Union and Wrap-Tures Seek Quiet Transition at Ben-Mont Plant
Union Local 534 and Wrap-Tures Gift Wrap Inc. seek to smooth tensions at the former Ben-Mont Papers plant after Dow Chemical sold to Craig R. Smith's company in Rochester New York. Union leaders say workers are uneasy but avoid specifics while awaiting management’s footing and policy. Dow has begun shedding some operations but will retain gift wrap production as the plant’s core, with contract terms believed to transfer under the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben-Mont
Wrap-Tures Gift Wrap Inc
Rochester
N.Y
Craig R. Smith
H. James Wallace
Dow Chemical Company
Smith
Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union
Peter Tufo
Forcal
Tufo
Dow
A.J. Lauzon Gets Scouting Award
Arthur J. Lauzon of Bennington and William W. White of Rutland won the 1965 Silver Beaver Award at the Green Mountain Council Scouter's Recognition dinner. About 200 Scout leaders and spouses attended at Bardwell Hotel. Richard A. Snelling spoke on Americanism as guest of honor.
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Rutland
Arthur J. Lauzon
Bennington
William W. White
Green Mountain Council
Lauzon
White
Bardwell Hotel
Addison
Unitarian fellowship telegrams to LBJ on civil rights crisis
The Bennington Unitarian Fellowship voted to send a telegram to President Johnson expressing support for equal treatment and protection for all citizens. Telegrams were sent to Senators Aiken and Prouty and Representative Stafford. The group spoke about Selma and noted the death of Rev. James Reed, a Unitarian Universalist minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Sens
George D. Aiken
Winston L. Prouty
Robert T. Stafford
Phillip Viereck
Selma, Ala
James Reed
Winhall Man Arrested After Fracas with Trooper
A 26 year old Winhall man, Peter R. Sherwin, pleaded not guilty at a special arraignment in Bennington Municipal Court to two counts of breach of the peace along with driving while intoxicated and intoxication. Prosecutors cited alleged tumultuous carriage and assaults on Richard C. Bird, a state police officer, and Ralph Fleming Jr., an auxiliary officer, connected to an automobile accident Sherwin was involved in.
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Winhall
Bennington Municipal Court
Peter R. Sherwin
Sherwin
Richard C. Bird
Manchester
Ralph Fleming Jr
Benningtonians Attend Eastern Europe School at Dartmouth
From Vermont and New Hampshire, residents travel to Dartmouth College next Tuesday March 23 to study Eastern Europe in Transition. Co sponsored by the Leagues of Women Voters of both states the school of international relations covers rapid economic and political changes now underway.
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Vermont
New Hampshire
Dartmouth College
Europe
Leagues of Women Voters
St Patrick Day Gala at Brodie Mountain Ski Area
A St Patrick Day Gala runs March 17 through Sunday at Brodie Mountain in New Ashford with nightly dancing and Irish fare in the Bracken Room. Don Valenti invites entrants to register for the Brodie Mountain Cup sled races by March 17.
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New Ashford
Mass
Brodie Mountain
Don Valenti
Bennington youth given four to six months for petty larceny
A 17 year old, David W. La Fountain of Green Acres Bennington, was sentenced in Municipal Court to four to six months in Windsor House of Correction after pleading guilty to petty larceny and probation violation. He siphoned gasoline from W. H. Morse Construction Co. gear using a hose and cans. The judge ordered the sentences to run concurrently, citing probation compliance failures.
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Bennington
House of Correction
Windsor
David W. la Fountain
Green Acres
W. H. Morse Construction Co
Bennington Road
LaFountain
Margaret Lillie
Daniel J. Holland
George M. Fienberg
la Fountain
George O. Vershoor
East Dorset
Vershoor
Gordon Adams
New England Motorist Fined For Fish Cold-Drive Excuse
Peter Tucknell was fined 11 for speeding after explaining he rushed home with newly bought tropical fish to save them from dying of cold. His 1962 Ford wagon left the Vermont 11 30 hill, hit guard rails, but he was uninjured and released on bond. Other Vermont weekend accidents included a 1960 Austin Healey crash near the state line and a Pawlet two car collision with multiple injuries and a separate rollover on Route 30.
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Epping
England
UPI
Peter Tucknell
Vermont
Peru
Curtis M. Flory
Shaftsbury Barracks
Vermont 9
Old Bennington
New York State Line
Gary C. Dickinson
North White Plains
N.Y
Dickinson
Rutland
Pawlet
Albert C. Lindquist
Chester
Gilbert F. Mach
Lindquist
Mach
Gary Knight
Springfield
Adelbar G. Capen
Manchester
Capen
Donald E. Green
Jaemaica
Mark E. Baker
Rutland Hospital
Green
Baker
Poet and Critic To Speak Twice This Week at College
Dr. J W Cunningham Brandeis professor of English will give a lecture What Is Left of Wallace Stevens at 8 p.m. Wednesday March 17 in the Carriage Barn auditorium and will present poetry readings at 8 p.m. Thursday in the same hall both as part of the Elizabeth Harrington Dickinson lecture series.
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Bennington College
J.W. Cunningham
Brandeis University
Waltham
Mass
Wallace Stevens
College Carriage Barn
Stevens
Elizabeth Harrington Dickinson
Cunningham
Brandeis
University of Virginia
University of Chicago
University of Hawaii
Stanford University
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Boy Scouts
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Shelburne
Mle Tae
Cutth (Harmers
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Axa
LBJ
Benningtonians
Kevin Morris
Wexford
Ireland
Robert B. Dillon
Pittsfield
Berkshire County
Brodie
Fort DIX
Edward Thomas Burgess
Earl Burgess
N.J
C Co
4Th Trig. Regt
86Th Engineers
Vermont National Guard
Poland
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bruce Mackenzie
IBM World Trade Corp
L.A.D. Dellin
UVM
Richard Caswell
Bendi Social Studies Department
L. William Gillette
First National Stores
CREEN L\STAM
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Soly
Main ST
Garage
Nichols
Terry Blazer
S-M
Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr
Rutherford, N.J
Sacramento
Calif
UPD
American River Junior College
Italy
Montecatini Terme
VIA Alitacia Airlines
Bennington Travel
Agency, Inc
Philip Hall
Doris Scovill
Evan's News Office Equip., Inc
Robert Ryan
Douglas Ftefustinov
WRGB
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