Mothers' March signals start with fire siren at seven
North Bennington announces the annual Mothers' March will begin at 7 tonight with the city siren. Mrs. Alan Noyes, town chairman, notes solicitation continues through next week. Due to illness many students are out, and the Toppers' Night at North Bennington High School on Jan 27 is cancelled and will be rescheduled. St John’s Sodality reports letters from Dinajpur East Pakistan describing aid to Rita Didi Murmu, with Christmas gifts funded by American donors. Bishop Obert explains adoption support is minimal so more children can be helped. Girl Scout Troop 17 leaders announce weekly meetings from Jan 27, 7–8:30 p.m., at Congregational Church social rooms.
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North Bennington High School
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Pakistan
Rita Didi Murmu
Obert
Santa Claus
Robert McWaters
Congregational Church
Fred Simmons
North Village Church Plans Film on Leprosy Sufferers
NORTH BENNINGTON The Baptist Youth Fellowship will mark World Day for Leprosy Sufferers by showing a film on Dr. Oliver W. Hasselblad and the rehab of patients. Narrated by Meridyth Whitman the event at 6 p.m. Sunday invites the public and an offering will be collected for the work.
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North Bennington
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Oliver W. Hasselblad
New York City
Hasselblad
Meridyth
School Conducts Survey of Home Locations
Manchester Elementary School asks parents to mark home locations on maps sent home with students as part of plans to improve bus routing and to gauge pupil population for next year. Principal Donald R. Shanks reminds on kindergarten age cutoff, while notes on Channel 3 educational lessons and the Burr and Burton observatory project roll into the week.
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Manchester
Donald R. Shanks
Channel 3
Edna T. Wright
Burton Brown
Wright
Burr and Burton’s
Shanks
Jean Noble
Charles Bebo
Meeting to Discuss Appraisal Methods in Manchester
A special public meeting on appraisal and tax assessment practices is set for next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Manchester Elementary School auditorium. Town Manager Oakley Porter says Lawrence Gauthier of the State Taxation Department will attend to describe equitable assessment methods. Selectmen listers and all Board of Civil Authority members are expected to be present to field questions.
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Manchester
Oakley Porter
Lawrence Gauthier
State Department of Taxation
Board of Civil Authority
Budget meeting in Manchester discusses tax assessment options
The Selectmen met on Tuesday to review the budget and discuss the feasibility of presenting the Knowles System of tax assessment. It was decided that other methods and systems were possible.
Peru-Londonderry Pastor Leaves for Virginia Church
The Rev. Jordan E. Dickinson resigns as pastor of the Peru and Londonderry Congregational Churches United Church of Christ effective April 18 to become associate minister at the Congregational Christian Church of Fairfax County in Annandale Virginia near Washington. The Virginia church is growing rapidly and now numbers about 500 members. Dickinson, a Yale Divinity School graduate in 1960, previously served as summer pastor at Brick Congregational in Clarendon and has led church social action efforts in the Windham and Vermont Congregational conferences.
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Londonderry
Jordan E. Dickinson
Peru
United Church of Christ
Congregational Christian Church
Fairfax County
Virginia
Washington, D.C
Annandale
Dickinson
Virginia Human Relations Council
Brick Congregational Church
Clarendon
Yale University Divinity School
Peru -Londonderry Church
Christian Social Action
Windham Union Association
Vermont Congregational Conference
Pilgrimage, Births Span Cold Weekend
Mr and Mrs Eugene Bond depart for their annual two week trip to Williamsburg Virginia to attend an antique forum. Meanwhile Mr and Mrs George McWayne brave sleet and snow to New London New Hampshire for a first grandson Warren Albert Johnson born January 26 to Mr and Mrs Howard Johnson Betsy McWayne is the mother. The baby's name honors both his father and paternal grandfather.
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Eugene Bond
Williamsburg
George McWayne
New London
N.H
Warren Albert Johnson
Howard Johnson
Johnson
Betsy McWayne
16 Paintings Exhibit At Dorset Elementary School
16 paintings from the Southern Vermont Art Center’s permanent collection are on loan to Dorset Elementary School. The works by Jay Connaway Herbert Meyer Kyra Markham Harry Skokler Irvin Hoffman and others will be on public display indefinitely in the schools multi purpose room. James Montague will visit to answer student questions about the pictures. The event kicks off the center’s plan to place future school exhibits. Also scheduled is a Dorset PTA meeting at the elementary school on Wednesday to discuss a kindergarten feasibility study approved at the 1964 Town Meeting.
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Dorset
PTA
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