Pownal town reports surplus and school group activity
The Pownal selectmen announce a year end surplus of 15329.17 subject to audit and the town plans to compile the annual report ahead of Town Meeting Day. A decision was made to study buying a brush cutter for the highway crew and a Pownal Parent-Teacher Group meeting is set for Tuesday to elect officers for 1963. The North Pownal Congregational Church bought a new Allen electric organ funded mostly by memorial gifts with dedication plans to be announced. Rev Isabel G King is convalescing at home after a coronary attack in Roxbury during Christmas. New postal rates take effect with higher charges for letters, air mail, stamped envelopes, and postal cards.
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Pownal
East Pownal
Pownal Center
South Pownal
North Pownal
Isabel G. King
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Boston
Classes Resume at Pownal Center Church with Sunday School
Pownal Center Community Church reopened yesterday with primary intermediate and junior classes in session. Regular Sunday worship is suspended due to the pastor’s illness. Fire department annual meeting follows, with officer elections and refreshments. A Florida frost-damage letter from Mt. Dora notes citrus crop losses and irrigation as the only cold protection.
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Pownal Center
George Andrews
Kenneth Gile
Fletcher Hall
Isabel G. King
Sesson
Harry E. Niles
Mt. Dora
Florida
USDA
Lake County
Whitingham Midshipman Jillson Missing From Annapolis
Carl Warner Jillson III of Whitingham, 19, a Naval Academy midshipman class of 1966, has been missing since Thursday afternoon after calling his parents from Union Station Washington claiming a ride to Annapolis with a sailor. After 72 hours the case will go to Naval Intelligence. he was returning from holiday leave.
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Whitingham
Carl Warner Jillson III
Carl Jillson Jr
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Jillson
Union Station
Washington
Naval Intelligence
Arlington Club Calendar Highlights Week of January
The Arlington calendar lists community events from Monday to Friday including Sodality of St. Columbans Church at 8 p.m., American Legion meeting at 7:30 p.m., Martha Canfield Library board at 8 p.m., and basketball games Arlington vs St. Mary's and Arlington vs Whitingham. Also scheduled are chorus, Eastern Star, Lions club, 4-H, and Legion Auxiliary activities across local venues.
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Sodality of St. Columbans Church
Fisher School
American Legion
Legion
Board of Martha Canfield
Arlington
St. Mary’s
Arlington Chorus
Finney
Legion Auxiliary
Legion Rooms
West Arlington
William Young
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Lions
West Mountain Farm
Whitingham
Arlington Gym
Arlington Youth Enjoy Holidays Skiing skating and swimming
Arlington students returned to school after a holiday break marked by the Bromley Junior Ski program with many youths learning and excelling on the slopes. Chuck Marsh a Dartmouth junior and ski patrol director was highlighted as a program graduate. The Lions pool served as a rink with a Legion bath house warming hut and improvised lighting from a borrowed cord, while future permanent lights were planned.
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Arlington
Bromley
Chuck Marsh
Dartmouth
Chuck
Lions
American Legion
Leland Rudd
Ray Little
Kennnedy
Manchester Man Wins Louise Orvis Trophy at Bromley
C B Vaughan a 21 year old Manchester youth and St Lawrence University student won the 14th annual Louise Orvis Trophy Race at Big Bromley Vermont in 50 seconds flat for the 30 gate 3800 foot giant slalom. Lynn Fox of Schenectady NY won the women’s event in 56.1 seconds. Other area skiers posted times including Lowrie Gibb 52.5 for third Tad Walsh 55.1 and James Dooley 1:01. Vaughan had just returned from the Vail Camp Olympic Training Camp before the win.
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Manchester
Big Bromley
St. Lawrence University
C. B. Vaughan
Charles B. Vaughan
Manchester Center
Lynn Fox
Schenectady
N.Y
Lowrie Gibb
Burr and Burton Seminary
Gibb
Bromley Ski Club
Bromley
Tad Walsh
Bennington
James Dooley
Boston College
Vaughan
Vail
Colo
Hoosick Falls Mailman Honored on Retirement
John VanDerKar, a Hoosick Falls mail carrier for 37 years, retired December 31 and was feted at a North Hoosick dinner. He began as city mail carrier July 1 1925, moved to rural carrier in 1942, and earned the National Safety Council Safe Drivers Award for 15 weathered years without an accident.
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Hoosick Falls
John Vance
Arlington News Highlights From Hartwick College To 4-H Club Work
Donna Keene returns to Hartwick College Oneonta N Y as a freshman selected for the college choir which broadcasts Christmas Eve and may appear on television. Jim Keene visits from Ft Dix. Arlington basketball heads to an out of town game against Wilmington. Nora Dion breaks her wrist. 4-H and junior activities feature meetings, menus, and project planning.
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Donna
Joe Keene
Hartwick College
Oneonta
N.Y
Jim Keene
Ft. Dix
Arlington
Wilmington
Sarah Doyle
Westport
Conn
Nora Dion
Helen Thompson
Man asks to pawn artificial legs at Spartanburg shop
Mrs. Carol Eastwood, worker at a Spartanburg pawn shop, recounts a man entering to pawn his legs. After he reveals two artificial limbs, she says she had to refuse the unusual request.
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Spartanburg, S.C
Carol Eastwood
Spartanburg
Baptist Church names officers in annual meeting
About 25 people attended the Baptist Church annual meeting moderated by Harold Wheeler. Officers elected include Harold Wheeler moderator Doris Rice clerk Ruth Streeter treasurer and others with committees formed and reports accepted after a family potluck supper.
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The
Baptist Church
Harold Wheeler
Doris Rice
Ruth Streeter
Claire Woods
Edward Woods Jr
Henry Wheeler
Rena Wheeler
Marjorie Rice
Caroline Wheeler
Doris Adams
Richard Boyd
Jean Fitch
Lord’s Acre Project
Hoosick Falls Community Notices and Club Reports
Hoosick Falls residents mix hospital news with school events and club activities. Edith Beaumont hospitalised in Cambridge after a heart attack. Michael Mahoney returns from Fairhaven. Miss Harrie Mahoney studies in Philadelphia and visits the Smith College Club.
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Mary Bell
Munsell Street
Mary McClellan
Cambridge
Michael Mahoney
Horican
Fairhaven
Mass
Cape Cod
Hoosick Falls
Harrie Mahoney
Philadelphia
Eden Hall
Miss Mahoney
Hoosick Falls Elks Auxiliary
Leo Fairbanks
Harold Shapiro
Charity drive and installation events mark holiday season
Mrs Helen Restino announced holiday gifts and Jan 17 reservations for the Department Presidents Dinner on Jan 19 at Country Grove Restaurant Route 4. The event honors NY State presidents with husbands invited. Installing officer Ira Fisk presided at a Masonic installation naming John C Rowley as worshipful master and officers serving a 24th year as treasurer. An informal reception followed. Gail Chapman, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Chapman, was feted at a surprise shower for her upcoming Jan 19 wedding to Donald Whitehouse, with about 100 guests at St Stanislaus Hall Hoosick Falls.
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Helen Restino
Country Grove
Route 4
New York State
Hughes
Roy Draper
Mary Walsh
Ira Fisk
van Rensselaer Lodge
F & AM
Raymond Calhoun
John C. Rowley
Robert Cipperly
Kenneth Gifford
Ralph S. Bullock
Guy E. Phillips
Milford K. Cook
Edward R. Gibbons
Gordon Lockrow
Arban Brenenstuhl
Charles Niles
Donald White
John Billett
Carn Jester
Gail Chapman
John Chapman
Willow Street
Immaculate Conception
Donald Whitehouse
Drawin Whitehouse
Whitehouse
Pittsfield
Mass
St. Stanislaus Hall
Hoosick Falls
Dorset and East Rupert plan two vestry meetings
A two meeting evening is planned in the United Church vestry for Dorset and East Rupert. At 7 30 Maple Hill Cemetery Association reports will be heard and five trustees elected. At 8 Dorset Fire District No 1 holds its annual meeting with officer positions to be filled. Mollie Schramm returns to Syracuse to study social service work. Dorset gains a state police radio for civil defense and receives surplus Montpelier equipment for emergency use.
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United Church of
Dorset
East Rupert
Maple Hill Cemetery Association
Fire District No. 1
Prudential Committee
Mollie Schramm
Syracuse
N.Y
August Schramm
Syracuse University
Terry Tyler
Civil Defese
Rutland
Montpelier
Civil Defnese
Hoosick Falls Man Joins Town Board
Hoosick Falls N Y Guy H Phillips of 71 Elm Street takes seat as councilman at the Hoosick Town Board meeting. The Republican retire postal worker was elected over James F Hoag in November and replaces Edward H Cottrell who ran for state senator. This is Phillips first political office.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Guy H. Phillips
Elm St
Hoosick
Phillips
James F Hoag
Edward H. Cottrell
Philadelphia to use electric network against starlings
Philadelphia public property commissioner Fred I. Corleto announced a $49,500 electrical network installed on roofs and ledges will soon be activated to broadcast an electronic distress call to starlings after earlier attempts using public address loudspeakers.
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Philadelphia
City Hall
Fred I. Corleto
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