Bennington Voters Weigh Tax Cuts and Airport Expansion
Light turnout at Bennington polls as residents vote on seven ballot articles including livestock tax exemption, a $40,000 sewage plant building, runway extension at the airport, and a 25 member government unification study committee. Incumbent Louis Lausville and Alfred Arnold contest three-year selectman seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pello
Norton Barber
Walloomesac
Veremont Tissue Paper Co. Inc
Richard van Santevoord
Waeter Resources Board
Vermont
Selectmen
Water Resources Board
Bennington Town
George van Santvoord
van Santvoord
Bennington Municipal
Joel T. Whittemore Jr
Whittemore
Bennington
Bennington Industrial Corp
Bennington Industries
John H. Willliams II
Bennington Village
Williams
Selectman
Louis F. Lausville
Alfred E. Arnold
Bennington Town Meeting Votes on Taxes and Plans House
Town meeting continued with unchanged salaries for town officers and the 1964 Town Report accepted. Voters debated highway tax rates for Bennington Town and villages, poll tax implications, and a study of Town Farm land for a planetarium amid plans for expanded recreational studies and a district-wide reapportionment discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerman
Leon R. Eldred
Morgan Street
Bennington
Eldred
van Santvoord
Water expansion plan dominates village meetings
Commissioner Seymour G Schultz voices the cost of water shortage as operating expenses rise cutting Putnam Memorial Hospital funding. The board backs extending the water system from Bolles Brook, with rights of way and watershed studies under way. Williams pushes a plan to bypass gift limits, seeking state law changes to allow a 40 year debt payoff. Delinquent water rents and a new service for Robert Provensal are also noted, alongside infant Jennie Lynn Noyes’ obituary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour G. Shultz
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Henry W. Putnam
Hilda Hurley
Bolles Brook
Bickford Hollow
Water Commissioners
John H. Williams
Boston Engineering
Whitman and Howard
Williams
Water Department
Robert Provensal
Belvidere Street
Provensal
Morgan Street
Bennington Village Trustees Meeting Tonight
Bennington Village Trustees will meet at 7 o'clock tonight in the village offices to discuss local matters and public administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Hospital Notes Admissions Across Multiple Families
Hospital notes list admissions including Robert M. Harrington Freida Pello Mark Hur ley James Moffitt Debra Moffitt Marie Burt Ruth McCart Grace Sargood Bernard Barnhardt and Harry Meroo across Bennington White Creek Manchester Depot and Buskirk N Y with mentions of March births for the Waters Pierson and LaBarge families noting a son and two daughters in early March at various local addresses and hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert M. Harrington
Freida Pello
Mark Hurley
James Moffitt
Debra Moffitt
Marie Burt
Bennington
Ruth McCart
White Creek
Grace Sargood
Bernard Barnhardt
Hoosick Falls
Harry (Hell) Meroo
Manchester Depot
Second Gasoline Storage Tank Being Unearthed Today on Flats
An effort to rid water supplies of gasoline contamination continues with heavy equipment unearthing a storage tank at the Davey Oil Co on North Bennington Road. The tank may leak, with gasoline seeping into wells of at least two families north of the station, per Edson F White a town hired consultant. Last week a leak was found at the Walter L Barber garage at Hicks Corners and is suspected to have contaminated water used by at least four families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Davey Oil Co
North
Bennington Road
Edson F. White
Walter L. Barber
Hicks Corners
GOP leaders face revolt as Oakes blasts fund finances
Vermont Republicans wrestle with internal strife as ArThus Oakes criticizes high level apathy and Goldwater forces over surplus funds. A party session labeled emergency aims to address rebuild plans, with Rep. Mann urging action to avert resignations and prep for fall elections amid reapportionment.
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Oakes
Republican National Finance Committee
State Committee
National Committee
Goldwater
Webb
Young Turks
GOP
Arthur Crowley
Rutland
Executive Committee
Robert Graf
Rupert
Byron Hathorn
Hartford
Richard Mallary
Fairlee
Daulton Mann Jr
Peru
Tracy Kenyon Jr
Shaftsbury
Oren Bates
Shereburne
Mann
Republican Party
Veremont
Funeral Held for Harold L. Flanders of North Bennington
Harold L. Flanders of North Bennington died unexpectedly Friday night at his home. The funeral was held at Mahar and Son Funeral Home Monday afternoon with Rev. Alfred Scott officiating. Bearers were Roland Marcoux, George Sprague, Raymond Kilburn, Henry G. Gratton, Charles B. Maranville, and Marion Rice, all Polygraphic Company of America employees. Burial will be in Park Lawn Chapel cemetery in spring after entombment. Relatives and friends from Buskirk New York North Bennington and surrounding area attended.
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North Bennington
Harold L. Flanders
Mahar & Son Funeral
Alfred Scott
Polygraphic Company
Park Lawn Chapel
Scott
Buskirk
N.Y
Market summary snapshot and index movements
A midday market update shows industrials at 900.28 up 0.52, railroads at 211.84 up 0.51, utilities at 161.57 down 0.22, and the composite average at 315.74 up 0.13 with sales totaling 2,400,000. Gains are broad across sectors with notable activity in industrials and railroads amid today’s trading.
Vermont educators face "Rip Van Winkle" call to action
Former state Board of Education chair Seaver denounces “Rip Van Winkle” attitudes in Vermont education and refuses to resign, claiming outside forces push nonrenewal for his civil rights work. Gov Hoff backs Vermont in Mississippi tour as Seaver seeks disclosure of secret minutes. Senator Raynolds advocates district consolidation and coaching educational reform amid 600 teachers at Champlain Valley conference.
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Burlington
UPI
State Board of Education
Vermont
Rip van Winkle
Seaver
Montpelier
Supt
Mathewson
Mississippi
Jackson
Philip H. Hoff
John L. Williams
Rutland
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Williams
Harold Raynolds
Windsor County
Raynolds
Champlain Valley Teachers Association
Burlington High School
University of Vermont
Vermont College Girl In Critical Condition After Highway Crash
An 18 year old Vermont College student, Claire Ward of Concord Massachusetts, remained unconscious in critical condition at Heaton Hospital after a highway crash in Waitse field Saturday night. The accident also killed classmate Margaret Hamilton of Aue burn New York and hospitalized four others.
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Montpelier
UPD
Vermont
Heaton Hospital
Claire Ward
Concord
Mass
Waitsefield
Margaret Hamilton
Aueburn
N.Y
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McCullough
Joseph A. Pello Jr
Benenington Village
Tansitor Electronics
Cusheman
General Ineriors Corp
Polygraphic Co. of America
Dow Chemical Company
Ben-Mont
Mack Molding
Arlington
Globe + Union Inc
Washington
Barre
Waterbury
Hyde Park
Johnson - Cambridge Union
Grand Isle County
Town Meeting
Bohne
Allen Organization
State Armory
Marte
Emington
Topkapi
Albert Aeroccol
Harry Saltzman
Sean Connery
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
Technicolor
United Artists
Jennie Lynn Noyes
William J
Jenenie (Crandall) Noyes
Main St
June
Jennifer
Madeline Noyes
William Crandall
Manchester
Nina Maxham
Hanson-Valebridge Funeral Home
Isabelle King
Pownal Center
Bennington Briefs
Leo J. Herrmann
John Casey
Elizabeth Dafeldecker
Teresa Glazik
Larry Waters
Wilmington
Morris Pierson
Manchester Center
Edward LaBarge
203
South St
Bennington Village Water Board
Alfred W. Ellett
Flats
Globe Union
Water Board
Globe- Union Inc
Ellett
Harold Flanders
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
R.X. Perrault
Quebec
Quebec Natural Gas Corp
College Girl
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