Village Trustees Weigh Election Rule Changes
Village trustees meet February 5 to discuss charter amendments including moving the business meeting to the night before ballots and lengthening terms for village clerk and treasurer. If approved, proposals go to the 1963 General Assembly. The meeting also covers the 1963 budget and the March 19 annual meeting warning. Incumbent James B. Gibney notes a possible extended term for village president.
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Bennington
James B. Gibney
Gibney
General Assembly
Wall Street Steel Stocks Rally On Strong 1962 Earnings
Wall Street steel shares rebound leading market leadership as Youngstown Sheet & Tube posts 1962 earnings 7.80 per common share vs 6.49 the prior year and fourth quarter estimates of 1.50 to 1.60 become 3.14. Analysts caution to await more reports before drawing conclusions while other firms see a less bleak long term outlook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Shields & Co
Tulane Enrolls First Negroes Ever
Five Negro students register at Tulane University becoming the first of their race enrolled in the 129 year old school. Four enter graduate programs and one joins the evening division. The desegregation followed a court ruling that declined to order admission in 1962.
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New Orleans
Tulane University
New Orleans University
U.S. Dist
Frank Ellis
Tulane
Refugees Arrive in Florida From Castroland in Festive Welcome
One thousand one hundred seventy Cuban refugees reached the United States aboard the Shirley Sykes, described as emerging from a dungeon into fresh air. They traveled from Havana to Fort Lauderdale and on to Miami Stadium where 5,000 friends welcomed them. Many spoke of fear and longing for freedom while recalling taunts from pro Castro supporters.
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Miami
Fla
United States
Cuba
Felipe Latour Y Bravo
Shirley Sykes
Havana
Florida
Fort Lauderdale
Port Everglades
Miami Stadium
Fidel Castro
Roberto de Carrillo
Carrillo
Dina Maria Casales Garcia
Brigade
Bay of Pigs
Shirley Lykes
Havana Harbor
Pan American World Airways
Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Latin America
Pittsfield tree program evolves with replacement and growth
Fall argues for a continuing municipal tree program focusing on selective replacement of dying trees and new plantings in expanding areas. The city maintains a $7 000 annual budget for replacement projects and a law allowing plantings on private property up to 20 feet from the sidewalk. Collaboration with utilities and careful planning aim to avoid hindering street widening.
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Pittsfield Commission
Pittsfield
Dalton Avenue
Massachusetts
Miss Carroll to Wed Butler After Shower at Hoosick Falls
HOOSICK FALLS N Y Miss Helen Carroll of Albany Street who will wed Thomas Butler of Bennington Feb 9 was feted at a large miscellaneous shower at St Stanislaus Hall last week with about 100 attendees. The bridal party to be led by Misses Mary Ann Beninati Joan Arnold and Jane Mulvihill and Mrs Jane Moore and Mrs Marie Davock headed the committee. Gifts included a purse of money. Before the shower Miss Carroll hosted her bridesmaids to a dinner party at the Old Byars House.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Helen Carroll
Albany Street
Thomas Butler
Bennington
St. Stanislaus Hall
Mary Ann Beninati
Joan Arnold
Jane Mulvihill
Jane Moore
Marie Davock
Miss Carroll
Autos Collide In Slide Scene On Gage Street
Elane Granger of 505 Gage Street sat in her car when Etty Jones of 1004 Gage Street skidded and struck it at about 6 15 Friday night in Bennington Village. Police said Jones car traveling west skidded after brakes were applied. Both vehicles had front ends damaged and were moved by morning.
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Elane Granger
Gage St
Etty Jones
Bennington Village
Jones
Granger
Driver Injured In Pownal Mishap
Paul E. Ames 45 of 31 Beech Street was injured when his car struck the left side and rear of a truck driven by Edward J. Cross 28 of North Bennington on the Pownal North Pownal Center cutoff Friday. Cross swerved into a snowbank and a snow covered pull out. Damage was about 500 to the Ames car and 125 to the Cross truck.
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Pownal - North Pownal Center
Paul E. Ames
Beech St
Edward J. Cross
North Bennington
Cross
Ames
Fluoridation Plan Moves Toward Public Vote
Fluoridation supporters on the GBA committee plan a petition drive to secure 250 signatures for a public vote on adding fluoride to the water. The proposal would cost about 1500 to start the program and has earned backing from the Bennington County Medical Society. Committee members include M. J. Dailey, Dr. F. C. Tomasi, and Robert M. Stout.
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Hicks
GBA
Bennington County Medical Society
M. J. Dailey
Grandview St
F.C. Tomasi
Main St
Robert M. Stout
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington Community Notes From Local Meetings and Services
Bennington briefs cover Joseph Lee entering Sunny View Rehabilitation Center in Schenectady for possible major surgery after back injuries on January 18 at Columbia Box Co. Walloomsac. Old Academy Library hours change to Mon and Thu 3:15 to 5:15. Town meetings and optometry group reports, with regular society notices and an Iron Kettle ad.
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Joseph Lee
Shawmut St
Sunny View
Schenectady
N.Y
Lee
Columbia Box Co
Walloomsac
Truth as light and guidance in Sunday worship noted
Christian Science churches focus on Truth as the light leading to spiritual hill and tabernacles. The First Baptist Church of Bennnington marks Youth Week through Feb 3 with joint junior and senior services, rehearsals with Rev H Glenn Payne, and a 5 30 p m banquet featuring films The Better Lot The River Still Flows and a song fest. Dr Doxey Wilkerson, guest speaker at the Unitarian Fellowship, serves as research director for the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officers and has held several education posts and authored works on Negro education.
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Tabernacles
First Baptist Church
Bennington
H. Glenn Payne
Doxey Wilkerson
Unitarian Fellowship
National Association of Intergroup Relations Officers
Yeshiva University Graduate School of Education
New York City
Wilkerson
Howard University
Roosevelt
U.S. Office of Price Administration
Carnegie
America
Seniors Housing Tower Planned by Teamsters Union
Teamsters Local 688 announces a spring launch for a 27 story senior citizen residential complex in St. Louis. The project aims to provide long term housing and services for retirees and elderly residents.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Teamsters Union Local 688
Union School Board Plans Public Meetings On New High School
The Union School board outlines a people to people effort to explain the proposed high school. District directors will host informal sessions in residents homes to gather public sentiment. To date 56 meetings have been held, with a goal of 75 by February 3.
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Robert A. Kuhn
North Branch St
Harry J. Eastman
Beech Street
Ext
Dean Osgood
Dewey St
Bennington Jaycees
Old Bennington Trustees
Second Congregational Church
Former ICC Chief Vermont Native Ezra Brainerd Jr Dies
Ezra Brainerd Jr. 84, former chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Vermont native, died after a short illness. A Middlebury, Vermont, native, he joined the ICC in 1927 under Coolidge and left in the early 1930s. He practiced law in Washington until retirement. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1904 and began practice in Indian Territory.
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Washington
Ezra Brainerd Jr
Interstate Commerce Commission
Middlebury
Commission
Coolidge
Brainerd
University of Michigan Law School
Indian Territory
Bennington Banner Contact and Publication Details
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sundays and legal holidays from 425 Main St Bennington Vermont. It is a member of the Associated Press with AP rights for local news and dispatches. Home delivery by carrier costs 7 cents per day.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
Vermont
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
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Castroland
Mt. Anthony Country Club
John J. Cahill
Dobeckman
Dow Chemical Company
Cahill
Ben- Mont Papers
James Vince
Pownal
Bennington Briefs
Bennington League of Women Voters
South Street
Alan E. Evens
Elm St
Vermont Optometric Association
Mountaineer Motor Inn
Mt. Mansfield
Stowe
Melvin B. Dunbar
Lebanon
N. H
American Optometric Association
Donald C. Exford
Mass
New England Council of Optometrists
Cora B. Whitney
Lloyd Oppenheimer
Banner
Las Vegas
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Life Magazine
Dunham’s Furniture Inc
Ara Avy
Salem’s
Union School
Mildred Colvin
McCall Street
David Jarecki
Middle Pownal Road
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Cold Spring Road
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Hall Street
Leonard Powers
Merritt Hewitt Jr
Daisy L. Myers
Woodford
John M. Mook
Crescent Boulevard
Harlow Matz
Bruce Lavigne
Everett Lillie
South Stream Road
Leon Jacobs Jr
Lyons District
D. Dexter Davis
Old Bennington
Kent Lawson
Imperial Ave
Harry Eddington
Jefferson Heights
ICC
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Radius
U.S
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Alan Ee
MAX Oil Service Ane i
Ane
Haddock
Walker
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S. B
Fienberg
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