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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1968
Page
3
A Bureau of Labor Statistics study predicts stronger growth in white collar work than blue collar from 1964 to 1975. By 1975 nearly 12 million more white collar jobs and about 30 million blue collar jobs are expected, for total US employment near 89 million.
An organ recital by Sister Mary Costello will be held Sunday evening May 26 at 7 30 in St Francis de Sales Church Rutland. The program features Bach Franck Reger Gigout Barber and is open to the public with a free will offering for the Sisters of St Joseph. The sister holds degrees from Manhattanville College and the Pius XII Institute and teaches at Mt St Joseph Academy.
Vermonters increasingly honor friends and relatives with memorial gifts to the Vermont Heart Association. The list of memorialized residents from Bennington County includes numerous names across Arlington Dorset Manchester Shaftsbury and Woodford. Donations support Vermont heart research projects. On hand are a Singer sewing machine bathinette dresses dishes books underwear and clothing. Requests have arrived for towels blankets caps shoes and pajamas.
Lawrence H. McGaughey son of Rev and Mrs Melvin R McGaughey of Bennington Vt earned his LL B from Boston University School of Law with cum laude honors among 266 in the class He received the Melville M Bigelow Scholarship and contributed to the Law Review He will join the Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship at Penn and then serve as a community lawyer in New York City He resides in Boston with wife Judith L who will earn a North eastern University master's in education in June
HOME Inc held its first annual meeting at the Ecumenical Center naming nine directors for one to three year terms. Charles Lack Richard B Diamond Robert Condon Arthur Jones Roy M Sanborn Dr Donald Humphreys William Hoisington Richard B Diamond served as vice president and Robert Condon as president. Condon said stock clearance with the state is pending and a stock sale campaign will start soon with a site committee selecting the first HOME housing unit.
USDA reports ample meat and poultry supplies and good stocks of fresh vegetables and fruit available this weekend ahead of Memorial Day. Broiler-fryer chickens, turkeys, ground beef, roasts, pork items, halibut, carrots, lettuce, onions, corn, cucumbers, potatoes, oranges, bananas, strawberries and grapefruit are abundant in most areas, with continued market availability noted. The text also describes HOME Inc. forming last winter to develop low cost housing for elderly and low income groups, funded by regular voting stock and non profit investor stock.
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