Dorset Elementary School plans visiting day and PTA events
The Dorset Elementary School announces an annual visiting day for future first graders on Friday May 17 at 945 am with a 1 pm luncheon and bus ride home, followed by a holiday for the new first grade. The Women's Fellowship meets May 15 led by Rev Carlos A Avila. Miss Jane Hobson visits to inspect the library praised the space use. The Dorset PTA final meeting is May 16 at 8 pm featuring Guy Hughes on art in the curriculum.
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Dorset
Joy Millard
Carlos A. Avila
Chester, Vt
Women’s Fellowship of the
United Church of
Dorset and
East Rupert
Mexico
Avila
United States
Jane Hobson
Vermont
Margaret Thompson
Hobson
Dorset Pta
Guy Hughes
Shelburne Craft School
Supt. Vail
Hughes
Ellen
Dorset School
Recreation Assets Attract Executives
In Montpelier Vermont 96 inquiries arrived within a week after job ads ran in six metropolitan newspapers. The experimental recruitment program aims to lure engineers and other professionals by promoting country living and year round recreation. Respondents came from Cleveland New York Montreal Boston and Venezuela.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Vermont Development Cmsr
Roland R. Vautour
Gov. Hoff
Vautour
Orr named certified rifle and pistol instructor
Washington DC Frank B Orr of Shaftsbury Vermont is appointed a certified rifle and pistol instructor by the National Rifle Association. He passed tests and training before certification and can now conduct classes in gun operation safe handling and shooting techniques for community members. Orr joins NRA trained personnel in a nationwide small arms education program active since 1876.
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Washington, D.C
Frank B. Orr
Shaftsbury
National Rifle Association of America
Orr
NRA
North Bennington Student Honored At Ohio College
Deborah Elwell of North Bennington was named senior woman outstanding in service leadership and scholarship at the College of Wooster. She received the Marjory S. Golder Award from the Woman's Self Government Association and holds English major status with roles in Thistle magazine staff and campus clubs.
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Wooster
Ohio
Deborah Elwell
George Elwell
Prospect Street
North Bennington
The
College of Wooster
Miss Elwell
Marjory S. Golder
Woman’s Self- Government Association
WSGA
Thistle
Ekos
Phi Alpha Theta
North Bennington High School
North Bennington Sabin Oral Polio Clinic Slated
North Bennington and Shaftsbury youths will gather at 6 30 p m at Shafts bury Methodist Church to hear Miss Hanneke Swart a Netherlands exchange student The session precedes a community vaccine drive in North Bennington School gym from 3 to 4 30 p m Mrs Paul Foster remains hospitalized at Putnam Memorial following surgery earlier this week Rocket pioneer Dr Willy Ley predicts U S manned orbital flights around the moon within four years and notes Soviet progress compared with next year.
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Sabin
North Bennington
Shaftsbury
Shaftsbury Methodist Church
Hanneke Swart
Netherlands
Paul Foster
Putnam Memorial Hospital
New Orleans
UPI
Willy Ley
United States
Ley
Weston Opens Playhouse on July 11
Weston Playhouse under director Harlan Grant launches its 27th season on July 11 matching the fire anniversary of the old building. Five plays are set for an eight week run including The Fantasticks Marriage Go Round Come Blow Your Horn Sunday in New York and Little Mary Sunshine with a June 1 ticket info release. Craig Swart named business manager and publicity rep, joining Stratton Corp and Black Shutters Inn, also a Weston Playhouse trustee member.
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Weston
Harlan Grant
Weston Playhouse
Louise Baldwin
Fantasticks
New York
Craig Swart
Stratton Corporation
Black Shutters Inn
Playhouse
Cambridge Students Named On Third Quarter Honor Roll
The Cambridge Central school third quarter honor roll lists High school with Richard Eddy and Bonnie Pratt on honor and John Hamilton on merit. Junior High shows High honors for Joy Hamilton and honors for Kenneth Aiken and Roberta Kozierski. Also notes recent callers including Mrs Rena Brundige and others. Pleasant Valley grange card party set for Tuesday May 14 at 8 p.m.
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Rena Brundige
Eagle Bridge
Gertrude Aiken
Mariyn Dick
Irving Dick
Johnsonville
Lois Ann Virtue
Coila
Cambridge Central School
Richard Eddy
Bonnie Pratt
John Hamilton
Joy Hamilton
Kenneth Aiken
Roberta Kozierski
Pleasant Valley Grange
Victor Royal
Wells Eddy
Lester Pine
Earl Woodcock
Robert Montgomery
Josephine Prentiss
Rodney Brownell
Wilbur C. Rice Named President of Flomatic Corporation
Wilbur C. Rice, 46, is appointed president of Flomatic Corporation in Hoosick Falls New York. A MIT graduate with Cornell and RPI credentials, he has led roles at Pratt and Whitney Alco Nathan and Cook Manufacturing. Rice plans to push product and manufacturing development and strengthen sales coordination.
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Wilbur C. Rice
Hoosick Falls Corporation
Hoosick Fall
N. Y
Flomatic Corporation
Schenectady, New York
General Electric Company
Rice
Massachusetts
Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co
Hartford
Cook Manufacturing Company
N.Y
Paterson
N.J
U.S. Army Coast Artillery
Air Force
Union Globe
Union Swing
Wilbur C
Hoosick Falls
Pownal Schools Weekly Menu Announced for May 13
Mrs. Lillian Gates releases the Pownal schools meal plan for May 13 week. Monday features scalloped potatoes with luncheon meat and Hubbard squash, Tuesday pork stew and cole slaw, Wednesday meat loaf with tomato sauce and buttered carrots, Thursday chicken noodle soup and lettuce wedge, Friday salmon loaf with mashed potatoes and peas. Milk accompanies all meals.
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Pownal
Lillian Gates
Hoosac School Names Mrs Hillman Administrative Secretary
Mrs. Donald A. Hillman of Hoosick is named administrative secretary at Hoosac School by Rev. Clinton H Blake Jr rector. She succeeds as headmaster’s secretary, bringing added administrative duties and is a Hoosick Falls High School and Albany Business College graduate with ties to All Saints Guild Hoosick Falls PTA and Hoosick Home Demonstration Club. She is married to Donald A Hillman and mother of Richard Donald Jr and Nancy Hillman.
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Donald A. Hillman
Hoosac School
Clinton H. Blake Jr
Hillman
Hoosick
Virginia Paddock
Hoosick Falls
Bids Sought For School Demolition In Hoosick Falls
Voters in the former Union Free School District No 1 approved seeking bids to demolish the Main Street School for up to 9000 and the Classic Street building for up to 5000. Work aimed for this summer. No land sale tied to demolition. Board still to decide fate of Walter A Wood High School and Parson Street school.
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Hoosick Falls
N. Y
Union Free
Main Street
Board of Education
Walter A. Wood
Parson Street
Ice thickness estimates from Antarctic and Greenland data
UPI reports experiments by the Chicago Museum of Natural History indicate Antarctic ice averages over 14 miles thick. Central regions of Greenland and Antarctica are described as nearly 2 miles thick.
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Chicago
UPI
Chicago Museum of Natural History
Antarctica
Greenland
Manchester Dial Phones Will Ring 10 Days Hence
With conversion to the dial system 10 days away on May 19 at 7 am at the New England Telephone Building in Manchester Center, final preparations include grading lawns, paving, and wiring. The Dorset Manchester East Manchester Dispatch System will handle emergency calls from the town office, improving police and fire response. Town officials plan noon Thursday siren tests with Electron Alerting System representatives present.
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Manchester
New England Telephone
Manchester Center
Western Electric
School Street
Oakley K. Porter
Manchester CDA Names Mrs Zoufaly Grand Regent
Mrs Louis Zoufaly was elected Grand Regent at Court St Rita CDA meeting in Manchester. Installation set for June 13 with Mrs Lillian Wetmore of Brandon as installing officer. Guest speaker Mrs B M Toomey spoke on her adopted family.
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Manchester
Louis Zoufaly
Court St
Frank Thompson
Leo Charbonneau Jr
Philip Kelleher
Lillian Wetmore
Brandon
B.M. Toomey
TV Station Relocates Its Transmitter
Manchester report notes channel 10 WTEN Albany will move its transmitter for better Albany Troy Schenectady reception. Lower power will slightly reduce signal strength. Equipment change expected by early June but local area reception uncertain due to mountains. Lancaster prize winners announced at Franklin and Marshall College Awards Day.
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Manchester
Justin Mueller
Electronic Service Company
TV Cable
WTEN
Albany
Albany-Troy- Schenectady
Mueller
Lancaster
Jerry H. Hill
D. Howard Hill
R.D. No
Arlington
William Ahler Hensel
Franklin and Marshall College
Local Notices From Hoosick Falls and Abbott Street
Mrs Ernest Malo of Abbott Street is in Putnam Memorial Hospital after surgery Thursday. The Philithea Society of the First Baptist Church hosts a dinner at 6 30 p m for church women with speakers Mr and Mrs Gordon Lockrow of Buskirk on Japanese customs, dinner chair Mrs Raymond Calhoun and program chair Mrs Lucy Mc Martin.
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Ernest Malo
Abbott Street
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Philithea Society of the First Baptist Church
Gordon Lockrow
Buskirk
Japan
Raymond Calhoun
Lucy McMartin
Auxiliary Will Install New Officers
Hoosick Falls N Y Ladies Auxiliary of the Hoosick Falls Lodge of Elks held its annual meeting heard reports and arranged officer installation and a banquet for Saturday May 18. President-elect Mrs El win Armstrong announced appointed officers to be installed with the current officers.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick Falls Lodge of Elks
Elwin Armstrong
Albert de Luca
Joseph Liporace
Luther Rasch
John McMartin
Charles Crowley
Clarence Myers
Elks of Hoosick Falls
Sons of Elks
Ingram
Walter Beckstein
William Andrick
Helen LaPorte
Elks
Mechanicville
Thomas Beaumont
Norman Myers
New CD Survival Course Held in Elementary School Cafeteria
Dr. Mason B. Barney civil defense chairman leads the first session of a new survival training course for interested citizens. State rules require at least 15 participants for continuation. Classes start at 7 30 p m.
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Mason B. Barney
Civil Defense
State Department of Education
Munson
Brooks
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