Clown Coco Barry Plans Hospital Visits En Route
The Veterans Memorial Committee of Bennington schedules Clown Coco Barry’s stopover April 7 en route from Boston to upstate New York. He will visit Putnam Memorial Hospital and North Adams hospital, and appear at Rutland General Hospital, benefiting the Grandview Cemetery Veterans Monument fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans Memorial Committee of
Bnnington
State Armory
Boston
New York
Bennington
Grandview Cemetery Veterans Monument
Marion Charest
VFW
Margaret Knights
Hugh E. Clark
American Legion
Coco Barry
Coco
North Street
Rutland
General Hospital
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Veterans’ Groups
North Adams Hospital
North Adams
Brass Quartet Concert Sunday at McCullough Library
Gunnar Schonbeck leads a Bennington College faculty brass quartet in a Sunday 3 p.m. performance on the McCullough Library second floor in North Bennington. Pieces span two trumpets and two trombones from Josquin to Hindemith Morgenmusik. Performers include Jay Libertes Maurice Rancourt trumpetists and Donald Colby Martin Trapp trombonists. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunnar Schonbeck
Bennington College
McCullough
North Bennington
Josquin Des Pres
Paul Hindemith
Putnam Hospital Thursday March 8 social list
A social notice from Putnam Hospital lists Alfred Latour Jr Seth W King Master Robin Welch and others including Mary Case Hoosick Falls N Y Frances Bahan East Arlington Rev H Glenn Payne Bessie Cobleigh Alice Connell Maude Dufresne Dennis Elwell Prentiss Norcross Mrs Marietta Parks and baby boy David Peterson Lillian Paquin Edwin Luce Abbie Laclair Shafts bury Diana Harris and North Pow nal among attendees and affiliates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Latour Jr
Seth W. King
Robin Welch
Bennington
Mary Case
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Frances Bahan
East Arlington
H. Glenn Payne
Bessie Cobleigh
Alice Connell
Maude Dufresne
Dennis Elwell
Prentiss Norcross
Marietta Parks
David Peterson
Lillian Paquin
Cambridge
Mass
Edwin Luce
North Bennington
Abbie Laclair
Shaftsbury
Diana Harris
North Pownal
TV Talks Exchange Is Postponed
The White House announced that a proposed joint TV exchange between President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev is postponed to a later date. Press secretary Pierre Salinger said the timing did not provide the right atmosphere for the program amid Geneva disarmament talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Pierre Salinger
Geneva
Welcome Wagon Hears Levine Talk in Bennington
Twenty members attended the Welcome Wagon monthly meeting at Mrs. Fred Ester's home in North Bennington. Louis Levine of the Bell Laundry spoke on fabric quality and wear from laundering, staining, and stain removal methods. Refreshments were arranged by the committee of Mrs. Raymond Paquin and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Ester
North Bennington
Louis Levine
Bell Laundry
Raymond Paquin
Albert Kindelmann
Harold Cramer
William Burnham
Obituary Isabelle Tudor Macomber 64 in Florida
Word arrives of the death of Mrs. Isabelle Tudor Macomber 64 in St. Petersburg Florida on March 4 She was wife of Leroy Macomber and longtime Bennington resident with winters in Florida active in St. Petersburg Baptist Church Women’s Club and Cosmopolitan Club Survived by two nephews John H Tudor and William R N Tudor Services to be held in East Orange New Jersey this weekend with a committal in Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home chapel Here burial planned in Park Lawn Cemetery in the spring
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabelle Tudor Macomber
St. Petersburg
Fla
Hanson-Walbridge
H. Glenn Payne
First Baptist Church
Park Lawn
Tudor-Tomlinson
Park Lawn Cemetery
Funeral services held for Clara Bennett Stafford in Manchester
Funeral services for Clara Bennett Stafford longtime Manchester resident who died Sunday at 94 were held at Zion Episcopal Church with Rev. Robert L. Clayton officiating. Burial will be in Dellwood Cemetery in spring. Survivors include four nephews and nieces and a sister-in-law, with ties to the Bennett and Stafford families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Clara Bennett Stafford
Zion Episcopal Church
Robert L. Clayton
Dellwood Cemetery
Roger B
R. Gordon Hurley
William C. Hawrath
Paul Todtschinder
Stafford
Equinox View
George W
Julia Frances Ronalds Bennett
A. E. Luders
Stamford
Conn
Burr and Burton Seminary
Columbia University Teachers College
Adams Nervine Hospital
Jamaica Plain
Mass
Fay B. Stafford
Wallingford
J. C. Kneeshaw
del Mar
Calif
Alfred T. Veit
St. Petersburg
Fla
Harold P. Bennett
White Plains
N.Y
Otto R. Bennett
G. Stewart Bennett
Northern Livestock 4H Club Reports March Activities
A regular Northern Livestock 4H Club meeting at John Hoag’s home continued work on Hoard's dairyman judging sheets. Members in the tractor project visited Brown's Garage in Cropseyville for a lesson on March 6. National 4H Week featured window displays in Bradleys Paint and Paper Store by Hoosick Home Makers and the Northern Livestock Clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Livestock
John Hoag
Brown
Cropseyville
Hoosick Home Makers
Northern Livestock Clubs
Bradley
Gordon Hoag
Joe
Sandra Hoag
Edward Barringer
Troy
John Tudor
Timothy
Elizabeth Jane
Frederick Luke
Union High Planning Board to Gauge Voter Support
Bennington-Southwest District Planning Board moves to survey eight districts with a two part query on joining a union high school district. A public meeting is set for March 26 at Molly Stark School to present findings and inform districts before potential spring votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington County
Bennington
Planning Board
Molly Stark
Educational Film Loan Plan Explained by State Unit
State Library Commission outlined a cooperative educational film loan service with Maine and New Hampshire, using UNH storage and service. Films are 16 mm sound color and available for libraries in towns under 10 000 population. Bennington Free Library participates as representing the village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Library Commission
Frank Lillie
Vermont Free Library Service
Bennington
New Hampshire
Durham
N.H
Lillie
England
Canada
Community groups plan meetings and events in Wilmington area
The Girls Scouts and Mothers Club coordinated a cookie sale and a sugar eat event at WHS and Baptist Church. The Congregational Women will meet March 14, and the Victory Grange held a March gathering with the Halifax Guiding Star. The Beaverbrook PTA discussed candidates for school director. Families from multiple towns attended a regional Grange meeting in Wilmington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Barton
WHS
Girl Scouts of
Wilmington
Marlboro
Mothers Club
The
Baptist Church
Helen Worden
Bertha Boyd
Congregational Women’s Association
Baptist Ladies’ Aid Society
Louis Adams
Beaverbrook
Charlotte Lansing
Betty Wolf
Hazel Haughey
Bennington Community Calendar Highlights Local News
Local groups meet this week at the Second Congregational Church and VFW hall. Citizens naturalized in February include Doris Baker and Edward McKeever. University of Vermont students Prescott Cone and Harley Hurlburt gain leadership and fraternity honors. Dean’s List names from Bennington appear, with minimum 85 average. Pomona Grange hosts a program with many Bennington attendees and Mt Equinox safety night planned. Local union and employment notices accompany weekend ads at Iron Kettle.
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Bennington County
United States
Doris Baker
R. D
Bennington
Edward
Sarah Frances) McKeever
Pownal Center
R.D
Harley E. Hurlburt
Union College
Schenectady
Paul R. Hurlburt
Putnam Street
Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity
O. E. Pollock
Bennington High School
University of Vermont
Susan S. Holden
North Bennington
Jane E. Hanson
Wilmington
Meredith E. Loyd
Gregory G. Playotes
Joseph Agresta
Richard I. Badger
Carmen S. Wessner
Manchester Depot
Technology
Hospital Bound Dad Skids Into Auto
Snowy conditions caused George Miner of 142 Ben Mont Ave to run a red light on Depot Street into a 1947 Buick owned by George Benedict of 323 South St at 11 35 a m. Miner rushed to the hospital for his ill wife and baby. No injuries. damages to Miners Ford and Bene dicts car. Police also investigated a dog shooting complaint at 7 17 p m by Norman Tifft of 318 Safford St. Investigation found Donald Farley was shooting a BB gun and would stop harassing the dog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Miner
Ben Mont Ave
Depot Street
River Street
George Benedict
South St
Miner
Benedict
Norman Tifft
Safford St
Donald Farley
Farley
Prep School Skiers Compete at Middlebury Snow Bowl
The 13th annual USEASA prep school ski championships come to Middlebury College Snow Bowl with about 15 eastern entrants for a four event meet. Slalom opens today with jumping this afternoon and downhill Sunday morning followed by cross country. Holderness School swept last year ahead of Kimball Union and Vermont Academy. James D. Ross oversees arrangements for the Middlebury sanctioned event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlebury
Middlebury College
Holderness School
Plymouth
N.H
Kimball Union
Vermont Academy
The
United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association
James D. Ross
Fiedler supports the Twist as harmless craze
Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, visits Utica New York and says the Twist is just a phase like the shim, rock n roll, and jitterbug. He adds he does not believe it causes juvenile delinquency.
Weekend Social Notes From Salem And Area
Rupert Janice Moore and Ronnie Keyes visited. the Grange Hall card party drew a large crowd. WSCS of the Methodist Church met at Janice Moore’s home. Cecil Donbar and family of Corinth NY visited Will and Mrs Donbar. Caroline McKeighan Marion Mudgett and Jay Moore returned to UVM Burlington after weekend at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronnie Keyes
Walter Keyes
Salem
John
Ricky Gordy
Grange Hall
WSCS
Methodist Church
Janice Moore
Cecil Donbar
Corinth
N.Y
Will Donbar
Caroline McKeighan
Marion Mudgett
Jay Moore
UVM
Burlington
Walter Walter leaves estate to daughter in Beverly Hills
Symphony conductor Bruno Walter died February seventeenth at eighty five in his daughter's Beverly Hills home. Probate shows an estate around three hundred thousand dollars, with most to his daughter Lotte Walter Lindt and a 27 percent share or one hundred thousand dollars to family friend Deila Reinhardt of Santa Monica.
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Los Angeles
Bruno Walter
Lotte Walter Lindt
Beverly Hills
Walter
Deila Reinhardt
Santa Monica
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Brass Quartet
Putnam Hospital
DUCO
H. Greenberg & Son
Benn
Levine
Mrs
Leroy Macomber
Clara B. Stafford
Walloomsac
Bertha Hoag
Los Angeles International Airport
Union High Planning Board
Elizabeth Dwyer
Dover
Carlo Walter Tel
PTC
Marie Taylor
Beth Smith
Ladies Aid Society
Evening Guild
Bennington Briefs
Second Congregational Church
Fred Burt
Harry S. Moses
Robert Woodworth
Woodworth
Lauriston Cone
William Cone
Pleasant St
Interfraternity Council
Cone
Ethan Allen Pomona Grange
Rose Gleason
Pomona Home Economics Committee
Helen Clough
Warren Clough
Patricia Wilkie
Howard Snow
Roberta Snow
Taconic
Raymond Wilbur
Mt. Equinox
Clarence Decker
Clark Condon
Jesse Harrington
Arlington
William Hattat
Lillian Petrelis
Everett Lillie
Hazel Hogan
Mt. Equinox Grange
Sgt
Richard Curtiss
Department of Public Safety
Eagles Hall
Ben-Mont Employes
Hogan Now
CHEF
New England
Mary C. Noone
Ralph G. Fritch
Railroad Community Committee of
Causewdy Street
Rupert
Quinlan
Main St
Rey Legal Beverages
Knotty Pine
North Bennington Road
Liam
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