Wilmington events note NHS induction and community activities
The Wilmington High School hosts induction into the Helen K. Allen Chapter of the National Honor Society with new members Ruby Adams Patricia Farwell and Leona Lansing. Community groups meet for projects, fundraisers, and mem orial day planning including a rummage sale and various church and school activities in Wilmington and Dover areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen K. Allen
National Honor Society
Wilmington High School
Ruby Adams
Louis H. Adams
Dover Road
Patricia Farwell
Porter F. Farwell
East Main
Leona Lansing
Harold Lansing
Boyd Hill
Wayne Timmerman
Womens Association of the
Congregational Church
Wilmington Trustees Hold Regular Meet
At the trustees meeting Monday night the village streets were reported washed and Fire Chief Harold Lackey will be contacted about washing North Main Street. Timmerman will consult with the road commissioner about repairing Shafter Street sidewalk and the fence on Fairview Avenue is being coped. The check list is being compiled. The 1919 amendment reduced the election of five trustees to three and trustees can fill vacancies. Mrs. George Kershaw said state liquor rules absent. local ordinance may control bottle clubs without affecting lodges. John Willard Jr. asked for $50 for police equipment but no action taken. Timmerman suggested using vouchers for worker bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Trustees
Harold Lackey
North Main Street
Wayne Timmerman
Shafter Street
Fairview Avenue
George Kershaw
State Liquor Commission
Montpelier
John Willard Jr
Timmerman
Middle East talk and local Little League work session
Fathers and older brothers and anyone else interested in Little League activity are reminded of the work party Saturday morning at the Houghton St. Field. Viscount Edwin Samuel, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will speak on War or Peace in the Middle East at a North Bennington Congregational Church meeting Saturday at 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houghton St. Field
Viscount Edwin Samuel
Hebrew University
Jerusalem
Middle East
North Bennington Congregational Church
Arlington youths win district essay prizes in Vermont Society contest
Arlington Memorial School students Tom Poulin and Mary Margaret Henning won first and second in district 10 of the Edmunds Essay Contest sponsored by the Vermont Historical Society. Awards were also given for a freshmen essay on Conservation Needs in Vermont. PTA and scout activities headline the week with a May 10 to 13 schedule and a forest of community events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. George
Arlington Garden Club
Arlington Memorial School
Vermont
Donolyn Hagelberg
Don Kendall III
Daniel Zimmer
Don Trachte
Lawrence Pratt
Benon County Extension Service
Hoosick Falls School Board approves pay raises and sale
The Hoosick Falls Central School Board approved higher salaries for teachers beyond the 11 step scale and authorized sealed bids on surplus equipment from the old Main Street site. They will tighten trespass enforcement, send staff to conferences, and consider renovating the bus garage with a hoist and pit as recommended by the Public Service Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Arlington High names top 1963 students
Arlington High School selects salutatorian Kathy Young and valedictorian Alice May Norris. Young plans to study teaching at Castleton Teachers College and has held multiple leadership and activity roles. Norris will attend Simmons College for International Business and has led school activities, won poetry awards, and earned the Balfour Award. A regional sportsmen federation meeting in Manchester will elect officers and discuss fish and game legislation, with reports on a two way radio for the wardens and the Winhall Station recreation area and a proposed 30 day pheasant season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathy Young
William Young
Arlington
Castleton Teachers College
Kathy
Betty Crocker
Alice May Norris
Donald Norris
Simmons College
Miss Norris
Manchester
Southern Vermont Federation of Sportsmen
Hoosick Falls Notes on Local Illness Visitors and Trip
Edith Beaumont listed in Hoosick Falls hospital as serious after a heart attack at Veterans Hospital Albany. Douglas Eighmey Sr. ill at home with heart pneumonia. Barrington Rose hosts Joy Dewhurst of Accrington England visiting three weeks before Canada trip. Forty-one Hoosick Falls Central School juniors and seniors traveled to Williamstown to see Richard The Third, with teachers William Peckham, Maurice Beaulieu, and R Price Milam in a minor role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Eighmey Sr
Wilder Avenue
Veterans Hospital
Albany
England
Barrington Rose
North Hoosick Road
Rose
Joy Dewhurst
Accrington
Lancashire
Canada
Vancouver
British Columbia
Hoosick Falls Central School
Williamstown
Richard the Third
Adams Memorial Theatre
William Peckham
Maurice Beaulieu
R. Price Milam
Pownal Selectmen Plan Summer Highway Projects
Pownal town leaders and district highway supervisor Ivor S. Pelsue outline summer road work on North Pownal Road from U S 7 to Route 346 with a total project cost of 30485.60 dollars and a town share of 6000 dollars over three years. Additional resurfacing and gravel upgrades on South Stream Road and North Pownal Road are planned with state aid and town funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal
Ivor S. Pelsue
Pownals
Pownal Road
U.S. 7
South Stream Road
North Pownal Roa
Rock Hill
Skiparee Farm
Carpenter Hill
Jackson Road
Pratt Road
North
Pownal Polio Clinic Set At Fire House May 14
Type 3 Sabin oral polio clinic will be held at the Pownal fire house Tuesday afternoon May 14 from 3 to 4 30 sponsored by the Hoosac Valley Home Demonstration Club in charge of Mrs Madalyn Green school nurse and Miss Joyce Stickney public health nurse with Dr Roderick Humphreys on call Those who have not received types 1 and 2 may attend for type 3 which prevents paralytic polio Previous sessions were February 10 and March 26 Also in this notice Mrs Gladys Mason of South Pownal retires next month after 42 years in the Williamstown School System and was the first Francis V Grant Award recipient in 1962 The Rainbow officers election was held at the Masonic Temple in Bennington Miss Donna Strobridge elected color station Love and Miss Laura Langlais to Religion May weddings may in Vermont are discussed and Pownal selectmen plan new street lights Main Street North Pownal A preschool clinic hosted by Home Demonstration Clubs and North Pownal PTA registered 121 youngsters with a second clinic June 6 and third July 3 immunizations pending weather or illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry W. Beals Jr
Pownal Fire House
Hoosac Valley
Pownal
Gladys Mason
South Pownal
Williamstown
North Adams Normal School
Athol
Mass
Mason
Francis V. Grant
Masonic Temple
Bennington
Order of the Rainbow
Assembly
Donna Strobridge
East Pownal
Norman Strobridge
Love
Laura Langlais
Marcel Langlais
North Pownal
Richard Champney
A. Coleman Mason
David Adler
Faxon Bowen
Henry J. Bassen
Ralph Bishop
Frank Haley
Robert E. Rudd Jr
Albert Dickinson
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Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Lillian Milligan
Greenwich
Mulligan
Auburn Memorial Hospital
National Hospital Week
Gardner Cullinan
John Day Briggs
Dover
Beaver-Brook
Glee Club
Roger Weeks
Baptist Ladies Aid Society
Reginald Martin
Rev. Martin
Marie Taylor
Martin
Hill and Valley Council
Hazel Nelson
Deerfield Valley Health Center Inc
Janette Brown
The
American Legion
Alberta Coleman
Coleman
Tel
Legion Home
Dorset
Green Mountain College
Poultney
Susan Barrows
William Barrows
Elsmere
N.Y
Don Scott
Journal Press
Barrows
Jr. College
Bruce Fenn
Sue
Bruce
R. S. Fenn
Colby College
Waterville
FORD
Country Squire
Liggettbosworth
Sales & Service North
Bennington Road
Bennington, Vt
N. Bennington
Elizabeth Dwyer
Fisher School
Keith Watkin
Earl LaBatt
Arlington Scout Troop 34
Ken Clayton
Noveck-Shultz, Inc
Main St
Bennington County
Robert Graf
Rupert
William Burns
State House
Helen Mach
Audrey Mach
Dorothy Weber
Raymond Bushee
Shaftsbury
Jessie Hulet
Richard Myers
George Aiken
Pavilion
National Life Insurance Building
Resch
Hoosick Falls
Board of Education
Main Street
John Frier
New York
Grossingers
Rita Jones
Arlington High School
Edith Beaumont
James Fleming
Smith Street
B.C.H.S
Supe Market
Vera Langlais
Globe
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Powell’s
Jackie Gleason
Glas Johns
Rome
Charlton
Heston
Elsa Martinelli
NAS
Technicolor
Panavision
Warner Bros
Phil Bert
North Hoolick
Big Top
the Kid
the Clown
John Lupton
Mike McGreevy
Tennessee Williams
Jane Fonda
Anthony Franciosa
Monte Cristo
Rory Calhoun
Patricia Bledin
Krementz
Monet Trifari
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