Thanksgiving Day at Elm Street Home Hosts Many Bennington Residents
Bennington brief reports Thanksgiving visits across the area. Edith Leonard, Charles, Donald Smith with Timmie, Judy, Jackie, and Helen LaPorte visited Edward and Martha Riel on Elm Street. Other notes include Clarenceross's return from Putnam Memorial Hospital and planned VFW Auxiliary Christmas events.
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Edith Leonard
Charles
Donald Smith
Timmie
John Leonard
Judy
Jackie
Helen LaPorte
Hoosick Falls
Edward C. Riel
Elm Street
Clarenceross
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Gage Street
Yale Decorations For Downtown On Their Way
Bennington plans Christmas decorations for downtown streets this week. Village Supt Theberge says work on the decorations was completed last week and crews will ensure some garb is up this week. He will meet with Decorations Committee chair Charles Bodine to arrange further details. The village allocates 1000 dollars annually for purchase and installation. Committee members Bodine Ormal Pierce and Henry Mallory oversee decorations.
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Bennington
Bennington Village
Arthur
Toge) Theberge
Theberge
Charles Bodine
Bodine
Ormal Pierce
Henry Mallory
First National Store Opens Here Wednesday
Bennington gains a New England based First National supermarket on U S 7 with nearly 10 000 square feet of sales space and 7000 items. The store features a 500 car lot a salt water lobster tank fresh meat cutting and in store cooking. Richard Pembroke leads grocery operations and Richard Harling heads the meat department.
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First National
U.S
Vermont
Bennington
Food Company
New England
New York
New Jersey
First Nationals
First
Portland
Maine
New Hampshire
Richard Pembroke
Plymouth
N.H
Richard Harling
Bellows Falls
Hunter Leon Boutin Bags 6 Point Deer After 20 Years
Ted DeMarco reported the happiest hunter in 20 years, Leon Boutin of Leon's Motel, who shot his first deer. Boutin bagged a 6 point, 150 pound buck in Wallingford on Saturday, jumping with joy as he celebrated the catch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted DeMarco
Leon Boutin
Leon
DeMarco
Boutin
Wallingford
Soviet Cuba talks push five guarantees on U S
U N discussions continue over Castro backed plan to end crisis. Soviet officials cite 14 point proposal matching Kennedy Khrushchev accord of late October. Claims include removal of offensive weapons under UN inspection and a US naval blockade lift. Reported exchanges discuss inspections in both nations and possible troop withdrawals. Stevenson hinted Russians may remove troops in Cuba.
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Guantanamo
U.S
Castro
Cuba
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
U.N
United States
Abc-Tv
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Darling Kelly's Motel Erects Largest Vermont Emblem Sign
Thomas Kelly reports installation of a 32 foot high Quality Court sign at Darling Kelly's motel on U S 7 south of Bennington. Built by Lester Davis Construction Co it features 300 bulbs a 15 foot sunburst emblem and a 7 foot underground base with a 2200 pound pylon. The sign was lighted Sunday night and Vermont Quality Court motels must display the emblem by October 1963.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
U.S. 7
Bennington
Thomas Kelly
Lester Davis Construction Co
Tennessee
Kelly
Quality Court Association
Burlington
Meet Tonight To Reactivate Bennington Industrial Loop
The Bennington Industrial Basketball League plans a 7 PM meeting at the YMCA to reactivate after years of inactivity. Former coaches managers and sponsors are urged to attend. all graduates or former students are eligible to join. William Rudd, a former player, claims funding is possible if enough participants commit.
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Bennington Industrial Basketball League
YMCA
William Rudd
Macmillan to Meet De Gaulle in December
Paris AP reports British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will meet President Charles de Gaulle on December 15 and 16. The Elysee Palace says the couple will visit Rambouillet to attend the NATO ministerial meeting alongside the French leader.
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Paris
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Elysee Palace
Macmillan
Rambouillet
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Garmisch Promises Alps Awe to Night Arrivals
Garmisch Partenkirchen in Bavaria lures travelers with dark-night arrivals that reveal the Alps at dawn. Visitors see Zugspitze at 9,720 feet amid frescoed chalets, lederhosen townsfolk, and a famed Olympic Village heritage. A new high-speed cog railway to the Zugspitze summit will open this fall.
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Garmisch - Partenkirchen
Germany
UPI
Alps
Bavaria
Zugspitze
Garmisch
Hoever
Eibsee
Austria
Italy
Switzerland
Roadblocks on U S 7 Target Antlered Deer Offenders
Vermont state police and game wardens set roadblocks on U S 7 near Arlington and Manchester Sunday night to catch doe deer kill violations on the season’s last day. Officials called the operation successful though no offender counts were released.
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Vermont
U.S. 7
Arlington
Manchester
Municipal Court actions include multiple pleas and fines
Tulsa defendants face charges from breaking and entering to license violations. Malcolm J. Donaldson pleads not guilty to B and E and grand larceny with $5000 bail. Ernest A. Thompson pleads guilty to careless driving and suspended license with $100 fines and 30 day suspended sentence. Raymond J. Hoard defers plea on suspended license. bail $500. John T. Rice pleads guilty to license absence and defective equipment with $45.10 fine and 20 day suspended sentence plus probation. Frank Pilling pleads not guilty to attempting to take a due in a closed season, released on $50 bail. Floyd P. Lowrey II pleads guilty to careless driving with $40.10 fine.
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Malcolm J. Donaldson
Tulsa
Okla
Waldo C. Holden
Ernest A. Thompson
McCall St
Raymond J. Hoard
Manchester Depot
Hoard
John T. Rice
Bennington
Frank Pilling
Regional Dinner To Honor Hoff
A regional testimonial dinner for Philip H. Hoff, the Democratic governor elect, is set for 7:30 p m on Wednesday December 5 at Rutland High School cafeteria. Attendees from Bennington Rutland Windsor and Windham counties are invited. Tickets are available from Democratic town chairs and Spencer Haynes of North Bennington phone 442 2229. The dinner is part of three regional events due to difficulties in arranging 14 county dinners.
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Rutland
Philip H. Hoff
Rutland High School
Bennington
Windsor
Windham
Spencer Haynes
North Bennington
Two Cars Collide in Winhall Collision
A two car crash occurred on Winhall Hollow Road in Winhall on Saturday at 3 35 p m. Rita C Alden 42 of Dale Road Weston drove a 1961 Nash station wagon toward Vermont 30 and Charles A Wyman 48 of New York City drove a 1962 Willy s station wagon in the opposite direction. No injuries were reported and both vehicles sustained moderate damage.
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Winhall
Winhall Hollow
Vermont
Rita C. Alden
Dale Road
Weston
Charles A. Wyman
New York City
Trooper MacDonald Hospitalized After Swanton Fight
State police trooper Harry MacDonald remained in good condition after a fight in Swanton Saturday left him with a fractured jaw and facial injuries. Three men Homer St Francis 27 John St Francis 42 Swanton and Kenneth St Francis 33 Brattleboro were arrested for breach of the peace as MacDonald, who broke up the altercation, was attacked. He received treatment at Kerbs Memorial Hospital then Mary Fletcher Hospital before returning to Franklin County Barracks.
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Burlington
Shaftsbury Barracks
Swanton
Harry MacDonald
Franklin Municipal Court
Homer and
John St. Francis
Kenneth St. Francis
Brattleboro
MacDonald
Homer St. Francis
Kerbs Memorial Hospital
St. Albans
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Franklin County
White River Junction
Miller Given Suspended Term For Petty Larceny
Stanley Miller, 22, of Bennington, received a four to six month suspended sentence in the House of Correction, placed on probation, and fined $50 in Municipal Court after a jury found him guilty of petty larceny last Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Miller
Bennington
House of Correction
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Bennington Briefs
Ladies Auxiliary
VFW
Vermont Soldiers’ Home
Helen Hall
Catherine Campney
Veterans’ Administration
Marion Charest
Richard Orellana
Harwood Hill
Blanche Orellana
San Francisco
Calif
Richard Bogardus
Beech St
Bogardus
Pittsfield
Mass
Theodore W. Bird
Main St
Lloyd Spaulding
Shaftsbury
Kathy Hogan
Francis J. Hogan
Dewey St
Roy Matosin
Albert G. Kindelmann
Jefferson Heights
Roy
Guy
Albert
Carole
Kindelmann
Scott
State Board of Approved
Bennington High School
Carl B. Williams
Leonard Covello
Lynn and
Mark
Livingston, N. J
Mark Salvatore
Weeks Street
School
Pleasant Streets
Bennington-area
Selective Service Office
Albany
N. Y
David Squiers
Edward LaBatt
Gerald Humphrey
Francis Galvin
William Keen Jr
United Counseling Service
Bennington Area
Board of Directors
The
Molly Stark
PTA
Susan Wright
Holden Street
Harry Wright
Woodford
Charles Kittner
Chapel Road
Charles Bewkes
Neptune
N.J
Kittner
Alvah Woolley
Spring Lake
Paul Kittel
Larry Dunn
Ted
Wendy
Kittel
Maude Jennison
Townshend
M. James Woodward
Bob
Jim
Schenectady, N.Y
Woodward
Henri Dus Sault
Harte Theatre
Ennington
Columbia Pictures
David Susskind
We Rooney
Harris
Barbie
Ken
Bennington Bookshop, Inc
Bennington, Vt
Amat
Noveck - Shultz, Inc
Dial
Yale
Tro
Mikoyan
Darling Kelly’s
Elbsee
Floyd P. Lowrey II
Williamstown
Hoff
Tpr
Miller
Norelco
Schick
Remmington
Fienberg
Main Street
State Armory
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