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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1969
Page
2
Green Mountain TOPS will meet Monday at 7 30 p.m. Women of the Moose will meet Wednesday Dec 3 at 7 30 p.m. A chapter night program is planned for December social service month.
The Bennington County Sheriff's Mounted Posse met at Carl's Restaurant in Hoosick with 20 members. Maj. Van Steemburg resigns after four years. H. B. Banny of Stamford becomes commander. New officers include Richard Hollister executive, S. A. Boisvert treasurer, Carol Lindley secretary. The posse, now 35 members, plans January dinner and buys walkie talkies.
Thirty five students and faculty members present a concert featuring Beethovens Variations Op 120 arranged for orchestra and chorus by 25 composers. Henry Brant hopes the Bennington example helps other communities assemble inventive orchestral music with available musicians. The program includes Palestrinas Magnificat, Hindemith Mourning Music, and Brants Ceremony for Separated Groups with soloists Hilary Trigaux Gunnar Schonbeck and Michael Finckel among others.
A Gold Star Mothers tribute is set for tonight at the VFW Hall. Hector Pinsonneault leads a roast beef dinner with Wesley James and Helen Barbeau assisting. Ernest Costa chairs, Cmdr Thomas Kinney to MC. Helen Galipeau plays organ for Debra Pratt vocal solo, with Susan Stone performing taps.
Fred H Percey Jr 49 of Rutland died at Rutland Hospital after a noon call to hotel desk and Dr J Carleton Stickney could not save him An autopsy was ordered with Burlington to perform it He was a World War I veteran Rutland Elks member Survived by father sister and brother Funeral arrangements pending at Clifford Funeral Home Rutland
David Eisenhower 21 may join the Navy after Amherst College graduation rather than enter law school. Under the draft lottery he would have a high chance of not being inducted, following his father in law’s Navy background instead of his Eisenhower grandfather’s Army career.
Hickel describes a government institute agreement to produce a waterfowl film without propaganda and with no veto, cost 146000 funded by the Petroleum Institute, and 500 prints. The film, made under prior administration, has won Michigan Film Festival, Outdoor Writers of America, and a CINE certificate. No other complaints were filed beyond Candy's.
Miss Helen Murphy of Murphy Lane White Creek died unexpectedly at home Tuesday morning. Her funeral at the Church of the Immaculate Conception Hoosick Falls included a Requiem High Mass led by Rev Donald J Ammering OSA. Bearers were John Murphy Thomas Murphy Walter Murphy William Wolfrum Edward Niles and Enoch Tollison. Burial followed in St Marys Cemetery with committal prayers by Father Ammering.
The Vermont State YMCA will launch a 450000 capital fund drive from December 1 to February 12 to rebuild Camp Abnaki in North Hero and expand programs to urban areas. The plan calls for facilities to serve 200 campers weekly, new activity areas, improved cabins, program lodges, year round camping, and enhanced waterfronts while extending YMCA programs to Barre Montpelier Brattleboro and other towns. Campaign leaders include Jere S Meserole Paul Bristol Edward Pike and Robert Garside with more state leaders to be announced.
Bennington and Arlington customers of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co are reminded that this Sunday at 6 a.m. the direct dialing system will begin. Users can dial most interstate numbers on a station to station basis without operators. Bennington will auto-record the caller’s number, but Arlington’s automatic identification starts in 1971. Local calls use five digits. Vermont numbers use 1 plus seven digits. calls outside 802 need 1 plus area code and seven digits, for 11 digits total.
In Gerona Spain a businessman found his car wheel missing as he reached the parked sedan. A note fixed to the seat claimed a motorist had a flat tire and required the wheel. He followed directions to a garage where he retrieved his wheel and $70 as compensation.
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