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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1964
Page
5
A narrator recalls learning to drive in a 1963 compact era after decades with a 1926 Star touring car. She details early lessons in a Vermont parking lot, evolving road confidence, and the balance between safety and necessity while embracing highway practice over back roads.
Manchester hosts the Taconic Teachers Association Faculty Frolics in the Elementary School gym at 8 p.m. with a cast of 60 plus teachers and guests. Proceeds support a scholarship fund as the show features School Day Reminiscing and seasonal acts led by King B. Frazer and co chairs Jean Noble and Sven Erikson.
HoosickAda Breer and Eileen Fowler visit Youngstown. Hoosick Falls hosts dinners for Doughertys. George Sigmund and Verda Philpott visit Troy. William Brown moves back from Elizabethtown. Four Korners Klub officers elected Frank Travis president George Sperdiff vice president Edna Travis secretary treasurer. Hoosick Grange card party winners Ann Brown William Flynn low Dor othy Filkins Harold Gard ner. All Saints Guild meets Jan 9 with Mrs Harold C Prebble co host. All Saints Church reactivated with 11 pupils 2 teachers. Manchester school parade bonnets Christmas Easter. Faculty Frolics lineup includes Prudence Humphreys with guitar. Tickets at Four Seasons Sport Shop Whipples Pharmacy or school.
A New Year reception at Mrs. George F. Lawrence's Sunderland home honors grandson Thomas G. Lawrence and bride from Charleston. Attendees from Essex Junction and nearby towns, plus a Burr and Burton ski team fundraiser showing John Jay's Catch a Skiing Star at the Elementary School gym. Richard Lynch to address the Business and Professional Women's Club at Worthy Inn on pornographic material threats. Los Angeles Chamber's 1897 Alaska promotion noted.
Mountain Towns Mr and Mrs Rudolph Day formerly of Bennington relocate to Heartwellville Road. The five room Grossman Nomad home was purchased through Carlo Capella of Bennington and built by Day with three nephews and Day's two sons.
Buskirk 686 7290 Women s Auxiliary reports winners for a card party with Alma Burch taking both women s high and special, Katherine Houlihan low, Clarence Burch men s high, William Barber men s low, and the door prize also to William Barber. The next party is Saturday Jan 18 at Odd Fellows Hall. Miss Alma Burch presides at the Women s Fire Company Auxiliary meeting Monday Jan 13 at 7 30 at Odd Fellows Hall.
Williams College plans a 14 million dollar three year fund drive to expand its educational, cultural and economic impact in Berkshire County and Southern Vermont. Chairman Robert Sprague cited the college payroll of 2.5 million, local student purchases around 500000 annually, and over 2 million in 1962 goods and services from area firms.
Hoosick Falls presents a Brandeis University production of Tennessee Williams Twenty-One Wagons Full of Cotton at the college amphitheater January 10 through 13 with four performances. Paul Fink, son of Mr and Mrs Harry Fink of Main Street, stars in the lead role. Fink, a college sophomore, headed Little Theater of Hoosick Falls productions and directed its first show Picnic and later All My Sons. His father leads the group. his mother known for many leading female roles. He returned to college after a Florida visit. Memorial Service of the Elk Auxiliary is set for Wednesday at the Hoosick Falls Lodge clubhouse with a social hour to follow. Mrs. Leo Burns, recently discharged from Albany Medical Center, was taken to Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington for treatment. Mrs. Lola Tuttle, patient at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a traffic accident, will celebrate her 81st birthday January 13.
A 12 year old fire buff closed a firehouse overhead door as a hook and ladder truck was leaving in New York. The door struck the wind shield of the rear driver's seat injuring tillerman Joseph Almon, 36. Firemen call it an accident and say the boy often visits the firehouse.
Arlington residents share news of visits and arrivals. Mr and Mrs Casey De Block returned from Biloxi Mississippi after the holiday with their son and family. Alan Hess and Nancy Cole Hess welcomed daughter Christine born December 18. Alfred Andrews and family from New York City visited. Mrs Guy Maynard returns home from Norwich Connecticut after time with daughter and family. Catechism classes at St Columba’s postponed pending notice. Reverend Gerald Buckley on month long vacation in Florida.
The Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health will release the long awaited report at noon Saturday. The 10 member panel, chosen for lack of bias, has reviewed thousands of studies but findings may be inconclusive and point to need for further research.
NORTH BENNINGTON Bill Dailey of William E. Dailey Inc. was stunned when about 40 employees delivered a color television to his home on Bank Street Extension as a Christmas surprise. Dailey, a North Bennington native, founded the firm in 1926 from a milk truck and grew it into a regional concrete and asphalt mix business with plants in Shaftsbury Manchester Wilmington and Poultney and plans for a new ready mix plant in Greenwich NY. He later served as Vermont Boxing Commissioner and as Assistant Judge of Bennington County, while sharing local tales as a lifelong community figure.
Barbara Patterson Pownal Center captain announces assistants Mrs Donald Roy Mrs Alfred Chenaille Mrs Floyd Patterson Mrs David Ricker and Miss Linda Patterson for the annual March of Dimes campaign. Area students return to college including Byron W Towslee Norma Fowler Dorothy Zimmer Joyce Carlson Paul Hatch Carl Fowler Elizabeth Hatch Barbara Patterson and Bonnie Barber resume studies at St Joseph College others report family travel and a new well at Lauriston Wilcox home with flows measured at 3.5 and 8 gallons per minute. A daughter born Jan 3 at Putnam Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Donald Bisson of Pownal Center. the Bissons now have seven children.
The Miriam Derwacher Missionary Society meets Wednesday at 1 30 p.m. at Mrs Edwin Austins Hall Street. St Johns Sodality gathers Wednesday evening for a 7 p.m. covered dish. Congregational Church holds annual meeting Thursday at 6 30 with a covered dish dinner and reports and budget approval. North Bennington Baptist plans 6 30 p.m. Thursday supper and parsonage talks by Rev Charles J Parsley. Scout leaders across the area meet Wednesday at 8 in the Baptist social rooms to finalize plans for the Scouting in Action show set for February.
Readsboro Board of Selectmen appoint Anna Farris to succeed Frank Ross as town clerk after 34 years of service. Farris will serve until the March town meeting vote. Ross retires as town clerk but remains village notary and clerk treasurer, handling village business at the town office.
Local families hosted visitors from North Bennington, Bennington and Troy over Sunday. Michael E. Galvin of Hoosick Falls was promoted to airman second class and stationed at Keesler Field. 4H events and meetings were held in Hoosick Falls, with community members attending in Troy and Defreestville. Robert Hall recovered at home after hospital discharge in St. Albans and Putnam Memorial Hospital treated Richard Keeler for serious burns.
New York reports U S pencil makers produce about 350 distinct varieties. Options include extra large pencils for kids drafting drawing water soluble pencils for artists and carpenters pencils for craftsmen or DIY fans. A pencil caddy suits dad’s office or home desk.
White Creek hosts Mr and Mrs James McCart entertaining relatives including Mr and Mrs Dewey McCart Mildred Cora McCart Helen and Mr and Mrs Charles McCart. Greenwood home welcomed Mr and Mrs Walter Greenwood and visitors from Glens Falls Frank Tanner family and John Griffin family Hoosick Falls during the holidays.
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