Eleven Brazilian students arrive for four week study
A group of 11 Brazilian students arrive in Bennington today to live with local families and join Mt. Anthony Union High School activities for four weeks. The project is sponsored by MAUHS and the Experiment in International Living Brattleboro with Richard Wohlsen and Mrs Kay Toomey as community co chairmen.
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Brazil
Bennington
Mt. Anthony Union High School
MAUHS
Brattleboro
Richard Wohlsen
Kay Toomey
MAU
Funerals for Oscar Smith and Karen Contois Held in New England
The funeral of Oscar Smith of Pownal, age 102, was held at Gibney Funeral Home with burial planned for White Chapel Cemetery in the spring. A memorial service for 14 year old Karen Contois took place at St. Raphael's Church in Williamstown with internment in Southview Cemetery, North Adams. Brazil visitors attend an intensive language orientation at Brattleboro's Experiment School as part of an international understanding program, hosted by Vermont families until Feb 21, before a week in Washington.
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Oscar Smith
Pownal
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Gibney
Kenneth Costin
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Park Lawn
White Chapel Cemetery
St. Raphael’s Church
Williamstown
Mass
Leo E. Fontaine
Karen Pauline Contois
Fernand Contois
White Oaks Road
Andre, Paul
Edward Martell
Joseph Martell
Brazil
Brattleboro
Vermont
South America
Arlin Brown
Gordon Sweet
Roger Pinette
George Serrigo
Edward Pinsonneault
Arthur
Elizabeth Faris
Joseph McGrath
Clyde Burgess Jr
Thomas Bushman
Gordon Gibbs Sr
Washington
Bible: Fact or Fiction series at John XXIII Center
A four week program for adults titled The Bible: Fact or Fiction starts Thursday January 24 at the John XXIII Center Catamount School. Sessions run twice weekly 9 30 to 11 am and 7 30 to 9 pm with morning babysitting provided.
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John XXIII Center
Catamount School
Bennington Foundation offers religion and literature course
The Bennington Religious Education Foundation will run a four week course on religion and literature taught by Mrs. Diane Sherlock. Participants will read and discuss. Boston weather note: UPI reports NWS weekend forecast calls for rain in south and snow north.
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The
Bennington Religious Education Foundation
Diane Sherlock
Boston
UPI
National Weather Service
New England
Assault conviction yields one year jail term suspended
Duane J. Meyer, 32, of Warrensburg New York and formerly Benn ington was sentenced to not more than a year in jail after a jury found him guilty of simple assault in a case tied to an incident last week.
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Manchester
Duane J. Meyer
Warrensburg
N.Y
Bennington
Meyer
John P. Morrissey
Rooney
Francis C. Mussolani
Stamford
Mussolani
UCS
Pelkie
CVPS output declines 12 percent in weekly tally
Central Vermont Public Service Corp reports 42,602,900 kilowatt hours for the week ending Jan 11, 1974, down 6,064,600 kWh or 12.46 percent from the prior year. Rutland notes 359 degree days, a 2.7 percent drop from 1973, with year-to-date output at 80,604,700 kWh, down 3.42 percent. Conservation by customers helped cut power use.
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Rutland
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
St. Lawrence
Central Vermont
Spaghetti Dinner Aids Local Scholars Fund In Mt Anthony
The spaghetti dinner to benefit Dollars for Scholars will be held February 12 at Mt Anthony Union High School cafeteria from 5 to 8 pm. Donations are $2, with proceeds supporting local scholarships. Ed Pinsonneault makes the sauce. volunteers needed. contact Jean LaVigne at 447 7511 Ext 44.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
Ed Pinsonneault
Jean LaVigne
Pelkie faces student freedoms protest at Mt. Principal clash
A high school sophomore wrote anonymously to The Banner over fears of reprisal as Mt. Principal Clarence Pelkie defends restrictions on student freedoms. The paper sought Pelkie’s comments on seven administrative steps reducing student rights. The anonymous letter highlights concern over administration actions during the past year and a half. The Banner maintains signature policy for letters to the editor.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
Clarence Pelkie
a _ high
Banner
Pelkie
Meditation course offered this weekend in Benn ington
A basic Transcendental Meditation course will be held in Bennington with a free intro lecture Thursday at 8 in Room C at the Community Recreation Center. Nancy Ross of Wilmington will teach. additional lectures are set for Friday and the course sessions run Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights.
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Bennington
Community Recreation Center
Nancy Ross
Wilmington
UVM Debaters Set Jan 28 On Energy Control Issue
The University of Vermont debate team, delayed by a gas shortage, will meet January 28 at 7 30 p m in Mt Anthony Union High School room 104 to discuss the resolution The federal government will assume control of all production and allocation of fossil fuel John Duval a junior high school social studies coordinator arranges the session and invites public attendance
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Altar Rosary Society
St. Francis de Sales Church
John XXIII Institute
Mary Seidel
University of Vermont
Bennington
Mt. Anthony Union High School
John Duval
Region's old-car buffs meet in Cambridge New York
The Green Mountain chapter of the Connecticut Valley Region of the Veteran Motor Car Club of America held its second annual banquet January 19 at the Cambridge Hotel with 55 guests. Sher wood Patrick presided, a quiz yielded top scorers Mark and Willard Goyette, and new officers for 1974 were installed by Cliff French.
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Cambridge
N.Y
Green Mountain
Connecticut Valley
Veteran Motor Car Club of America
Cambridge Hotel
Sherwood Patrick
Bob Wagner
Mark
Willard Goyette
Cliff French
Tom Morgan
Conrad Chaffee
Malcolm Rodenberg
John __ Rich
Will Goyette
Bernie Bellemare
John O’hearn
Bob Sprague
Joyce
Wagner
Rodenberg
Rich
Lloyd Davis
Rutland
French
O’hearn
John English
Troy
Connecticut
New York
Gene Kosche
Park- McCullough House
North Bennington
Pregnant New Yorker Delivers Baby in Subway
A 22 year old mother, her husband, and their two year old son were stranded in New York subway on Monday night as they tried to reach a hospital. Transit officers helped deliver an eight pound boy on a Hudson Street station bench.
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New York
UPI
Beverly Townsell
Hudson Street
Subway
Bennington Banner Contact and Subscription Rates
The Bennington Banner lists telephone and newsroom numbers, advertising lines, and postal address. It notes home delivery options and subscription rates by mail within a 50 mile radius and Vermont or elsewhere in the U.S. with 3 month, 6 month, and 1 year terms.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Vermont
U.S
Four state utilities seek EPA discharge permits in Vermont
Four Vermont utilities apply to the EPA for federal discharge permits under the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act. The Milton plant in Milton units 4 megawatts, Rutland 10 megawatts, Newport hydro diesel unit, and Burlington Moran station 30 megawatts discharge water to local rivers and Lake Champlain. The EPA official urged permits protect a balanced indigenous shellfish fish and wildlife population.
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EPA
Burlington
Vermont
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Milton
CVPS
Rutland
Citizens Utilities Company
Newport Hydro
Newport
Burlington Electric Light Department
Boston
John AS. McGlennon
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Karen P. Contois
Bennington Briefs
BREF
Rodney Rooney
Chapel Road
Asher Lev
Chaim Potok
Mrs. Sherlock
Lotti Tobler
Bonehead Trophy
Dallas
Bonehead
Pro Football Fans of America
al Hirt
New Orleans Saints
Boneheads
Hirt
Bonehead Club
Hazel M. Post
Overlea Road
North Adams Regional Hospital
Navy
Ens
Scott W. Wiskoski
John Wiskoski
Park St
Navy Supply Corps
Athens
Ens. Wiskoski
Skidmore College
Paul
Geannelis
Sophmore
Mt. Anthony
Harry Shippey
UVM
Nichols
Cambridge,n.y
Bob
Geri Sprague
John
Regina O’hearn
Greenberg
Panasonic
Buding
I Greenberg
Lamoille
Otter Creek
Clyde River
Lake Champlain
Gladsiones
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