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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1974
Page
3
Vermont Secretary of State Richard C. Thomas said he will ask the 1975 legislature for changes to election laws. He seeks full disclosure of all campaign contributions and a law prohibiting candidates from running on more than one party ticket for the same office. He noted that current law requires filing of contributions over $100 with the secretary of state. He will go to...
Citizens for a Better Vermont will meet November 26 at 8 p.m. in Deerfield Elementary School to redraft a constitution and bylaws. The group formed an economic development committee and received support letters from Gov. Salmon and former Gov. Deane Davis. Washington discussions on federal campaign disclosure and Vermont’s multi ticket filing law raise voter and ballot-counter confusion, with a noted case in Grafton showing double counting on a single nominee on both GOP and Democratic lines. The law aims to broaden participation for third parties rather than favor a party.
Two members of the state Health Department environmental health program have been certified as food service sanitation survey officers by the Food and Drug Administration. Frederick T. Bird Jr. of Morrisville and Alfred B. Burns of Newport earned the three year certification after meeting eligibility standards, training, and proving proficiency in evaluating sanitation inspections. The goal is standardized inspection techniques and uniform interpretation to raise food protection.
The Vermont Children's Aid Society will hold its 55th annual meeting November 20 at 1 30 p.m. at the Redwood Motel in South Burlington, with a prior board of directors session at 10 30 a.m. The fiscal year changes to calendar year, creating two annual meetings within three months. Andrew E Nuquist, president, will chair both sessions and bylaws revision is the main agenda item. The society is a member of all Vermont United Way organizations. An early 1975 meeting will feature a program of special interest after the 1974 books close.
North Bennington Congregational Church choir directed by Leontina Calabro presents A Thanksgiving Sing to the Lord on Sunday Nov 24 at 7 30 pm at the church all are invited. Community notices include Dollars For Scholars noon meeting on Wed Nov 20 and a dog training club talk at First Baptist Church tonight at 8 with Dr George Glanzberg veterinarian. Other events: 140 club at Bertha Denio’s Shaftsbury home tonight at 8 and Practical Nurses Association meeting at 7 30 pm Wed Nov 20. Dr McLellan obstetrician gynecologist speaks at 8. Dressmaking by Fran sewing services and a local TV repair shop at 220 School St dial 442 5705.
Josephine Carson Rider of Bennington College will read from her forthcoming novel Where You Goin Girlie at Park McCullough Mansion on Sunday November 24. The event follows strong critical anticipation for her third fiction work to appear from Dial Press in spring 1975.
The Vermont Board of Nurses, joined by the Medical Society and Nursing Association, urges reconsideration of UVM’s proposal to drop the two-year associate nursing program as part of a 1.5 million budget cut. Trustees will decide December 6. The four-year program remains, and Castleton State’s non accredited two-year option is not enough to absorb 70 transferring students.
MD chairman Dr. Diane Meyer of the Green Mountain Muscular Dystrophy Association chapter thanked county volunteers as the annual March to Defeat Dystrophy neared its close in Bennington County. She praised generous residents and urged remaining volunteers to finish assignments amid ongoing efforts against the neuromuscular disease that mainly affects children aged four to eighteen with no cure or effective treatment.
Lyndonville Lyndon State College president Dr H Franklin Irwin Jr announces gift of Theodore N Vail autograph collection to George S Lee Jr of New Canaan Conn The collection includes portraits and letters of Daniel Webster William Cullen Bryant Lewis Cass Salmon P Chase Edward Everett Hale Sir Walter Scott Charles Sumner John Greenleaf Whittier and others Lee bought it at a New York auction after Vail death about 50 years ago Vail founded AT T in 1876 and lived in Lyndonville 1833 1922 The Lyndon State campus sits on part of his former estate and the mansion now under reconstruction.
Inglewood California police report Dean Maxwell aged 40 attempted a liquor store robbery. His pistol misfired despite three tries, allowing the owner’s wife to scream and the owner to strike Maxwell with a liquor bottle and disarm him. Maxwell died shortly after from a heart attack.
A UPI report notes Amtrak service through Vermont earned four to five times more revenue last August than eastern New York routes. Joseph MacDonald, Amtrak director from St. Albans, analyzed southbound Montreal trains via Vermont. Both regions fell 40 percent in September, but Vermont remained 13 percent above 1973 levels amid competition.
The HRBCEPA River People non-profit group sponsors a Walloomsac River cleanup this Friday November 22 meeting at 10 a.m. in the back of the P C Market. For questions call the HRBCEPA office in Williamstown Massachusetts at 1-413-458-3855.
Obituaries for Agnes Mary Bourell Malinowski Wallace S Tatro and Egidio L Moresi list long families and burial details. Mrs Malinowski died after a long illness and burial planned in Southview Cemetery. Wallace Tatro died at North Adams Regional Hospital with a large family surviving. Egidio Moresi, an Italian born antique dealer, to be buried in Maple Hill Cemetery Dorset with memorials to Dorset Nursing Association. Funeral arrangements by San Soucie and Brewster services.
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