Skiers Fail To Overflow Facilities After Washington Holiday
Mary metropolitan skiers lacked expected overflow during the George Washington birthday weekend. GBA had listed private homes to house overflow, but area motels and guest houses were full, and few walk-ins at the GBA office materialized. Mrs Daisy Myers and Mrs Viola Goodyear stayed late handling requests while brochures may have led skiers to book directly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GBA
South Street
Viola Goodyear
George Washington
Tri State Music Festival Plans in Bennington
Plans finalize for Walter C. Wood Tri-State Music Festival in Bennington on May 18 and 19. Lions Club organizers list parade of about 15 bands from Vermont Massachusetts and New York starting at 4 30 p m Saturday May 19 with concerts at Bennington Catholic High School and Bennington Elementary School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter C. Wood
Bennington
Lions
Bennington Village
Bennington Catholic High School
Vermont
Massachusetts
New York
Paul J. Williams
Marjorie Porter
North Bennington
Peter Proud
Cambridge
N.Y
Roger Weeks
Wilmington
Lions Club
Clement Walker
Richard Fonteneau
Leon Wagner
Harry Eddington
Circuit Assembly Delegates Return From Bennington
Delegates from the Bennington congregation returned Sunday evening from a three day Circuit Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses of New York District 1 at Burlington High School. Seven new ministers were baptized by immersion. Lyle Reusch delivered the Sunday discourse Who Will Rule the World detailing God approved government and Christ Jesus ruling earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Assembly of
Jehovah's Witnesses of New York District 1
Burlington
Claude Church
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Earth
YMCA Schedule Busy Week of Activities and Games
A dense weekly listing detailing YMCA phys ed classes and club meetings at North Bennington School Shaftsbury and nearby venues. Activities include boxing instruction bowling baton twirling and a basketball league running through Friday with Saturday rifle and daily indoor recreation options at the Y Pool Memorial Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Red Brick
Shaftsbury School
Shaftsbury
YMCA
Bricklayers
Girl Scout Board of Directors
Taxpayers err in arithmetic rise 24 percent
Chicago report shows 2.5 million taxpayers made arithmetic mistakes last year. Commerce Clearing House notes a 24 percent rise. About 1.57 million underpaid taxpayers received average $84 bills, while refunds averaged $70 to 931,000 who overpaid after IRS verification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Commerce Clearing House
Internal Revenue Service
West Side Story Leads Oscar Nominees Alongside Judgment at Nuremberg
The top five contenders for the 34th Academy Awards include West Side Story and Judgment at Nuremberg with eleven nominations each. The Hustler follows with nine, while Fanny Guns of Navarone and others appear in key categories. Nominations come from AMPAS members with final winners announced March 31 and awards on April 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Nuremberg
Spencer Tracy
Charles Boyer
Paul Newman
Maximilian Schell
Stuart Whitman
Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Piper Laurie
Sophia Loren
Geraldine Page
Smoke
Natalie Wood
Fanny
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Vermonters Win Junior Team Berths at Eastern Meet
The United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association named a 15 member team to represent the East at the National Junior Championships in Kalispell Montana March 15 to 17. The selections followed the three day Eastern Junior championships in Bethel Maine with ten boys and five girls chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel
Maine
United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association
Kalispell
Mont
Skip Bryan
Stowe
Roger Buchika
Wildcat
N.H
Rich Chaffee
Killington Ski Club
Frank Emery
Gould Academy
Pat Kelley
Snow Ridge
Jay Langley
Norman Liman
Steve Parent
Rebel Ryan
Pick S
One Man's Opinion TV Viewers Get Overdose Of Pleasure
AP TV Radio writer Peter Lind Hayes says audiences crave viewing diets to curb excess pleasure. He recalls wartime radio joy and notes his failed Peter Loves Mary series. Hayes plans NBC musical documentary Regards to George M. Cohan while CBS tweaks Red Skelton and Dobie Gillis lineups and Jackie Gleason may replace Checkmate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayes
Mary Healy
Peter Loves
Mary
Peter
George M. Cohan
CBS
Red Skelton
Dobie Gillis
Jackie Gleason
Area Volunteers For Crippled Are Announced
Rutland Vermont area leaders named county and town chairmen for the annual Easter seal campaign to benefit the Vermont Association for the Crippled. The drive runs March 15 through Easter Sunday with 246 towns participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
John S.mccormick Jr
Manchester
Vermont Association For the Crippled, Inc
Vermont
Bennington County
Willard A. Riggins Jr
Landgrove
Lawrence Brush
Arlington
Altrusa Club
William J. Damour
Bennington
Osborne Halsted
Dorset
Lester Cody
Howard Dailey
Mabel Whitney
Peru
Cleveland Dodge Jr
Pownal
John Birch Jr
Readsboro
Austin McKeighan
Rupert
Ethel Lemberg
Sandgate
Gordon Rice
Searsburg
Edith Stockwell
Shaftsbury
Leroy Lawrence
Stamford
Ellery Lawrence
Sunderland
Elton Coleman
Winhall
James Cleminson
Woodford
Gideon to Travel to Europe and South America
Paddy Chayefsky's Gideon heads for international tours after its Broadway debut. Production rights were sold within seven weeks to overseas impresarios for performances in Sweden Norway Denmark Finland Iceland Germany Belgium Luxembourg the Netherlands Italy Argentina and Uruguay.
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New York
Paddy Chayefsky
Gideon
Broadway
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Germany
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Italy
Argentina
Uruguay
Champion Gower Champion to direct Mara thon musical in 1961-62
Director Gower Champion to stage Mara thon a musical based on June Havoc memoirs Early Havoc for next season. Champion previously staged Carnival which won the Critics Circle Award as the 1960 61 season's best musical and has completed preparation of a second company for national tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Gower Champion
June Havoc
Early Havoc
Critics Circle
Better TV Firm Leases Office on Main Street
Better TV Inc plans cable installation in Bennington by mid March after leasing 317 Main Street from Virginio N Perrotta owner of Max Oil Service. Albert Ricci Jr president says lease starts March 1 with 24 hour weather board and new local office. Perrotta moves Max Oil operations to 272 Ben Mont Avenue while a three stall garage with offices is planned at Ben Mont and Hunt Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Better Tv, Inc
Bennington
Main Street
Max Oil Service
Albert Ricci Jr
Weather Board
Ricci
Virginio N. Perrotta
Ben- Mont Avenue
Perrotta
Ben-Mont
Hunt Street
Marriage Announcement Dor is Mac Ahearn William J Malon
Dor is Mac Ahearn of 123 Bradford Street and William J Malon of 112 Dewey Street wed Feb 2 in a private ceremony at First Methodist Church chapel performed by Rev Frank W Grippin. Attendants were Mr and Mrs John E Ahearn and Mr and Mrs Ray Parker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris Mac Ahearn
Bradford St
William J. Malon
Dewey St
Frank W. Grippin
First Methodist Church
John E. Ahearn
Ray Parker
Perini Lowest Bidder on Route 91 Bridge Project
MONTPELIER VT AP The Perini Construction Co Framingham Mass was the apparent low bidder on a project to build two three span bridges on Interstate 91 in the Rockingham area. The firm submitted an estimate of 1.75 million dollars about 50000 less than Lane Construction Co of Meriden Conn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Perini Construction Co
Framingham
Mass
Rockingham
Massachusetts
Lane Construction Co
Meriden
Johnson named manager of Better TV Bennington unit
Richard 8. Johnson will head Better TV Inc. Bennington operations from newly acquired offices at 317 Main St starting March 1. He previously worked at Keene NH and is a former Swift and Co. merchandising salesman and four year U.S. Air Force veteran. His wife Sally Jean plans to join him after the school term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard 8. Johnson
Better Tv, Inc
Bennington
Main St
Albert Ricci Jr
Johnson
Better TV
Keene
N.H
Swift and Co
U.S. Air Force
NCO
Germany
Bob Jones University
Greenville
S.C
Sally Jean
Gilsum
Jane Fonda to Star in The Fun Couple on Broadway
Jane Fonda will receive star billing in her next Broadway outing The Fun Couple a Neil Jansen John Haase play about a young physician and his wife Production is slated for April at the Broadway venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jane Fonda
Neil Janses
John Haase
Volunteers On Heart Sunday Help Bennington House Calls
Heart Sunday fund appeal mobilized volunteers in Bennington with team captains William Saliba Harold Humphrey Joseph Digangi Ronald Knapp Fred Driscoll Vernon Gage Hugh Nash Joseph Hall Albert Peterson Patrick Piscopo and numerous youths. Teams canvassed the village door to door assisting the charitable drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heart Sunday Fund
Bennington
Von Braun quips at New Orleans photo stop
Space expert Wernher von Braun from Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama teased a New Orleans photographer when the flash bulb failed to fire during a stopover. He joked that Huntsville also pushes buttons with nothing happening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Wernher von Braun
Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Ala
Ralph Uribe
New Orleans States
von Braun
Uribe
Baby named Orbit born as Glenn circles Earth
A son was born to Mr and Mrs H Ray Hill in Ogden Utah the day astronaut John H Glenn completed a space orbit. The baby was named Orbit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden, Utah
H. Ray Hill
John H. Glenn
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Circuit Assembly
Armory
Memorial Park
Vermonters
AP TV
Peter Lind Hayes
Merrick
Boston
Rockers
Dunhams
Walker
Malon
Ahearn
Pirini
Richard S. Johnson
Heart
William Saliba
Rose Mary Latif
Pat LeBlanc
Sandy LeBlanc
Harold Humphrey
Lynn Wilson
Diane Hansen
Betsy Greene
Bonnie Hansen
Nancy Humphrey
Jane Lackey
Ruth Gavin
Cheryl Comstock
Evelyn Hathaway
Joseph Digangi
Mike Digangi
Linda Bartell
Diane LeBlanc
Cynthia Senecal
Judy Pello
Pat Digangi
John Mook
Eric Peterson
Ronald Knapp
Nick Santo
Henry van Orman Jr
Gloria Hollister
Holly Graham
Janice Burt
Susan Emond
Linda Tinkham
Trudy Southworth
Tommy Crowe Jr
Gerald Colvin
Marshall Knapp
Jeff Crane
Barbara Tinkham
Fred Driscoll
Donna Gallant
Nancy Gauthier
Mary King
Barbara Paquin
June Carroll
Lynn Driscoll
Vernon Gage
Dianne Weaver
Marion Gage
Lee Lawson
Eliza Harrington
Hugh Nash
Don Andrews
Ron Galvagni
Dave Sausville
Richard Bird
Jim Betts
Kevin Thibodeau
Joseph Hall
Capt
Sandra Rose
Ann Marie Kuhn
Carol Boutin
Kathy Purcell
Steve Hansen
Donna Pray
Rose Hewson
Ann Hall
William Stryker
Judith Young
Albert Peterson
Diane Peterson
Ronald Galvagni
Linda Crawford
Rose Brownell
Patrick Piscopo
Joe Galviagni
Norman Galvagni
Pete Piscopo
JoAnn Piscopo
Ernest Murray
Cheryl Galvagni
T.M
Drysdale’s
Ford
Fairlane
Ford Motor Company
Faurlane
Falcon
America
Manchester Motors, Inc
Manchester Center, Vt
Thunderbird
Wilson Ford Hunt
Bennington, St
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