Car Slams Into House injuring passenger in Albany NY
A 1956 Lincoln, driven by Richard A. Orts of Brown's Music Studio, veered on a sharp turn near a North Street junction and struck the James Mooney residence at 300 North St. Passenger Richmond Platz of Albany, 20, was hospitalized in good condition with a head laceration and nosebleed. The car sustained total damage. house damage undetermined. Another crash occurred at East Main and Gage Streets injuring no one.
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North Street
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Richmond Platz
Albany
N.Y
Ner. Orts
James Mooney
North St
Platt
James Lathrop
Mooney
Frederick A. Moffitt
Harwood Hill
Orts
Downed U2 Pilot Prefers Oyster Food After Crash
U2 pilot Charles Stratton awoke after a six hour sleep in a cypress tree and asked for oysters. He survived a 40,000 foot fall with nine hours in the swamp, then was taken to Keesler Air Force Base hospital for rest. The crash occurred during a navigational training flight from Laughlin AFB to Birmingham, with an apparent electrical malfunction and an explosion observed by locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biloxi, Miss
Charles Stratton
Stratton
Keesler Air Force Base
Laughlin Air Force Base
del Rio
Tex
Birmingham
Ala
Air Force
Indonesia Reconsiders Papuan Status Aims for Self-Determination
Indonesias shift favors eventual self determination for Papuan tribes in West New Guinea with transfer of administration to Jakarta. Col Busjiri says arms to veterans pave a march to raise Indonesias flag. Sukarno orders mobilization but no invasion date given. Dutch and Indonesian officials weigh terms under US Australia pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nea
Jakarta
Busjiri
Molucca
Indonesia
Sukarno
West New Guinea
Netherlands
United States
Australia
The
Hague
Jan de Quay
Holland
Subandrio
Stout to Speak Before Lions Club Meeting
Robert D. Stout administrator of Putnam Memorial Hospital will address the Bennington Lions at the Knotty Pine Restaurant at 6 30 pm Tuesday. George W. Buck will introduce Stout and the note mentions Stanley Rosinski leaving Bennington for Utica New York and Frank Snow’s recent hospital stay. Lions plan a bowling match on January 21 against Norshaft Arlington Manchester and Bennington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert D. Stout
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington Lions Club
George W. Buck
Stout
Stanley Rosinski
Bennington
Utica
N. Y
Frank Snow
Lions
Norshaft
Arlington
Manchester
Vermont Ski Hub Recalled From Stratton Lift View
The author traces seven uphill facilities built from Wisconsin to Bromley and recalls 24 years of Vermont ski history from a New Year’s Stratton ride. They compare past Mount Aeolus era lifts with modern Stratton chairlifts and note how the region became the hub of eastern skiing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Lake George
New Hampshire
East Dorset
Mt. Aeolus
U.S
Bromley
East Meadow
Mt. Snow
Stratton
Vermont
Open Bids Friday on VATI Addition
Bids will be opened Friday for a 26000 square foot addition to Vermont Agricultural and Technical Institute at Randolph Center. The two story project will house laboratories for a new mechanical technology program and store about 250000 dollars of surplus government property. Expansion was approved by the 1961 Legislature and new courses in agriculture electrical and highway Kenney will begin next September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Vermont Agricultural and Technical Institute
National Industrial Equipment Reserve
Randolph Center
Bennington News Briefs Highlight Local Meetings and Social
The Economics Discussion Group meets 7 30 tonight at the GBA office. Rabbi Sigmund I Kauffman speaks on The Golden Calf tomorrow at 8 45 on WBTN. Families return from holidays to Bennington and Mys tic Conn. St Marys Guild meets Feb 18. 1952 officers and budgets discussed. Peggy LeBlanc celebrates ninth birthday with a bowling party. Friday and Saturday specials at Rays Market list meats and dairy items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater Bennington Association
GBA
Sigmund I. Kauffman
Temple Beth el
Bennington
WBTN
House Democrats shed controversial issues in caucus
Rep. Richard Bolling withdraws from race for majority leader leaving Carl Albert likely to be elected unopposed. Democrats consider a new steering policy committee to give liberals influence, advisory to leaders, with White House involvement possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Democrats
Washington
Richard Bolling
D-Mo
Bolling
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Rep
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
McCormack
House
Albert
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
White House
Democratic Study Committee
Hungary’s TV revue skewers regime and staff in Budapest
In Budapest a four hour television revue mocked government failings and sparked discussion of a possible softening trend after the Moscow party congress. The broadcast showed leaders in the audience laughing at barbed gibes and included sketches lampooning housing and collective farm life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Hungary
Moscow
Cat Leads Deputy On a Merry Chase
In Groveland Township Oakland County deputy Bailey pursued a loose attic cat. He traversed rafters after slipping and ended up hanging through the ceiling. The cat escaped to the porch and was captured, then fled to the shelter fence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontiac, Mich
Frances Johnson
Oakland County Sheriff’s Department
Groveland Township
Donald G. Bailey
Bailey
Oakland County Animal Shelter
Private Club Decor Triggers Political Uproar in Chicago
In the Merchants and Manufacturers Club in Chicago the American Eagle Room display included 16 U.S. Presidents with 15 Democrats and 1 Republican. Republicans protested and seven Democrat portraits were removed for Republican replacements, blamed on a decorator's error, as the dispute was settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Merchandise Mart
Kennedy
American Eagle
Merchants and Manufacturers Club
U.S
Frank Klein
Rutland Post Office To Undergo Repairs
A $22 765 contract for repair work at the Rutland Vermont Post Office and Courthouse was awarded to Cancian Co of Everett Massachusetts. The work includes a new ground flagpole roof parapet replacement and related repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
U.S
Rutland
J.J. O'Connor
General Services Administration
The
Cancian Co
Everett
Mass
Library Film Series Starts on Jan. 11
On Thursday Jan 11 at 7 30 p m the Bennington Free Library opens its monthly film program Two films will be shown The Living Stone Es ki mo legend of Nulakjuk mother of all life in the sea and of Niviaksi who carved her image Tropical Africa a documentary on social economic and political change in Africa intended as a stimulating introduction to world affairs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Free Library
Living Stone
Nulakjuk
Niviaksi
Africa
Funeral Rites Planned Saturday for Crash Victim Sylvia Cook
Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Mahar and Son Funeral Home in Center Falls for Sylvia Jean Cook 10 of Center Falls New York who died after an auto train crash near Cambridge. Surviving family includes her parents Forrest and Marion Bounds Cook and siblings Donna Joanne Marion Darlene Nancy and Joanne.
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Sylvia Jean Cook
Forrest
Guy) Cook
Center Falls
N.Y
Cambridge
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Sylvia Jean
Marion Bounds
Herbet Bounds
Edward Cook
White Creek Road
North Bennington
Shaftsbury
Sylvia
Leon E. Wagner
J. E. Paulin
Donna
Mari
Darlene
Shaftsbury School
Marion Darlene
Donna Ann
Nancy Lea
Joanne Marie
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Joanne
Mary McClellan Hospital
Marion
Nancy
Cambridge Hospital
Hanover Doctor Dr. Colin C. Stewart Dies at 63
Dr. Colin C. Stewart, staff pediatrician at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and professor at Dartmouth Medical School, died Sunday after several weeks illness. Born February 17, 1902 in Philadelphia, he moved to Hanover as a youth and served Dartmouth as physician for Hanover schools. He leaves his wife Elaine Mack Stewart, six children, his mother, and a sister. Memorial services were held Tuesday at the Church of Christ in Hanover.
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Hanover
N.H
Colin C. Stewart
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
Dartmouth Medical School
Church of Christ In
Philadelphia
Stewart
Hitchcock Clinic
Philadelphia General Hospital
Mayo Clinic
American Academy of Pediatrics
New England Pediatric Society
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
New Hampshire Medical Society
New Hampshire Social Welfare Council
New Hampshire Children’s Aid Society
Dartmouth
Springfield
Rockingham Hospital
Bellows Falls
Elliot Hospital
Keene, N.H
Dorothy Stewart
Rockford, Ill
Elaine Mack Stewart
Colin C. Stewart IV
Denver
Colorado
Andrew M. Stewart
Nancy Stewart Deming
Robert L. Stewart
Burlington
Mary M. Stewart
Janet F. Stewart
Portugal-EU UN exit talks start amid six years of friction
Portugal hints it will be among first nations to quit the United Nations after six stormy years of membership marked by Soviet vetoes and a cooled relationship with the United States amid Goa and Angola disputes. The General Assembly is expected to condemn Portugal for failing to disclose nonself-governing territory information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N.Y
Portugal
Soviet Union
Lisbon
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
The
U.N
Angola
South Africa
Spain
Vasco Vieira Garia
Salazar
Kennedy
United States
Security Council
Goa
U.S
State to Enforce Death Burial Reporting Laws
Vermont officials will tighten enforcement of death and burial certificate laws. Pathologist Dr. Richard S. Woodruff will review all death certificates for filing errors and pre burial issuance. A prior directive cited irregularities with blank permits signed by clerks and given to funeral directors.
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Burlington, Vt
Vermont
Richard S. Woodruff
Atty
Thomas M. Debevoise
Woodruff
Middletown Springs
Roy F. Krouse
Krouse
Court orders directed verdict for defendants in negligence case
Mrs Irene Wilson of North Bennington sued Floyd G Tefft and Lara Tefft over a leg injury on their Upper Main Street property seeking 25000 for medical costs and pain The court directed a verdict for the defendants citing insufficient evidence of negligence The jury returned the verdict with forewoman Flora Gerkin of Bennington signing the findings Manfred W Ehrich Jr represented Mrs Wilson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene Wilson
North Bennington
Floyd G
Cora Tefft
Atty
Clayton Kinney
Teffts
Upper Main Street
F. Ray Keyser
Flora Gerkin
Bennington
Wilson
Manfred W. Ehrich Jr
State lays plans for central warehouse in Montpelier
Commissioner Frank P. Free says state officials will draft plans this year for a central warehouse to store materials and supplies. The Board of State Buildings may partner with the Montpelier and Barre Railroad Co. to build on the Liquor Control Board site in Montpelier, with potential annual savings estimated at about 32 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Frank P. Free
Free
Board of State Buildings
Montpelier and Barre Railroad Co
Liquor Control Board
Little Hoover Commission
Italian WWII veteran family reunites after 21 years
Gieuseppina Alonzi, 56, from Sora Italy, arrives at Boston Logan to meet seven of her seven brothers and a sister for first time. Rocco Alonzi, 53, owns Berlin steel plant. A 21 year effort by Berlin Lions Club and Sen Styles Bridges helped secure entry after Kennedy signed a bill ensuring a home for her. She lands Friday from Rome aboard a La Italia jetliner at 2:50 p m EST. one brother meets later in Barre Vermont hospital.
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Berlin
N.H
Gieuseppina Alonzi
Sora
Italy
Gieuseppina
Boston
Logan International
Rocco
Logan Airport
Rome
Barre
Shortage of 127200 classrooms in U.S. schools
The Office of Education reports a record school-building year but public schools still lack 127,200 classrooms. Enrollment reached 37.5 million last fall, up 1.2 million from 1960, with most gains in secondary schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Education
State Departments of Education
Socialite Doris Bowman beaten to death in tub
Doris Bowman, 32, socialite and mother of three, was found dead in her Pacific Palisades home tub. Autopsy reports say she was bludgeoned with a club-like instrument and dumped into the tub. investigators suspect a burglar confronted her and fled. Her husband Frank Bowman, 39, works as medical director for Southern California Edison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Palisades
Calif
Doris Bowman
Frank Bowman
Southern California Edison Co
Bowman
Federal Court Hears Argument In Bookie Raid
Boston AP report notes a federal hearing on a motion to quash a subpoena seeking Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and others in an inquiry into a televised bookie raid. Motions also involve Mortimer Caplin and Frank Stanton. Dubrow seeks release of records and correspondence.
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Boston
Kennedy
Caplin
Stanton
CBS
Back Bay
Dubrow
Asst
U.S. Atty
Paul J. Redmond
Funeral Services for Ellen J. Vail Held at St John Church
Funeral services were held for Ellen J. Vail at St John the Baptist Church North Bennington with Rev Walter Miller as celebrant. Pallbearers were Bennington College employees William Colvin Jr. Michael O'Brien Charles Toomey Glenn Linahan. Burial in Park Lawn vault with spring burial planned at St John's Cemetery. Representations from Bennington College and First National Bank of North Bennington attended from Wynantskill and New York City areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Ellen J. Vail
Bennington College
St. John the Baptist Church
Hanson
Walbridge
Walter Miller
Gerard M. Brennan
Bennington
William Colvin Jr
Michael O’brien
Charles Toomey
Glenn Linahan
First National Bank of
Putnam Hospital Admissions and Discharges
Admissions include Lucy Bruso Patricia Raymond May Randall Arling ton Nedra Russell Marion Gor man Hoosick Falls N Y Discharges include Wilfred Campbell Bennington Mrs Teresa Verrastro and baby boy Hoosick Falls N Y
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Bruso
Patricia Raymond
Bennington
May Randall
Arlington
Nedra Russell
Marion Gorman
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Wilfred Campbell
Teresa Verrastro
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Lax
Pearl River
Louisiana- Mississippi
Bennington Briefs
William Nevils
Mary Ann
Mystic, Conn
Anna Nevils
Park Street
Bennington Girl Scout Council
YMCA
John J. Gorman
Veterans’ Administration Hospital
St. Mary’s Guild
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
William Williams
Juliette Shields
Peggy LeBlanc
Lafayette Street
K of C
Jean Shultz
Joan Walker
Patty Maroney
Becky Grant
Claudia Ayer
Georgene Mouroutsos
Karen Hogan
Peggy
Ray LeBlanc
John Scott
Eleanor Rickert
Rock Island
Ill
Arthur R. Rickert
Gage Street
Scott
Augustana College
U. S. Army Ordnance
Korea
Seoul
Ray’s
ADV
Cat
C. C. Stewart
Max Harrelson
U. N
India
General Assembly
Tub
Putnam Hospital
Sealy
Dunhams Furniture, Inc
Elm St. Bennington
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