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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1976
Page
10
Pomfila Watson, 30 months, reads newspapers, plays chess and pool, and loves calculators. Her IQ measured at 140 at 20 months, with aspirations to be a Cleveland Browns football player.
Halloween 76 yielded mixed scares as Houdini seance attempts failed and magician Bill Shirk endured a 47 hour coffin burying while governors handed out candy to revelers. In Niagara Falls seances drew crowds and a vacant chair for Houdini remained. Elsewhere a man urged not to vote, a hit and run killed a child in Harbor Beach, and a Halloween riot at Urbana Champaign involved over 1,000 with arrests and minor injuries.
New Englanders face a colder than normal November after a dreary October. The National Weather Service cautions no long range winter forecasts yet but forecasters and Old Farmer’s Almanac predict a cold winter. Frost came early in Boston and Portland with subpar sun. fuel costs remain high as power use rises.
A 1.38 million carat topaz, weighing 596 pounds, is exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The stone was mined in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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