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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1967
Page
6
Dr Lawrence J Whalen of East Dorset and Burr and Burton Seminary upbringing announces his candidacy for the Springfield Vermont school board. He is listed with contact details and discusses his local roots and qualifications for the post.
Mrs James Hoag hosted a Jan 15 family dinner for son Paul’s sixth birthday with guests including George and Gordon Hoag and the boys’ grandparents. Amherst visitors Skip Wilson and family stayed with George E Wilson’s family. Sylvester James and Mrs John Madill visited Mrs Arthur Guiden for dinner on Jan 14. Mrs Madill joined Sylvester for the weekend. Mrs Robert Starr underwent surgery at Mary McClellan Hospital in Cambridge. Mrs Sarah Hoffman will stay with Eva Cowan in Greenwich after a heart attack. Miss Hattie Parsons is a patient at Mary McClellan Hospital. Dr Whalen has eight children in Springfield schools. Red Cross Bloodmobile to collect Jan 25 at First Congregational Church Manchester from 12:30 to 6 pm with Halsted in charge of canteen and registrars listed. Charles and Mrs Smith enjoyed a New York River Club dinner dance honoring Douglass Campbell’s fifth wedding anniversary. Campbell is NY Central Railroad vice president and was best man at the Smiths’ wedding. Alan Chapman’s family returns home from England. their son Guy teaches math at The American School in The Hague. Brenda Parsons returned from Christmas trip via Dallas opera Macbeth in which Gyneth Jones starred. Marina Svetlova featured. Parsons visited Geoffrey Parsons in Rossland, B C.
Nancy Shoe Company in Hoosick Falls New York is folding its operations. Most of the nearly 200 workers have found other jobs and machinery has been moved to EVY Footwear plants. Community memory recalls the 1949 Committee for Industry effort to attract factory work and fund a new plant.
Hoosick Falls trio Evelyne Beers, Martha Beers, and Hoosick Falls resident Bob Beers will perform on the Today program on Friday morning in two segments between 7:30 and 9 a.m. totaling 26 minutes. Their Time magazine feature drew letters from fans worldwide. they plan the Beers Family Folk Festival in Petersburg on NY 2 from August 17 to 20 next year. Meanwhile Hoosick Falls Central School reports 161 kindergartners with 75 days of perfect attendance, led by Frank Crowley and others.
Bromley area officials confirm a future chalet village is planned near the Lord's Prayer parking lot and slope. The project, in pre planning with no architectural drawings yet, will include chalets and some commercial lodging as part of a broader development.
Shaftsbury resident Clarence D. Williams 36 was fined 20 dollars plus 5.10 dollars costs in Addison Municipal Court for driving without a license in Leicester on January 12. Williams said he had lived in Vermont seven years but never held a local license and that he was driving a borrowed vehicle when stopped.
Dr Russell’s office will be closed Thursday and Friday January 19 and 20. This classified advisory lists contact Arlington and phone 375 2325 for alternatives.
Representative James W. Lounsbury notes House Ways and Means urgency on a split for the state and Green Mountain Park with a bill draft due by Friday. A bill on the floor would require by 1970 that all towns operate compliant incinerators or landfills not visible from a state or federal highway. Pownal seeks an accessible compliant site as the North Pownal dump closes April 1, while highway work on Vt 346 and U.S. 7 in the town is considered.
Mary McClellan Hospital announced admissions and discharges for the week ending January 15. Bennington area patients included Patricia A. Adams George G. Bell Dana F. Dusha Clarence Gates Mrs. Maria Heinen Harold P. Andrew Walter C. Austin and others. Discharges included Harold P. Andrew Christine D. Chapones Hazel E. Goyette Gertrude L. Hawks Nadine M. Moore and Loretta M. Tefoe among listed names.
South Cambridge resident John Hamilton returned from Cornell for the weekend. Mrs. Harvey Bailey is a patient at Mary McClellan Hospital. Pleasant Valley Grange will meet Friday at 8 p m. The Methodist Church board meeting moved from Jan 23 to Jan 30. A ham supper at the hall is planned for Saturday evening Feb 4. tickets are on sale. Church services at 11 30 a m with Rev Oswald A Muller, pastor. Sunday school at 10 30 a m. Flowers on the altar Sunday memory of the late Louise Cronk. Mrs Hollis E Cornell will show pictures of her fall trip to Madeira Portugal Spain and Morocco at Cambridge Central School auditorium Friday at 7 45 p m. no admission fee, a free will offering for Fry Singer International Exchange Fellowship. All welcome. A 982000 fund raising crusade is launched by churches in the Troy Conference. local Methodist church participates over three years. The project For this Hour aims to raise funds to improve camps and conference facilities, expand church extension, and create a Methodist retirement center. The local church will receive its Fair Share Goal. Rodney Brownell named general chairman.
A Dorset reader chronicles a thawing January scene with four grey squirrels visiting a front-step feeder setup sharing sunflower seeds and peanut butter. Nearby, cardinals appear, chickadees sing, and garden plans for 1967 take shape as sap begins to rise signaling maple sugaring season.
An interfaith group proposes January 22 as Christian Unity Sunday in Manchester to invite non regular churchgoers to attend. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity runs January 18 to 25 worldwide, backed by major ecumenical bodies. Local services include First Baptist 11 a.m., St. Pauls Catholic 6 30 8 9 30 and 11 a.m., First Congregational 11 a.m., Zion Episcopal 8 and 11 a.m. Catholic attendees to their own churches before others.
Four Burr and Burton Seminary musicians will represent the Manchester School Band at the Mount Royal Music Festival in Montreal Canada February 2 to 5. Band Director George Wheeler accompanies Judith Cherbonneau who will play the baritone horn Frank Thompson trumpet Donna Roberts clarinet and Donna Johnston alto saxophone.
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