Dodge Machine and Tool Co Formed in Hoosick Falls
Dodge Fibers Corp of Hoosick Falls NY announces the purchase of Ankler Precision Tool Co to operate as a separate subsidiary named Dodge Machine and Tool Co It will design and manufacture machinery for packaging processing foods and insulating wires and continue Ankler work including plastic mold tool and dye business Barrington Rose named plant manager 12 workers planned with skilled retirees offered part or full time roles.
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Hoosick Falls
Dodge Fibers Corp
N.Y
Ankler Precision Tool Co
Dodge Machine and Tool Co
Ankler Co
Cleveland E. Dodge Jr
Pownal
William McMartin
John Davison
Hoo Sick Falls
Tion
Barrington Rose
Brattleboro Estate Sold To Train Peace Corps Staff
Putney based Experiment in International Living Inc purchases Sandanona estate in Brattleboro to expand facilities for Peace Corps training. The 40 acre landmark once housed Dorothy Gilroy Bibby Persons and includes a 23 room main house, Bliss Cottage, stables, cider mill, fields, woods, a natural swimming pool and tennis court.
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Putney
Experiment In International Living, Inc
Peace Corps
F. Gordon Boyce
Sandanona
Brattleboro
America
U.S
Brattleboro Estate
Dorthy Gilroy Bibby Persons
Persons
T. F. Allen Bibby
Willis P. Donkin
Darien
Local Society Notes and Upcoming Meetings Update
Cambridge Area residents share weekend visits with relatives in Coila South Cambridge Mechanicville Eagle Bridge and Charlton. Churches in the North Hoosick circuit plan meetings in late March and early April while Seniors prepare for an April 13 14 convocation at RPI Field House. New births at McClellan Hospital include Stephen Charles Teresa Alma and Nancy Marie.
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June Johnson
Mildred Elley School
Albany
Thur Johnson
Coila
Norman D. Bott
South
Cambridge
Eva Bartel
Nettie Vosburgh
Mechanicville
Mary Curtis
Eagle, Bridge
Gertrude Aiken
Malcolm Hamilton
William Spink Sr
Charlton
MYF
RPI
Troy
Rev
Miller
North Hoosick Circuit
South Cambridge
Stephen Charles
Edward D. Powers Sr
Teresa Alma
Robert J. Wilson
Nancy Marie
Alfred Dawley
County Mail Carriers Will Meet Saturday
The Bennington County chapter of the Vermont Rural Letter Carriers Association and the Ladies Auxiliary plan their annual gathering Saturday at 6 30 p.m. at the Green Mountain Restaurant in Arlington. Active retired substitute carriers and widows are invited. State officers Van B Slack Irving R Davie George Farnsworth Jr and Wilm ond Lobdell will attend. A turkey dinner entertainment and county auxiliary meetings follow.
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Bennington County
Vermont Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Green Mountain
Arlington
van B. Slack
Proctorsville
Irving R. Davie
West Glover
George F. Farnsworth Jr
St. Johnsbury
Wilmond Lobdell
Wells
Robert Buck
Roger White
Charles Rounds
Bennington
Ricky Leonard Receives Award for TV Dancing
Ricky Leonard son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Leonard wins an award of merit from Community Opticians of Boston sponsors of Community Auditions. The certificate signed by Dr Charles W Holden honors an outstanding performance on New England's showcase for talented amateurs seen on WBZ TV. He will perform at Monroe State Boys Forestry Camp Friday night. He studies at the DuCharme School of Dance in Benninton.
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Somerset
Ricky” Leonard
Lawrence Leonard
Community Opticians of
Boston
Charles W. Holden
New England
Wbz-Tv
Monroe
Mass
DuCharme School of Dance
Bennington
Shaftsbury Notes Visitors and Local Activities
Shaftsbury reports visiting relatives from Indianapolis and Castleton. Fred Stacy and Carl visited Lenox, Massachusetts. The Shaftsbury Fire Department Auxiliary meets March 28 at 7 30 p.m. at Mrs Henry Bunk's home. Boy Scout Troop 31 to conduct a paper drive March 24 starting at 8 30 a.m.
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Fred Stickle
Bessie
Indianapolis
Ind
Castleton
Clarence Chandler
Fred Stacy
Carl
Lenox
Mass
John Cloutman
Shaftsbury
Henry Bunk
Boy Scout Troop 31
Dorset Maplewood 4-H Girls Meet with Seventeen Attendees
The Dorset Maplewood 4-H girls gathered in the church vestry Monday with 17 members present. Mrs. Calvin Skinner, with four years of cream and sugar making experience, led the session. A business and project meeting is planned for Monday March 26 in the vestry.
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Calvin Skinner
Roger Rumney
Boston
Austin Rumney
Olive Dern
Roger Haye
Manchester
Sue
Montreal
Hazel Matson
Northhampton
Mass
Ernest Holt
Adele Currier
Putnam Memorial Hospital
George McWayne
Campus Chronicler Best Job at the College is Faculty's Tea Girl
Senior Suzie Whiteacre runs Bennington College’s weekday 4 to 4 30 tea hour serving tea coffee and cookies in the faculty lounge She trains five peers Babette Amberger Lisa Gallatin Rey Hallowell Sheilah Marlowe and May Vaughan in etiquette and hospitality noting the long tradition begun by Mrs Leigh and continued as a campus respite through the years
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North Bennington
Bennington College
Suzie Whiteacre
Bennington
Suzie
Fisk
William C. Fels
Robert D. Leigh
Pownal Youth Groups Aid Easter Seal Drive Efforts
Youth groups in Pownal including Boy Scout Troop 47 Mountainside 4-H Club and Pownal Pioneers 4-H Club will canvass North Pownal and Pownal Center with Easter Seal letters and stamps. Funds support the Vermont Association for the Crippled and local school and community projects.
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Cleveland E. Dodge Jr
Charles W. Rounds
Pownal
Boy Scout Troop 47
Vermont Association For the Crippled
Vermont GOP Women to Attend D C Conference Session
Mrs. Clifford P. Harwood announces a Vermont group will travel to Washington D C for the 10th anniversary Republican Women's Conference April 15 to 17. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller will speak at the closing luncheon. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith will key the Monday banquet.
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Clifford P. Harwood
Vermont
Washington, D.C
Harwood
Manchester Center
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Statler Hilton
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
GOP
Leonard Hall
Meade Alcorn
Thurston Morton
William E. Miller
Bertha S. Adkins
Jose Limon Dance Sellout at Williamstown Adams Theatre
Williamstown review lauds Jose Limon and company for a high order program. The Moor's Pavane with handkerchief prop, Purcell piano accompaniment, and Currier Quartet are highlighted alongside soloists McCallum Huth Venable. The concert, a sellout, showcases modern dance moving beyond classical ballet toward expressive motion.
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Williamstown
Jose Limon
Adams Memorial Theatre
Simons
Henry Purcell
Simon Sadoff
Ruth Currier
Simon
Bennington College
Norman Dello Joio
Betty Jones
Miss Currie
Lola Huth
Lucy Venable
Jose Simon
Central Evaporating Sugarhouse Brings Vermont Maple to Main Route
Bob Coombs Jr. operates Beaver Brook Sugar House at Routes 9 and 8, premiering central evaporation in Vermont. The facility collects sap from neighbors, boils in two large evaporators, and hosts about 1,200 visitors in a season while producing thousands of gallons of syrup. Boiling runs late winter to spring, typically March 10 to May 1, depending on sap flow.
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Bob Coombs Jr
Wilmington
Vermont
Beaver Brook
Bob Coombs
Coombs
New England
Bennington
Brattleboro
Return of Princess Grace Seen Just Another Comeback
Hollywood writers note that stars repeatedly return after retirement, citing Grace Kelly and others. Many legends such as Fred Astaire Betty Hutton Shirley Temple Harold Lloyd Greta Garbo and Mary Pickford are mentioned for comebacks or failed relaunches, highlighting the fickle nature of show business.
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Princess Grace
Hollywood
Grace Kelly
Sarah Bernhardt
Harry Lauder
Fred Astair
Gene Kelly
Fred
Betty Hutton
Las Vegas
Shirley Temple
Harold Lloyd
Lloyd
Helen Hayes
Son John
Anastasia
John Gilbert
Greta Garbo
Christina
Laurence Olivier
Gilbert
Garbo
Mary Pickford
Deanna Durbin
Norma Shearer
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Dodge Fibers
Margaret Aiken
Ricky Leonard
Dancing
Fran Stacy
Dorset
Miriam Tifft
Campus Chronicler
Ellen Bernstein
Edith Beaumont
Hoosick Falls Little Theater Group
Central School
Ron Badgeley
Paul Fink
All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Ellie Fink
Kate Keller
Joe Vinek
Joe Keller
Chris
Ben Sorkin
Sue Bayliss
Ann Deever
George Deever
Jim Bayliss
Frank Ludley
Lydia
Bert
Ellis’ Auxiliary
BPOE
William E. Burns
Harold Cutler
Leo Albowicz
William Badley
Henry Hanselman
Heart Association
Arnold Kuebler
William Bohmer
Norman Myers
Larry Lasser
Myers
Harold Doyle
Bohmer
Margaret Hoffman
Howard O’brien
Edwin Schneide
William Ruditis
Sam Scaglione
Andy DeJernes
Jerry Deluca
Donald Smith
Raymond Cuddihy
Little Theater Group
Sarra Ferman Community Theatre
Carl Kempf
Mechanic Street
Mary McClellan Hospital
Burtram Barber
River Street
George Kretzmer
The
Pownals
Vera Langlais
Tel
Florida
Benjamin L. Powell
Powells
North Pownal School
Heart Fund
Harriet Beals
the Pownals
Fred Babcock
East Pownal
Eli Little
South Pownal
Richard Pudvar
North
Emerson Bates
Pownal Center
Alfred Davis
Arthur James
Susan Smith
Linda
Susan Pudvar
Sandra Barber
Alfred Chenaille
Doris Mason
Department Auxiliary
George Renner
Glenn Sweet
Grace Hill
Jackson Ostrander
Earl Wright
D.C
Dance Review
By Lisa Tate
Sugarbush
Coomb
Jacksonville
Pixie
Nichols
By Bob Thomas
Olivier
Sandran
Dunhams Furniture
Elm Street
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