Union Board Sets Tonight Meeting on Site and Personnel
Mt Anthony Union School Board plans an 8 p.m. public session after a 7:30 p.m. executive meeting to discuss finance and personnel matters. State Highway Commissioner Russell A Holden will review a depot relocation on the Vermont Soldiers Home site for the new union high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell A. Holden
Mt. Anthony Union School
Holden
Marian Taylor
Highway Department
Vermont Soldiers
Union High School
Taylor
Pere Sons
Bennington Graded School
Heart Fund Unit Reports Robust Bennington Drive
Bennington residents welcomed Heart Sunday volunteers in a statewide drive for the Vermont Heart Association. The door to door effort has raised over 700 dollars with a final tally pending, and will continue through March 1. Harolds Humphrey praised volunteers and sponsors including Southern Vermont Life Underwriters The Bennington Banner and WBTN while naming top collecting teams and urging late gifts to Mrs Wassick or Humphrey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Heart Sunday
Vermont Heart Association
Army of Heart Fund
Heart Fund
Harold W. Humphrey
Village Heart
Southern Vermont Life
Heart
Humphrey
Heart Association
Versmont Heart Association
Bennington Banner
WBTN
YMCA
Joe Hall
Cheryl Pratt
Ladie Ann Graves
Kathy Berry
Donna Berry
Linda Dean
Ann Hall
Janet Studwell
Pam Littlefield
Christina Dockum
Fred Driscoll
Lynn Driscoll
Marilyn Dailey
William Flood
Fred Driscoll Jr
Scott Tinney
Valerie Tinney
JoAnn Knights
Debbie Grant
Sharon Bailey
Linda Ryan
Barbara Bailey
John Bailey
Vern Gage
Joe Tournadene
Jill Fisher
Linda Lampron
Nancy Eggsware
Dennis Stemp
David Maroney
Kevin Durocher
John Ahearn
Kathy Vance
Rosemary Knapp
Kathy Long
Marilyn Gallant
Pat Harrington
Clark’s
Woods
Kar! Schultz
Paul Schultz
Jerome Schultz
Deborah Taylor
Bill Saliba
Steve Mears
Rod Cameron
Steve Russell
Art Peterson
Eric Fisher
Russ Christie
Alan Hollister
Bud Peterson
Winston Luther
Nancy Humphrey
June Graves
Tom Crowe
Steve Brookman
Wink Luther
Joseph Wassick
Bennington Heart Unit
Clayton J Christensen 54 Buskirk resident dies at Cambridge hospital
Clayton J Christensen 54 of Buskirk died today at Mary McClellan Hospital Cambridge after a brief illness. Born Chicago May 5 1910 he worked at H P Hood Creamery in Buskirk. Survived by wife Adele Farnsworth sister Alice Daniels of Boston and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Sunday 2 pm Leo Mahar Funeral Home Hoosick Falls Rev Wesley P Miles officiating Interment Island Hill Cemetery Friends may call Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buskirk
N.Y
Clayton J. Christensen
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Chicago
Andrew and
Liza
Wood) Christensen
H. P. Hood Creamery
Adele Farnsworth
Alice Daniels
Boston
Mass
Leo Mahar
Main St
Hoosick Falls
Wesley P. Miles
First United Church
Island Hill Cemetery
Funeral for Maude B. Holland at Gibney Home
The funeral for Mrs. Maude B. Holland of 801 Main St died at Putnam Memorial Hospital Sunday. Services were at Gibney Haynes Kane Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon with Rev. H. Glenn Payne officiating and entombment in Park Lawn vault. Interment will be in spring in Park Lawn Cemetery. Out of town relatives came from Ticonderoga Plattsburgh Cambridge and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude B. Holland
Main St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Gibney, Haynes & Kane
H. Glenn Payne
First Baptist Church
Park Lawn Vault
Park Lawn Cemetery
Ticonderoga
Plattsburgh
Cambridge
N.Y
Hospital Admissions and Births in Local Communities
Admissions list includes Mrs. Alice Ellis Hoosick Falls Dr. Leo Herrmann Bennington and several others from Shaftsbury Wilmington and Pownal Center. Birth announcements note a daughter for John and wife North Hoosick on February 24 and a son for Paul Ennis Sr. Arlington also a son William Francis born February 17 weighing eight pounds. first grandchild of William and Mary Whitman of 741 Main St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Ellis
Hoosick Falls
Leo Herrmann
Bennington
Juanita Vadakin
Shaftsbury
Helen Muller
Philadelphia
Susan Lamoureux
Patricia Ann Farnum
Mary Whitney
Cecile Beaudoin
Gail Ware
Kenneth Ware
Pownal Center
Robert Baldwin
Rita Haskins
Wilmington
Alice Baker
John Yurewitch
North Hoosick
Paul Ennis Sr
R.D
Arlington
William F. Whitman
MacDonald Circle
Walpole
Mass
William Francis
William Whitman
Main St
127 Donors Give To Bloodmobile
The Elks Barn hosted the Red Cross Bloodmobile on Wednesday with 127 volunteers over six hours. Sixty four donors attended without appointments, surpassing the 100 unit quota. Thirty two new donors joined the chapter, 24 from H T Cushman Mfg Co in North Bennington, the largest industry group represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks Barn
Red Cross
Robert M. Parmelee
H.T. Cusheman Mfg. Co
North Bennington
North Pownal
Chairmen Named In Fund Drive For Crippled Vermont
Mrs. John S. McCormick Jr of Manchester leads the Vermont Association for the Crippled in a 1965 Easter Seal drive targeting 45000. Campaign runs March 1 to April 18 with county chairs directing operations in Addison through Windham and others led by Mrs. Dayton Wakefield. 14 VAC trustees include Bennington chairwoman Mrs. William Damour and town leaders across Bennington County. Meanwhile a severe wind storm caused property damage in Bennington with store windows shattered and signs blown around. high gusts peaked near 70 mph as officers reported hazardous driving conditions and scattered damage statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
John S. McCormick Jr
Manchester
Vermont Association For the Crippled, Inc
Osborne Halsted
Dorset
Addison
Washington
Orange
Windsor
Bennington
Windham
Dayton J. Wakefield
Morrisville
VAC
William J.damour
Arlington
Robert Stroffoleno
John Dermody
Halsted
Landgrove
Lester Cody
Mancchester
Howard C. Dailey
Peru
Leroy Nourse
Pownal
Cleveland E. Dodge Jr
Readsboro
John Birch Jr
Rupert
George Pelton
Sandgate
Ethel Lemberg
Searsburg
Gordon Rice
Shaftsbury
Edith Stockwell
Stamford
Leroy Lawrence
Sunderland
Ellery Lawrence
Winhall
Emily Ford
Woodford
Alden Harbour
Bennington Village
Vermont
Drysdale’s Department Store
South Street
West Main Street
Home Furniture
Main Street
Vermont Steak House
Bennington High School
White River Junction
Weather Bureau
Globe Union
H. Greenberg Co
Viet Nam Update and Vermont College Highlight
Viet Nam news covers Khanh’s departure from Kong and U S air raids marking a new turn in the war. Guerrilla actions near Saigon and an atrocity report accompany a police push against cease fire advocates. Vermont College appears in a New York Times feature on women’s junior colleges.
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South Viet Nam
Khanh
Saigon
U. S
Viet Nam
Nguyen Huu Co
North Viet Nam
Montpelier
Vermont College
New York Sunday Times
United States
Damages debated in alienation of affections case
A Bennington County jury heard two days of testimony in an alienation of affections suit brought by Earle ne Fellows against Linda Lake now Mrs. William Holm. Judge Divoll directed a verdict on liability. jurors will decide compensatory and punitive damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Bennington
Linda Lake
William Holm
Earlene Fellows
Holm
Natt L. Divoll Jr
Miss Lake
Miss Fellows
Atty
William C. Sennett
Miss Fellow
Village School Board Weighs Merger Realities With Mt Anthony
Bennington Graded School District trustees discussed merger options with Mt Anthony Union High and Greater Bennington district. Open session covered disparities and possible compromises while closed session addressed staffing, opening date of September 1966, and future coordination with the union high school board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Greater
Ronald R. Knapp
Knapp
Ivor S. Pelsue
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Mt. Anthony
Greater Bennington
George van Santvoord
Montpelier
Eugene V. Clark
Clark
Stark Street
Franklin A. Riley
Michael J. Hogan
Private road at Bennington College closes yearly for legal status
North Bennington road access to Bennington College is shut for one day to uphold its private road status. The closure began at 9 a.m. and will last until 9 a.m. Friday. Access routes include Madison Road turning at Harlan Road or Overlea Road from North Bennington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattison Road
Harlan Road
Overlea Road
North Bennington
New Bills Seek Senate Realignment And Road Reimbursements
In Montpelier two Senate bills and two House measures surfaced. A bill seeks $75,643 reimbursement to Ralph B. Goodrich Construction Co for 1959 highway work losses, to be paid by the Highway Department. A second Senate bill would realign counties for Senate seats, merging Chittenden and Grand Isle for six seats and adjusting Essex Orleans and Rutland, with Grand Isle preferring alignment with Chittenden. In the House, a consolidation vote would merge Proctor town and Proctor village. A second bill concerns Shelburne municipal elections at the town meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Proctor
Shelburne
Bennington Briefs Fire at Couch and Local Updates
The Bennington Fire Department battled a couch fire at Ronald Hall’s apartment at 208 Valentine Street with slight smoke damage. The 1964 Town Report is now available at Town Offices. The junior class dance at Bennington High School runs Saturday 8 to 11 PM in the Bend i auditorium to raise funds. Rescue squad vehicles are now at the building on Safford Street. keys available at Tri Mont Texaco. Stratton Mountain reports a 15 inch base and packing powder with good skiing conditions tomorrow. upper mountain fair, lower and novice very good. A Tuesday afternoon collision in Adams Parking Lot damaged two cars, a 1965 Chevrolet wagon driven by William Peat Jr. and a 1960 sedan driven by Thomas Bushee. no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Ronald Hall
Valentine St
Premesses
Home Furniture Co
Bennington Rescue Squad
Safford Street
Tri-Mont
Stratton Mountain
Adams
William Peat Jr
Maregaret Lane
Thomas Bushee
Clark’s Woods
Joblessness Down From Last Year In Vermont Brief
UPI reports weekly unemployment claims rose 371 to 5871, the first increase in five weeks. Jobless rate stands at 6.6 percent, down 2.2 percent from a year ago. Burlington led with claims, followed by Montpelier lists across nine towns. Services and town notices include Bennington civil authority meetings, a fire alarm incident, pre town meeting plans, and local social events with dancing and meals.
Stock Averages Report at Noon on Dow Jones and Railroads
At noon, Dow Jones Industrial average stood at 898.70 up .86, railroads at 211.64 down .40, utilities at 161.04 up .13, and the composite average at 315.14 up 4.06. Sales reached 2,870,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
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Heart Fund Unit
Mrs. Maude B. Holland
Frijna
Life Mag
WE M
Martin Ranschoff
Girwer Andrews ‘Douglas
THE
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Stephen H. Gilman
Village School Board
Union High
Richard Sleeman
Bennington Teachers Association
Allan J. Heath
Heath
Ida Gage
Richard
Gail) Sawyer
Bendi
Ralf S. Kates
American Association of School Administrators
Atlantic City
N.J
Ford
Kenneth R. Clayton
County National Bank
Ringheiser
College
Virgil
Gus) Grissom
America
John W. Young
Hatch
Gulf of Mexico
Houston
Texas
UPI
Senate
Chittenden
Grand Isle
Franklin
Bennington Briefs
Dave Krug
Bennington Board of Civil Authority
Louis F. Lausville
Richard van Santvoord
Joseph Higgins
Bennington County
Bennington League of Women Voters
Francis Clark
Bennington Club
Nick Marra
VFW Rooms
FC Eagles Hall
Bennington Aerie
ADV
Yardley Soap Sale
Bond Street
Manchester Center
Turkeys
Turkey
Market Corner
Safford and Gage
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