Accidents Reported Near Vt. 9 and Middle Pownal Road
State police investigated a two car crash near Tansitor Electronics on Vt. 9 west of Bennington, injuring one passenger as cars owned by Henry F. Book and Helene Mihuta collided after Mihuta passed another vehicle. Police also cited a second crash on the Middle Pownal Road involving Leon E. Conquest. Damages ranged from $250 to $900, with minor injuries reported.
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Tansitor Electronics Inc
Bennington
Henry F. Book
Averill Park
N.Y
Helene Mihuta
Hoosick Falls
Mihuta
Book
Volkswagen
Pownal
Leon E. Conquest
Conquest
Cadiz
North Bennington
Flats
U.S. 7
J. Duncan Campbell
Campbell
Clarence Howard
William Lauzon
Fillmore Street
Buckley
Highway Department
Old Village Adopts Zoning Law Changes
Old Bennington adopts changes to its zoning ordinance at the annual Old Village meeting. The vote was 31 to 17 amid concerns taxes and future court challenges. The village sets a $2.49 tax rate to fund a $12,605 net budget and a $20,090 total budget with $7,485 in non tax income. Hall W. Cushman elected presiding officer. Stanley Pike and Fred Stocking win trustees seats, replacing Hamilton Shields and others. Loyal R. Nash term ends this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Old Village
Hamilton Shields
Stanley Pike
Fred Stocking
Donald Hemenway
Marcus Honey
Loyal R. Nash
Jaycees Schedule General Auction at State Armory
The Mt Anthony Jaycees set a general auction for Saturday June 4 at the State Armory with refreshments for the public. Proceeds will support a Bennington area youth project. Auction committee chair Thomas Conway says mid morning start time will be announced soon.
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Mt. Anthony
Bennington Planning Panels to Review Long Range Proposals
Bennington Village Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Adjustment meet with planning consultant Richard Patrick of Burdis Associates to review long range land use and zoning provisions for the master plan by the Bennington Regional Planning Commission. Meeting starts 7:30 p.m. at Village offices. The United Counseling Service of Bennington County holds its annual dinner at Mt. Anthony Country Club Tuesday at 7 p.m. Tickets via UCS office 442-5429 or any board member.
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Bennington
United Counseling Service of
Bennington County
Mt. Anthony Country Club
UCS
Yale professor to speak at divinity school event
The Rev. Russell J. Becker of Yale Divinity School will be guest speaker. Court St Andrew Catholic Daughters meet at Mahar Funeral Home Thursday at 8 p.m. to recite the Rosary for member Mrs. Margaret Harvey Weir. Welcome Wagon Club gathers 8 p.m. Thursday at Mrs. Helene Kates home with spring musical by Mrs. Kates and Mrs. Norine Mason and a nominal admission for club project. Veterans of World War II Auxiliary meets 8 p.m. at VFW rooms. Benci seniors must obtain Senior All-night party tickets by May 15. call 442-5553 or visit 131 Beech St. Priscilla's Beauty Shop closed until May 17 due to a death in the family. Elks Club Friday seafood platter served 5 p.m. until done.
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Russell J. Becker
Yale University Divinity School
Court St. Andrew
Catholic Daughters of America
Mahar Funeral Home
Margaret (Harvey) Weir
Welcome Wagon Club
Helene Kates
Coulter Street
Kates
Noriie Mason
Benci
Beech St
Richard Hollister
Priscilla
Bennington
Charles and
May (Keough) Harvey
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Bennington High School
Weir
St. Franc Cis de Sales
Union Carbide Corp - Consumer Products Division
St. Francois de Sales Church
Charles E. Weir
Earl C. Harvey
Carolyn
Daniel
Jerome
Theresa Weir
Mahar & Son Funeral
St. Francis de Sales Church
Park Lawn Cemetery
Obituaries from South Dorset and Bennington area
Obituary notices report Thomas Malone 90 of South Dorset died after a long illness in Poultney convalescent home. Clifton L Bacon of Manchester Depot dies in Vietnam with services planned at Brewster Funeral Home. Mrs Edward Weir 65 formerly Margaret Harvey dies at 165 South Branch St Bennington. Funeral arrangements list St Jerome s East Dorset and St Francis de Sales Bennington with details on viewing and burial.
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South Dorset
Thomas Malone
Poultney
Hartford
Conn
James
Bessie
Dunn) Malone
Chester Lyman
Rutland
James Malone
Baldwin,n.y
St. Jerome’s Church
East
Dorset
St. Jerome’s Cemetery
Aldous Funeral Home
Manchester
Clifton L. Bacon
Manchester Depot
Brewster
Manchester Center
Granville Greenwold
Federated Church
East Arlington
Harned - Fowler
Pfc
Bacon
Viet Nam
Edward Weir
Margaret Harvey
South Branch St
Town boards push unification delay to next fall
Selectmen and League delegates discussed postponing a new town charter vote for several months, wanting other local decisions settled first. A formal petition by 380 voters, or 5 percent, could trigger another vote as required by the charter enabling act. League delegates included Mrs. Gillette and Mrs. Bushee.
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League
Hospital Notes May 10 1966 Admissions and Births
Admissions list include Master David Guile Eagle Bridge and Frances Cummings Bennington among others. Discharges show Mary Anne Curtin Benning. Births report G Scott Neville of Bennington daughter May 10 and A le and James R. Nason of Tokyo son May 1 named Clive William. grandparents named King Woodford City and Barsoleau Bradley Ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Guile
Eagle Bridge
N.Y
Frances Cummings
Francis Connelly
Thomas Mooney
Ella Kimball
Patricia Lewis
Bennington
Henry French
Hoosick Falls
Caroline Mason
East Arlington
Betty Fender
Manchester Depot
Mary Anne Curtin
G. Scott Neville
R.D. No. 2
A.le
James R. Nason
Tokyo
Japan
Clive William
Joseph W, King
Woodford City
A.M. Barselou
Bradley, Ill
Martha Wolf Wins School Poetry Prize
Miss Martha C. Wolf of Bennington High tied with David Black of Spaulding High for second prize of five dollars in the seventh annual Poetry Society of Vermont contest. Carolyn Kimball of Bellows Free Academy won first prize of ten dollars, with published poems to appear in The Mountain Troubadour fall issue. A memorial prize fund is established for Mari Tomasi.
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Burlington
Martha C. Wolf
Bennington
David Black
Spaulding High School
Barre
Poetry Society of Vermont
Marian Gleason
Mountain Troubadour
Carolyn Kimball
Bellows Free Academy
St. Albans
Mari Tomasi
Bennington court hands 4 to 6 month term and fines
A Shaftsbury man Donald P. Snyder, 23, drew 4 to 6 months at Windsor House of Correction after pleading guilty to contempt for failing to obey a 1964 support order. He also received 30 days for careless driving, to run concurrently. Atty. Robert E. Cummings Jr. represented him.
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Shaftsbury
Windsor House of Correction
Bennington
Donald P. Snyder
George M. Fienberg
Snyder
Atty
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Fienberg
Windsor
Dennis H. Jones
White Creek
Jones
Albert J. Gaudet
Fitchburg
Mass
Gaudet
William C. Sennett
Vermont National Bank
Grand Union
Oneida
Edward Rice Named President of Group
The Vermont Professional Sanitarians annual meeting was held May 10 at the Lincoln Inn Essex Junction with 24 sanitarians from state and private sectors attending. Edward A. Rice of Bennington was elected president, with John George of Rutland as vice president and Homer Bridges of Morrisville as secretary treasurer. Edward Vail of Windsor and Ronald Collins of Wells River were appointed to review affiliation with a national professional sanitarians organization.
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Vermont
Lincoln Inn
Essex Junction
State Department of Health
Department of Agriculture
Edward A. Rice
Overlea Road
Bennington
John George
Rutland
Homer Bridges
Morrisville
Edward Vail
Windsor
Ronald Collins
Wells River
Seventeen Apply for Army Physical Exams in Albany
Seventeen registrants from Local Board Selective Service departed by chartered bus for Albany New York. Thirteen seek pre induction physical exams with one slated for induction and three for consultation. Induction target Neil Pierson of Manchester Center. Returning for consultation were Thomas Hughes of Braintree Mass transfer Thomas Hoard of Shaftsbury and Robert Aldrich of West Rupert. Others taking physicals include James King William Wohnus Abel Le Blanc Lloyd Phillips Michael Finckel Edward Doyle Gary O'Dell David Blair of Pownal Center Stephen Sprague of Readsboro George Payne III of Manchester Depot David Slade of Bondville Donald Laurie of West Rupert and Dennis Stewart of Rupert.
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Albany
N.Y
Neil Pierson
Manchester Center
Thomas Hughes
Braintree
Mass
Thomas Hoard
Shaftsbury
Robert Aldrich
West Rupert
Bennington
James King
William Wohnus
Abel LeBlanc
Lloyd Phillips
Michael Finckel
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Morse
William Morse
Daniel Cadiz
State Highway Department
Jaycees
Cushman
James Oakes
Brattleboro
Shields
Barber
Sisters of St. Joseph Society
St. Joseph College
Society
Catamount Lane
Pike
Stocking
Hemenway
Honey
Waldo C. Holden
Walter Lapham
Caroline Darlington
Norton Barber
State Auditor of Accounts
Darlington
Harte Theatre
S Only
Dow Yvette
Mimi U Inbalst
IR Gilbert Roland
Bennington Briefs
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Veterans of World War II Auxiliary
VFW Rooms
Elks Club
Clifton L, Bacon
Dyangn
Ang
Chicken
Technicolor
Apache
Uae
Seward
William Gillette
Monument Avenue Extension
Philip G. Bushee
Jefferson Heights
Martha Wolf
Mary Newton Baldwin
Maude Wheeler Pierce
Montpelier
William Halvossa
Selectmen
Orpheus
Eurydice
Jupiter
Daniel J. Holland
Holland
Kathryn Ashley Murphy
West Springfield
N.H
Motor Vehicles Dept
Edward Rice
Rosasco
Phoenix Professional Building
State Street
North Adams, Mass
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