Rusk Keeps Six Divisions in Germany Amid Alarm Over Cutbacks
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Chancellor Erhard urged unity in Atlantic Alliance as they pledged six U S divisions remain in Germany for now. They spoke at a memorial dedication for General George C Marshall linked to the Marshall Plan and warned France’s De Gaulle against pulling Europe's security. The trip followed Big Lift, which carried an entire armored division from Texas to Germany in under three days.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Dean Rusk
United States
Rusk
Ludwig Erhard
George Co. Marshall
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
France
Texas
Troop 45 Holds Awards Night at Sacred Heart Parish
Sacred Heart Parish Boy Scout Troop 45 held an Awards Night on Oct. 22 with the attendance of parents for 30 boys. Movies of summer activities were shown and cider and donuts served. Dr. Donald Humphreys presented a gold watch to Joseph Giardin recognition of leadership as scout master for over 10 years. gifts were also given to Present Scoutmaster John Barry and Assistant Scoutmaster William Brown. Star Awards went to Donald Humphreys Joseph Pineau and Eugene Damon. Second Class Awards went to Christopher Damon Dennis Barry and Stephen Bennett. The 50 mile canoe trip award through the Fulton Chain Lakes went to Gary Boutin David Humphreys Donald Humphreys Kevin Barry Dennis Barry James Provensal Joseph Pineau and Eugene Damon.
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Sacred Heart Parish
Donald Humphreys
Joseph Giard
John Barry
William Brown
Joseph Pineau
Eugene Damon
Christopher Damon
Bennington Briefs Features Hicks Talk At Library
Granville Hicks renowned author and Saturday Review columnist speaks on Present- Day American Fiction in Bennington Free Library social rooms at 8 p m Tuesday. Public invited and refreshments served. Altar Rosary Society meet at BCHS cafeteria with supper at 6 30 and meeting at 8. Duplicate bridge results at Mt Anthony include a North South tie for first between Hugh Nash and Paul Benjamin with Mrs Philip Walsh.
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Granville Hicks
Saturday Review
Bennington Free Library
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Hugh Nash
Paul Benjamin
Philip Walsh
Bennington Notices and Obituaries Chronicle Local Events
Funeral services for Bert Macumber of River Road were held at Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home with Rev. Alfred Scott officiating and burial at Meadow Lawn Cemetery Petersburg New York. Edward Louis Bent also honored with flag ceremony by American Legion. Red Cross plans annual meeting at Mt Anthony Country Club. Joseph J Gauthier named VP of St Michael's College Chemistry Club. Electronics Service Center closure due to death in family. ADV Oct 28.
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George H. Benedict
Margaret A. Ryan
South St
Bennington
John and
Helen (Gibney) Ryan
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Cooper Mfg. Co
Allen-A
Mr. Benedict
St. Francis de Sales
Thomas R. Carty
South Street
St. Francis de Sales Church
Court St. Andrew
Catholic Daughters of America
Altar-Rosary Society
John Proud Sr
John Gibney
Detroit
Mich
Mary
Gibney
Paul Jewett
Leo Nash
Robert Benedict
Peleg Matteson
LeRoy Dunn
Robert E. Cummings Jr
CDA
Mary Canning
Margaret Knapp
Agatha Krawczyk
Stella Barron
Rosary Society
Gertrude Nash
Julia Cone
Margaret Bellis
Elizabeth Horst
Flanagan
Park Lawn Cemetery
Msgr
Arlington
Manchester
Middlebury
Rutland
Amityville
L.I
Hanson - Walbridge Funeral Home
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Factory Point Cemetery
Manchester Center
North Bennington
Bert Macumber
River Road
Hanson-Walbridge
Alfred Scott
North Bennington Baptist Church
Alfred Buell
Willard Stuart
Arthur Stuart
Martin Brown
George Colvin
Leonard Brown
American Legion
Kenneth Baker
David Knights
Macumber
Meadow Lawn Cemetery
Petersburg
N.Y
Sheeley
New York State
Edward Louis Bent
Rufus Dwyer
Howard Goodwin
Kenneth Johnson
William DeForge Jr
David Quackenbush
Ralph DeForge
Woodford
Melvin R. MccGaughey
First Methodist Church
McGaughey
Edward Rood
Mr. Bent
Bennington County
Red Cross Chapter
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Red Cross
Joseph J. Gauthier
Commodore J. Bett
Pittsfield
Mass
Edward Gauthier
St. Michael’s College
Winooski Park
St. Joseph’s High School
St. Michael’s
John Stone Jr
Insurance Firm Names New Rutland Office Manager
Harry L. Church former Berlin New Hampshire district manager is named manager of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Rutland office succeeding Arthur E. Burke who moves to Park City district Bridgeport Connecticut Church will direct a staff of three agency managers a Metropolitan insurance consultant 18 field reps and five clericals. He joined Metropolitan in 1950 rising to manager earlier this year after Navy service and college at Husson. He is active with the National Association of Life Underwriters Kiwanis Red Cross and local drives.
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Harry L. Church
Berlin
N.H
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Rutland
Arthur E. Burke
Park City
Bridgeport
Bennington
Church
Metropolitan Insurance
Fulton W. Jenkins
Rudolph Michaud
Manchester
Metropolitan
Husson College
Bangor
Maine
U.S. Navy
National Association of Life Underwriters
Bangor Life Underwriters Association
Kiwanis Club
Red Cross
Heart Fund
Cancer
Court Cracks Down On Youthful Speeders In Vermont Route
Judge George M. Feinberg fined five youths from North Adams and surrounding towns up to 105 dollars for speeding on Vermont Route 346 near Pownal. Others pleaded guilty to speeding and careless driving with fines from 20 to 75 dollars. Brooks arraigned on kidnapping and assault charges with bail set at 24000 dollars. Morrissey denied lower bail.
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George M. Fienberg
Massachusetts
Vermont
Pownal
New York
Jean D. Richard
Floyd E. Thomas
North Adams
Mass
R. Marshall Witten
Thomas
Richard
Witten
Richael S. Steele
Williamstown
Fienberg
Steele
Volkswagen
John L. Herbert
Pittsfield
Herbert
Robert E. Baugh
Stamford
Baugh
H. Baugh
Lyman Ff
Dean Jr
South Dorset
Clifford D. Hewes
Manchester Depot
Tyrone Powers Gaudette
Dorset
Leonard Wood
Arlington
Wood
William Holm
Holm
Shaftsbury
Donald L. Roberts
Danby
Manchester
Roberts
Anthony van Santford Brooks
Brooks
John P. Morrissey
George M. Feinberg
Morrissey
Schools wrestle with prayer and constitutional debate
A Vermont education conference debated school prayers and the need for a constitutional amendment. The USSDA group favored keeping prayers in schools while some urged separation of church and state and cautioned against narrow rulings.
Hospital Notes Admits and Births Across Bennington Area
Admissions list includes Miss Teresa Dunican and Mrs Jennie Jones among North Bennington and Hoosick Falls cases. Births note daughters to Mr and Mrs Raymond Davis and to several area families on Oct 25 27 with Westover AF Hospital reporting a baby girl born to Lt and Mrs Thomas Beshara weighing seven pounds ten ounces.
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Teresa Dunican
Bennington
Jennie Jones
North Bennington
Sandra Harrington
Hoosick Falls
Raymond A. Davis
Main St
Robert Russell
Scott St
Robert Allen
North Hoosick
Raymond Moffitt
Donald Harrington
Westover AF Hospital
Thomas M. Beshara
Michael Beshara
Bradford St
Rosemary McNaney
Rochester
N.Y
Westover Air Force Base
Front St
Chicopee
Mass
Two Walk Away After Pawlet Plane Crash
In Pawlet New York a 1958 single engine plane crash landed in a field after taking off from Granville. Pilot Gilbert Mach age 40 and passenger Sherwood Gould age 17 escaped unharmed despite damage to the undercarriage and propeller.
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Pawlet
Granville
N.Y
Gilbert Mach
Sherwood Gould
Buzz Mars
Vermont
Stock Averages Report from Dow Jones Clearinghouse
Noon figures show the Dow Jones Industrial average at 159. the composite at 264.60 with a .59 rise. Railroads led losses with 171.13 down .37 while utilities stood at 138.38 down .03. Volume traded totaled 3,070,000 shares.
Berkshire Three-Car Crash injures several in Vermont
A three vehicle wreck on U S 7 in Pownal Vermont injures five people and causes about 1400 dollars in damage. Michael Pasterczyk 38 of Pittsfield Massachusetts Charles Monterosso 43 of Pittsfield Massachusetts and Alan Klein 34 of Stockbridge Massachusetts were involved. Passengers Arthur Kenney 43 Gordoi Ronowich 52 and Josephine Daley 37 reported soreness or minor injuries. Police say the crash happened when the lead car braked and the following two could not stop.
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Pasterczyk
Arthur Kenney
Gordoi Ronowich
Pittsfield
Monterosso
Josephine Daley
Searsburg
Russell Jacobs
Linden
N.J
Townshend
How New England Congressmen Voted on Issues
In the Senate the $1.9 billion higher education aid bill passed 60 to 19 with Aiken Dodd Kennedy McIntyre Pastor Prouty Ribico tt Saltonstall Smith for. Cotton Muskie Pell not voting. In the House the Puerto Rico status bill passed 320 to 44 with all New England members voting for except McIntire Macdonald Martin Morse and St Onge who did not vote.
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Senate
Aiken
R-Vt
Dodd
D - Conn
Kennedy
D Mass
McIntyre
D-N.h
Pastore
D-R
Prouty
Ribicott
D-Conn
Saltonstall
R Mass
Smith
R-Maine
Cotton
N.H
Muskie
Maine
Pell
HOUSE
Puerto Rico
New England
McIntire
Macdonald
Martin
Morse
St. Onge
YMCA Hikers Learn About Nature Indoors
Nineteen Bennington Area YMCA youth hikers met indoors due to dry woods for their weekly outing. Leonard J. Black presented a nature display with edible versus non edible foods, animal eating habits, and showing woods and tree parts, including slag from old furnaces.
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Bennington Area
YMCA
Leonard J. Black
Mr. Black
Girl Struck by Slow Moving Car on Main Street
A siv year old girl ran from between parked cars into an eastbound car on Main Street in Bennington at about 9 15 am. She sustained cuts to the left face and forearm and was treated at home. Deborah Skidmore is named as the child’s mother with address on Main Street.
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Main Street
Bennington Village
Deborah Skidmore
Betty Skidmore
Main St
Valentine
Main Streets
Charles Senecal
North Bennington
Rural Auxiliary To Award Dinner In November
The Bennington Rural Fire Dept Auxiliary will award a Thanksgiving basket with a complete holiday dinner on November 18 at the Willow Road firehouse. Mrs. Polly Carruth chairs the group and members donate items for the basket. A plastic party is planned for the November 18 meeting. nine members attended the last session. Mrs. Alma Shattuck won the mystery package. refreshments were served.
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Bennington
Shattuck
Rice
School Boards To Review Questionnaire Results
Preliminary results of the Mt. Anthony Union School District community survey will be reviewed at a joint meeting of the union district school board and the six member district boards. Knox County Sheriff Carl Food returned from a raid on an illegal cockfight. He notes eight gamecocks cannot be stored with other confiscated gambling devices because they would starve or kill each other.
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William E. Dailey Jr
North Bennington
Lord
Shaftsbury
United States
Dailey
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Vermont
Faire Edwards
Middlesex
Mt. Anthony Union
Union District
Knoxville, Tenn
Knox County
Carl Food
Food
Moon Shot debate to reexamine U S space program
A public meeting at Molly Stark School 7 30 p m opens a monthly series on space funding with Khrushchev remarks cited. The Illinoisan notes space committees should reevaluate the U S program and survey results from union district voters are being tabulated by Williams College Roper Center. Robert M Wilson of Pippin Knoll and a state education task force member will review findings for several school boards.
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Molly Stark
Union School Board
Roper Opinion Research Center
Williams College
Robert M. Wilson
Pippin Knoll
State Education Task Force
Grass Fire Doused Near Clement Green Farm
Shafts bury Fire Department tackled a grass fire southwest of the Clement Green farm in Maple Hill. Reported by resident William Cross and by a state Forests and Parks Department fire patrol plane. Between a half acre and an acre burned.
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Shaftsbury
Clement Green
Maple Hill
William Cross
State Forests and Parks Department
Informality Stressed At Gibney Testimonial Dinner
Town GOP Chair J Duncan Campbell promotes an unusually informal affair at the Gibney testimonial dinner. Wives of national and state leaders will table hop to meet attendees. notable guests include Mrs Ralph Foote and Mrs F Ray Keyser Jr and Vermont congressman Robert Stafford may attend. Tickets available from Mary Hodeck or GOP committee members. The event begins at 6 30 p m at Mt Anthony Country Club.
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GOP
James B
Dash) Gibney
J. Duncan Campbell
Campbell
Ralph A. Foote
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Ernor
Winston L. Prouty
U.S
Washington
Reid Lefevre
Manchester
Eugene V. Clark
Bennington
Joseph J. Caracciola
Vermont
Robert T. Stafford
Mary Hodeck
Republican Committee
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Break-In At Pizza House Hits Jukebox And Change
Bennington Village Police report a break in at the Pizza House owned by Margaret Perzio on the corner of Gage and Stafford Streets. A back door was forced and cigarette machine and jukebox were broken open. Amount of cash not yet determined. Case under investigation.
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Pizza House
Gage and
Stafford Streets
Margaret Perzio
Bennington Village
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Kane Inc
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Americanism Committee
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Charles St
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East Dorset
F. John Hawley
East Arlington
Jessie Beagle
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Susan Raymond
Robert Cross
White Creek
Donna Therriault
Lillian Scrivens
Betty Rufus
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Hoosick
Ekagar Rhodes
Dorothy Durocher
William C. Congdon
Claudia Chaloux
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Giraud W. Campbell III
Agnes Hirsch
Minnie Loux
Tracey C. Jones
Walter H. Sheridan
Barbara Merriman
Pawlet Village
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