VFW Troupe Fetes Vets At Hospital Albany Variety Show
More than 300 veterans at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany were entertained by an 18 act local talent show. VFW post commander Louis Ross introduced mistress of ceremonies Mrs Marion Charest and piano accompanist Mrs Helen Galiapeau. Performers included John Hurley George Bruneau Mary Shippey and others as volunteers served snacks to veterans and 20 visitors from Bennington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans’ Administration Hospital
Albany
N.Y
Louis Ross
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Marion Charest
Helen Galipeau
Roland Bruneau
John Hurley
George Bruneau
Mary Shippey
Alpherie Ross
Andree Bruneau
Barbara Powers
Hoosick Falls
Ricky” Leonard
Somerset
Barbara Shippey
Frank Frazier
Rosemary Rice
Susan Chechile
Carol Cummings
Richard Hunt
Peggy LeBlanc
Helen Hall
VFW
Margaret Knights
Bennington
YMCA Weekly Schedule Highlights For Local Youth Sports
The article lists daily YMCA activities across area schools and clubs. Programs include boys gym classes for various grades, chess and baton sessions, bowling, volleyball, weight lifting, and special events like a Finance Campaign meeting and a Rifle Club. Also noted is skating at the Y pool weather permitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington School
Shaftsbury School
Stamp Club
North Adams Barber Shoppers Plan Charter Night Show
North Adams Massachusetts prepares a Charter Night featuring a parade of barber shop quartets and choruses at Drury High School on February 23. Headlining are The Connecticut Yankees and the Dutchmasters from Poughkeepsie with other groups including Sleepless Knights of Harmony Taconic Harmonies and Educators. Proceeds fund a music scholarship at Drury High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Adams
Chester J. Hickok
Berkshire
Spebsqsa
Mass
Bennington
Barber Shop
Drury High School
Connecticut Yankees
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Montreal
Schenectady
ElecTonics
Knights of Harmony
Hartford, Conn
Pittsfield
Chester Hickok
John Skalowski
Martin J. Taylor
International Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
America
Richard C. Hawes
Singing Society
Springfield
Taylor
North Adams City
CDA Notes Supper, Meeting, and February Events
A supper precedes the February 5 meeting with Olga Mah ar as chairman. Members with last names M N and O form the committee and will be contacted. Officers should inform Loretta Amadon by February 2 of attendance. Christmas cards and stamps for Missions accepted. A food sale is set for Friday February 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olga Mahar
Storm resistant cottons aim to ease harvest losses
Helpful Cottons in College Station Texas reports five new storm resistant cotton strains under testing. Dr G A Niles of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Dr T R Richmond of the USDA say tight lint balls resist pre harvest loss and can be picked efficiently with a spindle type picker when properly adjusted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Tex
UPI
G. A. Niles
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
T. R. Richmond
U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Service
LWV Breakfast to Feature U.N. Affairs Speaker
Mrs. Ward Phelps, vice president of the Vermont LWV State Board, will speak at a Bennington League Club breakfast Wednesday at 10 a.m. on recent U.N. action attacks in Katanga. Phelps, longtime U.N. visitor and organizer, has led international affairs efforts in Connecticut and Vermont and lives in Montpelier with her husband Ward Phelps of the National Life Insurance Co. They have four children.
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Ward Phelps
State Board League of Women Voters of
Vermont
Bennington League Club
Phelps
U.N
Katanga
Oscar Ruebhausen
New York City
State Board
LWV
Connecticut
National Life Insurance Co
Kite Flight Pioneers Link Past to Modern Aviation
The article recalls early kite experiments by Alexander Graham Bell and others, noting how flyable kites contributed to aerodynamics and safety. It details Bell’s tetrahedral kites, Selfridge’s 168 foot lift, and the Aerial Experiment Association, linking historic kite research to later aviation advances and wartime uses.
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Alexander Graham Bell
National Geographic Magazine
Bell
Thomas Selfridge
Cape Breton
Baddeck Bay
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
N.C
Selfridge
Mabel Hubbard
Aerial Experiment Association
America
U.S. Weather Bureau
Oldest known human habitation found at Russell Cave
Russell Cave in Bridgeport Alabama is identified by the National Geographic Society as the Southeast region’s oldest known habitation. The site spans from about 7000 B.C. to A.D. 1650 with generations of primitive huntsmen using the shelter on a wooded mountainside.
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Washington
Bennington Vermont Newspaper Ad Rates and Contact Info
The Bonner Publishing Corporation lists telephones for business and newsroom at 442 6300 and 442 2800 located at 425 Main St Bennington VT. Subscription rates are given for mail service within Vermont and elsewhere with three month, six month, and one year options and special servicemen rates.
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Main St
Bennington
Vermont
Bonner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
Assoc Press
Radius
U.S
Father Son Communion Breakfast Draws Bennington Men
Nearly 50 fathers and sons from the First Methodist Church of Bennington attended a 7 a.m. Communion breakfast after a snowstorm. Rev. Robert P. Bell spoke on Great Expectations urging hope and dreams guided by Christian love. The group voted to fund the church Boy Scout troop with a $100 budget for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church of
Bennington
Melvin R. McGaughey
Circle 1
WSCS
Mabel Constantino
Robert P. Bell
Old First Church
Old Bennington
Bell
Highway Classification Hearing Set Tuesday
Those interested in proposed reclassification of the state highway system are asked to meet Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in the House of Representatives for a public hearing with the State Highway Department and Rep. Joseph Moore, sponsor of the bill. The proposals prove confusing to laymen and will be clarified as questions are answered. Selectmen are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
House of Representative
State Highway Department
Joseph Moore
State Highway Cmst
Russell J. Holden
Moore
Human Pork Dropper Beats Machine in Bean Can Line
Geneva Long, a pork dropper at the Stokely-Van Camp plant in Indianapolis, works by hand dropping pork cubes into bean cans at 10 000 to 12 000 per hour. After 33 years on the job she rarely misses and argues only a human touch guarantees accuracy despite automation trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
UPI
Geneva Long
Miss Long
Stokely-Van Camp
Bennington shoppers find crystal glasses and boots on Main Street
The column tours local shops from Bennington Potters to Bryce glassware and Winslow’s vases offering Irish coffee glasses at six dollars a box of four and assorted clear glass pieces two fifty each. It highlights Dragon’s red wool slippers at four ninety nine, English import boots, seal skin ski boots, kid boots at six ninety, Buskins pumps five ninety nine, Troylings patent pumps nine ninety, and a merry go round shoe fitting for kids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
County Street
Dave
Gloria Gil
Bryce
Pennsylvania
L.C
Main Street
Dragon’s
Austria
Lady Isle
Buskins
Troylings
Basement remodeling can double living area in New Orleans
Remodeling experts say homeowners can often double usable space by finishing basements. In many cases applying paneling and ceiling material to existing surfaces suffices to create additional living area.
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New Orleans
UPI
Southern Pine Association
Science shrinks hemorrhoids without surgery with new substance
New healing substance Bio-Dyne known from a world famous research institute shrinks hemorrhoids stops itching and relieves pain without surgery. Case after case shows actual shrinkage and statements that piles have ceased to be a problem. Preparation H suppositories and ointment circulate in drug counters.
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New York, N. Y
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March of Dimes
Stellar Attractions
Ane Parker
Spec Angel
Sunnyfield
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Altmore
A&p
Plaid
Loretta Amadon
Jimmy O’brien
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Hamilton Shields
Bennington County
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McMaster University
Hamilton
McGill University
American Association of the United Nation
New York
Mrs. Ward Phelps
English Channel
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English
Dover
Geographic
Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia
Newsroom
Bennington Club
Nick Marra
Winslows
Virginia
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Hi Ho
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Beth
Ship Es
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