Beaton and White Funerals Highlight Vermont Services
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Alice A. Beaton, widow of Edwin Beaton, at Mahar & Son in Wilmington with Rev. Addie Davis officiating. Bearers included Eric and Eric Stenson, Einer Stenson, and Thomas Biggs. Burial at Riverview Cemetery followed. Services drew relatives from multiple states and Canada. East Arlington honored Mrs. Eber White at a service led by Rev. Granville Greenwold, with Legion Auxiliary, Gold Star Mothers, and local groups attending. Entombment is planned for Evergreen vault in Arlington, with spring burial in Orwell. Attendees came from Oregon, California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and surrounding areas. A Friday Elks Club event offered steamed clams and music by Burt Rockwood. local notices invited Saber fans. A lost Shetland sheep dog named Troll was reported near Union Street with a reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice A. Beaton
Edwin Beaton
Warner Nursing Home
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Addie Davis
Readsboro First Baptist Church
Eric A. Stenson
Eric N. Stenson
Wilmington
Einer Stenson
North Adams
Mass
Thomas Biggs
Bennington
American Legion Auxiliary
Riverview Cemetery
Davis
Talcottville
Windsor Locks
Conn
Readsboro
Brattleboro
Quebec
Canada
East Arlington
East Arlington Federated Church
Eber White
Edna Mae Labshere
Huntington
N.Y
Douglas Julius
Timothy Ryan
Michael Labshere
Frederick Fredette
Leslie Darlington
Harold Longway
Granville Greenwold
Arlington American Legion Auxiliary
Hanson- Walbridge
Arlington
Yankee Doodlers Drum and Bugle Corps
Gold Star
Legion Auxiliary
Margaret Hoyt
Eben Bowen
Marion Tudor
Mary Thomas
Evergreen Vault
Orwell
Oregon
California
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Jersey
Hospital Notes and Local Obituary Notice
Hospital notes list admissions Mrs Helen Dix and Ronald Bull and discharges Mrs Margaret Wilson and Mary L Davis. The funeral of Mrs Perry W Eldred was held at Hanson Walbridge Funeral Home with entombment in Park Lawn Chapel and burial planned for spring in Hoosick. Members of Bennington Chapter DAR attended along with friends from Hoosick Hoosick Falls and Maine. The article then discusses Vermont budget debates over the Fish and Game Department amid surplus concerns and proposals to shift funds or allocate revenues to other programs and to address senior citizen tax exemptions for school construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry W. Eldred
Ruby Rudd
Hanson- Walbridge
Thomas Steffen
Second Congregational Church
Park Lawn Chapel
Eldred
Hoosick
Bennington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Hoosick Falls
Maine
Appropriations Committee
Leo O’brien Jr
D-112
South Burlington
Fish and Game Department
Robert Graf
Pawlet
Highways and Liquor Commission
Luther Hackett
R-111
Hackett
Graf
North Bennington planning meeting examines regional plan
About 50 residents attended a Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences session in North Bennington to discuss the regional plan for Bennington. Architect Robert A. Burley outlined preservation and development concerns, stressing open space, village center planning, and avoiding strip development while highlighting local sites like the Stone Church and McCullough Mansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Bennington
Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fred Welling
Vermont
Robert A. Burley
Fayston
Burley
Vermont State House
Montpelier
McCullough
Wind Shutters Manchester Bank Window in High Winds
Firefighters battled blazes and shattered glass from wind driven incidents in Manchester. A trailer at John Hodgins on Lorette Avenue was destroyed inside while the exterior was saved, and a Worthy Inn fire caused sparking from rear wiring. A bank window at First National Bank of North Bennington shattered but no injuries were reported. Wind also halted Bromley chairlifts as crews monitor conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Worthy Inn
John Hodgins
Lorette Avenue
Lynford W. Bourn
Hodgins
Bourn
Christopher Swezey
First National Bank of North
Bromley
Secrecy Sought in Race Track Discussion by Senator
Senator Daniel B. Ruggles pressed to bar newsmen from a Montpelier Senate committee meeting on a proposed relief formula for the Green Mountain Race Track. The chairman postponed the discussion after reporters refused to stay for executive session. Senator Donald S. Arnold redirected the session to other bills and adjourned without addressing the proposal, promising to announce a new meeting date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Daniel B. Ruggles
Ill
Washington
Senate
Green Mountain
Donald S. Arnold
Windsor
Bethel
Arnold
Ruggles
Democrats Stymied by School Aid In Hoff Budget
In Montpelier the House advanced an $18.5 million state aid to education bill for fiscal 1968 after efforts to delay failed. Democrats questioned the Hoff budget while Republicans urged a higher $18.5 million 1968 allotment and consideration of $24 million for 1969. Debate highlighted divides over total aid and cost of education in Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Rockingham
Thomas P. Salmon
D-131
Salmon
Hoff
House Education Committee
Lyman C. Hunt
Essex Junction
Leo O’brien Jr
D-112
South Burlington
House
Rep
Hunt
O’brien
Peter Joseph
Brighton
Reid Lefevre
Manchester
Lefevre
Richard W. Mallary
Fairlee
Ways and Means
Bennington Hosts Beauticians Dinner Week Celebration
The Bennington Vermont Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association held a dinner at Vermont Steak House with 11 members to mark National Beauty Salon Week. They reported 36 nursing home residents received free services and Mrs. Edgar Matteson won a portable hair dryer. A March 21 meeting at Towne Beauty Salon will feature a hair color demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Vermont Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association
Vermont
Monroe Park
Fairview
Warner’s
Prospect
Crescent Manor
Edgar Matteson
North Bennington
Towne
Bennington Master Plan Near Completion Amid Printing Delays
Wallace Farnum of the State Central Planning Office in Montpelier said the Bennington Regional Master Plan is close to completion but printed copies will be delayed by at least two weeks. The plan is being printed by John G. Burdis Associates of Albany. Farnum noted minor text revisions remain and that a reviewed draft will be sent to Albany soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Wallace Farnum
State Central Planning Office
Montpelier
Farnum
John G. Burdis
Albany
N.Y
Central Planning Office
Burdis
Central Planning
Bardis
Mercury at perihelion seen in western sky tonight
The planet Mercury reaches perihelion and will be visible about 16 degrees above the western horizon at sundown. Venus and Saturn stay in the west with Mercury Jupiter and the Moon also noted, Moon at First Quarter near the meridian and Jupiter high in the east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Stock Averages Report February 16 1967 Noon
Dow Jones and Company bulletin shows 30 Industrials at 854.34 down 1.45, 20 Railroads at 231.17 up .18, 15 Utilities at 138.96 up .12, Composite average 307.63 up .16, with volume 3,910,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
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Area Funerals
Mrs
Bennington Briefs
Elks Club
Burt Rockwood
Saber
ADV
Union St
Helen Dix
Whitingham
Ronald Bull
Margaret Wilson
Mary L. Davis
Warren E. Sinclair
Nellie R. Myers
Wayne C. Jones
Petersburg
Governor’s Office
Fish and Game Board
Wallace Scott
Scott
R. H. van der Linde
van der Linde
Lionel Nowak
Town Planning Commission
Robert McWaters
Dwyer
Waitsfield
Welling
Regional Planning Commission
Nowak
Walloomsac
H. T. Cushman Mfg. Corp
Polygraphic Co
Sen. Ruggles
Beauticians
Luther F. Hackett
Richard S. Snelling
Perrotta
Harold Griffin
James Jeffords
Rutland
Jeffords
George Sloan
D-23
Legislative Council
Pownal
Sloan
John J
Jack) O’brien
James Shea
D-11
Winooski
Peter Giuliani
Giuliani
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Harte Theatre
Walt Disneys
Walt Disney Producions Technicolor
North ST
Pittsfield, Mass
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Aco Pont
David Lean
Boris Pasternaks
Doctor Zhivago
Panavision
Metrocolor
the Royal Ballet
Margot Fonteyn
Rudolf Nureyev
Romeo and Juliet
David Blair
Desmond Doyle
Julia Farron
Michael Somes
Serge Prokofiev
Kenneth Macmillan
Nicholas Georgiadis
Royal Opera House Covent Garden
John Lanchbery
Paul Crinner
Pathe
Embassy Pictures
Safford and Gage Sts
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