Bennington District Court Hearings Resolve Multiple Pleas
In Bennington this morning Steven Seifert 20 of North Bennington entered a pro forma not guilty plea to driving with suspended license after a Wednesday crash on Monument Avenue extension. Two passengers were injured. He posted $150 personal recognizance and faces a Monday arraignment. Gary Church 17 received no more than a four year term after pleading guilty to operating a vehicle without owner’s consent and faced concurrent sentences for careless and negligent driving resulting in an accident and leaving the scene. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges on Aug 8 and was placed on probation with Lakeside Rehabilitation as a special condition. Joan Bushee 27 of Manchester Center pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated, with a 60 day suspended jail sentence and probation. Bernard Luce 17 of Bennington pleaded pro forma not guilty to petty larceny for taking clothing from Benn- Barry shop and was released on $300 bail. Michael Johnson 28 of Bennington pleaded not guilty to a Oct 10 traffic violation in Shaftsbury. case taken under advisement with bail at $85 and release on own recognizance.
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Bennington
Steven Seifert
North Bennington
Monument Avenue Extension
Gary Church
John P. Morrissey
Ander
Lakeside
Joan Bushee
Manchester Center
Bernard Luce
Benn- Barry
Michael Johnson
Shaftsbury
Westphal backs neutral stance on troubled railroad probe
Senator Fred Westphal says his five member committee will not prejudge the inquiry into the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad. He clarifies he did not claim Pensley milked the line and cites testimony supporting prudent management amid derailments that led to an embargo and a $900,000 turbine generator loss into the Lamoille River.
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Public Service Board
William Gilbert
Westphal
Gilbert
Pinssley
Vermont
Lamoille River
Vermont Land Use Fight Draws Legislative Support
At a Newport meeting supporters of Act 25 pressed a broad land use plan opposition campaign. Legislators Rep. Melvin Mandigo Emory Hebard Sen John Boylan and former Rep Doris Berrup attended. Pamphlets urge a return to home rule and argue against statewide zoning while Gov elect Salmon weighs responses to the movement and current health codes.
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Newport
Melvin Mandigo
Emory Hebard
R28
Glover
John Boylan
Orleans-Essex
Doris Berrup
Vermont
Gov. Davis
Norman James
Salmon
Banner Today
James
Cowles
Gas trailer plunges and burns on Searsburg mountain
Driver Leonard Liassier, 21, of Fair Haven escaped unharmed when the gasoline tanker broke from his truck near Searsburg Route 9. The trailer struck a utility pole and guardrail, plunged down Scaraburg Mountain and burst into flames. Wilmington firefighters stood by as the tank burned out, with the drop estimated at 64 to 75 feet.
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Sharsburg
Leonard Liassier
Fair Haven
Scaraburg Mountain
Merrill Transportation
Bennington
Wilmington
Joh Wilare
Chanukah Celebration Opens With Eight Day Festival
Chanukah starts Friday December 1 according to Kislay calendar. Jewish families in the area will light the first candle tonight and add one each night until all eight burn on the final day. Services, benedictions, songs like Rock of My Salvation, and charitable acts accompany the holiday. Judd Maccabees rededicated the temple and oil miraculously burned eight days.
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Kislay
Hormes
Joseph Shalfe
Temple Beth el
Judah
Maccabee
ETVV Focuses on Population Growth in Special Vermont Telecast
Burlington report notes Vermont ETV will air a two hour program on population growth in America through the National Commission film by John D. Rockefeller II. The broadcast includes findings on abortion access sterilization and limits to growth with representatives from diverse groups. It examines reasons for population increase and whether continued growth serves national and individual interests.
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Burlington
America
Vermont
ETV
National Commission On Population Growth and the American Future
John D. Rockefeller II
Commission
Airport gate guards as anti hijack device plan outlined
Washington officials plan to station law enforcement at all boarding gates to curb hijackings. Volpe said guards should be present at domestic gates 30 minutes before departure and international gates 60 minutes prior. The move aims to extend security to all boarding areas with funding via higher ticket prices.
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Washington
UPI
Clifford P. Case
R-N.j
John A. Volpe
Pates
Federal Aviation Admnistration
FAA
Volpe
Case
Senate Transportation Subcommittee
Ase
Tie
Flames Gut Lamplighter Club After Skyscraper Rescue
Fire gutted the Lamplighter Club and a beauty shop on the 19th Moor led. Three women killed after jumping. one man died trapped on the 44th floor. Authorities suspected arson or an explosion and noted a rescue by two helicopters.
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Page 1
William McCrossen
San Salvador
Lamplighter Club
Unionists protest Pizzigalli at multiple sites
Unionists from Laborers International Union lead a morning protest against Pizzagalli Construction over alleged antiunion hiring. Demonstrators blocked traffic from St Michael's College in Winacski to the IBM plant at Kissex Junction. Workers were kept off sites to avoid trouble amid a five month contract dispute and a closed shop provision.
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Hurlington
UPT
Hurlington-area
South Arlington
Pizzagalli Construction Co
St. Michael's College
Winacski
International Business Machines Co
Kissex Junction
Pizzagalli
Vocal 522
Laborers International Union of America
Pizzagilli
Funeral services for WWI veteran Arthur F. Galipeau
Committal services for Arthur F. Galipeau, a World War I army veteran formerly of Behmington, were held at Park Lawn Cemetery on Wednesday. The Rev. Joseph Quinn of Sacred Heart Church led the committal prayers. Galipeau died Sunday night at the Northampton Massachusetts Veterans Hospital.
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Arthur F. Galipeau
Behmington
Park Lawn Cemetery
Joseph Quinn
C.3.c
Sacred Heart Chorcy
Mr. Galipeau
Northampton
Mass
Veterans Hospital
Water board seeks easier appeal process in Vermont
Vermont Water Resources Board plans to ask the 1973 General Assembly to simplify appeals by removing them from the administrative procedures act. In other actions, the board lowered a Williams River stretch near Chester from H to a lower class to reflect effluent discharges from a town sewage plant.
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Muntpewick
UPI
Vernont Water Resources Board
General Assembly
Water Resources Department
Williams River
Chester
Vermonters seek firing of HSI staff over contracts
RANDOLPH UPI Dissident members of Vermont Health Systems Inc. call for trustees to fire staff and remove acting director Daryl Stewart. They oppose consulting contracts, demand a consumer role on the health planning group, and allege a no bid $60,000 survey contract to Survey Research Associates of Cambridge tied to McGovern work, amid controversy over a Firerollon grant from HEW to improve Vermont health care.
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Randolph
UPI
Vermont Health Systems Inc
HSI
Peter Diamondstone
Brattebare
John Bloch
Worcester
Daryl Stewart
Tory
Us, Health, Education and Welfare Department
Piano concert at McCullough Mansion in North Bennington
On Wednesday December 6 at 7 15 pm a concert by piano students of Mrs H H van der Linde will be held at McCullough Mansion North Bennington. The program includes Mendelssohn Funeral March Diabelli Handel Curlitt and Beethoven Trio passages and Tellenann Trio plus Mt Anthony Union High School students and seven young debuts. The event is free, short, open to the public with refreshments after.
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McCullough Mansion
North Bennington
H. H. van der Linde
Mendelssohn
Diabelli
Handel and Curlitt
Beethoven
Tellenann
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Obituary: Donald E Carrier 1924 194? VFW member
Donald E Carrier 48 of 344 Gage St died unexpectedly Wednesday at Putnam Memorial Hospital. WWII Army veteran born New Haven March 13 1924 son of Frederick D and Ada Carrier. Survived by wife Aileen Gates two daughters Sharon Stevens Dawn Carrier son David Carrier mother Ada Carrier sister Helen Dover brother Frederick Carrier and a granddaughter Terri Lyn plus aunts uncles nieces and nephews. Funeral Friday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
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Donald E. Carrier
Gage St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Mr. Carrier
New Haven
Frederick D
Ada (Cowles) Carrier
Middlebury
Middlehwy High School
Globe Union Co
Green Mountain Park
Pownal
Hermington Post
Aileen Gates
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Sharon L. Stevens
Dawn M. Carrier
Bennington
David A. Carrier
Leon
Helen} Dover
Hampton, N.H
Frederi Carrier
Farmingham
Terri-Lyn
St. Peter's Episcopal Church At
Catamount Gadabouts Square Dance Club Dance Night
The Catamount Gadabouts Square Dance Club will hold a dance Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. at Molly Stark School. Cliff Stodeur will call. All Western style square dancers are invited. Francis J. Cane, a retired Bennington Police Department member, returned Thursday afternoons from Putnam Memorial Hospital to his River Street home. Mona Gauthier now affiliated with Priscilla's Beauty Shoppe on Fridays 9 to 5 and Saturday mornings. ADV Napolitano's Pizzas features spaghetti sauce meatballs and sandwiches at 165 Ben Mont Ave, 449-3049.
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Catamount Gadabouts Square
Molly Stark
Cliff Stodeur
Francis J. Cane
Bennington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
River Street
Mona Gauthier
Priscilla’s
Beauty Shoppe
ADV
Ben Mont Ave
Three Injured in Bennington Car Accidents
Three people were injured in separate incidents in Bennington on Wednesday. A six month old girl, Michele LeBlanc, was a passenger in a car driven by her mother Dorothy LeBlanc. Dorothy lost control on Barney Road and crashed into a telephone pole. The infant was treated and released from Putnam Memorial Hospital. A second accident at 4:38 p.m. left 11 year old William Stanley Jr. with a broken leg after colliding with a car driven by Debora Kinney. The child was listed in very good condition. At 11:38 p.m. Karen Schadlick, 17, of Pownal, reportedly drove off Monument Avenue Extension near Dewey Street injuring herself. Police charged Steven Seifert, 20, with operating with a suspended license. Passenger Francis Midurski, 24, was not injured. Schadlick was reported in good condition with a back injury. Seifert appeared in District Court.
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Bennington
Michele LeBlanc
Dorothy LeBlanc
Ben Mont Avenue
Debora Kinney
Karen Schadlick
Pownal
Monument Avenue Extension
Dewey Street
Tass correspondent Kenneth Durant, 83, dies in Vermont area
Kenneth Durant of Townshend aged 83, longtime Tass U.S. correspondent, died Wednesday likely of heart failure. Harvard graduate and former U.S. Information Agency staffer, Durant later led Tass bureau in New York, helped arrange early Russian American news exchange, retired in 1945 to Jamaica, VI, survived by widow Helen Van Dongen and an adopted daughter. Memorials directed to the American Legion post and private funeral arrangements were planned.
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Lenin
Ludwig Martens
America
Durant
Martens
Tasa
U.S
New York
Jamaica
Foreign Correspondents Assn
United Press
Tass
Grace Cottage Hospital
Desire
Helen van Dongen
Post 13
American Legion
Marshayle
Funeral Home
Waterbury native R L Duffus dies at 84 in Palo Alto
R L Duffus longtime New York Times editor and writer died of congestive heart failure at home in Palo Alto California at age 84 He was a Waterbury Connecticut native and a Stanford graduate who joined the Times editorial board after a career at the San Francisco papers He authored Vermont memoirs and books and received honors including an honorary degree from Middlebury and a Legion of Honor Chevalier designation He leaves a wife two daughters eight grandchildren and a memorial service is planned in New York.
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Robert Luther Duffus
New York Times
Waterbury
Palo Alto
Calif
R.L. Duffus
Tom Sally
John McGlasheen
Helen
Gravus) Duffus
Vermont
The
Times
Willamstown
Middlebury College
Ple.n
Legion of Honor
New York
Phi Beta Kappa
Century Club
Lesh-Louise Deane
Nairne Louise Wilcox
Marjorie Rose Mackay
Saints Episcopal
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