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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1974
Page
3
Bennington residents may enter a medal design contest for the Bicentennial with a first prize of 25 dollars and a commemorative medal. Second and third receive medals. Entries due by November 15.
The Green Mountain Folklore Society holds its fall meeting in St. Albans on Saturday October 12 with a morning business session at St Luke's Episcopal Church led by Agnes Torp of Weathersfield. A noon chicken pie harvest dinner is served by the ladies of the church.
Thrift shops in North Bennington and Bennington feature a mix of household items winter clothing and a half price sale on children’s clothes this Friday Only donations of hunting or Halloween gear are requested for October Hours are 1 to 5 Thursdays and Fridays and 10 to 4 Saturdays A St Albans historians event includes Janet Smith and Reverend Stanley Irving with a Fenian Raid description by Almon Richards and Edmund Wilcox The Franklin County Historical Society Museum director Mrs M D Armstrong will describe the museum Dinner reservations cost 3 50 due by October 5 and go to Mrs Ellen Graves RD 1 St Albans 05478
Roll call summaries show House amendments to HR 7917 on consumer redress favoring the FTC over the Justice Department with 180 for 209 against. Other votes subsidize Eisenhower College and Rayburn Library from coin sale proceeds, with debate on fairness and memorials funding. Senate inflation deferral fails 64 35, and doctor distribution aid passes 70 18, while aid to Turkey faces conditions.
The Bennington Opportunity Council announces Legal Aid availability at 310 Main St on Tuesdays and Thursdays with a contact number 442-3108 for appointments. Connie Harrington joins as outreach worker for Pownal and Woodford to promote housing, winterization help, storm window plastic, energy loans, and budget planning. Obituaries include William P. Conroy of 207 Northside Drive and Adelbert C. Greene of Airport Road with funeral services and interment details in Bennington area cemeteries.
Local groups report meetings and events this week including Catholic Daughters St Andrew Chapter at 7 30 p m at former St Francis de Sales Academy supper canceled. Tag sale at First Baptist Church Bennington Friday Oct 4 10 am to 8 pm and Saturday Oct 5 9 am to 12 noon. Putnam Hose Auxiliary food and bake sale Oct 5 at Grant City plaza. Ladies of St Anne fall meeting Oct 2 at Sacred Heart Church Benediction 7 pm guest Rev Julien La Flamme. Cora B Whitney School P T A met Sept 24 to elect officers. Reading room carpeting and magazine subscription discussed. Beef prize in November and Campbell label drive through December. Three accident victims treated and released at Putnam Memorial Hospital Ted Senecal and daughter Mary Jane and Teddy Van Orman all residents of Murphy Road North Bennington.
Vermonters for Justice announces a major October 7 protest against President Ford during a Burlington visit. The coalitions call for peaceful actions at the airport or outside Patrick Gym, highlighting opposition to pardons, amnesty, and Indochina policy while criticizing dinner costs for officials. A press conference is set for October 2 at UVM Billings Hall.
A free well baby clinic sponsored by the state Department of Health and Bennington Home Health Agency will be held Friday Oct 4 at 1 p.m. at the Second Congregational Church on Hillside Street. Dr Manindra Ghosh will perform physical exams and immunizations including mumps vaccine for children 12 months and over. Hearing and eye screening available. Appointments 442-5502.
The state police findings on the Burlington shooting of burglary suspect Luis Ponce Jr. go to Gov. Salmon. State officials and investigators described the incident as justifiable homicide, noting Ponce was thought armed but the object recovered was wire cutters. A separate crash damaged a lawn and porch at 151 Ben Mont Ave. in Bennington when a Brooklyn man driven car struck the property.
The Bennington section of the Green Mountain Club plans four hikes led by Peter Reed Donavan Scott Leake Dave Hapgood Bob Agard and Jim Guida with meet locations at First Vermont Bank parking lot and Jerry's Gulf. Hikes include Bald Mountain Woodford Mt Monadnock and Red Mountain Arlington. Times range from 8:30 to 1 p.m. and distances from two to twelve miles. A Bennington College site theft and a failed burglary at Sibley Manufacturing were also reported by police over the weekend.
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