State moves to curb unemployment compensation abuses
Vermont's Department of Employment Security aims to tighten controls over benefits. Commissioner Stella B. Hackel asks employers to report questionable applicants and states that decisions on disqualifications will shift to local offices. The program includes training claims examiners across 11 offices with federal funding support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department
Montpelier
DES
Burlington
Federal Bureau of Employment Security
Rome Council Bishop Tells Audience of New Era in Unity
The Most Rev. Robert F. Joyce told Bennington crowd the Vatican II Ecumenical Council aims to end the scandal of Christendom by fostering Christian unity. He described renewal and reform as needed to restore Christ's likeness in the church and noted the council's diverse Masses and the Jews and liberty of conscience as key resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Ecumenical Council
Robert F. Joyce
Burlington
Bennington Catholic High School
Christendom
Joyce
John XXIII
John
The
Council
Christ
People of God
John Stone Jr Elected Head of Southern Vermont Club
John R. Stone Jr. of Bennington was elected president of the Southern Vermont Boating and Camping Club at its annual meeting hosted by the LeBlancs in Monument Avenue. Officers include Walter Corey Brattleboro vice president secretary Mrs. Richard Fonteneau treasurer Mrs. Everett LeBlanc and others. A Purim program at Temple Beth El and a religious school carnival are planned with many members attending from multiple towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Stone Jr
Bennington
Southern
Temple Beth el
Leopold Kagan
Rabbi Kagan
Persia
Haham
Ahasuerus
Esther
Roy Thibodeau
Everett LeBlanc
Cyril Bluto
Richard Bradbury
Hinsdale
N.H
Richard Derosia
Brattleboro
SVBC
Wilmington
Mountain Mills
Cooties Unit Hosts Soldiers Home Show Sunday
The Military Order of the Cootie Green Mountain Pup Tent No 2 and VFW No 1332 held their annual hospital visitation at the Vermont Soldiers Home. Entertainers included DuCharme School of Dance students and Twilighters band members. Residents enjoyed tap, jazz, ballet, and rock acts with cake and ice cream served afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Military Order of the Cootie
Green Mountain Pup
VFW
Vermont Soldiers’ Home
Edward Vosburgh Jr
Harold Arnold
Nancy Hall
Margaret Knights
Frances Hunt
Lillian Bourassa
Neva LaCroix
DuCharme School of Dance
Susan Sorenson
Grace Phillips
Judy Flynn
Dale Gerity
Linda Maillet
Libera Napolitano
Kathy Grimm
Debbie Sachau
Dawn Thibodeau
Karen LaFarge
Sheila Pinsonneault
Diane Davignon
Peggy LeBlanc
Rosemary Rice
Carol Christie
Debbie Ryan
Gayle Racicot
Barbara Powers
Andree Bruneau
Cindy Latif
Lisa Hier
John DiGangi
David
Tiger) Chaffin
Debbie Estes
Kelli Racicot
Ricky Leonard
The
Twilighters
Bob Grimm
Frank Napolitano
Hank van Orman
Sam Cameron
Jack Harrington
Bennington Briefs Highlight Local Club Rehearsals and Elections
Bennington notes rehearsals for a St. Patrick’s Minstrel show chorus at 7 p.m. Tuesday in CDA rooms and a First Methodist Church evangelism group meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the church parlor. Bridge winners at Mt Anthony CC Friday include Harold Brafman and Rita Stump groupings with scores from 46 to 541 points. Dr. Arthur Van Derbrugh will close his Bennington office to join an osteopathic hospital staff in Maine. Firefighters rescued a cat after 13 hours atop a telephone pole, involving resident Mich ael Fraher and Fireman Charles Sawyer. The Green Acres 4 H Club met at the Bruso home, with boys enacting a starter and model cars and a 1941 Buick donated by Romaine Hebert for practice. The club asks for scrap iron and metals to fund its treasury. A Bennington County Court Jury will be drawn Tuesday for Phillip McKenna vs Ash Grove Construction Co. with attorneys Burgess for plaintiff and Holden for defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Harold Brafman
George Ellis
Walter Hoover
Vail Farrell
Dorothy Brune
Rita Stump
Rose Noa
Green Acres 4-H
Bruso
LeBlanc Avenue
Romaine Hebert
Middle Pownal Road
Bennington County Court
Phillip McKenna
Ash Grove Construction Co
John A. Burgess
Obituary Notices from Manchester Center and Area
Funeral services are set for Paul J. Mullen 48 of Manchester Center with burial at Factory Point Cemetery after a 2 p.m. service at Brewster Funeral Home. He was born February 14, 1916, and survived by a sister, Mabel Rose, and several nieces and nephews. A separate notice says Dai Hughes Allard seven months died in Philadelphia. a prayer service was held and entombment planned at Park Lawn Chapel. A coroner ruled accidental suffocation in the death of the baby born July 14, 1963, investigated by Dr. Donald F. Shea with state police involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Depot
Paul J. Mullen
Brewster
Manchester Center
Godfrey Parker
First Baptist Church
Factory Point
Mr. Mullen
Sandgate
James and
Ethel
Bentley) Mullen
Mabel Rose
Philadelphia
Mahar & Son Funeral
Dai Hughes Allard
Jacqueline Allard
Union St
Joseph F. Wiseman
Sacred Heart Church
Park Lawn Chapel
Atty
R. Marshall Witten
Donald F. Shea
Arm Transplant by Doctors in Ecuador Shocks Medical World
Two Boston surgeons at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital report the first human limb transplant from a corpse to a live patient in Guayaquil Ecuador. The 28 year old sailor received a right hand and forearm from a recently deceased donor. The operation is described as the first known human limb homograft with the patient progressing well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Guyaquil
Ecuador
Roberto Gilbert
Clinica Guyaquil
Richard W. Wilson
Robert M. Goldwyn
Gilbert
Boston Hospital
Multiple Accidents Across Vermont Injure Four
State Police investigated several crashes this weekend. In Searsburg a westbound driver Ram bo failed to stop for a stopped car on Sleepy Hollow Road injuring four people none hospitalized. In Arlington Linda Garand and Ruth Nelson suffered bumps and head injuries in a three car crash on U.S. 7.
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Massachusetts
Sleepy Hollow
Searsburg
George Rambo
North Adams
William J. Partenope
Rambo
Ann Hamilton
Perry J. Hamilton
Williamstown
Hamilton
Linda Garand
Armando S. Garand
Weeks
U.S. 7
Arlington
Ruth Nelson
Short Hills
N.J
Shaftsbury man fined for driving without Vermont license
Lloyd J. Pierce, 25, of Shaftsbury, was fined 30.10 after pleading guilty to driving without a Vermont license. Police said he was arrested after a Feb 11 accident on Vermont 67. He held a New York license but had not applied for a Vermont license despite two years living in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Yakel
New York City
U.S. 7
Shaftsbury
Lloyd J. Pierce
Pierce
Vermont 67
New York
Vermont
Attorney comments on mandamus ruling and juror selection
Ruby Belli suggested that if the writ is granted jurors could include those who viewed the scene on TV. He noted the Texas Supreme Court could rule today and that the state Supreme Court often holds oral hearings on petitions on Wednesdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belli
Texas Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Auto Blaze Damages Bennington Car. Bailey to Face Court
Firefighters doused a car owned by Frank M Bailey at Main and Union in Bennington Saturday night. Bailey, treated at Putnam Memorial Hospital for hand burns, faces arraignment in Municipal Court after his vehicle, pushed by his wife Jennie Bailey, caught fire when antifreeze ignited as the second car overheated. Bailey had been cited for no vehicle inspection last October.
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Frank M. Bailey
Main St
Bennington
Main
Union Streets
Bailey
Bennington Village
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Jennie Louise Bailey
Bennington High School
Market Composite and Railroads Prices and Sales Report
The data show 30 Industries at 799.8742 with .88, railroads at 187.624 with .79, utilities at 140.624 with .82, and a composite average of 279.4141.17 along with sales totaling 2,840,000 units.
Volunteers Raise 600 for Vermont Heart Fund Drive
Area young people led by Southern Vermont Life Underwriters Association collected over 600 dollars door to door for the Vermont Heart Association. Teams underwriters and volunteers worked from the YMCA with many villagers away at ski slopes. proceeds support the Rheumatic Fever Prevention Program begun in 1962 a low cost penicillin initiative.
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Southern Vermont Life Underwriters Association
Vermont Heart Association
YMCA
Heart Fund
Thomas P. Kinney Jr
Union Street
Jonathan Peck
Catherine Kinney
Barbara Buck
Vernon Gage
Joe Hall
Lane Gershaneck
Tracy Gershaneck
Ann Hall
Janet Gershaneck
Julie Wolfe
Cheryl Pratt
Nancy Lawson
Lochann Graves
Bud Peterson
Steve Mears
William Cannavan
Mike Cannavan
Russ Christie
Linda Ayer
Dale Purdy
Carol Colvin
Cathy Egan
Carol Santao
Artie Peterson
Winston Luther
Rosemary Christie
Gloria Hollister
Nancy Humphrey
Trudy Southworth
Sue White
Linn Wilson
Fred Driscoll
Bill Flood
Fred Driscoll Jr
Lynn Driscoll
Marilyn Gallant
Jean Lausville
Jean Heiner
Mary Lee Kennedy
Joe Tornebone
Janine Lincourt
Peggy Boutin
Ruth Gavin
Peggy Kaul
Jane Lackey
Bill Saliba
Mary Rita Schultz
Connie Vasquez
Linda Maroney
Mike Saliba
Harold Humphrey
Joseph Wassick
Bennington Town
Leonard J. Black
American Heart Association
The
Heart Association
State Health Department
Vermont Pharmaceutical Association
Burlington Drug Co
Bennington County
Bloodmobile planned at Elks Barn Wednesday
Red Cross Bloodmobile visits the Elks Barn to collect at least 100 pints before 5 30 p m. Weston Hadden leads the motor corps with Caroline Darlington Fred Gunzel and Raymond Howard handling transportation. Call 442 9458 to arrange a ride and donate to aid Putnam County hospitals.
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Red Cross
Elks’ Barn
Bennington County
Weston Hadden
Motor Corps
Caroline Darlington
Fred Gunzel
Raymond Howard
Hospital Notes Admissions and Discharges Local Births
List of admissions and discharges across Bennington area including North Bennington Arlington Shaftsbury Hoosick Falls and nearby towns. Details multiple families with new births Feb 21 22 23 at local homes and Rome N Y. Names include Scarey Henning Harmon Kilburn Reed and Butler among others.
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Daniel J. Scarey
North Bennington
Helen Henning
Avelington
William G. Hareman
Edward E. Ayer
Bennington
Philip J. Bradley
Hoosick Falls
Juanita Kilburn
Buskirk
N.Y
Kathryn Ellingwood
Arlington
Francis B. Ryan
North Benington
William G. Harmon
Helen Jones
Louise Playful
Barbara Colvin
Shaftsbury
William Lake
South Dorset
Jon Terhune
Milo Mears
Fillmore Street
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Magic Mountain
Londonderry
Big Bromley
Resch
John Stone Jr
Holyoke
Mass
Soldiers’ Home
Bennington Briefs
St. Patrick’s
CDA
Commission On
First Methodist Church
Arthur van Derbrugh
Maine
Michael Fraher
Coolidge Ave
Charles Sawyer
Edmund Selan
Nichals
Union St.uStomer
Louisville
University of Louisville
Madkour
Garand
Norman. Berry
Bristol
Conn
Berry
Douglas W. Grigg
Manchester
Francis M. Hayes
Waterford
Annette G. Hold
Garrison
Richard J. Morin
Ruby
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Elks Barn
Jeraldine DeVito
Carolyn A. Johnson
Gladys Holley
Terry Lee Brown
Jacksonville
Walter P. White
Passaic
Jennie Jones
Denis Fraher
Frank O’neil
Anna Hall
Sunderland
Robert Gibney Sr
Amityville
Anna Edgerton
Frank Reynolds
Alice Fauley
Bernard Hogan
Pleasant St
John Butler
Butler
Phyllis Harwood
Julia Harwood
Jefferson Avenue
Arthur Butler
Lincoln Street
Harte Theatre
Bennington Vt
Sidney Poitier
Berlin Film Festival
United Artists
Franz KA
Fka's
Amatyl
As'or Productions
Mithohy Pereies
Welles
Framz Kafna
Jeanne von
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