Saratoga Centennial Full Schedule Revealed This Week
Saratoga Springs plans a packed Centennial week featuring a Folk Singing Festival in Congress Park with the Ivy League Trio and others, an eighty annual Saratoga Art Fair, a Pageant-on-Wheels exhibit, Centennial Automotive Festival, Miss Saratoga Centennial selection, and a nine band concert series in Congress Park. The events run July 22 to Aug 27 with free admission to some shows and prizes including a $500 best oil painting award.
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Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Congress Park
Brown and Dana
Raun MacKinnon
Saratoga Park
Victor Herbert
Enrico Caruso
Saratoga
Hilton Kramer
Krameer
Saratoga County
Vern Helligas
Home Dem Unit Visits Rindge and Keene
The Roaring Branch Home Demonstration Group toured the Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge New Hampshire attending a Greek Orthodox service with a strong musical program. They toured grounds then drove to Keene for dinner with a breakfast stop in Brattleboro. Over 2000 attended the services and four chartered buses carried participants from Massachusetts New York and Connecticut. The group admired peak season flower gardens and plans an August out of town picnic.
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Roaring Branch
Cathedral of the Pines
Rindge
N.H
Keene
Brattleboro
Massachusetts
New York
Connecticut
Auto Safety Legislation Brings Award to Caracciola
Bennington town representative Joseph J. Caracciola received a certificate of merit from the state Motor Vehicle Department for his work on 1963 safety bills. He backed learner permit use for new drivers and curbs on inferior brake fluid marketing. The award, signed by Commissioner Robert C. Schwartz, honors his faithful service to public and highway safety during the 1963 legislature.
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Bennington Town
Joseph J. Caracciola
State
Motor Vehicle Department
Caracciola
Robert C. Schwartz
REA Truck Fire Put Out
A flash fire in the engine of an REA delivery truck at the REA terminal on County Street prompted Bennington firefighters at 3 45 p m Monday. Chief Richard Hollister said the backfire through the carburetor started the blaze which was extinguished before units arrived. Officials asked the department to inspect the engine to prevent a repeat incident.
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REA
Bennington
County Street
Richard Hollister
Hollister
Express Company
Colby Leaves BenMont for Mountain Paper Board Role
Donald Colby resigns from BenMont Papers to become controller of Mountain Paper Products Corp in Bellows Falls. He will start July 29, plans to move to Keene New Hampshire area with wife and four children. Colby has been BenMont budgets and cost control coordinator and earlier active in community groups, schools and church activities.
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Donald Colby
Morgan Street
BenMont Papers
Dow Chemical Co
Mountain Paper Products Corp
Bellows Falls
Colby
BenMont
Keene
N.H
Bennington
Hamilton
Mass
Mt. Anthony Union
Citizens For the
Mt. Anthony Union School
Union Board
Bennington Area
YMCA
St. Francis
Parent - Teachers Group
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Bennington Music Guild
Lyndonville Firm Seeks U S Loan for 100 Jobs
Concord Woodworking Co of Lyndonville secured a $650000 federal loan approval process to expand and create about 100 new jobs in the Lyndonville area. Gov Hoff backed the effort and pressed Washington for early review while regional officials noted higher cedar demand benefiting farmers. Further steps include a local area study by federal officials.
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Northeast Vermont Development Association
Northeast Kingdom
Gordon
Hospital Notes Admissions and Birth Announcements
Hospital notes list admissions for Mrs. Alice Cuddihy Mrs Dawn Griffin and others across Hoosick Falls Bennington Manchester Shaftsbury and Dorset. The Bennington couples Mr and Mrs Alsid Richards Jr and Mr and Mrs Laurence Bump welcomed daughters on July 15. Dr P A Matteson retired Bennington dentist received the Alumni Certificate of Distinction from the College of Dental Surgery University of Maryland.
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Alice Cuddihy
Dawn Griffin
Hoosick Falls
Gregory Cole
Diane White
Joyce Lanoue
Bennington
Mabel Thompson
Deborah Fiske
Manchester
Robin Wade
Shaftsbury
Hazel Matson
Dorset
Alsid Richards Jr
Laurence Bump
P. A. Matteson
College of Dental Surgery
University of Maryland
Matteson
American Dental Association
Vermont State Dental Society
Hoff to Observe Vermont Guard Drills at Camp Drum
Gov. Philip Hoff and party will view 1,800 Vermont National Guardsmen during summer field training at Camp Drum New York. They will attend a 19 gun salute, tour training areas, witness 90 mm and 105 mm artillery, armored personnel carrier demonstrations, and hear Gen. F W Billado outline the schedule before returning to Vermont.
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Camp Drum
N.Y
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont National Guardsmen
Amerow
Burlington
Wheeler-Sack Airfield
124Th Artillery
Winooski
40Th Army Band
Proctor
172Nd Infantry
Montpelier
172Nd Armor
St. Albans
F. W. Billado
Vermont
Billado
Vermont Guard
Gen
Hoff
Catonment
New England Seeks Canada OK To Use Tides To Generate Power
Washington AP New England congressmen urge President Kennedy to seek Canadian approval to harness tides in Passamaquoddy and Cobscook Bays for about one million kilowatts. The $1 billion project, deemed economically feasible, would involve a series of dams and a Dickey site on the St John River with Allagash protections and potential Allagash National Riverway status.
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Washington
New England
Kennedy
Canada
Passamaquoddy
Cobscook Bays
New Brunswick
Maine
Secretary of the Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Udall
New
International Joint Commission
IJC
Congress
Morgan D. Dubrow
St. John River
St. John
Rankin Rapids
Rapids
Dickey
Lincoln School
National Park Service
United States
Dexter P. Cooper
Passamaquoddy Bay
U.S
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
Cobscook Bay
Army
Federal Power Commission
Pecular
Quoddy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Saratoga Centennial
Centennial Headquarters
Drink Hall
Carroll
William Schrade
Grand Union
Mercury
Bennington Garage Corp
Main Street
Walker
Dial
Economy Auto Stores, Inc
Sayles Buse
Ben-Mont
Lyndonville
Dr. Matteson
George Wein
Newport Jazz
Gov. Hoff
House
Franklin S. Billings
James Kennedy
Alexander Smith
John E. Kelly
John Breen
Karl S. Manning
Elbridge G. Warren
Ray Moore
Walter Wheatley
James Thorley
VFW
Arthur Parry
DAV
Robert Terjelian
J. W. MacQuade
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Arnel
Nichols
Union Street
Tor
Noveck-Shultz, Inc
Bennington, VT
American Gem Society
la Dealer
W.H. Eddington, Inc
Bennington, Vermont
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