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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1970
Page
6
United Press International reports a deeply moving television moment as Fred Astaire appeared on the ABC TV Dick Davett program. The veteran star drew heartfelt affection from the studio and home audiences, marking a memorable TV milestone.
Hoosick Falls Central School District posted the lowest true tax rate in Rensselaer County at 14.52 per thousand, with 13 districts total and the highest at 22.72. The median aligned at 19.95, and a rate-based on assessed values would widen HFCS’s advantage. Also, the Hoosick Pioneer Fish and Game Club meets Monday at St Stanislaus Hall, Mechanic Street at 7 30.
Young Stephen Kosche topped 63 children with 24.06 collected for UNICEF, saying milk will help. Joe Crawford, Dennis Daily, and Cynthia Crawford followed with 16.41, 11.82, and 8.22. Hazel MacDonald, UNICEF chair, credited students, staff, volunteers, and Fairdale Farms for support and boxes.
Shaftsbury Army Pvt. John E. Burgess, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Burgess of Cleveland Avenue Shaftsbury, is assigned to Co A 13 Bn 4 Brigade at Fort Knox Ky for two months basic training with eight weeks of advanced instruction or on the job training to qualify in a specialized skill. Billy Martin of Cold Spring Road celebrated his 90th birthday November 8 with a family dinner at Horton Hill Road. Shafts bury Boy Scouts scheduled to restart November 18 at 7 p m at the school with registration and Dick Boyd as scoutmaster. London plan to run a Manchester to London train with gogo dancers nonstop music and bars dropped after only two tickets sold.
Hoosick Falls Central School Drama Club presented The Music Man to over 1300 attendees over two nights in Hoosick Falls New York. Director Calvin Pederson praised all aspects from acting to music and scenery with special accolades for leads Sheila Ogilvie and Edward Shaw and for the Vermont State Symphony and Albany Symphony instrumentalists. The performance featured a united cast chorus and gifts presented to cast and crew. In San Francisco UPI reports British adventurer Ken Crutchlow resting while planning a new venture after a 750 mile run from Southern California to San Francisco and other global exploits.
Washington United Press International reports a senior administration source says President Nixon’s welfare reform bill has a fighting chance in the post-election session. A tally suggests nine to eleven of the 17 Senate Finance Committee members favor moving the bill to the floor. the House approved it last spring, but it has stalled in Senate committee. The proposal would replace welfare grants with a new family assistance program.
Boston report says New England could turn summer and winter peaks into year round tourism. Martin Darity of the United States Travel Service told the New England Council that the service will assist packaging and promotion of the region’s attractions. He noted an amended International Travel Act of 1961 and a new tourism resources review commission authorized funding of 15 million dollars yearly for 1971 to 1973 for the travel service and 750 thousand for a two year establishment.
Francis T. Vincent Jr., 32, of Washington, D.C., partner at Caplin & Drysdale, has been elected a Williams College trustee for a three-year term. A 1960 graduate, he led the Class of 1960 as president, earned a Yale law degree in 1963, and practiced in New York before moving to Washington. He served in Phi Beta Kappa, Gargoyle, and as freshman football captain, and will join committees on Coeducation and Budget. He is married to Valerie McMahon. they have three children.
The Promenaders square dance club will host a Friday dance from 8 to 11 p.m. at the First Congregational Church hall on Main Street. Open to members of all square dance clubs including teens and singles. Caller is Earl E. Turner Jr. of Lenox with assistants Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Goodell and Mr. and Mrs. Edward McFarland. Members should bring sandwiches for two.
George M. Morrison of Cornell University will lecture on Apollo 11 and 12 lunar materials, the chemistry of moon rocks, and related topics at 8 p.m. on Thursday November 19 in Middlebury College Science Center Room 117. The talk is free and sponsored by the Western Vermont ACS and Middlebury chemistry department. Morrison, a Princeton Ph.D. and NASA analyst, has over 100 publications and will receive the 1971 ACS Analytical Chemistry Award in Los Angeles. In England thieves stole 17 miles of sausage skins from Lewis and Dickins Ltd, valued at 684 dollars though unusable for sausages.
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