Lilac Hill Motel Building Date Still in Doubt
Developer E Wallace Cone of Watertown Connecticut waits two weeks to decide if construction on the Lilac Hill Motel will start this summer or next year. He plans to settle in Vermont with his wife and two children and run the motel as a retirement business while commuting between Bennington and Watertown. He also joins a new motel association and may operate under a system akin to Quality or Superior Courts or Best Western in the west.
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Lilac Hill
U. S. Rte. 7
Carpenter Hill Road
E. Wallace Cone
Cone
Watertown
Conn
Connecticut
William H. Cone
Old Bennington
Vermont
Quality and Superior Courts
Best Western
Mississippi
Bennington
Halvorsen Opens Landscape Firm And Nursery
Halvorsen, former composing room foreman at The Banner, starts a full time landscaping service and nursery at Percys Corners, junction of Routes 7 and 67A. He brings five years with the Banner and part time landscaping since then, plus Long Island experience after at the Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute where he majored in nursery management and landscape design and earned the Top Gardener Award. He plans a wide program of hardy plants and currently grows Japanese yews, sugar maples, Crimson King maples, pin oaks, lindens and mountain ash for the region.
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Halvor Halvorsen
Banner
Percy’s Corners
Halvorsen
The
Long Island
Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute
Department of
Coventry Cathedral Reopens In New Generation Of Britons
Coventry England AP reports the new Coventry Cathedral opened after destruction in 1940 with a consecration ceremony. Queen Elizabeth II Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdown attended among about 2000 in the pink sandstone basilica. 75,000 applied for tickets.
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Coventry
England
Coventry Cathedral
Elizabeth II
Margaret
Lord Snowdown
Oneida Market Store Nears Completion in Vermont
The East Main Street Oneida Market in Vermont is about to open within a month. Joseph T. Bradley of Oneida Markets Inc. reports this will be the chain’s twentieth store, with others planned but details pending. Construction includes white painted concrete walls, Colonial brick look, blacktopped parking, 8,600 square foot sales area, and full air conditioning under contract by William H. Morse.
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Oneida
East Main Street
Joseph T. Bradley
Oneida Markets Inc
Vermont
William H. Morse
Memorial Gifts Spur Heart Aid By Vermont Group
Gifts in memory of 26 Bennington County residents were given to the Vermont Heart Association over the past year. Chairman Earle W. Brailey said memorials support research into heart disease and benefit medical science. Recipients include residents from Arlington Dorset Manchester Pownal Shaftsbury and Bennington among others, with acknowledgments sent to families and donors.
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Rutland
Bennington County
Vermont Heart Association
Earle W. Brailey
Barnard
Brailey
The
Heart Association
Fred Vanvoorhis
Richard Gipson
Almon Hulet
Arlington
George F. Getty
Clive Veazie
Elizabeth F. Humphreys
M. D
John P. Geannelis
Frank Fleming
Eli LaPorte
Margaret Trotter
Charles D. Hick
Elmer Ayres
Kenneth V. Fisher
Harry Greenberg
Mary Elizabeth Drysdale
Samuel Margolin
Donald B. Sherwood
David Bennett
Bennington
H. A. Whittemore
Elmer Harwood
Dorset
Edward Reilly
Clarence Comar
Paul Bernard
Fannie Toutant
Manchester
Frances Andrews
Pownal
Elsie Kudlich
Shaftsbury
Izvestia praises astronaut Carpenter courage during flight
Izvestia lauded Lt Cmdr Malcolm Scott Carpenter for courage and self control as things went wrong in his orbital flight. The Soviet paper also published a photo of him in his capsule and noted the Czechoslovak agency praised his courage and presence of mind.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Cmdr
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Washington
Carpenter
Painting screens and porch furniture for summer use
Advice on preparing and finishing screens and outdoor furniture. Clean and prime metal, avoid rust, choose quality exterior enamels, and use brushes or spray. Recommendations cover brass copper and aluminum screens, galvanized screening primers, and whitening to reduce heat on metal chairs.
Air Conditioning Shapes House Design and Color Trends
Residential experts note that year round air conditioning influences color schemes, window layouts, roof overhangs, and shading strategies. Design choices like large glass, shading devices, light wall colors, and proper insulation can cut cooling costs by up to one third and reduce heating needs.
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Carrier Air Conditioning Co
Austin
Tex
O'Brien Files for Re election to 1963 Legislature
Burlington Vermont incumbent Senator John J. O'Brien a Democrat from Chittenden County announced his candidacy for a third term in the 1963 Legislature. He filed nomination papers yesterday and will seek renomination in the September 11 primaries.
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Burlington
John J. O’brien
Chittenden
O’brien
Painting Basements With Varied Interior Paints
A range of quality paints suit basement walls. Latex masonry paints dry in under an hour and clean with water. Port and cement paints, pool paints, reinforced masonry paints, and epoxy paints offer tile like finishes for concrete blocks.
Bald Mountain 4-H Horse Club Demonstrations in Arlington
Bald Mountain 4-H Horse Club held a May meeting at Mr. and Mrs. Keynith Knapp's home with demonstrations on English and Western riding plus travel preparation. Participants included Alan Knapp Tom Vachon Debbie Mattison Cheryl Tuttle and others. The group planned a June 16 horse show at Bald Mountain Morgan Farm Arlington and attended Vermont Morgan Horse Farm field day with Morgan judging and demonstrations.
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Arlington
Bald Mountain
Keynith Knapp
Alan Knapp
Knapp
Tom Vachon
Bennington
Pam Vachon
Debbie Mattison
Shaftsbury
Patience Brooks
Dorset
Linda Beattie
Manchester
John Bearden
Neil Knapp
Valerie Breen
Bald Mountain Morgan Horse Farm
Vermont Morgan Horse Farm
Middlebury
Donald Balch
Cheryl Tuttle
Alcoholic Burglar Sentenced to Alcohol Treatment
Kingston England AP A burglar who drank Catchpole’s brandy after breaking into a house was not jailed but given probation for three years and ordered to a rehabilitation center for alcoholics. Stephen Shippen 40 was found sitting in Catchpole's chair wearing his suit tie and shoes.
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Kingston
England
Stephen Shippen
William Catchpole
Catchpole
Shippen
Indoor Gardening Obsession Yields Uncertain Harvests
A husband with a zeal for exotic seeds fills window sills and living rooms with plants. He misjudges birds of paradise seeds yet cultivates marigolds from discarded fruit seeds, while fruits and vegetables he tosses into pots grow unpredictably into apples or watermelons.
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Petunias
Zinnias
Birds of Paradise
Need Additional Storage Wives Claim They Do Need More Space
A guide describes how new instant storage drawers and modular slide panels made of durable styrene plastics can be installed by homeowners. It covers panel backing, molded drawers, wood or glass shelves, and options like beige plastic units with sizes from 3 to 6 inches in height and widths 16 to 46 inches.
Primer Choices For Painting Aluminum
To paint aluminum use any quality exterior metal or house primer as the first coat. In corrosive conditions such as industrial or coastal areas, apply zinc chromate primer. Almost any good exterior paint will perform well over properly primed aluminum.
Emperor Hirohito Chosen as 1964 Olympics Patron
Tokyo AP report says the Japanese Cabinet approved Emperor Hirohito as patron of the 1964 Olympic Games. The Emperor will participate in opening and closing ceremonies under the new constitution which designates him as symbol of the people and required cabinet approval.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
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