Bennington Listers mail April 1 property inventories
Bennington listers announce that personal property inventory forms have been mailed to businesses manufacturers and mobile home owners. Inventories due by April 20 unless extended. Tenants and employees lists sent. return ASAP. Over 65s urged to notify sisters to be exempt from poll tax.
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Bennington Listers
Listers
Sisters
Frank J. Hogan
Springfield
Gardner Benson
VEA backs campaign for cabinet level Department of Education
Montpelier Vermont Education Association joins NEA in urging Nixon to create a separate federal Department of Education. Harold Miller Jr. cites elevating education and easing state costs, with a letter-writing drive set for March 29 to April 6. Education programs are currently scattered across HEW and other agencies.
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Montpelier
Vermont Education Association
National Education Association
U.S. Department of Education
Harold Miller Jr
WEA
NEA
Nixon
Education
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Labor, Defense
Office of Economic Opportunity
National Science Foundation
Miller
Senate Recommits Gas Tax Measure Amid Debates
In Montpelier the Senate halted a penny per gallon gas tax increase and recommitted it to the Finance Committee to review new information. The House passed, by voice vote, the $120.4 million 1972 Omnibus Appropriations Bill after rejecting a recommitment move. Debate centered on highway funding, bond issuance, and federal aid shifts, with amendments failing including pay raises bans and education aid reallocations.
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Fayette
Highway Department
Highway Board
Bridges and Highways Committee
Chittenden Grand Isle
John O’brien
Francis Peisch
Burlington
Law Enforcement Training Council
Vermont Student Assistance Corp
Vermont governor backs 18 vote age amendment move
Governor Deane C. Davis said he will push Vermont to ratify a U S constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18. He will urge the 1971 Legislature to act if Congress clears the measure before adjournment. The amendment passed the Senate unanimously and is expected to pass the House soon, needing ratification by 38 states.
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Montpelier
UPI
Deane C. Davis
Vermont
U.S
Davis
Congress
General Assembly
U.S. Senate
House
Prospect School negotiates college credit and training programs
Prospect School seeks 12 college credits via two universities while offering six week and three week session options at Bennington College with room and board. The camp runs 9 to 2 daily focusing on gardening, animal care, crafts, math, reading, movement, nature, history, swimming, and riding. Training participants assist children and join daily seminars. The school runs four day training sessions, with educators from New Hampshire Connecticut New York visiting in February for open-learning program guidance. Prospect has 74 students guided by Miss Jessica Howard, with EPDA funding and North Bennington consultations.
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Bennington College
Prospect School
Lebanon
N.H
Litchfield
North Bennington
Prospect
Jessica Howard
Bank Street College
New York City
University of Connecticut
Federal Education Profession
Windham Southwest Supervisory Union
Wilmington Area
EPDA
Wilmington
Stamford
Readsboro
Whitingham
Retirees Honored at Union Carbide Ceremony
A retirement party at the Bennington Club honored Mrs. Bridgie M. Thompson and Lyndon E. Bevins from Union Carbide. Thompson began in 1954 and Bevins in 1947. They received a money tree and an engraved album from plant manager Conrad R. Hoffman, with former plant manager Philip J. Kennedy also present.
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Bennington Club
Bridgie M. Thompson
Lyndon E. Bevins
Union Carbide
Thompson
Bevins
Conrad R. Hoffman
Philip J. Kennedy
FTC seeks order to bar newspaper razor blade samples
The FTC will request a federal court injunction to stop Philip Morris from inserting millions of razor blade samples into Sunday papers. The move follows reports that children were injured by blades embedded in ads in at least 10 cities on March 7, with the commission aiming for a New York City district court hearing.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Trade Commission
Philip Morris, Inc
Gerald J. Thain
FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection
Joseph Martin Jr
FTC
Commission
Blades
Akron
Ohio
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
San Antonio
Tex
Kansas City
Thain
Martin
Miami
Blade
Personna
Philip Morris
American Safety Razor Division
Charles H. Wilson
New York
Wilson
Bennington Notice Highlights Benefit and Meetings
Bennington briefs announce a benefit cocktail hour at Heritage House Restaurant from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday March 16 with proceeds to Bennington Day Care Center. A Twilight Mission for juniors and seniors at John XXIII Institute Monday 5 to 9 30 p.m. includes supper talks and Eucharist. AAUW meets March 15 at 8 p.m. at 210 Elm St with Bennington College women discussing non resident jobs. Also a free paint clinic March 17 at 7 p.m. at T A Carpenter and Sons 708 Main St. ADV.
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Heritage Hous
Bennington Day Care Center
John XXIII Institute
American Association of University Women
AAUW
Malcolm Finlayson
Elm St
Bennington College
Bennington
T.A. Carpenter & Sons
Main St
Receiver named to handle Beatles tangled fortunes in court
Britain's high court named London accountant James Spooner as receiver to manage the Beatles fortunes since their split, in Paul McCartney's bid to break up the group. Judge Sir Edward Stamp stayed the appointment for appeal, as Harrison Starr Lennon and Apple oppose the move.
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London
UPI
Britain
High Court
Beatles
Paul McCartney
Beatle
James Spooner
Liverpool
Edward Stamp
Spooner
John Lennon
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Apple Company
McCartney
Stamp
Obituary of Matilda S. Smith 91 Manchester resident
Matilda S. Smith 91 longtime Manchester resident died Friday at Crescent Manor Nursing Home. Born January 16 1880 in Brooklyn daughter of James M and Matilda Stewart she married Albert H. Smith in 1903 who died 1958. Survived by daughter Virginia Teale brother Wallace Stewart and six grandchildren. Services Monday at 1 pm at Brewster Funeral Home Manchester conducted by Rev Jerome J. Hevey Jr. Entombment in Dellwood Cemetery vault with burial at a later date.
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Anna M. Leahy
Meadow Brook Apartments
Monument Road
Bennington
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Charles Dewey III
Flanagan
Albany
Delmar
N.Y
Miss Leahy
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Matilda S. Smith
Manchester
Crescent Manor
She
Brooklyn, N.Y
James M. and
Matilda (Strubens) Stewart
Brooklyn
Albert H. Smith
Robert R
Virginia) Teale
Buffalo, N.Y
Wallace Stewart
Washington, N.J
Brewster Funeral Home
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
First Congregational Church
Dellwood
Fire at Lincoln Downs Kills Two Thoroughbreds
A large barn fire at Lincoln Downs in Lincoln Rhode Island destroyed six stalls and killed two thoroughbreds and a pony. One identified horse was Count DeBerry owned by Bill Elderkin, with other horses unnamed. The blaze occurred just before the last race as 8,083 fans watched, but the race card for Saturday remained on schedule.
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Lincoln, R.I
UPI
Lincoln Downs
Count DeBerry
Bill Elderkin
Annual seal slaughter opens on Canadian ice floes
Grinnstone Quebec agencies report hundreds of hunters with 30 inch clubs began Canada’s annual seal hunt on the east coast ice floes. Some 25 sealing vessels from Canada and Norway participate as quotas were trimmed to 245000 this year amid protests. Officials pledge close surveillance while public sentiment shows signs of softening since last year.
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Canada
Magdalen Islands
Gulf of St. Lawrence
John Lundrigan
Par
TV pioneer Farnsworth dies at 64 in Utah hospital
Philo T. Farnsworth, 64, the inventor who sent the world’s first television picture in 1927 at age 20, died Thursday night in Salt Lake City. He held over 300 patents and had a pivotal role in early TV broadcasts including Mary Pickford and the Dempsey Tunney fight.
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Salt Lake City
Mary Pickford
Farnsworth
San Francisco
Brigham Young
Bennington LWV March unit meetings announced
The Bennington League of Women Voters schedules March units for Tuesday March 16 at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Nancy Lambs home and Thursday March 18 at 10 a.m. at Mrs. Marion Smiths Shaftsbury home. Ruth Levin will present Charles Silbermans Crisis in the Classroom report. study chairman is Susan Robinson. Discussion of ideas for a new local program will be voted on at the annual meeting.
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Bennington League of Women Voters
Nancy Lamb
Old First Church
Marion Smith
Shaftsbury
Charles Silberman
Ruth Levin
Susan Robinson
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Indian Creek
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