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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1968
Page
12
An energetic Mt. Anthony Union High School drama group directed by Jack Carton rehearses the musical comedy The Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the Crowd by Anthony Newley. The production runs November 21 through 23 with students delivering lively performances.
The Vermont Public Service Board approved New England Power Co to issue 20 million dollars of first mortgage bonds for capital expenditures, plant expansions, and additions in Vermont. Funds will support investment in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp as bonds mature over 30 years at up to 7.5 percent. The Massachusetts company owns hydro projects and storage reservoirs along the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers in Vermont.
Colgate University associate director of admissions Philip M. Bisselle will visit four Vermont secondary schools on Nov 14 and 15 to discuss attending a four year liberal arts college. He begins at Mt. Anthony Union High Bennington at 3 30 p m Thursday and continues Friday to Middlebury Union Otter Valley Brandon and Rutland High School with 9 00 11 30 a m and 1 45 p m times. Colgate, in central New York, is an independent college with about 1900 undergraduates and, for the first time in 149 years, a small number of women.
Rev W Earle Forman of Bennington Friends of Retarded Children says money funds education and help for mentally challenged youths. In Bennington County about 752 retarded children could benefit from facilities aiding social skills communication and summer activities as National Retarded Children's Month highlights donations to Bennington Friends of Retarded Children. The Burlington section reports one Lake Champlain ferry service ends for the summer season between Burlington and Port Kent New York.
The Bennington Free Library reports new acquisitions including Barrett The Wine and the Music Barry Grass Roots Collins The World Is Full of Married Men Drummond Murder on a Bad Trip Giles Some Beasts No More Jepson The Angry Millionaire Kirkwood Good Times-Bad Times Klingler The Three Cases of Shomri Shomar Lang A Wreath for the Bride Linkrou One Before Bed Time MacHardy Send Down a Dove Cleck A Singular Fury Sam Benedict The Astrid Factor Orgill I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not So Sure Saroyan Somersett The Inquisitor's House Woods Past Praying For Wool A Ceremony of Innocence In South America General Andrews The Citizen Christian Bishop The Day Kennedy Was Shot Bradford The Sultan's Admiral Ewen The World of Twentieth
Background on Millen Brand author of Savage Sleep and his Vermont connections. Resided in Bennington over 30 years ago, ex-husband of Pauline Leader, and father to Jonathan, Daniel, and Elinor Marion. Reviews by Frank G Slaughter and Thomas Lask praise the novel as a major literary work and a medical document on schizophrenia, with wide sales and film connections.
Obituaries note the death of Mrs. Elsie A. Dean at 59 in Albany after a 40 year marriage to Thomas A. Dean. She leaves three daughters and 21 grandchildren with siblings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Funeral services were held in Albany with interment at Gracelands Cemetery. The notice also covers the death of Mrs. Wallace J. Burritt, long-time resident and church member, with services at Mahar & Son Funeral Home and St Francis de Sales Church. A third obituary reports the death of Charles H. Lee in Bennington and notes arrangements by Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home with another obituary to appear.
Bert C. Riley died at Sourcliffe Nursing Home Friday night. The funeral was Monday afternoon led by Rev. Richard Lenehan of the Christian Missionary Alliance Church. Bearers were Winfred Wright Gordon Wright Benjamin Gauthier and Carleton Philpott. Burial followed in Park Lawn Cemetery with committal prayers by Rev. Lenehan. Relatives attended from Hoo sick New York Brandon and nearby areas.
On Monday November 11 1968 admissions include Joan Perry Joseph Crawford David Pierce Stephen Dufresne. Births reported to Cecil Pratt and wife a daughter. David Wicken den and wife a son. Melvin Chase and wife a son. Robert Gulley and wife a son. Discharges list several patients including Mrs Anna Burdick and others from Manchester Shaftsbury Hoo Sick Falls.
In Bennington District Court Jesse D. King, 40, of Bennington, paid 25 and 4.80 costs after pleading guilty to carrying a loaded rifle in a moving car on November 8 in Sandgate. He claimed the gun was empty, but game warden found a bullet in the chamber and another in the magazine. David L. Jones, 26, of North Bennington, pleaded guilty and fined 29.80 after being found with a loaded rifle by game warden in Manchester. Calvin P. Reed, 32, of Burlington Conn, paid 25 and 5.55 for an untagged deer. Howard Reardon of North Adams Mass paid similarly for failing to report his deer bill within 48 hours. Walter R. Wilkinson, 17, of Arlington, received a suspended sentence of four to six months in the House of Corrections.
Senator Prouty secured a $100,000 per year minimum allocation for handicapped children 3 to 21 under Title 6A of the ESEA. Funds will go to Vermont’s Education Department to start expand and improve special education from preschool through secondary levels in eligible local and state programs.
Goldsboro testified he saw no prejudice against blacks while noting people had interacted with colored individuals. Jones said there was no prejudice in removing the property from market, which had sat listed for about two years with only one offer. He cited offers and negotiations, including a $6,000 bid from a colored family and Skidmores' insistence on $7,000, plus plans to farm and needed extra acres. The hearing continued with a ruling expected later.
The Senior Citizens Center hosts weekly activities with puppets on Wednesday at 2 p.m. led by Mrs. Philip W. Roach of Shaftsbury, open to 55 plus attendees. Bowling runs Wednesdays 3 to 5 p.m. at Bennington Lanes. transportation available from 2:30 p.m. Those needing rides should gather at 120 North St. For details call the center. The rest lists court actions in Bennington, including probation, fines, and sentences for several residents on offenses from larceny to speeding and driving violations.
Mr and Mrs James A McKee of 124 West Main St observe their golden wedding anniversary with a Sunday reception at Mt Anthony Country Club attended by about 225 guests. The couple married November 12 1918 in the Burgess home. They are active in Old First Church Old Bennington.
Various Bennington notices include a Well-Baby Clinic at Elementary School on Saturday. St Andrew CDA meeting tonight at the old Catholic High School. First Baptist Church Women's Society meeting canceled. Bennington Lodge of Elks meets with football films after. Civil Service exam for shorthand reporters with Nov 21 deadline. all night parking ban in effect Nov 1 to Apr 1. postponement of American Arbitration Association meeting in Burlington. roast beef dinner reservations for Old First Church Barn. radio program Our Changing World with Earl Nightingale. County National Bank Christmas club openings with first payment due.
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