High Court Hears Taconic Tax Appeal Over Racetrack
Vermont Supreme Court, in Montpelier, took under advisement a motion to dismiss Taconic Racing and Breeding Association's bid for court review of the Green Mountain Park racetrack tax assessment in Pownal. The court aims to rule before the first week of April.
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Black and Plante
White River Junction
Bennington County Board of Appeals
Pownal
A. Pearley Feen
Burlington
Chester Ketcham
Peduzzi
Obituary for Richard Zeger Van Santvoord 43 Blake School Faculty
Richard Zeger Van Santvoord, 43, longtime Blake School faculty member and former hockey coach, died suddenly of a heart attack at his Hopkins home. Born December 28, 1921 in Staten Island, he was the son of Bennington selectman Richard Van Santvoord and Mrs. Mary Shaw, grandson of Shadowbrook Farm owners, and an Eaglebrook and Williams College alum. Survived by his wife Earlene Nelson and two Blake-enrolled sons, Richard Nelson and Peter Stotts. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Hopkins, Minn
Richard Zeger van Santvoord
Selectman
Richard van Santvoord
Bennington
Blake School
Hopkins
Staten Island
N.Y
Mary Ruby Shaw
New Haven
Conn
Seymour van Santvoord
Shadowbrook Farm
Troy
Hotchkiss School
Lakeville
Bennington Town
George van Santvoord
Williams College
University of Minnesota
Eaglebrook School
Deerfield
Mass
van Santvoord
Earlene Nelson
Kittery Point
Maine
Richard Nelson
Peter Stotts
Hospital Notes Admits Wide Range Of Local Families
Admissions list includes Ardythe Bender Wallaceac Walter? unborn. Names: Joseph Wassick Joan Lasher Mary LaBounty Mary Sargood Hoosick Falls Jane Howe Wilmington plus Donald Wilwel Francis Slingerland Susan Elliott Teresa Hubbard Marion Gorman Hoosick Falls Ethel Rice Adele Carroll Bennington Susan Hart Elizabeth Lee Dorset Percy Foster North Bennington Arnold Norse Peru. Also newborns: Donald Snow Jacksonville Vermont. Lloyd Amidon Jr Petersburg. Roger Corbett Doland Ave Hoosick Falls. Richard Winters Cambridge New York all Feb 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardythe Bender
Walloomsac
N.Y
Joseph Wassick
Joan Lasher
Bennington
Mary LaBounty
Manchester Center
Mary Sargood
Hoosick Falls
Jane Howe
Wilmington
Donald Wilwel
Francis Slingerland
Susan Elliott
Teresa Hubbard
Marion Gorman
Ethel Rice
Adele Carroll
Susan Hart
Elizabeth Lee
Dorset
Percy Foster
North Bennington
Arnold Norse
Peru
Donald Snow
Jacksonville
Lloyd Amidon Jr
Petersburg
Roger Corbett
Doland Ave
Richard Winters
Avenue A
Cambridge, N. Y
Plan for Bennington Planetarium Takes First Step
A Bennington Lions Club led meeting at the Bennnington Free Library formed to explore creating a non profit corporation to build and operate a planetarium for astronomy instruction. Paul Bohne and Richard Fonteneau will draft a plan and cost estimate while a telescope aided observatory could share the building. A Feb. 24 follow up was scheduled with representatives from nine organizations attending.
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Bennington Free Library
James P. Conroy
Bennington Lions Club
Paul W. Bohne
U.S
Bohne
Lions Club
Richard Fonteneau
Conroy
New Teacher Salary Rates Move to $5,000 Base
The Graded School District approved a three year schedule with a $5,000 base for beginning teachers, aiming to stay competitive with Vermont New York and Massachusetts. Trustees debated realism amid other costly proposals and awaited joint salary committee approval before contracts. New hires include Shir ley Reid as guidance counselor and Pauline Arasim teaching 10th grade English. Charles Decker named athletics manager. Calendar for 1965-66 postponed to align with Catholic high school and rural district calendars.
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Vermont
New York
Masachusetts
Anthony Pello
Sleeman
Pello
James S. Shea
National Federation of Teachers
Rhode Island
Ivor S. Pelsue
Pello and Shea
Shirley Reid
Reid
Heath
Middlebury College
Pauline Arasim
Hoosick
N.Y
State University of New York At Albany
Bendi
Ralf S. Kates
Charles Decker
Bruce Hodgman
Weeks
Decker
Jaycees Disband in Bennington After 12 Years of Service
Gerald Stowell, current Bennington Jaycees president, announced the unit has surrendered its charter and disbanded on February 3. The group, active since 1953, thanked supporters from Mt. Anthony and Tucker Masonic Lodges, the American Association of Retired Persons, the American Association of University Women, and local schools.
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Gerald Stowell
Bennington Jaycees
Jaycees
Stowell
Mt. Anthony and Tucker
Poverty Meeting Tuesday in Bennington Court House
Paul Guare acting Vermont director of the Office of Economic Opportunity explains the Economic Opportunity Act and its use for Bennington area at a public meeting February 16 at 7 30 p.m. He outlined steps to form an action council and noted no federal anti poverty funds can be allotted without such an organized group.
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Paul Guare
Vermont
Office of Economic Opportunity
Bennington
Bennington County
Guare
Funeral for Mrs Marguerite Scrivens in Bennington
The funeral for Mrs Marguerite Scrivens of 3 Bradford Place was held at St Francis de Sales Church with a Requiem High Mass offered by Rt Rev Msgr Francis B Flanagan. Bearers from Bennington and Pownal attended. she was a charter member of the World War I Veterans Auxiliary and burial will be in Park Lawn cemetery in the spring. Relatives and friends came from Troy Glenmont Adams Shaftsbury and surrounding areas.
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Marguerite Scrivens
Bradford Place
St. Francis de Sales
Francis B. Flanagan
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Walter J. Klinedub
Francis J. Krawczyk
Richmond Thurber
Ralph Thurber Jr
George Therriault
Bennington
Springfield Man Killed in Windsor Auto Crash
A 56 year old Springfield man Charles Hartnett died after a near head on collision on U S Route 5 near Windsor. Hartnett rode as a passenger in John Martin Jr 47 also from Springfield. Other car occupants Michael D Faison 21 and wife Barbara of Northfield were taken to Windsor Hospital in good condition. Hartnett died later at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vermont's 19th road death of the year.
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Windsor
API
Springfield
Charles Hartnett
John Martin Jr
Michael D. Faison
Barbara
Northfield
Windsor Hospital
Hartnett
Veterans Administration Hospital
White River Junction
Vermont
Ford Curriculum Ideas Told To Public and Parochial PTAs
Parents from several area schools heard a panel of teachers report on four aspects of the Ford Foundation curriculum development project at a joint Bennington public and parochial PTA meeting in the BCHS gym. Dr. Paul Kirsch, co director, moderated. The panel included Mrs. Florence Kinsley Sister Mary Margaret Geneva Lariviere and Miss Marion Tifft. The project is funded by a 237000 grant including 4000 travel funds. It was stressed that directors serve as a service organization, not as policy makers for local schools.
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Ford Foundation
Bennington
BCHS
Paul Kirsch
Florence Kinsley
Cora B. Whitney
Mary Margaret
Geneva Lariviere
Molly Stark School
Marion Tifft
North Bennington High School
Kirsch
Kinsley
Robert Anderson
Harvard University
Glenn Seaborg
Lariviere
AVM
Albany
Miss Tifft
National Association of English Teachers
Cleveland
W. Philip Walker
Walker
William Sennett
St. Francis de Sales
John Stone Jr
Union Board Pursues Bond Plans Tonight
The Union School Board will review bonding procedures for Mt Anthony Union High School as voters approved $1.94 million in bonds toward a $2.785 million project. State aid and other funds will cover the rest. The board may reorganize committees and receive survey details of the site on Park Street in Bennington Village.
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Mt. Anthony Uneion
Union School Board
Union District
National Defense Education
Marian Taylor
Ben-Mont engineer Stalbird moved to Dow Packaging Cleveland
Frank A. Stalbird, plant manager at Dow Chemical’s Ben-Mont plant, is reassigned as divisional industrial engineer in the Packaging Division. He will base in Cleveland, report Feb. 15, and work on special consulting projects across eight plants, with initial Tampa dispatch.
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Frank A. Stalbird
Dow Chemical Company
Ben-Mont
Dow
H. James Wallace
Starbird
Cleveland
Ohio
Wallace
Stalbird
Findlay
Tampa
Fla
Baltimore
Prospect Club Prepares For Saturday Slalom Race
Prospect Mt Ski Club outlined plans for a Saturday giant slalom for USEASA Junior III and IV at the Prospect slopes in Woodford starting 10 a.m. Entry due Friday 6 p.m. with a $2 fee. Dean Osgood seeks volunteers for gatekeeping and timing roles and announced Winter Carnival committees for March 6.
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Prospect Mt
Second Congregational Church
United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association
Prospect Area
Woodford
Useasa
Stephen H. Jesseman
John Stark Trail
Dean W. Osgood
Dewey St
Osgood
Area Educators To Attend Administrators Convention
Bennington area school districts will be well represented at the AASA convention in Atlantic City New Jersey February 13 17. Attending are Bennington Southwest Superintendent Leon E Wagner Bennington South Supervisory Union Superintendent Allan J Heath a school board member Ronald R Knapp and principals Florence Kinsley Ruth Bodine and Ralph S Kates. Mt Anthony Union High School Board members will join Franklin D. Frantz Fordwood representatives. The theme Man's Tomorrow features panels on De Facto Segregation with Calvin E Gross and Roy Wilkins among participants. Off hours entertainments include Rise Stevens and Miss America Pageant Orchestra.
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Bennington Area
American Association of School Administrators
AASA
Atlantic City
N.J
Ruth Bodine
Bennington
Ralf S. Kates
Franklin D. Frantz
Woodford
Mt. Anthony Union
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Rise Stevens
Pageant
Bennington Briefs Highlight Local Meetings and Events
William H Luck of the Internal Revenue Service to speak on the 1964 tax law at a public information meeting in Bennington Elementary School at 7 30. Daughters of the American Revolution meet at Bennington Free Library with Mrs H Glenn Payne showing slides guest night and refreshments. Mt Anthony Lodge F and AM winter dance moved to Feb 27 at Masonic Temple with Eddie Robillard orchestra 8 30 to midnight. Parish and civic notices include a parade permit for Aug 1 and a Father Daughter weekend Feb 12 14 at Simmons College. Linda Waite elected vice president of Theta Epsilon sorority at the University of Bridgeport. Friday night dancing at F O Eagles Hall buffet after midnight admission 1. Iron Kettle special fried jumbo shrimp dinner.
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William H. Luck
Internal Revenue Service
Bennington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Bennington Free Library
H. Glenn Payne
Masonic Temple
Mt. Anthony
Harold J. Wallace
Monument Ave
Simmons College
Boston
Martha
Linda Waite
Joseph Waite
Branch St
Theta Epsilon
University of Bridgeport
Waite
Stock Averages Report At Noon On Wall Street
Dow Jones Industrial average stands at 892.73 down 19 points while Railroads rise to 208.72 and Utilities at 162.04 with composite at 313.25. Market volume totals 2,460,000 shares.
Mardi Gras Ball Plans At K of C Hall
Grand Knight Jussell Carpenter Jr announces strong ticket uptake for the Mardi Gras costume ball. Springfield rental reps will be at the K of C hall 7 to 9 pm to show costumes and take measurements as members prepare for the event, the last festivity before Lent. Dancing begins at 9 with pre dance entertainment at 8 30 on Saturday February 20.
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Grand Knight
Jussell Carpenter Jr
Springfield
Mass
K of C Hall
Roger White
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Bennington Briefs
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