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Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

Feb 24, 1975

Page

7

Manchester Country Club raises dues and greens fees

The Manchester Country Club adopts a new season budget raising family memberships from 250 to 275 and junior from 150 to 165 while non resident dues increase to 55 plus a 5 daily greens fee. Tennis dues rise to 135 with stock and initiation rules outlined for different member types. Greens fees move to 9 weekdays 10 weekends, and 6 after 4 pm. Cart rentals set at 10 for 18 holes and 6 for nine. Budget cites higher operating costs and fuel prices.

Manchester Manchester Country Club, Inc Ins Greens

Dorset Players and Burr and Burton Stage A Cry of Players Auditions

Open auditions for William Gibson play A Cry of Players by Dorset Players and Theatre Workshop of Burr and Burton Seminary held this week and next in Dorset and Manchester area. Roles include a four year old girl to senior citizens. First auditions Feb 25 27 at Burr Room 11 at 2 30 p.m. Second auditions Mar 4 5 at United Church Dorset 7 30 p.m. Casting announced late week. Play set in Shakespearean exile with an 18 character central cast. many walk ons. Staged by Peter Schoffstall with Chet Ringheiser as associate. Gilman, Stewart, Lefevre linked to production.

Dorset William Gibson Dorset Players Theatre Workshop Burr and Burton Seminary Manchester Tesday United Church Peter Schoffstall BBS Players Chet Ringheiser Honor Gilman David Stewart Edwin Lefevre Burr and Burton Dorset Playhouse

Arlington Club Events and 4-H Slini g Party Notice

Arlington schedules list Monday through Saturday activities at schools halls and Legion rooms, including Lions variety show rehearsal, AA meetings, chorale rehearsals, fire company meeting, and Battenkill Grange social. Anna Bevins announces a 4-H sliding party after the March 1 meeting at Alan Sargood home with a call for a guest.

Community House St. Margaret Mary’s Hall Arlington Chorale Bailey Hall American Legion Auxiliary Legion Rooms Arlington Fire Co Firehouse Arlington Lions Club

Spate of accidents in Hoosick Falls

Hoosick Falls village police investigated a string of minor wrecks Sunday afternoon. A fire chief's vehicle and a fire truck collided in a River Road area. two more accidents at Church and Elm streets, Fourth and River streets, and River Street bridge injured several people but none fatally. One driver was cited for driving at unreasonable speed and another for failure to leave width for passage.

Hoosick Falls N.Y Walter Sprague Jr Cummings Street River Road River Street Sprague Church and Elm Streets Helen A. Damianakis Woodlawn Avenue Saratoga Springs Church Street Mary A. Kilmer Livingston Elm Street Bob Fourth and River Streets Donald F. Sargood Shaftsbury William Olson Bennington Putnam Memorial Hospital Town of Hoosick William Roberts Third Street Roberts Fourth Street Sargood William Fitzpatrick Village Court Robert D. Nason Troy Peter P. Melesky John Street Melesky Myron W. Adams Cherry Plain Delmar H. Wysocki River Street Bridge

Free vegetable gardening talk by Rupert speaker

Rupert Dick Raymond, a Charlotte gardening specialist and author, will present Down to Earth Gardening Know-How in two sessions at Congregational Church of Rupert on Tuesday February 25 and Tuesday March 11 at 7 30 p m. Each two hour program features slide shows and discussion on getting more from your vegetable garden with less work. Raymond lectures nationally and is teaching gardening classes at the University of Vermont with hundreds enrolled.

Rupert Dick Raymond Charlotte Congregational Church

Battenkill Grange Notes on February Degree Conferrals

Battenkill Grange conferred first and second degrees on February 19. Candidates included Leslie Walthen, Margaret Swanson, Chris Rutkin, and E Johnson with visitors Flora of Vermont State Grange and Mrs. Margaret Smith. A home economics donation to Care, sewing entries sought, youth rally March 1 at Essex Center, and five dollars given to the 4-H Foundation. Next meeting March 5 with pot luck supper. third and fourth degrees to be conferred by the ladies degree team at 8 p.m.

Battenkill Grange Leslie Walthen Margaret Swanson Arlington Chris Rutkin Shaftsbury E. Johnson Shushan N.Y Ryder Smith District 13 Margaret Smith Middlebury Flora Vermont State Grange Essex Center H Foundation George Cooledge Lewis Stevenson The Grange Middlebury Grange Dorothy Rutkin Tommy Miller Belle Decker William Killmartin Abbie Baker Ruth Stearns

Taconic Grange Meeting and Baking Contest Notice

Taconic Grange will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday February 25 at 8 p.m. at the home of Ella Aleksonis in Shaftsbury. The annual baking contest will be held and judged at this time. Contact home economics chair Theresa Wood if you lack the authorized recipe. Refreshments will be served by Roger and Lillian Wood and their committee.

Shaftsbury

Gensburg to Deliver Vermont Drug Inquiry Report

A Vermont drug enforcement inquiry by special prosecutor Robert Gensburg is nearing completion but likely to remain confidential. Governor Salmon plans a meeting with Gensburg this week amid concerns the report could prompt indictments and is evidentiary in nature. In Randolph, Ned Herrin was named acting president of Vermont Technical College for one year starting July 1, with a $25,000 annual salary and will replace Pierre V. Kieffer who resigned.

Rutland UPI Vermont Robert Gensburg Salmon Gensburg Paul Lawrence Lawrence Burlington Randolph Vermont State Colleges Ned Herrin Vermont Technical College Herrin Pierre V. Kieffer VTC

Vermont utility gains partial rate hike approval

Green Mountain Power Corp. won a rate increase of about 34.2 to 38 percent rather than the requested 65 percent. The Public Service Board set the new rate using a test year ending last December, effective April 1, per PSB Chair Martin K. Miller and member Daniel B. Ruggles. In Rutland, a masked robber held up a Lehigh gas station on West Street, escaping with about $500. The incident marked the city's sixth armed holdup of the year. In Kirby, Deborah Hudson remained in critical condition from a gunshot wound to the head as her husband Alfred faced aggravated assault charges and remained jailed pending arraignment.

Miller PSB Green Mountain Ratland UPI West Street Lehigh James Bonnella Bonnella Rutland Kirby Deborah Hudson Mary Hitchcock Hospital Hanover N.H Alfred St. Johnsbury Regional Correctional Center

Colonie murder charges in Pleasant Valley plant case

Two Selective Meat Packing Co. employees, Thomas Nieckart and Charles Oechler, were charged with murder in the October 1970 death of Sheila Allen. They were arraigned in Guilderland and held without bail. Albany County DA and state police linked the arrests to an unrelated probe. Also in Albany, a Senate hearing is set for March 11 on the Equal Rights Amendment after Assembly passage, with debate on its public referendum fate.

Colonie Selective Meat Packing Co Route 7 Colonie High School Sheila Allen Pleasant Valley Guilderland Albany County Sol Greenberg Albany Assembly Senate Judiciary Committee Bernard Gordon Peekskill Senate

Berkshire Jesuit school seeks $500000 by June to avoid closure

LENOX Cretanwell School announces a three year 1 million dollar fund drive to meet operating deficits and debt, needing 500000 by June 1 to avert shutdown. Rev Swords says gifts total 575000 in three years but rising costs and financial aid strain finances, prompting trustees to alert faculty, students and alumni. PITTSFIELD Police Association opposes higher overtime parking fines and windshield ticketing, arguing current schemes burden merchants and public. concerns over ticketing methods and court disputes if tickets are not mailed.

Lenox — Cranwell School Jesuit Boys’ Preparatory Raymond J. Swords S.J Pittsfield

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