America
Washington, D.C
Department of Vermont
Frances Mitchell
Wilma Costa
E.H. Gorton
Mabel (Jackson) Gorton
Maple Hill Road
Zion Episcopal Church
Robert L. Clayton
Orrin Beattie
Earle Fowler
Donald McKubbin
Daughters of the American Revolution
Hanson- Walbridge
Red Mountain Lodge 63
F&am
Evergreen Cemetery
Robert Battis
North Adams
Searsburg
Fish and Game Dept
Battis
Plan Party
Dow-Jones—Bachk
E & Co
Harte Theatre
Eve
Metro-Goldwyn:Mayer Presents
Peter Glenville
Richard Burton
Elizabeth Taylor
Alec Guinness
Peter Ustinov
Graham Greene
Panavisiog
Metrocolor
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