Bennington House Art Tour Raises Funds for Pine Cobble School
The open house tour in Bennington drew over 1,000 attendees who bought tickets for a Southern Vermont art showing. Funds will enrich the Pine Cobble School faculty salary pool by 4,000 dollars. Paintings by 35 regional artists sold well, with over 2,000 dollars paid to date. Various homes and studios showcased art from notable locals and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Vermont
Bennington
Pine Cobble School
Williamstown
Raymond B. Bowen
C. Marshall Allaben
Christopher H. Buckley
Stowell D. Baxter
Ferdinand L. Mayer
Charles Dollard
Wilbur C. Rice
John H. Hamlin
Shaftsbury
Gerhard Ge
Bennington College
James Rallis
Four Chimneys
Condit Dibble
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Bennington Museum
Living With Art
Hagerman House
Mass
Dollard
William S. Cowles Jr
Vail Road
Stock Averages at Noon From Dow Jones Bache Albany
Dow Jones Bache and Co reports noon figures with 30 Industrials at 933.57 up 1.05, 20 Railroads at 212.57 down .81, 15 Utilities at 161.48 up .22. Composite average 322.49 down .03 with sales totaling 2,620,000.
Funeral notices and obituaries from Vermont area
Funeral services across Bennington Shaftsbury Burlington and surrounding towns honor James G Weber Mary Elizabeth Kelley Hans Frederick Gaye Jay C Mattison Maurice Keenan and others with Masses committal prayers and cremation. Births and hospital arrivals listed alongside admissions discharges and local announcements.
Music Awards Go To Area Students At Burlington
At the Vermont State Music Festival in Burlington eleven scholarships were awarded to area students. NBHS dominated with three winners, including Robert Nowak, a sophomore violincello student, who earned one of three $150 prizes. Other $100 awardees were Christopher Finckel, also NBHS, for violincello, and Cynthia Gilmore of Bennington High, for flute. Jean Mackey of NBHS, a junior, won $50 for piano. The ceremony occurred Saturday night at the festival’s final concert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
North Bennington High School
Bennington High School
Robert Nowak
Christopher D. Finckel
NBHS
Cynthia Gilmore
Jean Mackey
Three Car Weekend Crash In Woodford Leaves Two Total Losses
State police report a three car collision near Mt Melody Motel in Woodford on Sunday night causing two cars to be total losses and the Frost vehicle to incur extensive damage. Two occupants of the Frost car Mrs. Margaret Frost and three month old Heather were treated and released at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Two earlier Saturday morning accidents include a Northe Pownal crash on Vermont 346 injuring Morehouse and Miss Thomann and a Bennington two car collision on Vermont 67A injuring Gerald Corbitt.
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Woodford
William R. Frost
Brattleboro
James T. LaPorte
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Jerry P. Bushee
LaPorte
Vermont 9
Bushee
Mt. Melody Motel
la Porte
Frost
Frost Vehcle
Northe Pownal
Vermont
Vincent P. Morehouse
North Adams
Mass
Morehouse
Edward Harris
Martha Thomann
Pownal
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Miss Thomann
Bennington
Silk Road
College Road
William E. Rudd
Clarence A. Percey
Rudd
Gerald Corbitt
Dewey Street
Breach of peace cases heard in Municipal Court
Bennington Village police report resistance during weekend disturbances leading to two men charged with breach of peace. Willis Pratt, 37, a Bennington resident, pleaded not guilty to three counts and awaits formal arraignment after counsel. He remains jailed on $2,000 bail. David King, 21, of Pownal, posted $2,000 bail after pleading not guilty to four breach of peace charges. Edmund Austin, 24, of Manchester Depot, was fined $80.10, with a 30 day suspended sentence and probation for driving danger to others after a 90 mph motorbike ride on Vermont 30. Steven Moon, 21, of Haynes Corners, received jail and fines for driving to endanger and speeding. Charles Wright, 47, of Manchester, pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence with bail set at $100. The cases span Main Street, YMCA, and U.S. 7 in Manchester.
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Bennington
Willis Pratt
Pratt
John B. Harte
Ross Jepson
Jepson
Kathryn Jepson
Wallace Mattison
James
Mickey) Kearns
Harley Graham
David King
Pownal
Atty
Margaret Lillie
King
Albert Whitman
Main Street
Donald Greenslet
YMCA
William Pulver
Greenslet
Edmund Austin
Manchester Depot
Austin
Vermont
Manchester
R. Marshall Witten
George M. Fienberg
Steven A. Moon
Haynes Corners
Moon
East Main Street
Charles Sawyer
Fienberg
U.S. 7
Charles C. Wright
DES Manager to Address Bennington Labor Council
Raymond Lovely of the Vermont Department of Employment Security Bennington office will speak at the Bennington County Central Labor Council meeting at the Putnam Hotel Tuesday at 8 p m. Reapportionment under legislative review will be discussed and council position indicated. All affiliated locals invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Lovely
Bennington
Vermont Department of Employment Security
Bennington County Central Labor Council
Putnam Hotel
Legislature To Confront Biggest Week In Vermont
The Vermont legislature returns for the 19th week of its session with a long reapportionment public hearing likely. The House has not reapportioned since 1791 and faces a Windsor prison flare up public hearing. A decision on whether Vermont will have a sweepstakes is set for Thursday. Action on Senate reapportionment plans is expected this week.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Windsor
House
Senate
Drought Aid Planned for Bennington County Farmers
E W Mattison chairman of the Bennington County ASC Committee says emergency ACP assistance will help farmers reestablish seedings failed by drought. Applications should be made to John DeVito at the Bennington County ASCS office 310 Main St Bennington. Enroll by June 1.
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Bennington County
E.W. Mattison
ASC
Mattison
John DeVito
ASCS
Main St
Bennington
Obituary: John K. Stafford 65 of Glens Falls
John K. Stafford 65 retired engineer and toy inventor died at home in Glens Falls. He worked 10 years with General Electric in Hudson Falls and 27 years in Pittsfield Mass. He invented Safe Fencing and was active in church scouting and cancer society. Survived by wife Dorothy, one daughter and three sisters. Funeral Wednesday at Regan Denny Funeral Home with burial in Park Lawn Cemetery.
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Glens Falls
N.Y
John K. Stafford
Harrison Ave
General Electric
Hudson Falls
Pittsfield
Mass
First Presbyterian Church
Boy Scouts
American Cancer Society
Dorothy Carver
Bennington
Herbert Potter
Florham Park
N.J
Emily
Ruth Stafford
Harry DeRhiems
Brooklyn
Regan & Denny Funeral Home
Glen St
William E. Montgomery
Park Lawn Cemetery
Firehouse Celebration Honors Bennington Pumper’s Heritage
Justice Holden lauded Bennington’s Water Witch pumper from the 1880s. He credited the North Bennington Fire Department’s parade pride and a tradition of family service, noting a historic factory fire and the community’s role in building a new firehouse. Local officials and guests celebrated with stories, music, and dancing, calling the day perhaps the village’s happiest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Holden
North Bennington Fire Department
Hall Park McCullough
Ned Eddy
McCullough
Fire Department
Reid Lefevre
Manchester
Lefevre
William
Edgar J. Matteson
Martin Percey
Ellen Gordon
Robert Nolan
Alan Noyes
Richard Lasher
Ten Year Pins To Firefighters At Bennington Rural Dinner
Seven veteran firefighters received 10 year pins at the Bennington Rural Fire Department annual dinner held Saturday at the Willow Road Firehouse. Recipients were William Dunigan Norman LaCroix Fred Jordan John Cross George Rogers Bert Fonteneau and Harry Percey Auxiliary presented a microphone for the radio base station in memory of Mrs. Hazel Morrissey Gerald Cornell who was injured in a ladder fall at Holy Cross Novitiate expressed thanks. Round and square dancing followed the roast beef dinner with over 100 in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
New Auxiliary Policemen Graduate to Active Ranks
Eighteen Bennington County residents joined the local auxiliary state police after a 26 week course at the Bradford Hook and Ladder Firehouse. Graduates received certificates, badges, automobile plates and traffic gear. The class included Mrs Barbara Hoag as the first woman graduate in Southern Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington County
Bradford Hook and Ladder
Harold Dean
Montpelier
Lloyd Potter
Rutland
Barbara Hoag
Vermont
Capt
Dean
George Babcock
David J. Brown
John S. Marechal
Floyd E. McIntire
Richard Toomey
Robert Poblocki
Norman P. Gadue
Bennington Briefs Os 7 PM Meeting Change and Local Events
Bennington selectmen will hold their weekly meeting tonight at 7, instead of the usual Tuesday slot. Deborah Giddings, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W Philip Giddings, received a Bradford Key at a Bradford Junior College honors assembly for her student guiding. The Plain Dirt Gardeners plan a Tuesday bird walk and breakfast at 6 with a rain postponement to Wednesday. Gold Star Mothers meet at 8 in VFW rooms. The Bennington AAUW dinner at 6:30 at Colburn House in Manchester Center features Mrs. Max Barrows of Montpelier and a demonstration titled Fun With Scissors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Bradford Junior College
Bradford
Mass
Deborah Giddings
W. Philip Giddings
Walloomsac Road
Old Bennington
Eugene Clark
Crescent Boulevard
The
American Association of University Women
Colburn House
Manchester Center
Max Barrows
Montpelier
Final PTA Session In North Bennington
North Bennington parents gather for the year end PTA meeting with officer elections and a talk on school readiness testing by George A. Sleeman. Dr. Dorothy Hager offers free diabetes detection tests through the Vermont Department of Health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Parent - Teacher Association
Dorothy Hager
Vermont Department of Health
Hager
George A. Sleeman
Bennington High School
North Bennington School
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Dow Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Harte Theatre
Ann-Margret
VTS
Asaloun
James G. Webber
St. Francis de Sales
Francis B. Flanagan
Gibney-Haynes & Kane Funeral
Leo Slattery
David Carver
Earl Lackey
Raymond Betit
Monsignor Flanagan
Funeral Home
Gibney
Hinsdillville
Portsmouth
N. H
Mary Elizabeth Kelley
Edward Hoffman
C.S.C
Holy Cross
Clyde Burgess Jr
Molly Stark School
Mary Beth
Jimmy Fund
Children’s Hospital
Grandview Cemetery
Joseph F. Wiseman
C.sc
Sacred Heart Church
Father Hoffman
Hans F. Gaye
Hans Frederick Gaye
Hanson - Walbridge Funeral Home
Gaye
Charles Myers
Iheerim
Second Congregational Church
Gardner Earle Crematorium
Troy
1-40 Club
Jay C. Mattison
Eagle Square Mfg. Co
Howard Mattison
Pennsylvania
Elmer Benn
Center Shaftsbury Cemetery
George Shea
Fred Bevis
Harry Andrews
William Allen
Oliver Lawrence
Guy Levin
Springfield
West Springfield
Southwick
Downington, Pa
Wethersfield, Conn
Fort Edward
Eagle Bridge
Maurice E. Keenan
UPI
North Avenue Alliance
Keenan
Lake Dunmore
Raymond Sharkey Jr
Hoosick
James W. North
Earl Chase
Peter Geannelis
Maureen Malone
John Blake
John Gates
Lulu Themelis
Nancy Houran
North Pownal
Ethel Kupfer
Hallie Bakatis
North Hoosick
C. Louise Tefft
Adelia St. Hilaire
Marie Armand
Michael Davis
Kathleen Woods
Wilmington
Adele Lukas
Marguerite Rice
Herman Lane II
Lois Austin
Whitehall
Elise Bourgeois
Joan Ayers
Sandra Mattison
Margaret Stratton
Edgar H. Leonard
Louise L. Dumas
Myrtle Johnson
Faith H. Roley
Barbara Stratton
Mary Ann Betit
White Creek
Dorothy Ryan
Andre LaRoche
Grove St
Charles Maple
West Dover
Robert M. Wilson
R.D
Neil Hoag
Morgan Street Extension
Alexander E. Mahar
Elm St
Rutland Hospital
Kimberly Ann
Kelly Ann
Sal Gallo
Music Awards Go
Des Manager
Labor Council
Buckler
State Police
Gordon Mooney
Richard France
Auxiliary State Police
Joseph Higgins
Bennington Civil Defense
William Mattison
Therriault
Alan Dunklee
Glenn M. Linihan
Robert J. van Ness
Stanley J. Zavistaski
Richard L. France
William H. Baumann
Bennington Briefs
VFW Rooms
North
Emblem Club
Elks Barn
Roderick Humphreys
James Chapman
Beech Street
Vermont Public Service Corp
Beech Street School
T. Garry Buckley
Larry Powers
Powers Market
Scotch Foursome
Mt. Anthony Union
Jonathan P.A. Leopold
H. Greenberg & Son, Inc
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