Bennington District Lines Debate After Reapportionment
Bennington Republicans and Democrats seek five to seven town representatives after reapportionment. debate centers on district boundaries northeast northwest southeast southwest routes 9 and 7 as likely borders. leaders note potential court action by July 1 and a November special election for a one year term.
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Benington
Cutts
Vermont
Bennington
Democratic Committee
Lawrence F. Powers
Raymond Betit
Robert Cone Don
J. Duncan Campbell
N.Y. DuHamel
Eugene V. Clark
John H. Williams
Clarence H. Howard
Wale Lace P. Scott
League
North Bennington
Old Bennington
Ise
Board of Civil Authority
Bennington Schools Enter Contest Tonight at 7:30 BCHS
Bennington, North Bennington, and Bennington High Schools plus Mo Stark participants compete in the district on e ach play contest tonight at 7 30 in the BCHS auditorium. The winner will represent Bennington at the Springfield tournament on March 27.
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Bennington
Funeral for Mrs Bridget Corcoran held in Bennington
Funeral services for Mrs Bridget Welch Corcoran of West Street were held at St John the Baptist Church with a Requiem High Mass. The Rev Walter F Miller led the service with Holy Gospel read by Rev Vincent J Spinelli and Epistle by William Hurley. Family and North Bennington School faculty attended. her daughter Catherine Corcoran is principal of North Bennington High School. Relatives traveled from Honolulu Pittsfield Bronx Troy and nearby towns for the service and burial at St John Cemetery in the family lot.
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North Bennington
Bridget (Welch) Corcoran
West Street
St. John the Baptist Church
Walter F. Miller
Vincent J. Spinelli
Bennington Catholic High School
William Hurley
Thaddeus Swertz
C.S.C
Miller
Lawrence Powers
John James
Richard Dwyer
Albert White
John Powers
John Armstrong
Edgar Matteson
Philip Ostrander
St. John’s Sodality
Leo Keough
Thomas Powers
Fred Bevis
Michael Neylon
George McGuire
Elizabeth McCarthy
St. John’s Cemetery
Father Miller
Honolulu
Hawaii
Pittsfield
Mass
Bronx
Troy
Greenwich
West Point Academy
N.Y
Millburn
Summit
N.J
Rutland
Arlington
Bennington
Hospital Notes Friday and Saturday Admissions and Births
The hospital lists admissions on Friday March 12 and Saturday March 13 including Anthony Lombardy Manchester and Miss Wilma Bierwirth Petersburg among several others. Births reported for March 12 13 include two boys for Richard Hoag and Charles Salem and a daughter for Stanley Jennings.
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Anthony Lombardy
Manchester
Wilma Bierwirth
Petersburg
Lillian Lancour
North Bennington
Sandra Lockrow
Hoosick Falls
Richard Hoag
Lincoln St
Charles Salem
Elm St
Stanley Jennings
Cambridge
N.Y
Fred A. Humpherey
R.D
John Steel
Pawlet
Obituaries excerpts from Addison and area deaths
Ernest William Gravelle 76 died Sunday at Putnam Memor ial Hospital born in Addison July 19 1888 son of William and Jennie Gravelle educated Addison schools worked for Hillman Bros Dairy Express in Ft Edward later as truck driver for Myers Coal Co and Henry M Tuttle Co first married Maida Messenger died 1934 then Georgiana McDonald survived by wife two sons stepson and stepdaughter two brothers sister 14 grandchildren seven great grandchildren funeral Wednesday St Francis de Sales Church entombment Park Lawn Chapel Weybridge Cemetery calling hours Hansone Walbridge Funeral Home today and Tuesday plus Troy obituary Harriet Montgomery 75 of North Bennington died Saturday at Van Rensselaer Manor Troy no survivors funeral Tuesday Hanson Walbridge Burial Grandview North Pownal Charles Andrew Lasson 70 of North Pownal foreman at Pownal Tannery died Friday North Adams Hospital born in Calais France Dec 21 1894 survived by mother wife Rose Crugnagle one son Andrew Venezuela two daughters Williamstown and Cambridge four grandchildren funeral Tuesday Our Lady of Lourdes Church North Pownal calling Hanson 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
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Ernest William Gravelle
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Addison
William
Jennie
Laddy) Gravelle
Gravelle
Hillman Bros. Dairy Express
Ft. Edward
N.Y
Old Myers Coal Co
Henry M. Tuttle Co
Maida Messenger
Georgian
Troy
Harriet Montgomery
North Bennington
van Rensselaer Manor
Hancock
Mass
John
Cynthia
Hall) Moon
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Grandview Cemetery
North Pownal
Charles Andrew Lasson
Pownal
North Adams Hospital
Calais
France
Clementine (Bremont) Lasson
August Lasson
Newark
N.J
Rose Crugnagle
Andrew
Valencia
Venezuela
Richard J. Peterson
Williamstown
James Rubino
Cambridge
Palm Bay
Fla
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Hanson- Walbridge Funeral Home
Small Turnout Predicted For Village Meeting
Absentee ballots indicate a likely small turnout for the village meeting Tuesday. By Friday night 13 voters applied for absentee ballots, versus about 1,500 attending last year when 100 ballots were cast. No village president contest this year. polls run 1 to 8 pm at Elementary School on School Street. The floor meeting starts at 8 pm also at the Elementary School.
Barn Blaze Figures in Bennington Pownal Rural Fire Response
Fire crews from Bennington Village Pownal and the Bennington Rural departments battled a barn blaze. Water was relayed from Old Bennington via pumper trucks and a hose extended to a pond on the hill. Earlier, the rural unit fought several grass fires including ones near Dr. Herrick and properties of Moffitt Andrews and the Vermont Container Corp plant. The Andrews fire scorched a small furniture building but caused no major damage.
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Bennington Village
Pownal
Bennington
Frederick A. Moffitt
Harwood Hill
Henry Andrews
Lyons District
Vermont Container Corp
Bennington County
Rutland financier Ginsburg dies after railroad strike impact
Ginsburg native of Glens Falls N Y faced scrutiny over his Vermont holdings and community charges. He owned Bardwell Hotel Rutland and Ginsburg Realty Co and served as director of Killington National Bank and Trust Vermont Bank and Trust Rutland Development Corp. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Rutland Jewish Center with burial in East Clarendon Jewish Cemetery. He is survived by his widow two sons Stanley and Gary two sisters Mrs David Chesler and Mrs John Frisch and two brothers Albert and Charles.
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Vermont
Ginsburg
Rutland
Glens Falls
N.Y
Bardwell
Ginsburg Realty Co
Killington National Bank and Trust Co
Vermont Bank and Trust Co
Bennington Village Meeting weighs water fund plan
The Bennington village meeting will consider a $20,000 sinking fund for new water sources and a request to allow North Bennington Road property owners to tap the main from Hicks Corners to the Globe Union Plant. If approved, a 25 cent special tax will be added to fund expansion projects including a diversion dam and pipeline linking Bolles Brook to the Burgess Road reservoir.
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Bennington
North Bennington Road
Hicks Corners
Globe Union
Water Department
Bickford Hollow
Woodford
Bolles Brook
Burgess Road
The
Water Board
Henry W. Putnam
Alfred W. Ellett
William H. Fox
Edson F. White
Holyoke
Mass
Clarence Wayman
Wyman
Merrill Landon
William H. Barber
Raymond Watson
Fox
William Rogers
Robert Sauseville
Otter Valley Student Killed In Hoosick Crash
Ronald Sherman Reed, 17, of Brandon Vermont, died instantly when his 1961 car veered off Hill Road between Hoosick Falls and Hoosick and struck a tree. His cousin Mary Louise Billings, 20, also of Brandon, was hospitalized with injuries but released. Reed, a junior at Otter Valley Union High School, was on a visit to Wingdale when the crash occurred shortly after midnight. Funeral services for Reed are set for Tuesday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Brandon.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Ronald Sherman Reed
Brandon
Hoosick
Mary Louise Billings
Putnam Memorial Hospital
J.P. Kivlin
T.F. O’donnell
Brunswick Station
BCI
Frank O’connor
Reed
Carmi Reed
New York
Billings
Wingdale
Fred W. Harter
Charles Bruce
Linda Reed
Flora Reed
Pittsford
Lena White
Stock Averages Report At Noon With Small Gains
Dow Jones Bache & Co Albany reports at noon the market indices with the industrials up 3.15 to 903.48, railroads up .25, utilities up .17, and the composite at 316.85, along with sales totaling 2,800,000 shares.
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Dow Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
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Novitiate
Holy Cross Novitiate
Monument Avenue Extension
Hagerman
Wilson
Clark
Bennington Briefs
American Legion Auxiliary
Dorothy Fairbanks
Fillmore Street
Women of the Moose
Moose Hall
Bessie Burgess
Christine Potter
Nesbith Fienberg
Democratic Women’s Club
Pavillion Hotel
Montpelier
Joan Hoff
John Daley
Stella Hackel
Grace McGuire
Montpelier Municipal Court
Cora B. Whitney
George A. Sleeman
Bennington High School
Parent- Teacher Association
John Kristensen
State Board of Education
Beech Street
Molly Stark
Robert Pablocki
American Association of University Women
C.H. Buckley
Robert Woodworth
Bennington College
Donald Greenslet
Norwich University
Department of Public Safety
St. Francis de Sales Ptg
BCHS
Gesell
Anne Cummings
Court St. Andrew, Catholic Daughters of America
LeBlanc
Mrs
Bridget Corcoran
Mabel Cook
Joseph MceCoy
Paul Fairley
Sarah Pratt
Gregory Hoard
Leona Miller
North Powe Nal
Jennie Skidmore
Arleington
Eugene Bond
Dorset
Alma Baker
Dorothy Plog
Schaghticoke
Margaret Malone
Harry Mercier
Dorothy Bovey
Manchester Depot
Sandra Daniels
Shaftsburg
Lena Moon
Gerald A. Cornell
Arthur P. Cole
Helen M. Hattat
R.D. 1
Mary E. Kramer
Eagle Bridge
Carolyn Bodenstad
Lucille Minke
Walter Carey
Judith Yacrosz
Linda Hall
John F. Costello
Ernest W. Gravelle
Charles A. Lasson
DAILY
Wennesh
Harteth Theatre
James Bond
Albert R Broccol
Harry Saltzman
Sean Connery
Im Fleming
Technicolor
United Artists
Ben. Cmuch Pits
Bennington Catholic
Burlington
UVM
Butch Hebert
Sam Levin
Paul Hebert
Roger Hebert
Joe Thibodeau
Dick Morse
Hassenpflug
Rep
Burns
William T. Burns
House
Green Mountain Park
Ways and Means Committee
Rogers
Johnson
Congress
Selma
Ala
Otter Valley
Williams
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