Hospital Fire Safety Training In Putnam Memorial
Putnam Memorial Hospital staff completed a two day fire control and patient evacuation course led by Harry A. Pate of McGrath and Pate Associates. Pate noted a over 20 percent rise in hospital fires from last year and urged universal safety programs and quick reporting to local fire departments. Demonstrations included hands on practice removing patients and coordinating multi team fire containment with outside hospital participation.
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Putnam Memorial Hospital
Harry A. Pate
McGrath and
Pate
Putnam
Mallary Opposed Reform Plan for House Committee System
Area lawmakers were scored Oct 3–9 on major roll calls. Mallary voted nay on the House committee reform plan from Rep Julia Hansen proposing equalized power and subcommittees, while supporting a limited changes approach.
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Mallary
House
Julia Hansen
D-Wash
Richard Bolling
D-Mo
Hansen
GOP
Ways and Means
Rules Committee
Joe Waggonner
D-La
Patricia Schroeder
D-Colo
Richard Mallary
Rushlight Club Gathers to Admire Early Lighting Heritage
The Rushlight Club, among the oldest lighting history societies, meets in Bennington this weekend hosted by the Bennington Museum and Topping Tavern. About 50 members from across the United States attend a Saturday business meeting and a guest talk by Peter W. Cook on museums and early lighting interpretation. The group tours galleries, attends a Paradise restaurant dinner, and visits the East Road’s Topping Tavern Museum Sunday, guided by Mr. and Mrs. Dudley M. Blakely. The club, founded in Boston in 1932, preserves and studies early lighting devices and fluids, publishes The Rushlight quarterly, and contributed to works like Flickering Flames and Old Lamps of Central Europe.
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Rushlight Club
Bennington
Bennington Museum
Topping Tavern
Sloan
United States
Peter W. Cook
Cook
Historical Museum
Paradise
East Road
Dudley M. Blakely
Rushlight
Leroy L. Thwing
Central
Europe
Fitness classes for women at the Community Center
Two fall fitness classes for women are offered at the Community Recreation Center. One class, led by Bonnie Clark and Pam Burke, combines jogging and pool exercises in the shallow end. The session meets on Tuesday and Thursday from.
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Community Recreation Center
Bonnie Clark
Pam Burke
Old cemetery association meeting and activities in Vermont
The Vermont Old Cemetery Association holds its fall meeting Saturday Oct 26 at the church in Lower Waterford on Route 18 east of St Johnsbury. A 10 a.m business session includes officer elections and cemetery problem discussions. A noontime luncheon is served by the Ladies Social Circle. Reservations by Oct 23 to Mrs Clarence Young Lower Waterford 05848. An afternoon talk titled Down Memory Lane is free to members from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. plus a recreation center fitness class for legs and inner thighs taught by Pat Schaffer Tuesdays 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Both classes welcome more women. For more information an afternoon speaker unknown to the public is available for questions after a 1 p.m. talk. All are welcome.
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House
Nixon
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
William Scott
R-Va
Senate
Roman Hruska
R-Neb
Ford
Robert Stafford
George Aiken
Federal Communications Commission
National Association of Broadcasters
Sen
James Allen
D-Ala
Aiken
Stafford
Vermont Old Cemetery Association
Lower Waterford
Route 18
St. Johnsbury
Clarence Young
Memory Lane
Recreation Center
Pat Schaffer
the Center
North Shire Senior Center events and trip plans
The North Shire Senior Center thanks volunteers for a $400 tag sale. A trip to the Pyramid Mall in Saratoga NY departs Oct 25 at 9 am and returns about 5 30 pm. Activities include ceramics Monday craft, quilt work, a Worthy Inn lunch, and a Tuesday lunch deadline. Bowling, blood pressure checks, and a 3 pm sing along are scheduled midweek plus art, planning for November.
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Jane Johnson
Pyramid Mall
Saratoga
N.Y
Worthy Inn
Ann Carmon
Walter Bennett
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Bonnie Adams
Joyce Doking
Sue Ransom
Judy Roy
Mariann Winston
Donna Davidson
Maureen Mulcahy
Washington
Congress
Delbert Latta
Ohio
Neal Smith
Iowa
Mallory
White House
Thwing
Ladislaus von Benesch
Old Cemeterians
North Shire Senior Center
TNT
Dorset
Wilmington
Bibi
Morgan's
George S. Towslee & Son
Haynes Brothers, Inc
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