Tri-State Parade lineup features 15 bands from three states
The 16th annual Tri-State Music Festival will march down Main Street at 4 30 p m Saturday with 15 school bands. Vermont supplies 10 bands, New York State three, and Massachusetts two. Lead band from Bennngton Catholic High School directed by Father Henry Bourgeois.
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Main Street
Harry Eddington
Lions Club
Vermont
New York State
Massachusetts
Manchester
Mt. St. Joseph
Otter Valley
West Rutland
Napoleon Ianni
BCHS
Bendi Band
Bennington Catholic High School
Father Henry Bourgeois
Bendi
Paul J. Williams
Valentine Street
Putnam Square
North Street
Gage Street
Y Hears Finance Report and Club Meets
A Bennington Area YMCA board meeting covered a finance campaign showing 16400 raised to date with several pledges still outstanding. Other items included pool area prep for summer, new lifeguard and storage building, a pamphlet on John R. Mott, and reports from planning and facilities committees. A Mother and Daughter supper for St. Anne Society was held, with Mrs. Gloria Humphreys named Vermont Catholic Mother of the Year. An Industrial Management Club dinner followed, featuring speaker Robert Mitchell on why people act as they do.
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J. Philip Hall
Bennington Area
Ymca Board of Directors
Hall
James F. Davis
Arthur J. Dewey
John R. Mott
YMCA
New England
Harry J. Eddington
Bennington Y
St. Anne
Art Linkletter
Dean F. Hanson
Diane
Bonnie Hanson
Sharon Colvin
Bennington
Arlington
Hoosick Falls
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Cochairmen
Robert L. Mihuta
Union Carbide Consumer Products Co
Richard J. Sargood
Noble and Wood Machine Co
Robert Mitchell
Schenectady
N.Y
Mitchell
Industrial Management Club
Bennington YMCA _ and
Bennington County Medical Society
Four Chimneys
Richard B. Davis
Donald F. Shea
Country Club
Howard T. Guare
William D. Worthington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
American Medical Association Educational Research Foundation
Medical School
University of Vermont
Heath
Architects Collaborative
Cambridge
Mass
Marian Taylor
Arthur S. Faris
David Adler
Pownal
Green Mountain Park
Alumni Field
Taylor
Betts Earns Top Legion Scholarship at Bennington High
James M. Betts, senior at Bennington High School, won the Charles N. Barber American Legion Scholarship worth 1000 dollars as part of legions awards totaling 3400. Betts, headed to UVM, is active in student government, athletics, choirs, and Scouts. his sister Freda is Miss Vermont entrant at UVM. Other recipients include four 500 dollar awards to Bly, Morse, Cone, and Ferland, with two 200 dollar special awards and an alternate named Craig M. Walker.
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James M. Betts
Bennington High School
American Legion
Department of Vermont
Betts
Eva Betts
Adams St
Demetrius Betts
Charles N. Barber
The
Legion
UVM
Bendi
Bendi Chorus
Order of the Arrow
Boy Scouts of America
Order of de- Molay
Freda
Miss Vermont
Robert D. Bly
Newport High
Stephan A. Morse
Leland & Gray
Patricia L. Cone
Middlebury Union
Helen D. Ferland
Hardwick Academy
Gary L. Owen
Spaulding High
Barre
Cynthia J. Bigelow
Braintree-Randolph Union High
Craig M. Walker
Hartford High
Francis Moriarty
Fair Haven
Lloyd Woodward
Underhill
Walter Hughes
Lyndonville
Edmund Lawlor
Bellows Falls
Max Barrows
Ray Greenwood
Montpelier
Bennington County
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Richard B. Davis
Abraham Moskovitz
D. Dexter Davis
Vermont State Medical Auxiliary
New Hampshire
Vermont
Equinox House
Bennington Museum
Richard N. Fabricius
Marcel J. Lewis
James P. O’neil
U.S. Attorney demands probe over mailings policy
The Concord Daily Monitor urged Congress to probe a U.S. attorney's remark that only sweepstakes ticket receivers would be prosecuted. The editorial criticized the claim as undermining Equal Justice Under the Law and highlighted a judge’s questions about enforcement and a $1,000 fine for two sweepstakes cases.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
U.S
Concord Daily Monitor
Congress
U.S. Atty
Paul Normandin
Normandin
U.S. District Court
A. J. Connor
Connor
U.S. Supreme Court
Washington
Pownal Crash Involves Two Cars On U S 7
State police reported two cars damaged in a late Monday crash on U S 7 south of the Pownal Bennington line. The southbound vehicle, driven by Richard L. Foucher 31 of Eagle Bridge New York, attempted to pass the car driven by Janet E Fightlin 44 of New Haven Connecticut. No injuries were reported.
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U.S. 7
Pownal
Bennington
Richard L. Foucher
Eagle Bridge
N.Y
Janet E. Fightlin
New Haven
Conn
Draft Board Reviews Cases Eleven standby and 168 regular registrants
The Selective Service local board met Wednesday to review eleven standby and 168 regular registrants. Attending were chairman Van Vechten B. Graves, Paul Bohne, John Whalen of Arlington, I. N. Bartlett of Manchester Depot, and clerk Mrs. Viola Conley. Of the eleven standby cases four were classified available in time of national emergency, three not available, four removed after completing reserve obligations. Reclassification of the 168 included 1-A 44 1-Y, available in time of national emergency. 20 inducted. 5 enlisted. 7 1-D reserve components. 10 2-C agricultural deferments. 3 2-S high school deferments. 15 3-A dependencies. 15 4-A having completed active duty. 13 4F not available. 10 5-A average liability. 24 deceased.
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Selective Service Local Board
van Vechten B. Graves
Paul Bohne
John Whalen
Arlington
I.N. Bartlett
Manchester Depot
Viola Conley
Scout Camp Chief Seeks Summer Help
Mrs Sandy Dunham directs the Girl Scout Day Camp at the Rod and Gun Club Shaftsbury for the first two weeks in August seeking women over 21 and assistant leaders 18 or older to work with girls. Interested call 447 7317 mornings 7 to 1 and evenings 5 30 to 8.
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Sandy Dunham
Rod and Gun Club
Shaftsbury
Dunham
Union Board Acts on Bonding and Size Agreement
Mt Anthony Union School Board advanced funding controls for the new high school project. It set a 50000 dollar bond on treasurer Hogan, authorized treasury operations, and approved diversified investment of 1.94 million dollars in bonds. The board must finalize a purchase agreement for the Vermont Soldiers Home property by June 3 and notify six districts of next year assessments based on current enrollments.
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Mt. Anthony Union
U.S. Treasury
Barton L. Jenks
Finance Committee
State Highway Department
Vermont Soldiers’ Home
Jenks
Lucy Johnson
Jane McCullough
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Edward L. Silver
Park Street
Scott
Safford
North
Gage
Walter C. Wood
Bennington Lions
Carvelle
Caravelle
Bulova
Pitkin
Jewelers
Moin St
Benningt
Management Club
St. Anne Society
Benhi
James Betts
Good Samaritan
Julianne Hurley
Depot Street
Howard J. Shea
St. Francis de Sales Church
Harold McDonald
North Bennington
Charles LeClerc Jr
Pittsfield
Maureen Keith
Electra
Rama
South St
Bennington, Vt
Draft Board
John P. Morrissey
Arthur E. Wickenden
Norman Stratton
Ostrander
Marian Cumemings
Wickenden
F.J. Patten
Thailand
Army
Francis J. Patten
Raymond F. Patten
North St
Patten
Drysdale’s
Armory
Furst Tou
Bennington Armory
van Dels
Wmond
Magazini
Imp
Rootes
Sunbeam
Sunbeam Imp
Paulin's
Hillman
U.S. Ete
East Poe
Shaftsbury, YT
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