Meetings on Pollution and Hospital Case in Bennington
Bennington selectmen and town officials plan two Friday meetings on key matters. One in Montpelier addresses pollution of the Walloomsac River by Vermont Tissue Paper Co. and a proposed test with Bennington’s treatment plant. the other in Manchester reviews the Putnam Memorial Hospital funding dispute and possible steps toward a decree favorable to towns. The hospital issue involves charges for indigent care and who pays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Wailoomsac
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Montpelier
Department of Water Resources
Vermont Tissue Paper Co. Inc
Joseph Higgins
Vermont
Higgins
Norton Barber
Paul A. Kelley
Charles A. Maguire and
Vermont Supreme Court
Superior Court
Harold C. Sylvester
Henry W. Putnam
Black
State Supreme Court
Sylvester
High Court
Richard van Santvoord
Louis F. Lausville
van Santvoord
Municipal Court Hears Guilty Plea In Assault Case
A 32 year old Schenectady teacher pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to assaulting an 11 year old girl in Manchester Depot on June 29. Judge George M. Fienberg remanded Ralph Slayton to county jail with out bail pending a pre sentence investigation. Second charge of lewd and lascivious conduct was dismissed. Benson pleaded not guilty to two counts of breach of peace and was released on bail. Jones, 16, of North Adams, pleaded guilty to driving for hire on a junior operator's license after being stopped in Pownal June 29 driving a truck for Central Radio and Electric Store. He said he was delivering to Bennington and had received small cash amounts but did not know the law forbidding junior operators to drive for hire. Judge Fienberg fined the youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady, N.Y
George M. Fienberg
Ralph Slayton
Slayton
Manchester Depot
John L. Benson
Mary
Benson
Atty
John B. Harte
Manchester
Robert E. Jones
North Adams
Mass
Atty. R
Fienberg
Local enlistees join Marines and Navy Seabee program
Bruce Hodgin and Stephen Corbett, both 17, enlist in the Marines in Albany and head to Parris Island for eight weeks of basic and four weeks of combat training, then 20 days leave. Peter Spinning, 24, re-enlists in the Navy under the Seabee program at North Adams, to train at Quonset Point and be deployed to Viet Nam. Others include Jon Andrews, 19, fined for an unregistered towed vehicle, and John Fay, 19, who pleads no contest to careless driving after a Rupert crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce E. Hodgin
Ann E. Hodgin
Main Street
Stephen M. Corbett
Elizabeth E. Corbett
Booth St
Rutland Marine
R.H
Hodgin
Albany
N.Y
Parris Island
S.C
Granville
Pvt
Corbett
Bennington High School
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Peter Spinning
North Pownal
U.S. Navy
Walt Pollett
North Adams
Quonset Point
R.I
Viet Nam
Nancy
Peter J
Dale
Bennington
St Peters Parish Fair Plans Noted Booth Leaders Named
St Peters Episcopal Church on Pleasant Street hosts a July 23 parish fair from 11am to 5pm led by co chairs Mrs Frederick Welling and Mrs Joseph A Wilson Sr The Country Store is the largest booth with assistants including Miss Elizabeth Armstrong and others Donated books from paperbacks to encyclopedias may be dropped off next week The Jewel Box Buttons n Bows and Book Mart showcase jewelry gifts and children s items Proceeds support debt reduction from last summer s remodeling in the church community
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Welling
Joseph A. Wilson Sr
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Pleasant Street
Elizabeth Armstrong
Richard Gerken
Walter la Grange
Donald Johnson
Janet Matteson
Arthur Muchmore
James Randlett
N. Y. DuHamel
Katherine Duffield
Borden Graves
Maynard Jenkins
Gladys Leslie
Book Mart
Thomas C. Thomas
John C. Cahill Jr
Breard Hawks
Walter Lapham
William A. Castle Sr
Frank Silvernail
Richard O. Comins
Bennington Gallery
Linn Wilson
Main Street
New Books at Bennington Free Library List
The Bennington Free Library displays a varied catalog with titles by Cleveland, Colette, Franklin, Fuller, Leach, Lerche, Loken, Moran, Perry, Singer, Stacton, Stern, Stillman, Taber, Tanham, Weltner and juvenile works from Del Rey and Wildes. Also notes recall: if books are out, staff will reserve them. Wallace Idaho reports a 150 pound replica silver dollar highlighting regional mining, one of the world’s largest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lerche
Loken
Moran — ‘‘Churchill
Winston
Perry
Singer
Stacton
Stern
Wallace
Idaho
Five Day Forecast for New England
Five day outlook shows near normal temperatures in Massachusetts and Rhode Island with up to five degrees below normal in Northern New England. Friday will be cool, weekend warmer, Monday cooler with listed normals for Boston Worcester Nantucket Providence Concord Burlington Portland Eastport Caribou and other towns.
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Boston
UPI
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
U.S. Weather Bureau
Worcester
Nantucket
Providence
R.I
Concord
N.H
Burlington
Maine
Portland
Eastport
Greenville
Caribou
Also Mentioned on This Page
Masquerades
M.D
Wolverhampton
England
John Wright
First National Stores
Creen Stam Pse
North
Bennington Road
Bennington, Yt
Lewis
Adams
Clothes
Carroll Drug Store
Navy, Marines
Jon F. Andrews
Cambridge
Ben Mont Ave
St. Peter’s
New Books
Bennington Free
Cleveland
Colette
Franklin
Fuller
Leach
Stillman
America
Taber
Tanham
Weltner
Georgia
Vermont Farm
Longfellow
Exeter
John G. Fuller
By Lorna Beers
Bennington Bookshop
DIAL
Pownal, Vt
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