Grandma Moses works sent to Paris museum for show
A Paris dispatch announces a collection of Grandma Moses originals, about 45 paintings, will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Moses died last December at age 101. Band director Napoleon Ianni leads five Vermont school bands in nearby events, while Princess Crawford dazzles at Woodstock shows and a Boy Scouts benefit. Stephen Manes, Bennington pianist, earns high praise after URI recital, with a Town Hall debut planned in New York. A new Tropicana rose debuts from Jackson and Perkins. Edwyn L. Shudt wins a Lansingburg School Board seat in a three-year term.
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Paris
France
Grandma Moses
Museum of Modern Art
Napoleon Ianni
Manchester
Burlington
Vermont
Otter Valley
West Rutland
Fair Haven
Woodstock
Bennington
Tri-State
Princess Crawford
East Arlington
Baton Twirler
Woodstock Union High School
Sgt. Dave
Patches
Justus
Princess
Boy Scouts
Shaftsbury
Rutland
Judy Parker
Concert Artists Guild
Town Hall
New York City
Mozart
Jackson and Perkins Co
Newark
N.Y
America
Minnesota
New York
Maine
California
Texas
Florida
Edwyn L. Shudt
Lansingburg
Atty. Shudt
Roy Shudt
Festival Echoes honors W Wood at Tri State Festival
The piece Festival Echoes with 110 band members and 150 chorus voices, dedicated to founder Wal ter C Wood, will debut at the 14th annual Tri-State Festival in Bennington. Dr Clement Schuler of Amherst College conducts the band, Prof Frederick S Mirliani leads the chorus, with 17 schools represented across Massachusetts Vermont and New York. The event runs May 18 and 19 with Lions Club sponsorship.
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Walter C. Wood
Clement Schuler
Music Department
Amherst College
Frederick S. Mirliani
College of the Holy Cross
Mirliani
Bennington
Massachusetts
Vermont
New York
Bennington Lions Club
Bennington Banner subscription rates and contact notes
The Bennington Banner lists subscription options and delivery details. Rates apply for Vermont Rensselaer and Washington Counties with three months for 4.25 dollars, six months for 8.50, and one year for 15 dollars, with mobile delivery and service rates for overseas and servicemen as noted.
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Benni Banner
Main St
Bennington
Vermont
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
AP News
Rensselaer
Washington
N.Y
Massachusetts
Plan 3 Pronged Attack on N Y Drinking Age
Washington AP reports a three part strategy by Congress members from New York and neighboring states to raise New York's drinking age to 21. Rep Florence Dwyer leads testimony plans and cross state statements, citing teen drinking deaths and a highway nickname Beer Can Alley.
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Washington
New York
Congress
Florence P. Dwyer
Rn.j
State Legislative Committee
Connecticut
Fargo welcomes chess master Stephen Popel as French professor
Stephen Popel 46 a top US Chess Federation master has settled in Fargo as a French professor at North Dakota State University. A Ukrainian native who fled Russian advances in 1944 he spent a decade in Paris as a newspaperman and chess player before moving to America in 1955. Popel who once reigned Paris chess champion from 1948 to 1955 has won Milwaukee 1958 and the Great Lakes Open 1960 and now teaches students while seeking a challenger in Fargo.
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Fargo
N.D
Popel
Paris
America
Detroit
Milwaukee
Chicago
Mexican pilots crash land near Nogales in failed engine
Two Ciudad Obregon men escaped injury when their light plane crash landed near Nogales Arizona. They said engine failure caused the incident and that they were in the United States to buy airplane parts.
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Nogales
Ariz
Ciudad Obregon
Mexico
United States
Vermont Citizenship Conference Brings Teachers Students Together
Benhi Junior and Connie Killian with faculty adviser Richard H. Caswell attended the third Vermont Citizenship Conference at the University of Vermont. The two day event, backed by the Vermont Department of Education and other groups, featured discussions and addresses on liberty and responsibility within the law and included talks by Dr. John T. Fey and Gov. F. Ray Keyser.
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Benhi
Connie Killian
Richard H. Caswell
Vermont Citizenship
University of Vermont
Vermont Department of Education
Vermont Superintendent’s Association
Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Vermont
John T. Fey
UVM
F. Ray Keyser
Miss Killian
Imports Threaten Growth of New England Shoe Industry
Maxwell Field of the New England Shoe and Leather Association warned that rising imports threaten the industry’s survival. He cited 1961 import volume of 37.8 million pairs and a 84 percent rise in leather shoe imports in early 1962, urging new import restraints and relief measures. The sector employs about 80,000 in New England with 45,000 more in related trades, making it a top employer in Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
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Boston
Maxwell Field
New England Shoe and Leather Association
U.S
Japan
Italy
New England
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Field
Area Schools Stage Industrial Arts Show Today
Bennington High School students and instructors attend the 4th Annual Southwestern Vermont Industrial Arts and Homemaking Fair at Arlington High School in Arlington. Area schools display about 500 projects in wood working, graphic arts, machinery, electricity, homemaking, drawing and crafts. Demonstrations and prize awards follow at 8:45 p.m.
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Bennington
Vermont
Arlington High School
Arlington
North Bennington
Molly Stark
Bennington Catholic
Wilmington
Whitingham
Cindy's Birthday Tops Bennington Tune Poll
Johnny Crawford's Cindy's Birthday remains on top for the third straight week in the Bennington Top Ten Tunes survey. Teens voted Saturday night between 9 and 10 30 p m with calls to 9187. The list shows Cindy's Birthday first, followed by Frustration third and Ginny Come Lately fourth.
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Cindy
Johnny Crawford
Bennington
Paul Hurlburt
Zames
Ginny Come
Brian Hyland
Joey Dee
The
Starlighters
Corsairs
Brenda Lee
Dave Guaed
Acker Bilk
Julie
Lettermen
Realism in teaching modern literature urged by Harvard professor
Harvard education professor Dr. Edwin Sauer told a Rhode Island teachers conference that high schools should include mature realistic works. He argued most modern literature is controversial yet teaches strong lessons and that lack of authors like Hemingway and ONeill reflects cultural lag. He suggested parent teacher committees to guide community use of such books.
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Providence
R.I
Harvard
Edwin Sauer
Rhode Island Council of Teachers
Sauer
Harvard School of Education
Pearl Buck
Ernest Hemingway
Sinclair Lewis
Eugene O'Neill
William Faulkner
T. S. Eliot
Pownall Church Notes Highlight May Activities
Mother's Day service conducted by Lay Activities Committee under Charles Mason at 9 30 with Youth Fellowship at 7 p m. Wesleyan Class to stage Mock Wedding on May 15. Bennington County Home Demonstration Council annual meeting drew members from Hoosac Valley and Carpenter Hill clubs at Manchester Congregational Church. Ladies Aid at First Baptist plans strawberry shortcake supper next month with co chairs Mrs Ralph Walk and Mrs Ronald Paul and pig in a poke project led by Mrs Lloyd Rathbun.
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Charles Mason
Wesleyan
Bennington County Home Demonstration Council
Congregational Church
Manchester
Hoosac Valley
Ladies Aid Society of the
First Baptist Church
Ralph Walk
Ronald Paul
Lloyd Rathbun
UN Moves 42000 Baluba From Katanga Refugee Camp
The United Nations Command begins transferring more than 42,000 Baluba tribesmen who have jammed a ramshackle refugee camp near Elisabethville for eight months in a moving relief operation.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
United Nations Command
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URI
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New School of Writing
Nowak
Manes
Paganini
W. Wood
Bennington Banner
Fargo, N.D
Peaceful Valley
Regina Hurley
Tops
Motorola
RADIO
Babcock Electric
Morgan ST
Vera Langlais
Tel
Methodist Church
County
Carpenter Hill Pownal Center
Jennie Fowler
Robert Fowler
Henry Amadon
Ladies Aid
Balubas
S&h
Davey Oil Co
Bennington Flats
Burt Bros
Dairy Queen
No. Benn. Rd
Dairy Queen Nat. Dev. Co
Seunington
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