New England Group Praises Delegation
The New England Council lauded the congressional delegation for securing removal of residual oil restrictions. Secretary Stewart Udall and Council fuel chair James S. Couzens were praised for ending controls saving New Englanders about 20 million dollars yearly by restoring competition. The program allows licenses for bonafide residual oil sales, easing fuel restrictions and assuring coal interests not harmed.
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Boston
New England Council Today
New England
Department of Interior
Stewart Udall
Council
Fuel Committee
Gardner A. Caverly
New England Council
James S. Couzens
New
Caverly
Fifteen-Year-Old Blamed for Spaulding Fires
A 15-year-old boy has been blamed for setting two fires Sunday at Spaulding Intermediate School. Police say he admitted to trying to burn the school because he did not like school. The youth was found after a door was reported open, and he reportedly admitted to a second fire. A juvenile petition was filed and he is to appear in Juvenile Court.
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Mooney
John Bernasconi
Three minors plead guilty in Bennington car theft case
Joseph Allard 19 pleaded guilty to breaking and entering to steal a 1966 Oldsmobile sedan from Thurber's Garage in Bennington Saturday night. The other two, Bernard Guerard 20 and Dorothy Clifford 17, entered not guilty pleas to similar charges. Allard’s prior larceny charge was dropped in exchange for his guilty plea. Bail set at 500 dollars for Guerard, Clifford released without bail to her father. The trio were arrested in Selirk, New York after police detected the theft and issued an alarm.
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Cne
Thurber
Bennington
Joseph Allard
Union St
Ralph Thurber Sr
Allard
George M. Fienberg
Bernard Guerard
Dorothy Clifford
Main St
Guerard
Clifford
Selkirk
N.Y
New York
Grant Okayed For Regional Police College
The Justice Department approved an 87,335 grant to establish a New England State Police College under the Law Enforcement and Assistance Act. The project creates a standard regional curriculum and four weekly sessions for 30 sergeants from Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island and Vermont. The program aims to train officers in communications and human relations and other core skills.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
New England
Law Enforcement and Assistance Act
New England Council
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Bennington Briefs on hearings, meetings and honors
Town residents are reminded of a 7:30 p.m. public hearing tonight on Lloyd Bevins’s automobile junk yard license application at the Town Offices. The Bennington County Nurses’ Association meets April 4 at Paradise Restaurant with dinner and speaker on Community Health. Irish setters missing near Woodford. reward offered.
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Lloyd Bevins
Bennington County Nurses’ Association
Paradise
William Worthington
Woodford Sunday
the Humane Society
Moon Near First Quarter Tracks Jupiter’s Veil
The moon is in first quarter tonight and lies well east of Jupiter. As it orbits Earth at about one kilometer per second its illuminated portion grows ribbous or humped, reaching full phase on April 5 in Leo near Perigee about 224000 miles away, continuing to look larger than its size.
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Jupiter
Earth
Leo
Perigee
Unified town charter urged for Bennington area
Williams and others push unification to replace five charters with a single town government. They argue a town manager would run about $800,000 in budgets, reduce waste, and avoid fragmentation. Villages fear loss of power under consolidation but may see lower village tax rates. Public meetings set for April to discuss impacts on Bennington Rural Fire District and surrounding villages.
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Bennington Village
Williams
Barber
Joseph A. Pello Jr
Unification Committee
Pello
Clement P. Gilchrist
Unification Study Group
Bennington
Gilchrist
North Bennington
Old Bennington
Willow Road
Molly Stark
Brezhnev Denounces War as Soviet Congress Opens
Nearly 5,000 delegates from home and abroad fill the Kremlin for the first Soviet party congress since 1961. Brezhnev demands U S troop withdrawals from Vietnam and Hanoi's four point peace plan, warns of escalating Soviet support for the North. He offers a Moscow Beijing summit but gives China a mild rebuke and notes unresolved Sino Soviet rifts. Khrushchev absent as Brezhnev outlines a common Marxist Leninist path toward shared revolutionary aims.
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Kremlin
Brezhnev
Viet Nam
United States
Hanoi
Soviet Union
China
Peking
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Russia
Khrushchev
Czarnowski Wins Rome Prize Fellowship
Thomas W Czarnowski of Bennington is named a Rome Prize Fellow among 16 winners. The one year award begins Oct 1 with renewal option, includes 3650 dollars for residence and studio, library access, and facilities at the American Academy in Rome. He studies at Princeton and Princeton University and Cambridge.
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New York
N.Y
Bennington
Thomas W. Czarenowski
Michael Rapuano
American Academy In
Rome
Academy
Czarnowski
P.O. Box
Athens
Greece
Princeton University School of Architecture
Princeton
Cambridge University
American School of Architecture
Congress
American School of Classical Studies
Funeral for Thomas H. Silk Held at St. Francis de Sales
The funeral of Thomas H. Silk who died Friday morning was held at St. Francis de Sales Church with a Requiem High Mass by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis B. Flanagan. A prayer at Mahar & Son Funeral Home preceded the Mass. Bearers included John P. Griffin John Baker Thomas Madden and John McCurdy. Entombment followed at Park Lawn Chapel with committal prayers by Msgr. Flanagan. Burial is set for Eastlawn Cemetery in Williamstown Massachusetts. Relatives and friends attended from Harrisburg Palermton Pa Schenectady and Burlington.
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Thomas H. Silk
St. Francis de Sales
Francis B. Flanagan
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
John P. Griffin
John Baker
Thomas Madden
John McCurdy
Flanagan
Park Lawn Chapel
Msgr
Eastlawn Cemetery
Williamstown
Mass
Harrisburg
Palmerton, Pa
Schenectady
Burlington
Hospital Notes Admissions List Names Local Patients
A compilation of admissions includes Mrs. Amy Pierce, Miss Anna Maria Dunican, Michael D., Lane, Camille Whitney, Master Steven M. Martin, Master Christopher J. Wright, Donald H. Mears, Mrs. Jean C. Danforth, Dexter G. Shultz, and others from Bennington, Manchester Depot, Hoosick Falls, North Bennington, North Pownal, and Hoosick Falls. Also listed are Mrs. Mary E. Hall, Mrs. Nancy Spinning and son, Mrs. Phyllis Main and daughter, Mrs. Barbara Corbin and son.
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Amy Pierce
Anna Maria Dunican
Michael D., Lane
Camille Whitney
Steven M. Martin
Christopher J. Wright
Donald H. Mears
Jean C. Danforth
Dexter G. Shultz
Bennington
Edward Stoddard
Manchester Depot
Doris Bushee
North Bennington
Mary E. Hall
Hoosick Falls
Nancy Spinning
North Pownal
Phyllis Main
Barbara Corbin
Bennington Businesses Back State Route Plan for Bypass
A list of Bennington Flats merchants supports the state’s Route 7 bypass plan and urges a limited access road to protect existing businesses. The undersigned praise the Highway Department and planning commission for considering local economic impact and believe the proposed route offers the best chance to maintain business status amid relocation.
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Highway Department
Bennington
Watsons Celebrate 40th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Watson of West Springfield Mass formerly of Bennington observe their 40th wedding anniversary on March 31 with a party at Moose Hall. Hosted by their six children the couple received a corsage a boutonniere gifts and a money tree. Out of town guests came from New Jersey Massachusetts and New York as the couple and their family marked the milestone with a buffet lunch and dancing to Comstock's band.
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James
Bill) H. Watson
West Springfield
Mass
Bennington
Kelton Miller
Moose Hall
Watson
Freda Crawford
Gulf Oil Company
Comstock
New Jersey
Massachusetts
New York
Bud
Mabel) Ellison
Ludlow
U.S. Air Force
Charles
Frederick
Albert
Gerald Watson
Architect Hired To Design Vermont Expo 67 Pavilion
Architect Andrew Titcomb of Perkinsville has been hired by the Vermont Development Department to design the Vermont pavilion for Expo 67 in Montreal. He will be paid 12 dollars an hour, up to 1200 dollars, to finish an a frame pavilion with construction set to begin August 22. The fair runs from April 28, 1967 for six months, under Deputy Development Director Donald Lyons.
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Donald Lyons
Accident Investigated In Bennington Woodford Crash
The Bennington Rescue Squad was sent to a Woodford crash Monday. injuries to a Connecticut man were not serious and an ambulance returned empty. State police identified the driver as 17yearold Charles E. Clark of New Haven, whose 1965 Volkswagen skidded on V1.9 around a sharp left curve near the Mountain Melody Motel, struck guard posts, and overturned.
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Bennington
Woodford
Connecticut
Charles E. Clark
New Haven
Mountain Melody
Stock Averages at Noon March 29 1966
The Dow Jones industrials stood at 928.56, down 4.06 points, with 30 stocks in the group. Railroads fell 0.77 to 251.69 and utilities slipped 0.09 to 142.18. The composite average was 231.33, down 1.13, on volume of 4,240,000.
Liquor Sales At Record High In Vermont
UPI reports Vermont state Liquor Control records show sales for the first eight months of the fiscal year reaching 14.5 million dollars in liquor, 2 million more than the same period in 1965. The sales yielded about 400 thousand dollars in additional taxes and a net state profit of 100 thousand dollars.
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Vermont
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Snelling
Prouty
GOP
Reid Lefevre
Manchester
Kenaline Collins
Readsboro
Serra Club
Catholic Daughters of America
Mary Ancilla
Atty
William C. Sennett
Anne
St. Hilary
Msgr. Flanagan
John Flood
Sennett
William Haynes
William Grant
Paul Caron
Hagerman
Grant
Regional Police College
Greene County
Catskill
Bennington County
Bennington Briefs
Infant of Prague Catholic Nurses’ Guild
Catholic High School
Thomas Bransfield
Lpns
Austin
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Hotel Vermont
George Archambault
U.S
Surgeon General’s Office
Persis Holden
The
Vermont Children’s Aid Society
Department
Hotel Bardwell
Rutland
Stratton Mountain
David Greenberg
Norman H. Greenberg
Colonial Garden Apts
Mount Hermon School
East Northfield
Harte Theatre
Donald Loconnor
MY Fair
FirTey
North Hoosick, N.Y Grand
Hugh O’brien
Shirley Eaton
Fabian
Fu Manchu
Christopher Lee
Edd Byrnes
Watsons
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Tobin
Turkey
HAM
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