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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1970
Page
6
Hoosick Falls police report a break in at the Hoosick Falls Elks Club after 10 last night. A rear window from a storage shed was used for entry and a money box at the club bar containing $500 was taken.
Pownal residents received the first in a series of Vermont Legislature newsletters from Rep Harvey Carter Jr District 32. He plans weekly bulletins on district and state issues, highlighting social welfare, property tax reform with a land use tax, sales tax amendments, environmental protection, ethics, and state aid to education.
The weekly meeting of the United Methodist Church Junior Youth Fellowship will be Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. in the church with the theme First Things First. All parents are urged to attend. A Molly Stark Extension Group meeting follows at St John’s Hall North Bennington on January 8 at noon with a covered dish lunch.
Walter Hazard, 57, replaces Jim Woodard as Manchester town manager after starting work Monday. A veteran engineer and municipal official from New England, Hazard vows to work closely with selectmen and residents, handle budget matters, and lead town projects including a prior sewer system and newsletter in Pittsford.
Evelyn M. Bradich has been named manager cost accounting at Cushman Manufacturing Corp. She will oversee standard cost accounting, control plant costs, and inventory. Bradich joined Cushman in 1964 after Warren Wire. WACS service included tours in Daytona Beach Spokane and Colorado Springs. She resides in North Bennington with her son John Peter and has a daughter and two grandchildren.
The January meeting of the North Bennington Baptist Church Women’s Fellowship will be Jan 20 in the church social rooms. Officers for the new year were nominated at the December gathering, led by Mrs. Robert Peckham as president and Mrs. George Delaney as vice president.
New York state police issued an eastern seaboard alert for 23 year old Eagle Bridge housewife Mrs Edward Brandi and her two children Edward Jr and Virginia Anne who disappeared from their Old State Road home on New Year’s night. They were to visit friends at 7 pm but did not arrive. Mrs Brandi, formerly Bernice Hardy of Shaftsbury Vermont, worked at Ben Mont in Benn ington Vermont and may be driving a 1966 Chevelle with New York plate 6A8942. She is described as 5 ft 3 in, reddish brown hair, brown eyes, 159 pounds, wearing a brown skirt navy blue jersey coat with hood and brown knee high boots, possibly carrying a small black shoulder purse. Also aiding search are her mother and mother in law. The husband Edward Brandi works at Wood Flong Co in Hoosick Falls.
A Vermont attorney general says a state investigation into about $29,000 allegedly taken and returned to Pawlet town coffers should finish this month. He will likely present recommendations to Rutland County State’s Attorney by January’s end.
West Arlington residents recount holidays with Tufts visitors Wilkins Probsts and DeBruns family updates. Snow laden roofs yield ice hazards and redecorating plans while bird feeding stations remain busy. A hawk hunts near the Bedell home as the community reports travelers, Navy assignments and changes in local routines.
The North Bennington Baptist Church schedules its annual meeting for Thursday in the church vestry with a preceding covered dish supper at 6 30 p m Local attendees are invited to participate in the business session and share in the meal.
William Rourke, director of Athletics at the Town of Hoosick Youth Center on Fourth Street, was seriously ill and taken to Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington yesterday by the Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad. Edith Beaumont of Hoosick Falls is listed with a contact at 686 9103.
A one month old white piglet named Morris huddled under a Central Park bridge in 20 degree cold before two police officers found him and escorted him to safety. He had wriggled from a box Susan Jarett carried to the Winter County Fair at the New York Coliseum and was returned unharmed to warmth.
The North Bennington Graded School District puts the Bleau House up for bid at a minimum of $500. The Prudential Committee requires the house be moved or torn down by August 1, 1970 while the land remains to be retained for future elementary use. If no bid is received, voters may be asked for new guidance.
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