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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1962
Page
2
Burlington reports the State Board of Health will study a shift to categorical grants for 11 health programs instead of a single lump sum. The plan aims to clarify department activities for the legislature and public.
Vermonts criminal index rose with 13 410 cases in 1961 up 141 from 1960. New offenders fell about 200 while repeaters in court rose by over 300. Burlington official backs a state sales tax to fund education saying it could ease property tax pressure and appeal to voters.
Walter H. Wheatley of East Brookfield announced as candidate for the county's single senate seat in the 1963 Legislature. Lawrence Jackman, who represented Orange last year, will not run again and endorses Wheatley, who backed Jackman previously.
The Vermont Development Department releases 1962 editions of Rural Real Estate for Sale and Cottages and Camps For Rent along with the Visitors Handbook. New pocket size formats feature maps of towns airports and covered bridges. Outreach includes Montreal and New York offices and distribution at Girl Scout Roundup and travel shows.
Putnam Hospital admitted Carrie Johnson Raleigh Tatro Hoosick Falls and discharged Miss Mabel Hawes Mrs Eliza Beth Congdon and baby boy Alfred Foster Sr Deborah Gemmell Muriel Gilbert. Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Duane T Shultz March 15 and twins Wendy and John to Mr and Mrs Edward Pinsonneault Jr March 13. Thomas Aquinas Allard born February 28 weighing 8 pounds 10 ounces.
CAP notes the Bennington Squadron begins a radio course to qualify cadets for third class licenses. Two flights, A led by S-Sgt Richard Cook with Cadet Guerad Kinney Caslin Kirkpatrick Duprat Denio Baker LaTour Baroni and B led by Cpl Richard Lee with Allard La Croix Pinsonneault Poirot Hanlon Moore Powell LeBlanc compete in drill courtesy and military discipline.
Lyndonville funeral services for Rev Richard Hiram Hall pastor of the First Congregational Church in Lyndonville for seven years will be held at 3 30 p m Sunday. Officiating will be Rev Max H Webster and Rev Richard F Beyer with burial in Old Bennington Cemetery. A memorial service will be held in Bennington Monday. Hall born March 3 1906 in North Bennington had been active in Bennington dairy farming community work and church leadership. He died suddenly at his Lyndonville home Thursday night.
Raymond C. Lovely will direct Camp Sunrise for the 1962 season while serving as Taconic District executive for Green Mountain Council. He attends the National Camping School at Schiff Reservation Mendham New Jersey to learn camp administration program planning staff training and camp opening procedures. Registrations for 1962 are ahead of prior years with eighteen weeks booked and only six weeks left. no boy will be refused admission. Provisional troops will be led by Vern Hesselton assisted by 17 year old Eagle Scout Dave Osgood.
Mrs. Mary Mollie Wheeler Allen Niles 87 longtime White Creek resident and descendant of town founders died at home. Born August 7 1884 she lived in the ancestral Allen house built 1770 and was active in White Creek Grange. Survived by husband two sons a daughter a granddaughter and two great grandchildren. Visitation at Hanson Walbridge Funeral Home Saturday and Sunday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral Monday 2:30 p.m. burial in Shaftsbury Rural Cemetery.
The Bennington area tourist bureau plans a new brochure similar to a five year old edition. Possible formats include a single page double fold or a 16 page stapled booklet shaped like Vermont in four colors. Print run of 50 000 to 100 000 copies with costs between 5000 and 10000 dollars depending on distribution and format. The bureau aims for a self supporting publication.
Prayers were said for Frank E Antonio at Hanson Walbridge Funeral Home with Msgr Francis B Flanagan officiating. He died March 13 at the U S Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany New York and was interred in Park Lawn Cemetery. Post 13 American Legion pallbearers included Young Burgess McNaney Clark and Knights. VFW Cmdr Louis Ross and Vice Cmdr Joseph St John folded the flag and Ross presented it to Mrs Antonio. VFW color bearers were Wilford Dean Hamilton and Belanger.
London AP reports Big Ben Olu volen, 77, paramount chief of Nigeria's Shagamu Ijeb Remo tribe, claims he has 75 children and expects more. He says fathering many children is what keeps him young, and he declined to reveal the number of his wives.
Funeral services for Mrs Ed gar L Holden former Mary A Doyle who died suddenly at Putnam Memorial Hospital were held at Mahar and Son Funeral Home and St Francis de Sales Church with a Requiem High Mass. Msgr Francis B Flanagan officiated. Pallbearers named. Rosary led by Msgr Flanagan. Entombment in Park Lawn Chapel with family burial to follow.
Arlington youth Robert C. Tobin 19 received 14 days in County Jail for breach of peace with a suspended 12 to 18 month term for resisting arrest after a diner disturbance. Several others faced fines and probation including Richard B. Treadway 19 for speeding, Philip H. Kinnicut 20, two 16 year olds on a vehicle consent charge, and minors charged with possessing malt beverages.
A Montpelier event titled Salute to Freedom is planned for Saturday April 28 with Leland Beebe of Dorset named head of the forum program committee. Mrs Gertrude Hodge and Dr Roger W Mann assist. an all day program ends with an evening banquet.
Obituary notices recall James H Allison a Texas newspaperman who rose to VP at Times Publishing Co Wichita Falls. Bruce Rae longtime New York Times staffer and NYT News Service director. May Bonfils Stanton civic leader and Denver Post co founder's daughter. Isabella Holt Finnie novelist dramatist editor. George S May golf tournament founder and business consultant. Robert E Maytag major stockholder died in San Diego. Austin E Chandler Bristol County Trust official dies in Taunton after short illness.
Frank L. Brown 34 author and director of the union leadership program at the University of Chicago Downtown Center died Monday in Chicago from bronchial pneumonia. Brown authored Trumbull Park about mid-1950s racial disturbances in a South Side federal housing project. Brown, a Kansas City native, was Black.
Sen Arthur C Hardy 89 Liberal and former Speaker died Tuesday in Brockville Ontario He entered the Senate 40 years ago His father Arthur S Hardy was Ontario premier Hardy born in Bantford Ontario and lived in Rockville over 60 years
New Hampshire Republican Bert Teague urged the VA to keep the White River Junction Vermont hospital, arguing Hanover would better serve veterans and a new facility should be in Hanover, with modernization of the current building as an alternative.
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