Junior High Library Adds Wide Range of Reading Selections
The MAU Junior High Library expands with titles from The Slave Dancer to The Basketball Skill Book and Wrapped for Eternity as students show broad tastes in sports, mystery, history, and adventure. Librarians emphasize Dewey Decimal familiarity, catalog use, and interest polls guiding book selection.
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MAU
David Wohlson
Paula Fox
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Earl Monroe
Wes
Carli Laklan
Mildred Pace
S. Hirsch
Harriet E. Huntington
National Geographic
Science Department
The In and Out List of Ford Era Politics
The column lists items that are in or out as the Ford administration begins. Swimming and skiing are in but lacking venues. Breakfast defies cottage cheese rules. Laird’s status is unclear while Congress is in. Tape recorders and ex presidents face shifts in acceptance.
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White House
Ford Administration
Mel Laird
Laird
Grand Rapids
Congress
GOP
National
George Meany
CIA
Memories of a Maine Model A and its stays of memory
Dispatch from Friendship Maine recalls a family Model A kept since 1930. The writer reflects on painting as varnish, road wear, and the car’s role in shared adventures including a youthful driver test with a state trooper and a seven mile coast bumper drop. The piece ends: the antique car and memories are not for sale.
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Bill
John
Residents urge ordinance on gun noise in rural areas
John R. Powell of Willow Road supports last Thursday's Banner editorial calling for firearm restrictions near homes. He cites multiple incidents of shooting by both children and adults and notes a buyer rejected a nearby property due to gunfire, urging selectmen to draft a rural residential noise and safety ordinance.
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Mollica
Decisions on nukes To the Editor of The Banner
In Montpelier last spring a bill H 441 would give the Vermont Legislature authority to approve new nuclear plants. Currently the Public Service Board and a few utility executives decide atomic energy policy. The writer urges electing candidates who back H 441 to increase public influence and avoid costly leaks and breakdowns like Vernon plant.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Public Service Board
Vernon
Lake Champlain
Bennington News Roundup Includes Legion Post Launch
A junior American Legion post now Sons of the American Legion Squadron of Bennington Post organizes with many fathers and sons present. Other items note Gov candidate Charles M. Smith in town, local Blue Cross Blue Shield plans opening, a Bijur Lubricating contract dispute, theater quiz winnings, and local Halloween art and band uniform criticisms. Historical milestones from 1886 to 1968 are cited.
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American Legion
Sons of the American Legion Squadron
Bennington Post
Department of Vermont
Legion Rooms
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By Jean Wassick
Blondie
B.C
The
Waltons
Bette Silloway
Jessica Wright
Randolph
Dagweed
Brattleboro
Washington
By Dick West
UPI
Spiegial Report
John Gould
Friendship, Maine
San John
Jimmie Harvey
Maine
Jim
Detroit
Bill Knox
Kathy
Kennebago
Piazza Rock
Madrid
Small’s Falls
Sandy River
Madrid Village
John R. Powell
Willow Road
Tom Joslin
St. Albans
Walker
Charles M. Smith
Bennington
Smith
Better Housing Committee
George M. Hawks
Chamber of Commerce
South Shaftsbury Fish and Game Club
Bennington County
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Bijur Lubricating Corporation
Richard Gardner
Gen. Stark Theater
H.E. Bradford Company Inc
Joseph J. Caracciola
George van Santvoord
Bennington High School
Bedloe’s Island
New York Harbor
New York Stock Exchange
Curb Exchanges
Wurre Ite
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