Vermont Tissue Co. closed for indefinite time
Plant manager Edward G. Woodard said operations at the Vermont Tissue Co. plant on Route 67A are halted after an October 11 explosion damaged drying cans and pipes. Replacement parts are costly and time consuming to fab and install. Two cement basins to treat pollutants are nearly complete, with sewage to flow into them and settle about 84 percent of solids before entering Bennington’s sewer system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont Tissue Co
Edward G. Woodard
Woodard
Vermont Tissue
Walloomsac River
VFW To Honor Gold Star Unit At 7 P M
Green Mountain Chapter Gold Star Mothers will be honored by VFW Post 1332 and auxiliary Saturday night at 7 in the VFW rooms. Co chairs are Thomas Kinney and Ernest Costa. Mrs Helen Galipeau will play piano with Miss Sharon Brittingham and Anthony Union High School student. Roast beef dinner by Wesley James and Harold Bodine afterward. Vermont Tissue to build anti pollution system, promised completion by Dec 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Mountain
Gold Star
VFW Rooms
Cmdr
Thomas Kinney
Ernest Costa
Helen Galipeau
Sharon Brittingham
Anthony
Dates Set For Cotillion And Patrons Dance
The fifth annual Christmas Cotillion will be at Mt. Anthony Country Club on Thursday December 26 as a supper dance for high school students chaired by Mrs. Harry Eddington and Mrs. Joseph Madkour. A dinner dance for patrons and patronesses follows at the same club on Friday December 27 with co chairs Mrs. Dudley M. Baker and Mrs. James C. Jerome. Proceeds benefit United Counseling Service of Bennington County. Further information will be released as arrangements are completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Harry Eddington
Joseph Madkour
Dudley M. Baker
James C. Jerome
Wilmington Votes to Approve $688,500 School Bond
Wilmington voters approved a 688000 bond for a 12 room elementary school north of the village on Crafts property near Route 100. Construction starts next spring with 325 student capacity. State funds total 256500 and 40000 for equipment plus 50000 for the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Twen
Bertram J. Adams
Bennington Folk Festival Invites Curious Tonight
Bennington College hosts a Folk Festival today at 8 in the Carriage Barn featuring Bennington and Williams College artists. John Walker Mara Purl Charlene Tucks Kim Wheeler Monica Fishbach and Dave Potter are listed with a jug band as headliners. A post concert hootenanny invites audience participation and instrument lending. Admission is free and many attendees are encouraged to bring guitars banjos harmonicas fiddles washboards and kazoos. Potter interprets folk songs and will perform solo and as accompanist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington College
Liz Shore
Bennington
Williams College
John Walker
Mara Purl
Charlene Tucks
Kim Wheeler
Monica Fishbach
Dave Potter
Vermont Land and Taxpayer League Session Planned
Mrs Walter Stockmayer president of the League of Women Voters of Vermont announces a day long meeting on Vermont land and the taxpayer set for December 7 at Vermont Technical College Randolph Center Registration begins 9 30 a m Everyone is invited to share opinions on land tax and assessment issues town official relations open land preservation Vermont farming and small business future Reservations and info via Mrs Thomas H Foster Box 397 Bennington 05201.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwich
Walter Stockmayer
League of Women Voters of Vermont
League
Vermont
Vermont Technical College
Randolph Center
Stockmayer
Thomas H. Foster
Bennington
Meeting Set in Rutland On Extended School Year
The state Department of Education chairs an information meeting in Rutland for superintendents and school directors on a year round approach to education. George S. Thomas of New York's Office of Research and Evaluation will outline year extension options. The Rutland session, Dec 9 at 8 p.m. at the Northeast School Library, replaces Bennington as a central location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
State Department of Education
George S. Thomas
Office of Research and Evaluation
New York Department of Education
Harvey B. Scribner
State Board of Education
Board of Education
Northeast School Library
North Street
U.S. 7
Bennington
Deputy Not Seeking Top Welfare Post
Montpelier Vermont Deputy Social Welfare Commissioner Paul Philbrook says he is not a candidate for the commissioners post. Philbrook noted he has served as deputy since his 1965 appointment by John Wackerman, who is leaving the job in January.
Nixon plans temporary foreign policy role before new administration
Nixon outlined a brief involvement in foreign policy with Johnson and Rusk, stressing consultation and preapproval for major decisions such as Vietnam peace talks to ensure continuity and avoid stalling by the other side. He denied having veto power, saying the aim is to align basic choices with the incoming government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Murphy
Johnson
Washington
White House
Rusk
Defense
Clark M. Clifford
Vietnam
Manpower Grants For Training Projects In Vermont
The U S Department of Labor approved 28305 dollars in grants for three manpower training projects serving 47 people. Burlington and Rutland projects train nurse aides, Barre trains clerk typists, with a separate manpower evaluation study to inventory county skills and aid industrial development in Orange County. The survey starts in Bradford on November 25 to identify job seekers and match them to vacancies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradford
Bischof to Speak on Thoreau at Bennington talk
John Bischof will discuss Thoreau at the Bennington Unitarian Fellowship meeting Sunday at 10:30 a.m. in the Bennington Free Library. He says Thoreau looked to inner drives, rejected government as a source of answers, and connected his ethics with nature and ecology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bischof
Thoreau
Bennington Unitarian Fellowship
Bennington Free Library
Bischof
Strict Rules To Curb Press In Murder Trial
Newsmen covering the upcoming first degree murder trial of James Kanavaros 21 of Middlesex face strict court rules. Superior Judge Frankling Billings Jr laid down conduct guidelines to keep order during the Washington County Court proceedings from Monday to Montpelier. The rules bar courtroom departures during recesses block interviews with witnesses or parties on courthouse premises and prohibit attorney statements or photographs on premises including near the county jail. Kanavaros pleads innocent to charges arising from the Sept 22 Middlesex shootings that killed Daniel Maxwell and Richard Gallagher both 20 and 19 respectively from Wellesley Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
UPI
James Kanavaros
Middlesex
Franklin Billings Jr
Washington County Court
Kanavaros
Daniel Maxwell
Richard Gallagher
Wellesley
Mass
Singer Co Executive Named Tansitor Chief
William A. Prior, 41, former Singer Company vice president and Tansitor Electronics director, is named president of Tansitor Electronics, succeeding Daniel L. McQuillan who resigns. Prior plans to strengthen present markets and later expand with a wider product line. he hails from Troy, Pennsylvania and is Har- vard educated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Prior
Tansitor Electronics Inc
Daniel L. McQuillan
Prior
Singer Company
Tansitor
Troy
Har
Bennington Briefs Recap Of Local Events And Honors
The Senior Citizens Club hosts a card party at 8 tonight at the center on North Street with prizes and refreshments. A rummage sale by the Altar Rosary Society is Saturday from 10 a.m. at the K of C rooms. A deer kill report from Manchester by Dr. Donald Roach notes a 200 pound eight pointer. The Well-Baby Clinic offers free preschool checkups Saturday at the Elementary School from 9 to 10 a.m. Park Street entrance advised. Sgt. Edward J. Winslow, son of local residents, receives the U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal at Da Nang. Roller skating events scheduled at the former Twist-a-burger. Our Changing World airs at 9 a.m. on WBTN. County National Bank promotes 4% Christmas Club deposits. An Admiral color TV with a three year warranty is advertised. Iron Kettle Restaurant announces closure Nov 17 to 23. Thomson Manufacturing Co. sells factory rejects Saturday. A profile notes former Bennington native turned executives at major firms. The Priors, Nancy Sayles and husband, plan to move to Bennington, after notable business roles.
Funeral Notices for Burritt and Lee Leaders in Community
The funeral of Mrs. Wallace Mattie Burritt of 129 Grand View St. was held at St. Francis de Sales Church with a Requiem High Mass. Honorary bearers came from the Altar Rosary Society and Catholic Daughters of America as burial followed at Park Lawn Cemetery. Also noted is the Thursday service for Charles H. Lee of Silver Street at Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home with services at Park Lawn Cemetery. Lee had worked as a custodian and was a nursing home patient for 13 months, with attendance from Enfield NH and local communities.
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Wallace
Mattie) J. Burritt
Grandview St
Crescent Manor Nursing Home
St. Francis de Sales
Francis B. Flanagan
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Altar Rosary Society
Catholic Daughters of America
Webster Temple
Robert Hayes
Mason Amadon
Samuel P. Levitte Jr
Park Lawn Cemetery
Msgr
Flanagan
Charles H. Lee
Silver Street
Fairview Nursing Home
Hanson - Walbridge
Melvin R. McGaughey
First United Methodist Church
Ronald
Bernard
Robert
Clifton Loomis
Lee
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
McGaughey
Enfield
N.H
Second Congregational Church
Masonic Temple
Margaret (McCaffrey) Perreault
Putnam St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
James C. and
Elmire (Vallee) McCaffrey
Proctor
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Perreault
Bennington
St. Francis de Sales Church
Guy
Corinne) Ottaviano
Mahar & Son Funeral
Area Obituaries Highlight Local Residents and Veterans
Obituaries for Mrs. Margaret Perreault, John Burns, and Thomas Lavin note births in Proctor Hoosick Falls and North Hoosick. deaths in Putnam Memorial Hospital Albany Troy Johnsonville. Survivors include Corinne Ottaviano Grace Maxon and others. Services set at Mahar & Son and Mahar Funeral Home with Rosary and Requiem Masses. Burial at Park Lawn St Marys Millertown.
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Troy
N.Y
John A. Burns
Kennedy Towers
Kenmore Hotel
Albany
Hoosick Falls
Daniel and
Catherine
Martin) Burns
Noble Machine Co
Montague Machine Co
Turners Falls
Mass
Johnsonville
Thomas J. Lavin
St. Mary’s Hospital
Mr. Lavin
North Hoosick
John and
Margaret (McCormick) Lavin
New York
National Biscuit Co
St. Monica’s Church
Mary Balthazar
Baltimore
William Morgan
Stamford
Thomas Curley
Millertown Cemetery
Hospital Notes November 14 1968 Admissions and Births
Hospital notes show admissions Daniel Sawyer Mathea Houran Bruce Lescarbeau and others from Bennington Arlington Readsboro and Readsboro Discharges include Joan Perry David Pierce Louise Livesey Patricia Jones and Mrs Pamela Wickenden and son Births announced for Mr and Mrs David Wellspeak Lyons District a son and Mr and Mrs Donald Miner Hoosick Falls a daughter both on November 14.
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Daniel Sawyer
Mathea Houran
Bennington
Etta Belle Cole
Arlington
Bruce Lescarbeau
Readsboro
Joan Perry
David Pierce
Louise Livesey
Patricia Jones
North Bennington
Pamela Wickenden
David Wellspeak
Lyons District
Donald Miner
Ball St
Hoosick Falls
Universities and state colleges urge federal aid for higher education
Representatives from seven major higher education associations including UVM and Vermont State Colleges joined in Washington to call for direct federal institutional grants. The statement argues for substantial new federal support to complement existing programs amid rising enrollments, costs, and the need to fund salaries, equipment, and new programs across public and private colleges and universities.
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Burlington
National Association of State Universities and
American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Washington, D.C
University of Vermont
Vermont State Colleges
Association of American Universities
American Council On Education
The
Association of American Colleges
American Association For Higher Education
American Association of Junior Colleges
U.S
Elementary Standards Action Due for State Schools
Education Commissioner Harvey Scribner will urge state board action on proposed minimum elementary standards with emphasis on local self assessment. He would not confirm mandatory standards such as library resources while signaling broader bills on school lunch programs transport of students and adequate library facilities for 1969.
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Vt. Tissue Co
VFW
Vermont Water Resources Board
Jewelers
Main St
Potter
David Putter
Jane Fonda
Barbarell
Ogefer Cinema
Williamstown
Singer Co
Bennington Briefs
Senior Citizens Club
K of C
Mary Hodeck
Manchester
Donald Roach
Park Street
Edward J. Winslow
Bernard Winslow
Coulter St
da Nang Air Base
Winslow
Pease Afb
Earl Nightingale
WBTN
County National Bank, Adv
County National Bank
First Payment
ADV
Admiral Color TV
Electronic Service Center
Dial
Thomson Manufacturing Co
BenMont Ave
Nancy Sayles
Conn
Mrs
Wallace J. Burritt
Margaret Perreault
UVM
Greenberg
Apatr
Beau-May
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