Town Unifiers Start Learning Job Ahead
Bennington forms a 25 member unification study committee to prepare a proposed act to consolidate the town and its villages and districts. The group splits into Finance and Taxes, Water and Fire, and Town Government subcommittees led by Gilchrist Horst and Barber, with a fourth to handle highways and police later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
New Government Unification Study Committee
Bickford Hollow
Woodford
Clement P. Gilchrist
George Horst
Norton Bareber
Health Department to test Vermont legislators health status
Vermont lawmakers will be offered free diabetes and glaucoma screening at the State House on March 24 with tests run by Health Department staff. Earlier, on March 10, about 160 legislators and staff received a blood sugar screening using a finger prick and auto analyzer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Vermont
State House
Vermont Health Department
State Health Department
State Health Laboratory
Harold Stowe
David H. Gray
Department
Edward E. Friedman
Gray
Health Department
Stock Averages at Noon From Dow Jones Bache Albany
The noon market report shows the industrial index at 898.10 with a 1.98 rise, railroads at 214.68 up 0.96, utilities at 161.46 up 0.09, and the composite at 316.34 up 0.80. Daily sales total 2,190,000 shares.
Hospital Notes Admits And Discharges Across Several Towns
Admissions include Miss Anne Lukuskas Miss Lind a Cutler Miss Laurie Bentley Mrs Dorothy Ennis Master Robert Tifft and others from Hoosick Falls Shushan and Arlington March 21 among names listed Discharges mention Col Robbins Crowell Miss Tina Harrington Richard Powers Francis Burdick Master Marshall Rowe and more Births note T Craig Renton and wife welcomed a daughter March 19 at Pittsfield General Hospital with maternal and paternal grandparents named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Lukuskas
Linda Cutler
Hoosick Falls
Laurie Bentley
Dorothy Ennis
Robert Tifft
Arlington
Dallas Boice
Shushan
N.Y
Julius Hill
Sunderland
Kathy Rock
Gary Gauthier
Bennington
Robbins Crowell
Dorset
Tina Harrington
Shaftsbury
Richard Powers
Francis Burdick
North Pownal
Marshall Rowe
Washington
T. Craig Renton
Pittsfield
Mass
Pittsfield General Hospital
Edward J. Coughlin Jr
Williamstown
Thomas Renton
North Adams
Mr. Renton
Bennington Plans Elementary Classrooms for Merger Era
A committee studies Bennington’s future elementary needs amid a potential village rural merger. Village projections call for 34 classrooms by 1970, from 18 current. Rural district requires eight more by 1968-69. After moving juniors, Molly Stark and Bendi buildings yield 19 rooms, totaling 62 required by 1970 from 37 now.
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Bennington
Molly Stark
Bendi
Columnist Pickets Alone Against Pownal Racetrack
Montpelier column by Fred Richmond recounts a four hour solo protest at the State Capitol against Green Mountain Park racetrack driven legislation. He marched in subfreezing wind with signs opposing pari mutuel subsidies and urged that Vermont not be rushed by any group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Fred Richmond
State Capitol
Green Mountain Park
Veremont
Richmond
State House
Pownal
Senate
Vermont Sunday News
Vermont
Third Reapportionment Plan Advanced in Vermont Senate
The Vermont Senate advanced a preliminary plan to redraw districts, proposing to combine Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties for Senate elections. It marks the third reapportionment plan gaining first approval as the upper chamber votes to endorse all plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Senate
Grand Isle
Noel Viens
Chittenden
Essex
Orleans
Ruteland County
Greater
Guilford
School merger proposal advances at annual meetings
School directors plan to seek taxpayer approval for a merger of two districts at June meetings with a July 1 effective date. An interim year would govern with a combined board, while curriculum and transportation issues are debated. The plan reallocates senatorial seats and faces mixed reactions from local officials.
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Allen
Clark
Heath
Rupert T. Spencer
State Department of Education
Smith
Bennington
Riley
Ronald R. Knapp
Village Board
Lishing
Fred Westphal
R - Elmore
Arthur Williams
RK Fayston
Barret on TV Tonight 8 PM
Richard C. Barret director and curator of the Bennington Museum will appear on Channel 9 from 8 to 8 30 tonight as guest speaker for an antiques education program from the University of New Hampshire. He will be interviewed by host George Michael about enamelware once made in Bennington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard C. Barret
Bennington Museum
University of New Hampshire
Educational Television Broadcasting
George Michael
Rockingham
Bennington
Granite State Booze Offered At Bargain Rates
CONCORD New Hampshire residents flocked to state liquor stores as the Liquor Commission launched its annual sale cutting prices by 15 percent on slow moving items. Housewives led the rush buying many pint size items. Commissioner Costas S. Tentas said the discount worked last year and helps move stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
N.H
UPI
New Hampshire
State Liquor Commission
Costas S. Tentas
Montgomery March Facts at a Glance
United Press International reports the Montgomery to Selma march on U S 80 for Negro voting rights. Start time 12 47 p m Sunday. About 25 miles covered with 300 marchers. Military escort includes 2410 Alabama National Guard and 1012 Army troops. March leader Dr Martin Luther King leaves briefly for Cleveland then rejoins. Arrival deadline 4 p m EST Thursday.
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Selma
Ala
Montgomery
Tosday
Big Swamp
Lowndesboro
Alabama Nationsal Guard
Regular Army
Ft. Benning
Martin Luther King
Cleveland
Vermont Booze Sales Up 10 Percent in First Months
Vermont Liquor Board reports total liquor sales for the first seven months of the fiscal year rose over 10 percent. Sales reached 11.837 million dollars, up from 10.737 million a year earlier, while liquor, wine and beer tax receipts climbed from 2.465 million to 2.722 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
State Liquor Board
Vermont shares in federal sewage grants total $637,515
The federal government distributed $103.6 million for 852 sewage treatment projects nationwide last year. Vermont communities and the state contributed about $1.8 million for the work, covering their share of incentives and costs.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
Green Mountain
State of
Listers Reminders To Town Taxpayers
Bennington listers issue notices as April 1 listing date nears. Mobile home owners must file a personal property inventory and, this year, a mobile home questionnaire. Those missing forms should visit the listers office or request by mail. Livestock and poultry owners must file a personal property inventory unless poultry value is $40 or less.
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Bennington Listers
Listers
South St
Bennington
Chess
Veterans Administration
Sisters
White River Junction
Vermont
Bennington Briefs Highlights Local Events and Tax Exemptions
The Serra Club dinner, patient discharge from Putnam Memorial Hospital, a Northampton School for Girls student visiting Bennington, a Bennington High light bulb drive called Bulb Snatchers Clinic, and a tax help session by Verle Houghaboom at North Bennington Library are noted. Town residents face polling registration, poll tax obligations, and veteran disability exemptions with deadlines and forms. exemptions require annual application by May 1 and specific veteran eligibility criteria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington High School
Verle Houghaboom
UVM
North Bennington
County Extension Service
Putney Man Dies After Crash On Interstate
Brattleboro UPI reports 21 year old Robert La Sage of Putney died in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital from injuries from a one car crash on U S Route 5 in Putney. The car severed a utility pole, plunged over an embankment, and struck trees. He died of internal injuries after fracturing his arm leg and ribs. Vermont highway deaths total 33 for the year, up from 24 at this time last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brattleboro
UPI
Putney
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
Robert LaSage
LaSage
Vermont
Space Shot At A Glance Gemini 3 Flight Summary
Virgil I Gus Grissom and John W Young command two man space flight on Gemini 3. Titan 2 booster powers 70000 pounds thrust first stage 100000 pounds second stage. Orbits span 100-150 miles to 52 miles final. Cape Kennedy launch. planned landing 69 miles northeast of Grand Turk Island. Flight time about 4 hours 52 minutes. Cost around 40 to 45 million.
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Cape Kennedy Control Center
Haney
Bermuda
Intrepid
Grissom
Young
Canary Islands
Africa
Sahara
Tieran
Gemini
Richard B. Perrott
Richard V. Perrott
Bennington
Cecil Wilcox
West Arlington
Defense Department
Perrott
Patrick Air Force Base
Fla
Cape Kennedy
Air Force Eastern Test Range
Air Force
Virgil I Gus Grissom
John W. Young
America
Pad
Grand Turk Island
Atlantic Bahamas Chain
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Arthur D. Taylor
Bennington Village
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Seattle
Jim Whittaker
Bradford Washburn
Boston Museum of Science
Canada
Yukon Territory
Kennedy
National Geographic Society
Boston Museum
Yukon
Harte Theatre
Ennington
Gomes Sttivanit
Space
Barret
Granite State
Montgomery March
United Press International
Bennington Briefs
Serra Club of
Catholic Daughters Rooms
Main Street
Convent Avenue
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Ann M. Studwell
Northampton
School For Girls
Edwin F. Studwell
Mt. Anthony Road
Old Bennington
Salem’s
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