Falls election split votes. Joan Rogers wins by two
Hoosick Falls residents split evenly between Republican and Democratic candidates in town offices. Raymond Calhoun, Republican incumbent, reelected supervisor with 1,550 votes to 1,084 for Joseph Berlant. Joan Rogers, Democrat, narrowly defeated Arthur Hyde Jr. for councilman four years by two votes, 1,311 to 1,309, pending write-ins. Total turnout 2,728.
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Edith Beaumont
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick
Raymond EE. _ Calhoun
Joseph T. Berlant
Joan Rogers
Arthur Hyde Jr
Troy
Ray Albowicz
William Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
Hoosick Falls Village
John “Butch” Gildea
John Gorman
Gorman
Edward Gorman
Town
Justice
the Supreme Court
Ellis J. Staley
Roger J. Miner
Milton Levine
Daniel H. Prior
Pownal School Board reviews center resources and budget
The Pownal school board met at the Bennington media center where Cindy Sprague outlined the center’s materials and equipment for teachers. The board approved a $16,175 operating budget, rejected a bicentennial club proposal, and authorized treasurer Rachel Mason to invest Mt Anthony Union HS funds in short term notes.
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Pownal
Bennington
Cindy Sprague
George Sleeman
Rachel Mason
Mount Anthony Union High School
Manchester pool fund drive questioned as year end nears
Manchester selectmen vent concerns over ponding funds for the recreation area pool project. Town Manager Henry R. Lambert says about 40 000 yet must be raised from a 76 000 local share as $304 000 total cost looms. Rod and Gun Club credit line could absorb part of shortfall.
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Russ Garland
Manchester
Henry R. Lambert
Lambert
Rod and Gun Club
I. Stanford Zecher Jr
Recreation Committee
Douglas C. Schner
Pownal Board to Meet Thursday Evening
The Pownal Board of Selectmen will meet Thursday at 5 p.m. at the town office. Donations of knick knacks dishes pots and pans jewelry stuffed animals and clothing are accepted this week at Pownal United Methodist Church for the Wesleyan Class rummage sale Friday and Saturday. A joint red telephone system for reporting fires in Pownal Center and neighboring districts is now available by calling 823-7888 for fire reports only. The Pownal Center Rescue Squad begins coin card collection Thursday. contact numbers are 823-5677 day and 823-7717 night. A Cub Scout pack will meet tonight at 7:30 at Mrs. Diane Zangari’s home.
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Pownal United Methodist Church
Pownal Center
Diane Zangari
Aiken recalls breakfast with Mansfield in Washington days
Former Senator George D. Aiken reflecting in Putney on Washington life, breakfast talks with Mike Mansfield, and the era of presidents from Eisenhower to Johnson. He praises swift White House actions, recalls Adams, Nixon, and Johnson, and notes how agricultural aid and food stamp battles shaped his career.
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Dummerston
U. S
George David Aiken
Vermont
Aiken
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Congress
Montana
Mike
Lola
Johnson
Bobby Baker
National Archives
Nixon
Vietnam
Jack
Ike
Sherman Adams
Adams
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Shelburne
White House
House
Ezra Benson
Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon
Bobby Kennedy
Robert LaFollette
Wisconsin
Hubert Humphrey
Lenore Sullivan
Missouri
Sullivan
Covar
Orville Freeman
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
Joe
West Virginia
McCarthy
Edward Bennett Williams
Williams
Utah
Joe McCarthy
George Aiken
Jack Kennedy
Tucker Chapter 38 Meeting in North Bennington
North Bennington Tucker Chapter 38, CBS, will meet Thursday November 6 at the Masonic Temple. A turkey supper at 6 30 p.m. will precede the meeting with district deputies Sister Evelyn Stearns and Brother Robert Toone making their official visitation. The degree work will be exemplified at this time.
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Tucker Chapter
CBS
Masonic Temple
North Bennington
Evelyn Stearns
Robert Toone
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By Pam Blakeman
Amy Burger
Gary Lamoureaux
Gracemary Keith
William Jones
Linda Donigan
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Dufresne Henry Water Engineers
Vincent Pizzano
Howard Brookner
Maurice Hight
Joel Burrington
John Mason
Bernard Bisson
Sleeman
Louis Axt
Arthur J. O’dea
Pamela Blakeman
Board of Selectmen
FRYE
New York
Spring
Williamstown
Mass
Ken Hall
Brattleboro Reformer
George D. Aiken
By Ken Hall
France
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St. Lawrence Seaway
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