Operation Alert informs Vermont educators at Dorset meeting
The Vermont State Board of Education, chaired by Francis H. Mahoney, held the third of 14 statewide sessions at Dorset Elementary School. About 50 attendees, including teachers and parents, heard about accreditation of two state teachers colleges, a new curriculum guide, and Vermont’s strong special education program. Discussion covered funding gaps, dropout prevention, and calls for legislative support to fund directives and system reorganizations.
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Dorset
State Board of Education
Francis H. Mahoney
Helen Brown
John Kristiansen
A. John Holden Jr
Bennington
Pawlet
Brown
Holden
Vermont
State Board
Principal to Explain Ungraded System at PTA Meeting
Manchester Elementary School will outline its ungraded primary program this fall. Principal King B. Frazer says in the first three grades students progress at their own rate through individualized instruction. Mrs. Thomas Martin will chair a brief business meeting before the 8 p.m. program. A film may be shown if time allows.
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Manchester
King B. Frazer
Frazer
Thomas Martin
Vermont
Rockefeller Plaza
New York
Montreal
Washington
Fred Pabst
J. G. Davidson
Oakley K. Porter
Community Notes From Wilmington Dover Area Church and Scout News
The Congregational Church tasting supper raised about 75 dollars with setup serving and cleanup committees named. Cub Scout Pack 46 sets a pack meeting for Oct 29 at 7 30 p m. News includes visits by Greenfield and West Dover families, Kennedy in radio city parade, Bulls Club scouts fundraiser for 2800 boys in Coolidge Council, and Camp Plymouth plans. Ladies night set for Oct 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday School Guild
The
Congregational Church
Robert Greene
Lensey Cole
Frank Childs Jr
John Willard Sr
T. Johnson
Robert Covey
Carl Ball
Susan Greene
Pamela Johnson
Linda Rufus
John Poor
Charles Maple
Bruce Gavette
Charles Staib
Richard Chapman
Cub Scout
New den
Eric Stenson
Stewart Brown
Donald Johnson
Harry McClintock
Barbara Mason
Robert Jillson
Greenfield
Mass
Cheryl
Douglas
Jillson
Robert Worden
Herbert Long
West Dover
Kennedy
Radio City
Longs
New York City
Long Island
Latin Quarter
Joy
John
Philip
Gil Bunnell
Trail’s End Lodge
Clayton Bartlett
Newfoundland
Bartlett
Ivan Bartlett
Clayton Bartletts
Air Force Base
Omaha
Neb
Coolidge
Wilmington
Camp Plymouth
Old Red Mill
Robert LaMorder
Tucker Lodge F and AM Regular Meeting Notice
North Bennington announces a regular meeting of Tucker Lodge F and AM on Wednesday October 17 at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Temple.
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Tucker Lodge F & AM
Masonic Temple
Sign at chicken ranch reads hens lay fresh eggs
Phoenix columnist Jack Williams of the Gazette reports seeing a sign at a chicken ranch entrance claiming all our hens lay fresh eggs. The quip frames poultry farming in a humorous light.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Jack Williams
The
Phoenix Gazette
Pownal Youths Learn About Fire Prevention
Fire Prevention Week activities ran in Pownal schools with drills at Center School by Pownal Center Fire Department. Oak Hill students rode to South Pownal Firehouse for a program by the Fire Department Auxiliary. Prizes were awarded to many students for fire prevention posters and North Pownal pupils earned junior fire marshal hats and ID cards. A home danger chart will be filled with parental help and returned to school.
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Center School
Pownal Center
Oak Hill
South Pownal Firehouse
Fire Department
William Casey
Kimberly Ostrander
Joseph Watts
Christine Pratt
Joanne Chenaille
Jeffrey Dorman
Gail Harwood
William George
Glenda Sweet
Robert Petit
Nancy Winn
Gary Pratt
Jonathan Adler
Darlene Foster
William Nichols
Brenda Allen
Patricia Andrews
Fred Brown
Lee Dorman
Joel
Bruce Burrington
Ralph Bisson
John Brown
Jill Chenaille
Richard Levesque
Bonnie Campbell
Arlene Pratt
Anne Jones
North Pownal School
Beautification Program Launched in Manchester
Manchester launches a park beautification drive spearheaded by Chamber president Ben Wrobel to raise funds for a 12 by 20 foot information building at the bandstand park and to finish landscaping. The project includes parking redesigns, a park name contest, and support from the Lions Club Garden Club and local merchants.
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Manchester
Manchester Chamber of Commerce
Ben Wrobel
Chamber
Manchester Lions Club
Bandstand
Four Area Association
Manchester Garden Club
Sue Burton Tenner
Bandstand Park
Dorset Sub-station Begins for New England Telephone System
Construction starts on a salt box dial sub-station in Dorset to house machinery for the New England Telephone and Telegraph dial system. The one-room building 19 by 25 feet sits on a 125-foot lot adjoining Willis Abbott on Vermont Route 30.
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Dorset
New England Telephone and Telegraph
Willis Abbott
Arlington
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
K. R. Baird
Montpelier
Baird
Congregational Women's Fellowship Sets Oct 18 Work Meeting
The executive board schedules a Thursday morning work session for Oct 18 at 9 30 in the social rooms. All fellowship members are asked to review gift samples for the Christmas Boutique and may stay to work or take samples home to reproduce.
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The
Congregational Women's Fellowship
Hoff Proposal to Abolish Vermont Development Board
Democratic candidate Phil Hoff urges replacing the Vermont Development Board with an eight member advisory commission to coordinate statewide planning. He calls for removing planning from the Development Department, creating a governor’s planning commission, and giving a central agency power to chart long range state development with local town support.
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Philip H. Hoff
Vermont Development Board
Hoff
Vermont
Republican Party
Development Department
State Planning Commission
Advisory Commission On Development
Planning Commission
Commissioners of Highways
Forests and Parks
Agriculture, Fish and Game
Vermont Social Science Council Opens With Keynote Talk
Mrs Edna T Wright of Manchester will preside at the opening meeting of the Vermont Council for the Social Sciences at South Burlington High School. Dr Malcolm Severance of UVM will deliver the keynote on The Tragedy of Economic Illiter acy, with discussion groups led by UVM professors and Rowland Illick of Middlebury. Plans from 1961 call for two yearly meetings and a magazine to promote curriculum development and teacher aids.
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Manchester
Edna T. Wright
Vermont Council For the Social Sciences
South Burlington High School
Malcolm Severance
College of Arts and Sciences
UVM
Rodney Eldridge
Raul Hilbert
Jeremy Felt
Rowland Illick
Middlebury
Vermont Education Association
Burlington
Wright
Pownal Church Supper Dance and Community Meetings
The WSCS turkey supper at Pownal Methodist Church runs Oct 18 from 5:30 until served with proceeds to the church general fund. Pownal Center Community Club meets tonight at 8 to name the new joint parent teacher group and hold a kitchen shower. Fire Department Auxiliary plans a fall dance Oct 27 with Jim Willis orchestra. Deer hunting season opens Saturday for 16 days ending Oct 28 with no kills reported to date.
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WSCS
Pownal
Pownal Center
Jim Willis
Pittsfield
Glen Sweet
Arthur George
Harry W. Beals Jr
Ralph Bishop
George Renner
Otis Dorman
Donald Rogers
Visit Highlights Obvious East Coast Sojourns
Hoosick Falls residents Edith Beaumont and Mr and Mrs Lynn Chapman of Johnson Hill Road traveled to Philadelphia last week. Donald Bradley of Elm Street returned from surgery at Samaritan Hospital Troy on Saturday.
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Lynn Chapman
Johnson Hill Road
Philadelphia
Donald Bradley
Elm Street
Samaritan Hospital
Troy
Bank Report of Condition Certification by Cashier
Arthur E. Wickenden, cashier, attests that the report of condition is true and correct to the best of his knowledge. The statement references the above-named bank and amounts to 2,239,884.59, 300,000.00, 355,205.70, and 51,600.24.
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Arthur E. Wickenden
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Food For Thought
Ity
State Department of Education
Matthew Gaffney
New Trier High School
Winnetka, Ill
John Fay
Burr and Burton Seminary
Dover
Carlo Walter Tel
Scouts
Don Robinson
Calvin Coolidge Council
Boy Scouts of America
Coolidge Council
Robinson
North Bennington
Wrobel
Lake George
N.Y
Lake George Park Commission
Wrobhel
Margaret Saunders
Dorset’s
Paul Hoisington
Danby
E. W. Pryor
East Dorset
General Builders, Inc
Austin Rumney
Elizabeth Dwyer
Hoft
Haff
Water Resources, Aeronautics
Tax Commissioner
Department of Agriculture and Extension Service
University of Vermont
Council On Social Science
Pownals
Vera Langlais
Hoosick Falls
Edith Beaumont
Chatham Brandon
Nichols
Union Street
Maxwell House
C.n
Hamburg
First National Bank OF
United States
Federal Reserve Bank
Cashier
Frederick H. Welling
Elizabeth K. Dollard Hall W. Cushman
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