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Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1962

Page

7

Child Star Pamela Frank Cast in The Lion with Holden

London AP Pamela Frank an 11 year old with wide eyes and freckles wins juvenile lead in Samuel Engel's The Lion to be shot on location in Kenya. She stars opposite William Holden and Trevor Howard as a child whose devotion to a full grown lion unsettles the surrounding adults. Pamela born in Japan trained at Elmhurst Ballet School seeks breakout after The Innocents.

London Pamela Franklin Samuel G. Engel William Holden Trevor Howard Kenya Pamela Africa Deborah Kerr Engel Japan Hong Kong Australia Ceylon Britain Elmhurst Ballet School Camberley England

Oot Club Formed To Bar Women In Dumfries

In Dumfries Scotland AP reports a growing Oot Club of men formed to keep women out of male spaces. Founder Dick Brown, a bachelor, says men need a haven to meet and talk free of female company and notes women’s influence in clubs is increasing.

Dumfries Scotland Dick Brown

CARE Food Gifts Aid European Destitute During Postwar Crisis

CARE’s West Berlin mission dispatched 100 food packages to 650 hungry children in a Red Cross home amid East German refugee flight. The CARE Food Crusade aims to deliver 1,075,000 packages across five European areas as part of a 5 million package goal, with gifts designated to Greece Italy Yugoslavia Poland and more. The program also funds aid in Afghanistan Colombia Ecuador Haiti Hong Kong Israel Jordan Korea Pakistan Turkey and Vietnam with Boston donors directing gifts to chosen countries.

East Germany Freedom CARE West Berlin Red Cross Care Food Crusade U.S Europe Darcy Wilson New England Care Food Crusade Fund West Germany Greece Crete Poland United States of America U. S Afghanistan Columbia Ecuador Haiti Hong Kong Israel Jordan Korea Pakistan Turkey Vietnam Boston 11 Mass

Voters Test First Foreign Voting Machines in Bloody Bay

In Trinidad and Tobago a 30 seat House election used 1000 American made voting machines. Voters lined up at 850 polling sites including Bloody Bay while 377000 eligible voters were registered with photo IDs. Observers from PNM and DLP accompanied registration teams as laws changed and turnout rose under intense heat.

Trinidad and Tobago Venezuela West Indies Federation House of Representatives Port Spain Tobago Peoples National Movement Democratic Labor Party PNM

Heart disease deaths top New Hampshire 1961 tally

The New Hampshire Heart Association reports 3 818 deaths from heart and blood vessel diseases in 1961, accounting for 57 percent of the state total. Final statewide figures for 1961 were not yet available.

N.H Concord New Hampshire Heart Association

Welfare Plan Aims to Move Families Off Relief Rolls

The Kennedy administration unveiled a welfare program to shift needy families from relief to payrolls. Secretary Ribicoff met with Senate and House leaders to push quick congressional action and secure broad support. Mills and Byrd signaled approval of changes in public assistance laws.

Washington Kennedy Abraham A. Ribicoff Senate House Ribicoff Wilbur D. Mills Ways and Means Committee

End of Terrorism In Soviet Union May Be Trick

Pulitzer prize poet Peter Viereck, visiting Russia on a State Department cultural exchange, says he sees real evidence of less internal police terror but cautions the U S not to ease military vigilance. He attributes a temporary anti Stalinism shift to Molotov and Mao as a maneuver.

Northampton Mass Peter Viereck Mount Holyoke United States Russia Viereck U.S. State Department Molotov Mao

Rings That Bind Now Truly Concrete

Helen Martin mixed concrete while her husband Tom laid foundation blocks for a two room home addition. The next day she found she had lost her diamond engagement and wedding rings valued at 350 dollars. She recalled they were last seen on an unfinished block during the work. Martin quipped that the wall cost more than the rings.

Kansas City Kan Helen Martin Tom

Dreams and TV spoof spark medical satire from AP writer

AP TV writer notes dreams mirror TV tropes and fears while Groucho Marx hints shows could fuse medicine with humor. Satirical take cites unlikely show titles like Have Scalpel Will Travel and The Gallstones as possible future parodies.

Groucho Marx Groucho Dennis

Powell Seeks Emphatic NH Safety Drive to Cut Toll

Governor Wesley Powell urged a strong safety campaign after nine highway deaths in 1962 and a Ports mouth collision killing a shipyard worker. He directed the Department of Safety to ensure officers enforce stricter motorist requirements, stressing winter dangers and the need for lower speeds in bad weather.

Concord N.H Wesley Powell New Hampshire Portsmouth Powell Kennard Goldsmith Department of Safety

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