North Pownal to vote on merging with Pownal district
Voters in North Pownal will decide at a 7:30 p.m. meeting whether the North Pownal Graded School District should surrender its charter and merge with the Pownal Town School District on July 1 1964. Eighteen articles cover taxes transportation tuition and governance.
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North Pownal
Pownal Town
Pownal
Robert E. Rudd Sr
Richard Pudvar
Champney
Powell’s
Champney’s
Obituary of Arthur J. Pratt North Bennington custodian
Arthur J. Pratt 67 of Bank Street Extension North Bennington died unexpectedly at home. Born November 17 1896 in Hoosick New York he worked at BenMont Papers then became bank custodian in 1946. Survived by wife Myrtle Galloway mother Edna Bent son Donald Pratt two grandsons and two sisters. Funeral Thursday 2 p.m. at Machar Son Funeral Home with calling hours tonight and Wednesday. Burial in Grandview Cemetery.
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North Bennington
Arthur J. Pratt
Bank Street Extension
First National Bank
Mr. Pratt
Hoosick
N.Y
Old Bennington
Ben Mont Papers
Scott Street
Ben Mont Avenue
Clarence White
Pratts
Myrtle Galloway
Bennington
Edna Bent
Pittsfield
Mass
Donald A. Pratt
Revere
Machar & Son Funeral
Grandview Cemetery
Village Rural Merger Talks Continue Between Districts
LRD trustees and school board members讨论 potential merger of village and rural districts. They cite benefits including unified tax rates, reduced administrative burden, and focused teacher assignments, with concerns about tax base and state aid, while noting similar textbooks and curricula ease integration.
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Clark
Essex
Essex Junction
Essex Town
William F. D. Smith
Prudential Committee
Bennington Briefs on Memorial Plans and Local Meetings
Veterans Memorial Committee meets Thursday at 8 PM in VFW rooms to discuss the new Veterans Memorial Park beside the GBA building on South Street. Other items note Bennington Women’s Democratic Club gathering with Mayor Daley as guest speaker, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1332 and American Legion Post 13 meetings, Masonic services for Fred Matetison, Emblem Club at Elks Barn, United Counseling Service board June session, Putnam Hospital observation for Ruby Bent, and a summer tennis clinic at Bennington College with pre-registration.
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Veterans’ Memorial Committee
VFW
Veterans’ Memorial Park
GBA
South Street
Bennington County
Women’s Democratic Club
William E. Dailey
North
Bennington
John J. Daley
Rutland
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1332
VFW Rooms
Cmdr
Francis Gallett
The
United Counseling Service
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington Area
Rodger L. Randall
Bennington College
Carole Warner to Graduate From Mercy Hospital Nursing School
Miss Carole A. Warner daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Warner of Bennington will graduate from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing Springfield at the 62nd annual commencement in Sacred Heart Church on June 20 at 2 p m Bishop Welden will address the graduates and present diplomas. 31 of 37 graduates will remain at Mercy Hospital as staff nurses.
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Springfield
Mass
Carole A. Warner
Edward Warner
South Branch Street
Bennington
Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
Sacred Heart Church
Christopher J. Weldon
Mary Vincenti
S.P
Mercy Hospital
Auto Mishaps In Searsburg and Woodford
A 73 year old Exeter man suffered bruises when his car went out of control on Vermont 9 in Searsburg and overturned after an embankment fall. George Lebrecht was not seriously injured. A Woodford collision on Long Trail Road involved Raymond LeClerc and Irving Gardner as one car tried to pass on the right.
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Exeter
N.H
Vermont 9
Searsburg
George Lebrecht
Long Trail Road
Woodford
Raymond J. LeClerc
Park St
Irving Gardner
East Main St
Gardner
Helms Civil Suit Against Avalanche Motor Lodge in Manchester
Walter A Helm of New Jersey sues Avalanche Motor Lodge Inc. of Manchester in Bennington County Court seeking pay for supervision of recent construction work. Trial underway with jury expected this afternoon or Wednesday. Helm represented by Atty John P Morrissey. Defense by Williams and Witten and Kristensen and Cummings.
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Manchester
Bennington County
Walter A Helm
Avalanche Motor Lodge Inc
Helm
New Jersey
Atty
John P. Morrissey
Williams and Witten and Kristensen and Cummings
Town Meeting Globe Union Lease Plan For Plant Funding
Globe Union proposes to build and equip a plant using 1.4 million from BCIC and 500000 for equipment, with 100000 town loan and 150000 from the company. A 20 year lease purchase and a 10 year lease for equipment would shift ownership via the local industrial authority and Vermont Building Authority insuring 90 percent of total capital needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe Union
BCIC
Vermont Industrial Building Authority
Goldwater Backers Fight For Coattail Victory Support
The Goldwater backers argue more Republicans will ride to victory on his coattails than from any other presidential candidate. Today the Texas state Republican convention is expected to commit all 56 of its votes to Goldwater.
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GOP
Goldwater
Texas
Water Board nears final steps in Battenkill anti pollution
Vermont Water Resources Board cleared the next to last hurdle for an anti pollution classification of the Battenkill basin. The objections hearing drew no formal challenges to the proposed order, with changes focused on shifting from public to private sewage disposal, and a 1966 timing plan for treatment facilities and pollution controls.
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State Water Board
Battenkill
Albert
Manchester
Arlington
East Arlington
Lawrence Honorary Degree Cites Nemerov Poetry
Howard Nemerov poet and Bennington College faculty member received Lawrence College’s honorary doctor of humane letters at the 115th commencement in Appleton Wisconsin. He spoke as a weekend headliner and a production of his Cain play occurred during the festivities.
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Nemerov
Appleton, Wis
Howard Nemerov
Bennington College
Library of Congress
Lawrence College
Appleton
Harvard
Harlow Shapley
Chicago
Bruno Bettelheim
Frederic C. Lawrence
Massachusetts
University of Utah
Wisconsin
Lawrence
Mareshall B. Hulbert
Curtis W. Tarr
Hospital Notes Births and Admissions List
Admissions include Judith Yarosz William Kehoe Lee Knapp Laurie Haynes James Cross Katharine Perkins Dorothy Buxbaum Lisa Wolf Madeline Cullinan James Boupton Elizabeth Dawson Judith Fox Mary Bolster Edward Jones Raymond Howe Henry Mayer Paul Foster and others. A son born June 15 to Mr and Mrs Raymond Howe of Park Street Extension and twin sons to Mr and Mrs Paul A Foster of 120 Putnam Street.
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Judith Yarosz
William J. Kehoe
Lee Knapp
Laurie Haynes
James Cross
Bennington
Katharine Perkins
Manchester
Dorothy Buxbaum
North Bennington
Louis Harris
North Pownal
Lisa Wolf
Wilmington
Madeline Cullinan
James Boupton
Shaftsbury
Elizabeth Dawson
Judith Fox
Mary Bolster
Manchester Depot
Edward Jones
Petersburg
Raymond Howe
Park Street Extension
Henry Mayer
R.D
Paul A. Foster
Putnam St
Woman Killed In Brattleboro Car Tree Crash
Brattleboro police report a 20 year old woman Jacqueline Jones killed when a car crashed into a maple tree on Putney Road. Ronald Campbell of Wakefield Massachusetts was critically injured and hospitalized for surgery.
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Brattleboro
UPI
Putney Road
Jacqueline Jones
Ronald Campbell
Wakefield Mass
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
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Hagerman
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Pleshette
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Brazzi
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American Legion
Legion
Chapel Road
Hanson Walbridge Funeral Home
Fred L. Mate Tison
Emblem Club
Elks Barn
Ruby Bent
Putnam Hospital
Leed Theatre
Tony Peck
Curtis
Angie Dickinson
Bobby Darin
Universal
Patrick Allen
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Carole Warner
Town Meeting
Norwich University
Lou Heron
Legion Post
Dave Knights
Boys State
Ken Baker
Doug McGaughey
Barry Griffith
Alan Moskovitz
John Longtin
Doug Watkin
Ken Simpson
James Kearns
Bob Walker
John Burnham
James Durand
John
Harte Theatre
Rodgers & Hammersters
Rossino Brazzi
MIT
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Ray Walston
Juanita Hal
Buddy Adler
Joshua Logan Screenplay
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