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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1968
Page
2
Pvt. E-2 Alan B. Gauthier son of Mr and Mrs Robert Gauthier has been home on a 15 day leave after completing nine weeks basic training at Fort Dix NJ.
Robert Russ, plant manager of Tansitor Electronics, Inc., announces the appointment of Edward J. Kearney as production manager. Kearney comes from ITT Semiconductors in Palo Alto, with prior posts in West Palm Beach and Palo Alto. He holds a 1960 B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University and studied business at Santa Clara. He hails from Lynn, Mass., now living in Shaftsbury with his wife and three children.
An Army Corps colonel told six New England governors that proper flood plain management and structural protections like reservoirs and flood walls are essential to preventing disasters. He cited Woonsocket, Massachusetts and Connecticut projects that cut damages, urged zoning for wet lands, and proposed a state flood control agency to supervise dams. Governor Volpe said he would push legislation to create such an agency.
Mrs Fannie Aldrich Brimmer of 819 Gage Street died Friday morning in North Adams Massachusetts at her daughter's home Mrs Anthony Tremarchi. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 30 p.m. at Gibney Haynes Kane Funeral Home with Rev W Earle Forman officiating. She was widow of Henry Green Brimmer who died in 1954. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9.
POWNAL Arthur E. George, Pownal selectman, was fired from his catering firm at Green Mountain Park after 11 absences in 16 racing days. The firm, Harry M. Stevens Inc, cites inability to meet work hours and notes George’s wife and daughter are also employed there. George contests the firing, saying the absence was by mutual agreement amid Sunday racing debates.
Timothy Wright a 17 year old from Pownal Road was listed in fair condition at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a collision with a car at Elm Street and Washington Avenue yesterday afternoon. He suffered head injuries facial fractures and multiple abrasions. Linda Mattison 17 of Maple Street drove the car and was checked and released at the hospital. The Suzuki motorcycle was reported as brand new and badly damaged alongside some damage to the car.
Robert Harrington, 33, a former Bennington resident and Edmunds Junior High School teacher in Burlington, has been named Vermont Industrial Arts Teacher of the Year by VIATA in cooperation with the American Industrial Arts Association. He will be honored at an AIAA convention assembly in Minneapolis from April 30 to May 3. Harrington, son of Robert and Mrs. Harrington of Burgess Road, Bennington, is a 1952 Bennington High School graduate and Fitchburg State College alumnus who has taught in Vergennes, Brandon, and Burlington since 1967. He has held multiple VIATA leadership roles including president and secretary-treasurer.
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