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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1968
Page
7
Gov. Philip H Hoff of Vermont will address the Pine Cobble School parent dinner at 7 p m on February 15 at the 1896 House in Williamstown. Proceeds benefit the Pine Cobble Scholarship Fund. reservations via Mrs John B Ortman by February 9.
Hoosick Falls First Sgt. Charles C. Klaer has arrived in Vietnam after a brief Saigon stop and is assigned to the northern area. With 18 years of service and Korean War wounds, he is stationed while his wife and 13 year old son stay in Hawaii. A local meeting and Founders Day events are announced for St Mary’s Academy and Hoosick Falls Central School PTA. Local Democrats set a caucus in Cole Hall to nominate town candidates. Grade 6 students toured Poly Graphic Co. in North Bennington as part of their educational field trip.
Shaftsbury Fran Stacy-442-6524 conducted a tour of the building including photographic production and layout departments. Samuel Carrara, Grade 6 teacher, supervised the trip with assistance from Mrs. Arthur Jones, Mrs. Harry Sanders, Mrs. Morton Howe, Mrs. Ezekiel Cross, Mrs. Searle Allen and Mrs. Joseph Morin. Elementary and kindergarten pupils will be dismissed from school at 2:25 p.m. Tuesday because of a teachers' meeting.
Hoosick area churches launch a six session Leadership-In-Life program during Lent at St. Marks Hoosick Falls with $1.50 materials fee. Seminars cover growing personal relationships, teaching techniques, expressing beliefs, and worship with organ and choir. Registration by Feb 11 with Rev Springer or area pastors.
Groat Pond area near Kelley Stand Road offers 1500 acres up for sale at about 1 million dollars. Fort Orange Uncle Sam Council of the is owner, with the Forest Service slated for first refusal in the transaction.
Manchester school directors present a $516,000 plan for a nine classroom and cafeteria addition to Manchester Elementary School to the public at 7:15 p.m. at the Avalanche Motor Lodge. The town vote on the issue is set for March 5, with officials noting a long civic club outreach to explain the project. Nearby, U.S. Forest Service negotiations over Scout land near Groat Pond in southern Vermont continue with no public agreement yet.
William Campbell, 29 years with the state Highway Department, retires due to ill health. A Pownal Center resident, he served with the crew maintaining U.S.7 and Vt 346 in the area. Faxon Bowen, former North Adams mayor, fell at home Friday and was taken to North Adams Hospital for observation.
Dorset prepares a town meeting checklist for March 5. Town clerk Mrs Helen E O Donovan urges residents unsure of qualification to contact her. A voter must have resided one year in the state and 180 days in the town.
In Saigon, Army Col. George Jacobson, recently from Minnesota, killed the last Viet Cong attacker during an assault on the U S Embassy. He had earlier given his brother Bud a .45 pistol as a parting gift before retirement and embassy service.
Searsburg guests of honor were Mr and Mrs Gordon Rice at the home of Mr and Mrs Karma Putnam for a Friday evening party marking the couple’s 40th wedding anniversary.
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