St Francis Women Hear From Fr Swertz At Communion Meet
The St Francis deSales Altar Rosary Society held an 8 am Mass Communion and a subsequent breakfast at Mount Anthony Country Club. Fr Thad deus Swertz, principal of Bennington Catholic High School, spoke on education and changing curriculums, noting federal role in schools. Organizers included Mrs Elizabeth Groenewegen, Mrs Catherine Deery, Mrs Rose Gleason, and Mrs Ruth Brunina with Mrs Helen Keough handling tickets. The toastmistress introduced the speaker and attendees enjoyed a community gathering.
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St. Francis de Sales Altar Rosary Society
Mount Anthony Country Club
Thaddeus S. Swertz
C.S.C
Bennington Catholic High School
Elizabeth Groenewegen
Catherine Deery
Rose Gleason
Ruth Br
Bennington Post Office Alteration Bid Timeline
Plans for the Bennington post office alteration delay bids until January 1967. GSA official Paul Lazzaro cites fiscal 1966 funds issues and hopes to issue a work contract in fiscal 1967's third quarter. The building will house multiple federal and state agencies once updated.
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Boston
General Services Administration
Bennington
Paul Lazzaro
GSA
Banner
Agriculture Department
Soil Conservation Service and Stabilization and Conservation Service
Selective Service System
Internal Revenue Service
Lazzaro
Barber Named Director of State Parks in Vermont
MONTPELIER The state Forests and Parks Department promotes Rodney A. Barber to Director of State Parks following the July death of Robert G. Simon. Barber, a nine year department landscape architect, has led park planning and design since 1961. He studied in Hamilton New York and earned a B S from SUNY College of Forestry Syracuse in 1957. He served four years in the Navy as an Aviation Electronics Technician during the Korean War. He is married to Flora Silloway and lives in Montpelier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
State Forests and Parks Department
Rodney A. Barber
Robert G. Simon
Barber
Department
Hamilton
N.Y
State University of New York, College of
State Plans Legal Move On Alleged Price Fixing
MONTPELIER Atty. Gen. John Connarn says he plans legal action against several salt companies for alleged price fixing. Last year the state bought 85 000 tons of snow melting chemicals for 1.2 million dollars. He cites identical bids and equal awards, seeks Sherman Act grounds, and asks Maine to join in a joint lawsuit to cut litigation costs.
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Montpelier
UPD
John Connarn
Richard Raymond
Raymond
Connarn
Maine
Atty
Richard Dubord
Dubord
Vermont
Baptist Women Open Season With Meeting
The Women’s Society of the First Baptist Church held its first fall meeting in Colgate Hall with a supper served by hostesses. New president Mrs. Robert Wagner announced an Executive Board Meeting on Oct 12 and planned events including a Father and Son Banquet on Oct 22 and a Christmas Bazaar on Dec 3.
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The
Women’s Society
First Baptist Church
Colgate Hall
H. Glenn Payne
Robert Harrington
Paul Jones
Robert Wagner
Christmas Abendmusik Concert Plans Return at Second Church
The Second Congregational Church resumes the Abendmusik Christmas concert after a one year gap led by music director Mrs Lenore Marken. The program centers on chorale numbers with selections from Handel's Messiah including the Hallelujah chorus. Rehearsal for all singers is Sunday at 7 30 p m at the church ahead of the December 18 performance.
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Second Congregational Church
Lenore Marken
Wilson Memorial Center for Scholars Proposed in Washington
Bills in the House and Senate seek to designate a site on Pennsylvania Avenue behind the National Archives for a Wilson Memorial Center for Scholars. The plan, recommended by the Wilson Memorial Commission, calls for preliminary planning and was sponsored by New Jersey lawmakers Frelinghuysen Gallagher in the House and Case Williams Jr. in the Senate.
A A Conference in Vermont Hosts Hudson-Mohawk Event
The 16th annual Hudson-Mohawk-Berke shire Area A A conference will be held in Bennington Vermont October 14 to 16 at Mt Anthony Country Club. Open meetings begin Friday with speakers from Boston and New York. Saturday features panel discussions including a major session on Alcoholism The Disease from 3 15 to 5 15 pm. Reservations are needed for the banquet.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Vermont
Bennington
A.A
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Boston
New York
New York City
Thrift Shop Employees Assist Customer Sale
Last week Lillian Kleine Sally Cooper Juna Fuller and Is ma Sargent worked as saleswomen and on Tuesday Carolyn Clark Marjorie Hayes Agnes Johnson Juna Fuller and Isma Sargent sorted and married Robert Smith kept the shop clean and ready for Friday. The store offered winter coats dresses raincoats blouses shoes and a new lot of girls dresses plus men's pants coats hats and shoes. Requests have come in for pint jars wool for rug hooking tin dishes chairs blankets pillows and rugs.
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Lillian Kleine
Sally Cooper
Juna Fuller
Isma Sargent
Carolyn Clark
Marjorie Hayes
Agnes Johnson
Robert Smith
Oakes Calls For Public Understanding Of Police Needs
Republican attorney general candidate James Oakes of Brattleboro urged a public understanding of police needs in Springfield. He argued prestige includes schooling and better pay for all officers, with state police requiring higher salaries to address vacancies and dissatisfaction due to Vermont salaries lagging about 25 percent behind New York.
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Springfield
UPI
James Oakes
Brattleboro
Oakes
New York
Vermont
Department of Public Safety
Jet Crashes: Vermont Pilot Uninjured
A jet fighter from Vermont lost power after takeoff and crashed into a mountainside home on Luzon’s western coast, killing three. Lt. Roderick A. Fyles of St. Albans, VT, survived. radar intercept officer Lt. Jerry J. Cunningham parachuted to safety at Cubi Point. The Navy said both crews stayed with the phantom jet to avert a larger disaster. Separately, Gov Hoff urged Pittsford discussion with the Institutions Board over a medium security center, while the board and chairman Holger Petersen resisted large meetings.
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Petersen
Pittsford
John V. Woodhull
Institutions
Luzon
Vermont
Roderick A. Fyles
St. Albans
Jerry J. Cunningham
Neodesha
Kan
Navy
Longapo City
U.S. Naval Air Station
Cubi Point
San Francisco Drives Nation's Cirrhosis Lead in Deaths
San Francisco officials said the city remains the nation’s cirrhosis capital with a death rate last year nearly five times California’s and about six times the U S rate. Health experts cite bad diet and alcoholism as the primary causes of liver cirrhosis.
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San Francisco
Prize Winners Named at Art Show in Pittsfield
In the Berkshire Art Association exhibition at the Berkshire Museum John Stritch of Hinsdale Mass won the top prize with a $1000 metal sculpture acquired by Williams College Museum of Art and the $100 Kenneth Haher award. Julio Branda of Becket Mass won a major prize for his oil painting and the Berkshire Community College Purchase Award. Franklin Alexander of Woodstock Vt earned a third major prize for an acrylic piece and the Roy B. Peebles silver bowl. Eight artists overall took prizes. 94 exhibitors. 16 winners. final $25 ballot prize to be awarded at the opening reception. show runs through Oct 30 free to the public.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Berkshire Art Association
Berkshire Museum
John Stritch
Hinsdale
Williams College Museum of Art
Kenneth Haher
Julio Branda
Becket
Berkshire Community College
Williams College Museum
Franklin Alexander
Woodstock
Roy B. Peebles
The
Art Association
New York State
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Vermont
W.H. Shandoff, Inc
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BCHS
St. Francis
Fr. Swertz
Father Swertz
Ation
Baptist
William Smith
John Riddle
Wagner
Carroll Killen
Thomas Hoyt
Soo Ho Han
Christian Service
Muriel Kennard
Dorothy Marechal
Francis Morrissey
Paul Hurlburt
Paul Williams
White Cross
Frank Riley
Spiritual Life
Thrift Shop
OMEGA
Atkins and Gould
Jewelers
Main St. Bennington
Hoff
Dallas
Featuring
Bennington Rd
Main Street
Amarillo, Tex
Interstate 40
Amarillo
Farrell Farms, Inc
Norwich
Vermonts
Folger’s Dairy Sales Pavilion
Copake
Marqus
Star Man
Lucross
Lakefield FondHope
Freebaer
Sovereign
Dte
Folger’s Sales Service, Inc
H.E. Folger
Montgomery Ward
South ST
Hoosick Falls
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