Bennington Briefs Include Talks Meetings and Local Services
Local events include Rabbi Sigmund I. Kauffman speaking on What is the Meaning of Life on WBTN at 8 45 a m Friday. VFW Ladies Auxiliary installs officers Sunday at 1 p m at DuCharme Dance Studio. Trustees audit books tonight at VFW rooms.
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Sigmund I. Kauffman
Temple Beth el
WBTN
VFW
DuCharme
VEFW
North Street
Veterans’ Memorial Committee
VFW Rooms
Airport plans continue with flying viewed as recreation
Commissioner lauds recreational flying as under rated and Joel Whittemore explains Bennington airport goals. L. L. Logan outlines International Flying Farmers group and Vermont IFF chapter meeting set for May 5 at Rutland Airport. Guests include Richard Hurd VA, David Cummings VA, John McHugh CAP commander, Clayton and Thomas Kinney Jr., and Mooney Aviation reps.
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Joel Whittemore
Bennington
L. L. Logan
Kennett Square
Logan
Vermont
IFF
Rutland
Richard Hurd
Vermont Aeronautics Board
David Cummings
John McHugh
Civil Air Patrol
Clayton and
Thomas Kinney Jr
Bennington Airport
Mooney Aviation Co
Albums Favored Over Singles Says Mitch Miller
Mitch Miller of NBC TV argues the public now prefers albums to singles. He notes the single makes up only seven cents of every dollar earned by a record company, highlighting a shift in music consumption.
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New York
UPI
Mitch Miller
Nbc-Tv
Mitch
Harrington Brothers Serve Diverse Duties With U S Navy
Arnold Harrington, aboard the icebreaker Glacier, advances in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze with mapping duties along the Ross Ice Shelf and Marie Byrd Land Coast. Frank Harrington trains as a naval aviator at Meridian Mississippi aboard the T2J Buckeye with Squadron 9, receiving jet flight instruction and theory.
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Arnold
Frank
Gaylord Harrington
East Road
USS Glacier
Antarctic
U. S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station
Meridian
Miss
Harrington
Edward G. Grant
Ross Ice Shelf
Marie Byrd Land
Amundsen Sea
McMurdo Station
New Zealand
Frank Harrington
Mass
Ens
Frank H. Harrington
McCain Field
Naas
U.S. Navy
Glacierman
Arnold Harrington
U.S
Mammoth
Antarctica
Cable-TV worker badly burned on Mt Anthony
Raymond Murdaugh chief technician for Better TV Inc was severely burned when he touched a metal electrical box charged at 180 volts on Mt Anthony. He freed himself with a push and ran half a mile to coworkers. He will be hospitalized weeks for hand burns and tendon grafts.
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Keene, N.H
Mt. Anthony
Raymond Murdaugh
Better Tv, Inc
Murdaugh
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Elliot Community Hospital
Keene
Albert Ricci Jr
Ricci
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Actor Billy Gray pleads innocent in drunken driving case
Los Angeles AP reports Billy Gray known as Bud on Father Knows Best enters a not guilty plea to a drunken driving charge. Police stopped his car after witnesses said it swerved on a city street. Gray weighs the incident as a misstep during a busy acting schedule.
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Los Angeles
Billy Gray
Bud
Putnam Hospital Admissions and Births Report
Putnam Hospital admissions include Floyd Cross Whitingham Le one Pospesil Jacksonville Mig non Gemmell Manchester James North Hoosick Falls N Y Discharges list Susan Wright Lois Oppenheimer Master Dennis Young Bennington Adele Currier Dorset Irene Boyd Whitingham Charles Thompson Manchester Master James McGuire Master Robert McGuire Hoosick Falls NY Births announce Mr and Mrs George Cross Arlington a daughter born March 28 and Mr and Mrs Edma Riley Bank Street Extension North Bennington a daughter born March 28
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Floyd Cross
Whitingham
Leone Pospesil
Jacksonville
Mignon Gemmell
Manchester
James North
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Susan Wright
Lois Oppenheimer
Dennis Young
Bennington
Adele Currier
Dorset
Irene Boyd
Charles Thompson
James McGuire
Robert McGuire
George Cross
Arlington
Edma Riley
Bank Street Extension
North Bennington
Obituary: Mrs Anna McLaughlin 78 of West Rutland
Mrs. Anna Cecelia McLaughlin 78 native of West Rutland died of a heart attack while visiting her son Edward W. McLaughlin at 251 Union St. She taught for decades in Danby Hudson and Nassau New York and lived in Chestertown since 1956. Born Sept 29 1883 to James and Elizabeth Gillespie she was widow of Edward W. McLaughlin. Survived by four sisters and seven grandchildren. Hanson Walbridge Funeral Home transfers her body to Chestertown NY for calling Friday. funeral Saturday at St John the Baptist Church burial at St Jerome's Cemetery East Dorset.
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Anna Cecelia McLaughlin
West Rutland
Edward W. McLaughlin
Union St
McLaughlin
Chestertown
N.Y
Danby
Hudson
Nassau
James
Elizabeth Dailey Gillespie
Rutland
Castleton Normal School
Rita Gillespie
Agnes Hopkins
Lawrence
Mass
Mary Brown
Rae Gillespie
Bridgeport
Four Injured In Route 7 Crash Near Cement Abutment
A car veered off the highway when a girl momentarily looked away from the road. The right side sheared off as it struck a cement abutment and spun to a stop in the southbound lane headed north. Six people were treated. Susan Rondeau 15 and the Perras siblings were among the injured.
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Page
North Adams Hospital
Susan Rondeau
Roger
Ella Marie Perras
Bernadette
Alvina Perras
Rental Industry Posts Over 500 Million in 1961 Sales
The rental industry recorded gross sales above 500 million dollars in 1961, up 13 percent from 1960, according to Electrical Merchandising Week. Top rented items include floor polishers rug cleaners power tools and lawn mowers.
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New York
UPI
Electrical
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Bennington Briefs
Robert C. Schwartz
Motor Vehicles
Department of Motor Vehicles
Montpelier
Harry K. Knapp
Oakes Street
Ladies Auxiliary
The
Gibney, Haynes and Kane Funeral
Margaret Gibney Lee
Joseph St. John
Burlington
Bennington Fire Department
Elks Club
VFW Post
Charles Doane
Vermont Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
ASC
John J. DeVito
Bennington County
Bennington-Hoosick Falls
Chapter of
Hadassah
Iron Kettle
New England
Bennington Lions Club
Fred Butler
Sarra Ferman Community Theatre
Julianne Ahearn
John Ahearn
River Street
Mary Flet
Ae C Cid Drug Store
Tad Ree al
Paquin’s
North St
Bennington, VI
Dupont
ALL Timex
Harrington Brothers
Puritzan Kitchen
SOUTH
TEL
Putnam Hospital
Anna McLaughlin
Roger Rondeau
Bernadette Perras
Richard Davis
Shaftsbury Barracks
Salem's
Salem’s
Salem
Hamburg
Lge
Franks
Canada
WELCH
Colate
N.B.C
Snider
Lg. Botties
Lady Betty Creamcorn
RTA
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