Mount Anthony students restage Invasion From Mars broadcast
Mount Anthony Union High School sophomores study radio drama by recreating Koch's The Invasion From Mars. They visit WBTN Bennington for production insight, study voice, sound effects, and audience psychology, comparing wartime broadcasts with Hitler and Roosevelt radio use.
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Mt. Anthony
WBTN
Bob Harrington
Bennington
Robert Williams
Mars
Mount Anthony Union High School
Radio
Howard Koch
Orson Welles
Mercury Theatre
Columbia Broadcasting System
H.G. Welles
Welles and Company
Maine
California
Williams
Cook
Carl Phillips
New Jersey
Richard Pierson
Princeton
Shaftsbury
North Bennington High School
Volga Boatmen
Ray Murray
David
Hitler
Hadley Cantril
Cantril
Precanceled Yule stamps tested in New England mail system
Five new Christmas precanceled postage stamps announced by Bennington Postmaster with a 69 city New England test. The program aims to save time and money by bundling out of town and local mail, bypassing machines. 875 million precanceled stamps printed, uncanceled copies limited to nonstandard windows. first day Nov 5 with designs tied to antique toys and The Nativity by Lorenzo Lotto.
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Bennington
Stanley J. Pekalski
U.S
New England
Philatelic
Phiatelic Sales Unit
City Post Office
Washington, D.C
Lorenzo Lotto
Bennington Court Dockets Include Theft and DUI Pleas
A Massachusetts Army enlistee on leave faced $500 bail after pleading not guilty in Bennington District Court to a $38 bad check written Oct 3 at a Tri Mont Texaco. Other cases: Morse released on 3650 bond after two assault pleas. Bates guilty of hindering police with a pre-sentence study ordered. Hurley to begin $10 weekly hospital bill payments under probation. numerous defendants pleaded guilty or no contest to varied charges including breach of peace, drunken driving, speeding, and careless operation.
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U.S. Army
Bennington District Court
Bennington
Frederick A. Wyatt
Agawam
Valley Bank and Trust Co
Springfield
Mass
Tri- Mont
Texaco
South St
Neil S. Moss
Wyatt
Moss
Pownal
Charles Capriola
Fort Dix
N.J
John P. Morrissey
Philip A. Morse
East Arlington
Sunderland
Morse
Charles E. Paustian
Donald P. Mason
Arlington
Morrissey
Leo Bates
West Main Street
Bates
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Cummings
Robert Hurley
North Pownal
Hurley
James E. Leonard
North Branch St
Leonard
Joyce Leonard
Bondville
Douglas R. Bouton
Five Flys
Manchester
Rachael M. Bruning
Monument
Monument Shopping Plaza
Louis D. Woodward
School
Main Streets
Aime B. Choquette
Manchester Depot
River Road
Manchester Village
Dana G. Hart
Christopher J. Patten
East Road
Walter R. Wilkinson
U.S. 7
Willow Road
Gaston Boisvert
Shaftsbury
Willem M. Tissot
Main St
Washington Avenue
Jerry E. Grover
U.S
North Bennington
Ronald A. Hadden
Wayne D. Smith
Gregg A. Hughes
Bernard Gravelle
Pittsfield
Jospeh A. Tatro
Williamstown
Allen D. Delong
Roger
Essex Junction paper backs Hoff for U S Senate
The Essex Junction Suburban List endorses Philip H. Hoff for the U S Senate in its Oct 15 editorial. Editor Proctor H. Page Jr. criticizes opponents and Burlington Free Press tactics, calls Hoff’s ideas sound, and notes Hoff left the New Democratic Coalition while Kunstler never belonged. This marks Vermont’s first major candidate endorsement of 1970.
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Essex Junction
Philip H. Hoff
U.S. Senate
Suburban List
Proctor H. Page Jr
Hoff
Burlington
Vice President Agnew in Texas fundraising for Republicans
The report notes Agnew raising money from special interests and tycoons in Texas to help Republican candidates like Prouty and Davis. Republicans fault labor unions for voluntary COPE dollars, blaming outsiders such as Senators McGovern Hughes and Birch Bayh visiting Vermont, while mentioning Brooke Finch and even Nixon figures potentially appearing.
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Texas
Prouty
Amarillo
Davis
McGovern, Hughes
Birch Bayh
Vermont
Nixon
Congress
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