Hosts Sought for Fresh Air Kids Program in NYC
With summer approach, New York City children plan a two week visit to Bennington with friendly town hosts. Invites close May 15. several local families have already signed up to host their returning children. Four Negro boys ages 8 to 11 and four girls aged 6 to 9 plus a 12-year-old girl from NYC would be disappointed if not re invited due to hosts' schedules. Contact local coordinators to host a child before July first week. children arrive July 23.
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New York City
Bennington
Merle Becker
William McCoy
Lorraine Petras
Joseph Higgins Jr
Herbert Post Jr
Thomas D. Steffen
Wales Hawkins
Tom Sullivan
Norman
Charette
Niles Callanan
Walter Paligo
John Williams
Eugene Prandini
David Berry
New York
Nancy Higgins
Norman Charette
Rescue Squad Reports 63 Calls and Aid Given
The Bennington Rescue Squad answered 63 calls in April with 57 people assisted. Of those, 38 were taken to hospitals, four returned home, four to nursing homes, four to Albany Medical Center, one to the VA Hospital in Albany, one to Waterbury State Hospital, and one to the VA Hospital in White River Junction.
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Bennington
Albany Medical Center
Albany
Waterbury State Hospital
White River
Hanover
Burlington
Cheer squad fills in for missing team in softball upset
Garfield Elementary School in Salem faced Highland Tigers with only cheerleaders present and won 10-7 in a makeshift game. The piece also notes ambulance squad activity in Vermont and New Hampshire, detailing calls, hours, miles traveled, and CPR training updates.
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Salem
Ore
UPI
Charlie Brown
Garfield
Highland Tigers
Highland
Meeting Put Off Of Retired Civil Engineers
Pittsfield Massachusetts Chapter 428 of the National Association of Retired Civil Engineers postpones its monthly meeting from Saturday to May 17 at 2 p.m. at Red Cross Chapter House. The delay follows the Massachusetts Federation of NARCE convention on May 10 in Worcester. Delegates include John F. Doyle, Robert R. Brow, John J. Maloney, and James E. McGill, with Harold E. Grant ill in hospital.
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Pittsfield
Mass
National Association of
Red Cross
Wendell Ave
John F. Doyle
NARCE
Massachusetts Federation of Narce
Lithuanian Club
Vernon St
Kelly Square
Worcester
Bennington
Berkshire County
Petersburg
Chatham
N.Y
Robert R. Brow
John J. Maloney
James E. McGill
Harold E. Grant
Insurance Firms To Merge Here
Peter Donavan Jr. announces the merger of Walbridge Knapp Insurance Agency Inc. with the Wills Agency Inc effective June 1. James H. Walbridge remains a broker at 207 Silver St Bennington and will become exclusive Wills Agency representative in Mutual Fund area. Walbridge and Ronald R. Knapp dissolve their partnership June 1 as Knapp runs Knapp Pet and Hobby Shop in Monument Plaza Shopping Center.
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Peter Donavan Jr
Walbridge-Kanpp Insurance Agency Inc
Wills Agency, Inc
James H. Walbridge
Silver St
Bennington
Wills Agency
Donovan
Walbridge
Ronald R. Knapp
Knapp
Monument Plaza
Post Office Ends ABCD Same Day Delivery Program
The Post Office is dropping its ABCD guaranteed same day service in major downtown centers. ABCD began in 1962 promising 11 am postings delivered by 3 pm but postmasters report waning interest. Postmaster General Winton M Blount says discontinuation would save about 1 million dollars annually.
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Washington
UPI
Winton M. Blount
Army Team Reviews ROTC at Middlebury College
A study team will meet Army officials on May 14 to review ROTC status at Middlebury College. Dean Dennis O'Brien disclosed the meeting amid a studentFaculty administrator review committee and a 200 student demonstration demanding denial of academic credits for ROTC. The faculty resolution threatened cancellation of current ROTC contracts if government talks fail by Oct 1 1969, with a May 19 target for committee recommendations.
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Middlebury
UPI
Army
Middlebury College
Dennis O’brien
James Armstrong
Armstrong
ROTC
Special Committee On
Truck Bumps Buy Involves Village Vehicle Collision
A Bennington dump truck owned by the village and driven by Richard Knapp 23 of 232 Maple St backed into a parked Volkswagen Tuesday at 3 30 p m on Washington Avenue. The 1956 Volkswagen owned by Zephiria LaFlamme 72 of South Street sustained slight damage. Knapp said he did not see the car behind the truck.
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Bennington
Richard Knapp
Maple St
Washington Avenue
Volkswagen
Zephiria LaFlamme
South Street
Knapp
ACLU to discuss parochial school aid in Vermont meeting
Gordon K. Has kell of the ACLU will address the Vermont affiliate's annual meeting at the Hotel Bardwell this Saturday at 1 30 p.m. His talk titled The Two Faces of ACLU covers membership expansion and state files. A panel on parochial aid plans will include clergy and attorneys. Seven directors will be elected from ten nominees including Hoff, Brownell, Bloustein, Craven, Joseph, Langrock, Meyer, Shumlin and Witherspoon. Haskell, associate director of the Greater New York branch, outlines prior roles and advocacy with the ACLU and labor and civil liberties causes.
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Rutland
Gordon K. Haskell
American Civil Liberties Union
Vermont
Bardwell
ACLU
John W. O’connell
David Miller
William Mikell
Richard Sullivan
Kimberly Cheney
John Kristensen
Edward J. Bloustein
Bennington College
Jonathan N. Brownell
John H. Craven
Middlebury College
Philip H
Hoff
Beal Hyde
Burlington
Joseph E. Joseph
Bennington
Peter F. Langrock
Middlebury
William L. Meyer
Vermont Medical School
Kitty A. Shumlin
Putney Student Travel, Inc
Gerald S. Witherspoon
Haskell
Greater New York
Washington, D.C
Railroad Workers Joint Action Committee
West Coast
KPFA
Berkeley
Calif
Philippopolis
Bulgaria
University of California
Highway plan to pave last dirt miles on Route 100
Vermont Highway Department to spend about 1 million dollars on Route 100 in Plymouth and Bridgewater to hard surface the final four miles of dirt road. The plan, approved by the Highway Board, aims for completion by 1972. Commissioner John Gray said relocation may be needed to protect rare ferns found only in the area and to avoid harming them.
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Montpelier
UPD
Vermont Highway Department
Plymouth
Bridgewater
John Gray
Highway Board
Gray
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Drysdale’s
Nichols
Rescue Squad
Mary Fletcher
Vermont Medical Center
Mary Hitchcock Hospital
N.H
Haynes & Kane, Inc
Main St
Bennington, Vt
Lloyd Lions
James Davis
Edward Crealese
Bennington Lions Club
Carl
Curly’’ Williams
Richard ‘‘Dick”’ Fonteneau
ABCD
West Hoosick
Hoosick Falls
National Landscape Nurserymen’s Association
Highway Department
Ove
Berkshire
Maurice Champagne
Dial
H.p
Wickes
Mme
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