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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1971
Page
3
County Extension Agent Marion S Harris weighs the value of home canning and freezing amid high costs and unemployment. She cites a tomato example showing how home canned tomatoes could cost about 16 cents per quart, versus buying two cans for 59 cents, suggesting potential savings but noting varying family conditions and inputs.
A profile of Barbara Sunderland Antico wife of John Antico and mother to several siblings, detailing her Barbara School of Charm and Modeling Agency established in 1966, her pageant successes, community giving to Arthur Trudeau Center and Marathon House, and the many family members involved in her public life. The article also notes related local figures and events and shifts in youth involvement in organizations.
George Gilman of Bennington has earned his master’s degree in music composition from the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is the son of Mrs. Elliot S. Gilman and the late Mr. Gilman and will join a Stanford graduate intern fellowship in Palo Alto for one year. He is a 1970 Arizona graduate with a BA in music theory and composition and a former drummer and group director in Bennington activities.
Polly Dicranian, a preschooler from Pownal, is pictured on the back cover of the June 1971 issue of Austine School News. The quarterly publication is issued by the Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro.
The narrator describes an upcoming trip from Brattleboro to Bass Harbor Maine for a two week stay on Swans Island. They weigh the challenge of leaving home with guarding ripening produce and packing supplies. A cherry preserves recipe is shared as part of the reflections on maintaining Vermont life while away.
A catalog of new titles including Anderson Operation Chaos a science fiction about the cold war hell and Goddess in the Home by Arthur Bawden The Birds on the Trees by Bawden Mr Campion's Quarry by Carter The Blind Side and The Onion Eaters by Donleavy Elkin The Dick Gibson Show Freeling The Lovely Ladies Gaines The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gould Burnt Toast Gentle Haning The Sheriff of Durango Hensley Deliver Us to Evil Holt Shadow of the Lynx Houston The White Dawn Jones A Cry of Absence MacInnes Assignment in Brittany Michener The Drifters Plath The Bell Jar Said Ali Nina Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Tryon The Other Wise Who Killed Enoch Powell Zelazny The Doors of His Face the Lamps of His Mouth Zimmerman Love in the Afternoon.
Vermont Social Welfare Commissioner Joseph W. Betit rejected a plea from Mrs. Beverly Bevins of the Vermont Welfare Rights Organization to pay fuel and utility bills directly. He cited federal law mandating unrestricted money payments to recipients unless mismanagement or nonparticipation is shown, and said vendor services would be legally questionable and administratively bulky. Betit also called residency requirements for welfare recipients potentially unconstitutional and noted a New York test case on a one-year residence rule.
Three Bennington students, Sister Michelle Sears a senior, Janet Young a sophomore, and Neva Jean LaCroix a freshman, were named to the College of St. Joseph the Provider dean's list for the spring semester. Each student is listed with parental addresses on Park Street McKinley Street and North Street.
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