Flea Market at Bennington Battle Anniversary
The Mt. Anthony Chapter 1 Order of the Eastern Star hosts the second annual Flea Market on Aug. 12 along U.S. 7 Harwood Hill to mark the 190th anniversary of the Battle of Bennington. Sixty dealers from seven states offer antiques Vermont crafts and more. Proceeds support chapter activities. The site across Holmes Transportation terminal opens 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with country store display white elephant sale crafts and baked goods. Parking available. refreshments served.
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Bennington
Mt. Anthony
Order of the Eastern Star
U.S. 7
Harwood Hill
Holmes Transportation Terminal
Vermont
Louise Goetz
Beatrice Gilman
Janice Stephenson
Mildred D. Spargo
Marie Williams
Helen Atwell
Helen Churchill
Hilda Orr
Edna Seymour
Joyce Hanson
John Maxmillian
Charles F. Mason
Donald 4. Stephenson
George H. Spargo
Philmont Expedition Notes From Troop 353 Scouts Reach Home
Forty six boy scouts and one explorer scout with leaders left Philmont base camp for a 2500 mile trip homeward. The group included Vermont and Berkshire County scouts with Bennington members Teddy Betts James Harrington Alan Hollister Wayne Jacobs and writer as part of the crew. They traveled from Camp Plymouth July 2 reaching Philmont July 9 and spent ten days overland trekking in rugged New Mexico wilderness facing nine days of rain while cooking dehydrated meals and peach cobbler each evening.
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Philmont
Boy Scout
Vermont
Berkshire County
Massachusetts
Camp Philmont
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
New Mexico
Cimarron
Bennington
Teddy Betts
James Harrington
Alan Hollister
Wayne Jacobs
Penny Bergquist Plans Russian studies and Princeton program
Miss Bergquist sails from Kennedy to Russia for a two week camp tour visiting Stalingrad Movgorod Kiev Leningrad Moscow and Pyatigorsk after exams in Helsinki she joins Princeton University Critical Language Program for her junior year and will return to Grinnell College for her senior year. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Bergquist of West Side Drive.
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Penny Bergquist
Kennedy Airport
Indiana University
Russia
Stalingrad
Movgorod
Kiev
Leningrad
Moscow
Pyatingorsk
Helsinki
Miss Bergquist
Princeton University
Grinnell College
Roy Bergquist
West Side Drive
Thrift Shop Sees New Volunteer Amid Sewing Machine Gift
Last week at the thrift shop Marjorie Hayes and Tilly Stocking worked Friday while Amy Howard and Katharine Edson were present Saturday morning. A new volunteer, Mrs Armour of the Garden Apartments, will help on Tuesday afternoons and has just bought a Singer sewing machine to gift to an old friend in Stratford, Conn. The shop seeks donations of usable sewing machines. It stocks coats, dresses, skirts, blouses, sweaters, rug materials, and hooked rug supplies. The American Association of Retired Persons meets Thursdays at Second Congregational Church. rug hooking expert Eileen Briggs assists weekly. New members welcome. Open Fridays 2 to 5 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon.
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Marjorie Hayes
Tilly Stocking
Amy Howard
Katharine Edson
Armour
Garden Apartments
Singer
Stratford, Conn
American Association of Retired Persons
Second Congregational Church
Eileen Briggs
Interstate turns signals proposed on interstate drives
Montpelier officials announced proposed changes in interstate traffic regulations. The plan, devised by the state traffic committee led by James E. Malloy, would require all drivers on interstate highways to use turn signal indicators when changing lanes or passing. The regulations would take effect 60 days after submission to Attorney General James L. Oakes and after signature by Secretary of State Harry Cooley.
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UPD
James E. Malloy
Atty
James L. Oakes
Harry Cooley
Malloy
Public Safety
Erwin A. Alexander
Reginald H. Arnold
Cooley
Oakes
Girl Scout Day Camp Sugarbush Opens 10 Day Session
The Arlington area Girl Scouts prepare for Camp Sugarbush a 10 day session starting Monday July 31 with 12 adults led by director Mrs Thomas Steffen. Bus routes will cover Arlington Shaftsbury Bennington and North Bennington. Six Brownies 13 juniors and six Cadettes still need registrations with a 9 dollar fee due to registrar Mrs Philip Noyes or Mrs Steffen by Friday.
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Sugarbush
Thomas Steffen
Arlington
Shaftsbury
Bennington
North Bennington
Camp
Philip Noyes
Steffen
Walter Crawford
Carl Towery
Gilbert Wilcox
Edward Carroll
Bernard Miller
Steven Churchill
Arla Crozier
Gerald Legacy
Engagement of Jeanne Lutz to Timothy Toomey
Mr and Mrs Gerald F Roush of 143 Stoors Ave Braintree announce the engagement of their daughter Jeanne Marie Lutz to Timothy Cullen Toomey USAF son of Mr and Mrs Charles A Toomey of North Bennington. Lutz a Stonehill College graduate and former Braintree High School student is a stewardess for American Airlines. Toomey a Stonehill College graduate and Oklahoma stationed USAF member. Also named are David Plummer and Mrs Sheldon Strand of Bennington.
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Braintree
Mass
Gerald F. Roush
Stoors Ave
Jeanne Marie Lutz
Timothy Cullen Toomey
USAF
Charles A. Toomey
North Bennington
Lutz
Kenneth Lutz
Braintree High School
Stonehill College
American Airlines
Bennington Catholic High School
U.S. Air Force
Oklahoma
Court Hears Appeal In ETV Case
Vermont Supreme Court considers WCAX-TV appeal over state intervention in the ETV dispute. WCAX president Stuart Martin argues the Superior Court lacked power to intervene as ETV construction crews faced a temporary injunction over a Mt Mansfield access road across a University of Vermont lease. ETV funding and air date concerns follow the injunction and potential reinstatement.
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Mt. Mansfield
ETV
Martin
University of Vermont
High Court
Vermont
Brooks
Robbery at Lincoln Park Fairway Shocks Golfers
In San Francisco a threesome playing the Lincoln Park course reported a man pulled a gun on them on the fifth fairway Saturday and robbed them of 77 dollars. Suspects Henry Martinez 36 Perry Hardwick 38 and Charles Howard 40 admitted the incident affected their game afterward.
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San Francisco
UPI
Lincoln Park
Henry Martinez
Perry Hardwick
Charles Howard
Dermody Commissioned as Air Force Second Lieutenant
Terrence R. Dermody, son of Mr and Mrs John J Dermody of West Road Bennington, has been commissioned in the U S Air Force after completing ROTC and training at George AFB Alabama. He earned an AB in history from the University of Detroit and will pursue a law degree there. A 1963 Bennington Catholic High School graduate, he captained the track team.
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Gunter Afb
Ala
Terrence T. Dermody
John Dermody
West Road
USAF
Montgomery
Terrence R. Dermody
John J. Dermody
Bennington
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps
St. Dermody
Univer
Sity
Detroit
University of Detroit Law School
Bennington Catholic High School
National Group States Meet In Bennington
The National Society of the Daughters of Colonial Wars in Vermont will hold its quarterly meeting and lunch at Paradise Restaurant in Richard Carter Barrett, curator of the Bennington Museum, will be the guest speaker. A museum tour will follow. It is the first southern Vermont meeting. the national society formed in Washington in 1932 and Vermont society organized in Rutland in 1960.
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National Society of the Daughters of Colonial Wars
Vermont
Paradise Restaurant
Bennington
Richard Carter Barret
Bennington Museum
National Society
Washington, D.C
Frank Dexter Ellison
Massachusetts
Vermont Society
Rutland
Richard Gilman Clark
Swim Accidents Drownings Hit Tokyo as Heatwave Bites
Police report 74 people drowned and 23 more are missing as crowds flock to beaches pools and the sea to escape the year’s hottest weather in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
UPD
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