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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1963
Page
6
Bennington Free Library launches Summer Reading with theme Mind and Doby. Summer Playground Committee hosts Library Day at the playground with four sport teams. Read lists earn points. non readers incur penalties. Grades 2-8 may join beginning Monday.
Miss Carol Arthur, once a Dorset Playhouse performer, has risen to stardom in Leonard Bernstein's On the Town at London's Prince of Wales Theatre. Critics praise her brash taxi driver Hildegarde Esterhazy, with comparisons to Martha Raye and Judy Garland, boosting her profile from North Carolina stages to Broadway hopes.
The Plain Dirt Gardeners wrapped up their season with a garden tour featuring members Mrs. Lloyd Oppenheimer Mrs. Philip Giddings Mrs. Weston Hadden Mrs. Van Vechten Graves They also visited Memorial Gardens and held a business meeting at Mrs. Breard Hawks summer home Officers include Mrs. Philip Giddings president and Mrs. Thomas Beach board chair Attendees were asked to wear hats made from fruits vegetables or flowers Awards went to Mrs. Thomas Walsh and Mrs. Robert C. Wagner for prettiest hats plus honors for most unusual and most original hats.
Officials say the Wednesday night mutual aid drill showed full satisfaction with county fire departments such as Pownal Pownal Center Bennington Bennington Rural Sbury East Dorset and Arlington. Trucks from Arlington East Dorset North Bennington Bennington Rural Shaftsbury and South Pownal simulated a Hale Co plant fire and covered each other to keep all areas protected the entire exercise lasting about 43 minutes. The drill introduced a new simplified three digit radio call system and was coordinated from the Shaftsbury Fire Station by Chief Richard Hollister.
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