Paran Officers Elected Agree to Curb Expenses
Paran Recreations Inc members at the North Bennington School re elected directors and added Sanford Buxbaum and John Powers to the board. Lawrence Powers was re elected president, Stephen Vace vice president, Paul Crane treasurer, and Mrs. Edward Sweeney secretary. The group approved the treasurer report showing lake property investment over 11000 with a 1900 debt for last year’s capital improvements. They plan no large summer expenditures and run on a pay as you go basis. A large portion of former members have paid dues this year. Bernard Leamy will be executive director at Lake Paran with staff appointments made. Committees were named to ease officers burden and summer operations will proceed under committee supervision. Further plans will be announced soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Paran Recreations, Inc
Sanford Buxbaum
John R. Powers
Lawrence F. Powers
Paran Association
Stephen V'ace
Paul M. Crane
Edward Sweeney
Susan Bluto Moore
Powers
Paran
Paul Crane
The
Dorothy Hager
Howard Stevens
Carl Jolivette
Bernard McCarthy
Richard Dwyer
Leonard Powers
Gerald Nelson
Donald Dailey
Charles Breen
Catherine Corcoran
Frank Kenyon
Gunnar Schonbeck
John Lowie
Daniel Fager
Charles Dollard
William Fels
John McCullough
Norshaft Democrats Session and Local Notices
Norshaft Democrats are reminded of their regular meeting on Wednesday May 23 with a covered dish supper at 7 p.m. North Bennington firemen not marching in Memorial Day parade urged to return uniforms this week. Various local residents are noted with brief updates on travel work and family activities. Mrs. Charles Parsley attends ministers wives retreat in Newbury Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norshaft Democrats
North
Summer fashions show at West Mountain Farm hosts event
Arlington presents a Wednesday fashion show at 3 30 p m with Ed Jannicky of Southwick Manchester modeling bathing suits play clothes and more. Tea will be served after the show and Martha Canfield Library sponsors the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Mountain Farm
Ed Jannicky
Southwicks
Manchester
Martha
White Creek community notices mix travel and bids
Eleanor Niles and Clarence Decker hosted a Vermont dairy princess event in Randolph Center while John Hunt, on leave from Fort Gordon, plans a June 15 move to Fort Knox. Sealed bids for White Creek Village School will open May 26 at 11 a.m. Steven Matteson visits East Pepperell grandparents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence J. Decker
Randolph Center
John Hunt
S. Lewis Hunt Sr
Fort Gordon
Fort Knox
White Creek Village
Steven Matteson
East Pepperell, Mass
Clarence Decker
Engineer Meets With Board on Sewage Plans
Morrell Vrooman of Morrell Vrooman Engineers met with Hoosick Falls Village Board to review the proposed sewage disposal system. He will provide an application for a federal grant covering 30 percent of construction costs. The state will pay 10 percent for 10 years. Taxpayers will vote on a bond issue once government aid is determined. Vrooman will speak at the Kiwanis luncheon on Tuesday May 29 to discuss the plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
Morrell Vrooman
Morrell Vrooman Engineers
Gloversville
Vrooman
Leo Albowicz
Kiwanis
Elephants Go on Rampage in East Pakistan Killing 12
In Saokonia village, East Pakistan, two wild elephants went amok killing 12 people and injuring 30, AP reports from Chittagong. Local officials evacuated residents as authorities worked to calm the herd and prevent further attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chittagong
East Pakistan
Saokonia
Scouts from Vermont and Canada Attend Camp Sunrise Camporee
More than 500 Boy Scouts from Vermont and Canada attended the Green Mountain Council spring camporee at Camp Sunrise in Benson last weekend. Vermont troops included Troops 47 53 31 33 and 32 with Explorer Post 34. Canadian units came from Granby Cowansville Thetford Mines and Sutton. Activities included wood fire meal judging safety demonstrations and contests in map symbols rope work and hatchet throwing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Canada
Green Mountain Council
Benson
Bennington County
Pownal
Bennington
Shaftsbury
Explorer
Arlington
Manchester
Dorset
Granby
Cowansville
Thetford
Mines
Sutton
Hugh Roberts
Vermont Forest Service
Vermont Historical Society names Edmunds Essay winners
The Vermont Historical Society announced district winners of the Edmunds Memorial Essay Contest with Sharon Carboni of Arlington Memorial High School taking first prize in Bennington County. Helen Howard and Melinda Pelham tied for second, with judges from Norwich University and notes from society director Richard Wood. Claude Dern Jr. earns dean’s list at Hudson Valley Community College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Howard
North Bennington High School
Melinda Pelham
Arlington
George F. Newbrough
George Turner
Alfred Kloechner
Norwich University
Richard G. Wood
Claude Dern Jr
Hudson Valley Community College
Troy
N.Y
Memorial Day Program Planned by McBride-Harwood Post 44
The American Legion and Auxiliary announce a Memorial Day program in Dorset. At noon the auxiliary will serve dinner for Dorset veterans and families at the church vestry, followed by a 2 PM service with speaker Frank Brow nell of Manchester. A parade forms at the church, goes to the cemetery, then to the Village Green for retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McBride - Harwood
American Legion and Auxiliary
Dorset
Frank Brownell
Manchester
George Lewis
Cambridge
Mass
Youth Leader to Address N Bennington Baptists
Rev. Frank Accardy new director of Christian Education for Christian Youth Inc will speak to North Bennington Baptist Church youths on Sunday May 27 at 7 p.m. The Long Island native and 26 year old Gordon College and Southwestern Seminary graduate has pastored evangelist and youth roles and helped run New Life High School Bible clubs in 18 communities across three states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Frank Accardy
Christian Education Department of
Christian Youth, Inc
North Bennington Baptist Church
Accardy
Long Island
Gordon College
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Gordon
New England
Madison Square Garden
New York
Christian Youth Organization
New Life
Happy- T-Ranch
Hoosick Falls Hosts 48th Albany King's Daughters Meet
The 48th annual convention of the King's Daughters of Albany District met at the First United Church Hoosick Falls with guests from Chatham Watervliet Troy and Mechanicville. President Mrs Frank J Robinson of Mechanicville presided over sessions. Donations aided the King's Daughters Home in Dansville. A memorial service honored Mrs William D Thomas a 50 year member. Next convention set for Watervliet with the Cheerio Circle hosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Daughters of
Albany
First United Church
Hoosick Falls
Chatham
Watervliet
Troy
Mechanicville
Howard B. Thompson
Silver Cross Circle
Wesley Miles
Frank J. Robinson
Arthur Secor
Hempstead
L.I
New York
G. Edwin Rogers
Chappaqua
Harold B. Robson
District Treasury
King’s Daughters Home
Dansville
William D. Thomas
Cheerio Circle
Odd Fellows to Honor Vermont Grand Master in Burlington
Queen City Lodge 1 and six Burlington lodges host a reception for Lester N. Rines Vermont grandmaster on Saturday June 2 at 8 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Temple 100 South Winooski Ave Burlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Queen City Lodge
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Lester N. Rines
Vermont
Odd Fellows Temple
South
Winooski Ave
UN Supper Reflects PTA Spirit Yet No President Emerges
Manchester PTA marked the 30th annual UN supper with 130 attendees enjoying Swedish Flemish dishes Indonesian Ceylonese salads Russian French desserts and maps by seventh graders. Officers were installed but no president was chosen for next year prompting continued vacancy at the top.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
PTA
Edna Wright
French Theater Topic at Bennington College
Yale professor Jacques Guicharnaud will lecture on contemporary French theater at Bennington College Carriage Barn Thursday at 8 p.m. He will use Jean Genet and The Blacks as springboards to discuss trends in modern French drama and Genet as a potential writer of the absurd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Jacques Guicharnaud
Yale University
Bennington College
Jean Genet
Genet
Guicharnaud
Yale
Paris
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Simone de Beauvoir
Vermont real estate salesman's license issued to Deborah Gemmell
The Vermont Real Estate Commission announces that following examinations on May 16 in Montpelier a salesman's license to sell real estate in Vermont will be issued to Deborah T. Gemmell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont Real Estate Commission
Montpelier
Vermont
Deborah T. Gemmell
Community Notes Include Visits and Music Festival
Peru Mabel Whitney Tel VA 4-6691 Glenn Ashman and family from Holliston Mass spent part of Sunday at the home of his aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Robert C Bettie. Conrad and Stewart Beat tie joined the Manchester School Band in Bennington Saturday for the Tri State Music Festival. Warm days trigger rapid vegetation as flowers and early fruit trees bloom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Ashman
Holliston
Mass
Robert C. Bettie
Conrad
Stewart Beattie
Bennington
Manchester
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Bernard Leamy
NBHS
Lake Paran
Leamy
Elizabeth Dwyer
Charles Parsley
Congregational Ministers’ Wives
Atkinson House
Newbury
Charles
Butch) Kipp
U. S. Naval Training Center
Bainbridge
Radioman’s School
Bradford Klock
Helen
Carmel
George Young
Houghton Street
Clarissa Peacock
Hilda
Rochester
N. Y
Allen Skiffs
Jim
Spencer Haynes
Luther H. Hodges
Democratic Party
Barre
Ann Marsh
Lawrence Pratt
Eleanor Niles
Camp Sunrise
Troop 32
Finlay
Maham
Cooper
Rosencrantz
Coolidge
Glover
Rumney
Dean
McFall
Edmund Kinney
Historical Society
Miriam Tifft
N. Bennington Baptists
Stinson Lake
New Hampshire
Tal McNutt
Edith Beaumont
King’s Daughters
Odd Fellows
Ing
Robert Fisk
Clifford Harwood
Fritz Dillmann
William Bell
Ferdinand Rongartz
Edmund Goodell
Robert Jordan
James Mabry
Oakley Porter
Joseph Fowler
Robert Edson
North Bennington Rd
PLAID
Johns
Manville
Crystal Ice & Fuel Co. Inc
Brattleboro, Vt
Mary Dillmann
Coin Operated
Main St
Rosasco
North Adams, Mass
Aine
Boston
Subways Theatres
Boston Common
Diners’ Club
American Express
Carte Blanche
Thomas J. Walsh
General Mgr
Peru
Mabel Whitney
Home Furniture CO
Rambler's Trade
Carnival of Values
East Main St
Cees
Union ST
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