Delinquent minors in Bennington court case outcomes
In municipal court Judge George M. Fienberg committed 13 year old Carol A. Livingston to Weeks School for minority. 16 year old Mary Louise Harrington also delinquent with suspended term. Patricia J. Stroessel received 30 day suspended jail term for beer possession and probation. A separate group faced potential contempt of court amid charges involving driving with a suspended license and false name use. Local police may pursue guardianship and co-defendant accountability as investigations continue. In Bedford England a court heard teens using heroin and marijuana, noting 16 year olds admitting drug use with nose- or eye-dropper methods as a 19-year-old faced narcotics possession charges.
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Bennington
Weeks School
George M. Fienberg
Carol A. Livingston
Lincoln St
Mary Louise Harrington
Shaftsbury
Patricia J. Stroessel
Robinson Avenue
Robert H. Fitts
Terrance L. Parker
Anne Johnson
Sunderland
Atty
R. Marshall Witten
Fitts
Manchester
Parker
Johnson
Fienberg
Witten
Bedford
England
UPI
J.H. Culpin
New Phone Rates Go Into Effect in Vermont
New England Telephone reveals a $500,000 service upgrade taking effect today to improve Vermont coverage. After 8 p.m. tolls drop to 35 cents for three minutes up to 120 miles, with Sunday calls at the same rate. beyond 120 miles the price is 40 cents for three minutes. Colored telephone charges drop from $7.50 to $5.00.
Tinmouth Man Dies in Log Truck Accident
A 24 year old Tinmouth man, James G. Fenton, was crushed to death on his father’s farm when a 750 pound maple log rolled off a truck. He was operating a front loader tractor and placing the log on the truck when it slipped, knocked him down and rolled over him. State Police report.
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Tinmouth
UPI
James G. Fenton
Fenton
August Rain Surpasses Some, Dips Below Normal
August rainfall at Harwood Hill station measured 4.24 inches, with August 1963 at 4.46 and last year at 4.72 inches. Officials note the past month slightly exceeds the long term August average yet remains subnormal across many years.
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Bennington
U. S
Paul Bohne
Harwood Hill
Bohne
Prouty and Aiken Personal Staff Costs Revealed
UPI reports Sen. George D. Aiken paid his personal staff about 42000 for the first half of 1965 while Sen. Winston Prouty paid 64000 for the same period. Lola Pierotti and Thomas Hayes led each side with 11400. Separately London sources note the British Post Office sending mailmen to Munich for a nine mile walking contest in uniform with satchels.
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Washington
UPI
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Winston Prouty
Senate
Aiken
Lola Pierotti
Prouty
Thomas Hayes
London
Munich
New Education Chief Assumes Office Today in Vermont
Dr Richard A Gibboney becomes Vermont education commissioner replacing retiring A John Holds who led the post 16 years Holden retires at 65 Deputy Max Barrows says education has moved ahead at a greater pace under the administration For sale one genuine 19th century English castle 58000 owner William Beresford Med lam moving to warmer climate
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Devizes
England
William Beresford Medlam
Bennington Briefs highlights from town events and notices
Community items span YMCA programs and lifeguard card pickups, VFW Auxiliary luncheon and dance, Industrial Management Club meeting plans, a misreported court arraignment corrected, lost and found articles deadline at YMCA facilities, tap dancer Jay Seaman on WRGB’s The Barn, Moose Lodge meetings and fall sale planning, Air Force recruit address, tracer issued for unpaid gas, high school bound Elizabeth Lamb heading to Lake Forest College with orientation set for September 18 21 and fall term start September 22.
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Elizabeth Bleakie Lamb
Robert B. Lamb
Monument Ave
Old Bennington
Lake Forest
Madeira School
Greenway
Bay State House Recasts Tax Plan After Rejection
In Boston, the Massachusetts House resurrected a 165.2 million tax compromise, sending it back to committee for the third time amid Republican doubts about leadership and continued weeklong debate. The House then adjourned for an eight day holiday weekend as the Ways and Means Committee pledged further work with Taxation.
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Boston
UPI
Hames H. Kelly
Massachusetts
House
John A. Armstrong
Plymouth
Ways and Means Committee
Anthony M. Scibelli
Springfield
Ways and Means
Navy Sailor Joins Atule For Unitas VI Exercise
Navy Commisaryman Third Class Jean W. Ratelle, son of Mr and Mrs Donat J Ratelle of 326 Dewey Street, serves aboard the submarine Atule taking part in Unitas VI a nine nation anti submarine warfare exercise in the Western Hemisphere aimed at mutual training in tactics and operations. Gov Volpe pressed House Speaker Davoren to back a sales tax to raise about 200 million for property tax relief and education, but the House rejected Volpe’s bill and a Democratic alternative. Volpe plans a compromise message with a $3 cash payment for low income workers and dependents, while offering to cut auto excise tax and drop other income tax revisions in hopes of bipartisanship. no House action is expected for at least two weeks.
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Jean W. Ratelle
Donat J. Ratelle
Dewey St
Atule
House
John A. Volpe
John F.X. Davoren
Milford
Davoren
Volpe
Police Issue Annual Appeal to Caution Crossing
Bennington Village Police issued their annual appeal urging parents to have children cross downtown streets carefully. Officers will supervise crossings at Main and South Streets and Main and School Streets to ensure safe pedestrian flow.
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Bennington Village
Main Street
Hospital Notes Aged Births and Discharges List
Discharges Zuron Huse and Mrs Betty Rufus noted with locations Pownal Hoosick Falls West Halifax and Bennington Births announced for Andrew and wife Beech Street Extension Beech Street extension a daughter Aug 31 Robert Blinstruth Hoosick Falls N Y a second son Christopher born Aug 31 in Jacksonville Florida Parents Lee W Hart and spouse Jacksonville Fla Grandson William B Hart Burgess Road Great grandson F Lee Hart Beech Street.
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Zuron Huse
Pownal
Betty Rufus
West Halifax
Jean Decker
Hoosick Falls
Andrew Sauer
Beech Street Extension
Robert Blinstruth
R.D
N.Y
Lee W. Hart
Jacksonville
Fla
Christopher
Scott
William B. Hart
Burgess Road
F. Lee Hart
Beech Street
Stock Averages Report at Noon on Wall Street
Dow Jones industrials at 891.07, down 2.03. railroads 218.08, off 0.59. utilities 155.21, down 0.03. composite 314.54, down 0.64. Trading activity shows 2,810,000 shares.
Udall to Tour Connecticut River Area This Month
Secretary Udall will visit the Connecticut River basin on September 13 to inspect the river area between Saybrook and Hartford. Sen. Ribicoff urged the trip to support a four estate national recreation area and invited Gov. Dempsey, Sen. Dodd, and state officials. The legislation also seeks a Connecticut River Valley national parkway spanning Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire.
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Washington
UPI
Stewart C. Udall
Connecticut River
Udall
Connecticut
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Ribicoff
Saybrook
Hartford
John N. Dempsey
Thomas J. Dodd
Connecticut River Valley National Parkway and Recreation Area
Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
Brahan Defends County Finances
Troy neighbors heard Rensselaer County Treasurer James H Brahan defend the counties finances before Troy Rotarians He cited a state audit and control report stating the counties condition was above reproach and Moody s Investor Service kept its Grade A rating for county bonds as preparations for capital improvements proceeds.
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Troy
N. Y
Rensselaer
James H. Brahan
Hoosick Falls
Moody’s Investor’s Service
Rensselaer County
Moody’s
Brahan
Wilson Likely to Run Again as Democrats Seek More Candidates
State Senator Robert M. Wilson of Bennington signaled he will file for re election as a Democrat for one of Bennington County’s two Senate seats. The announcement came at a Bennington County Democratic Committee meeting with a Sept. 8 filing deadline. Possible rival: Republican Allan B. Rngney Jr. and Salvatore Santarcangelo. Another Democrat hopeful may be Eugene Kayatta, potential for House seat. The committee urged additional Democratic candidates to avoid split votes against two Republicans in the two-seat race.
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Robert M. Wilson
Bennington
Bennington County
Wilson
Democratic Committee
Senate
Allan B. Rngney Jr
Arlington
Bennington Village
Salvatore Santarcangelo
House
Democrats
Eugene Kayatta
Manchester Center
Kayatta
Claude Dernot Dorset
Manchester Area
Trict. Kayatta
Manchester
Marian Cummings
Nesbith Fienberg
Lawrence F. Powers
Gloria Gil
Three Bennington youths injured in Hoosick NY crash
Three Bennington youths Kevin Thibodeau John Mason and Sally Hyman were treated for scrapes and bruises after an automobile accident on New York State Route 7 in Hoosick New York. They were released from Putnam Memorial Hospital. State police at Eagle Bridge provided only a brief report pending a detailed file.
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Bennington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Hoosick
N.Y
Kevin Thibodeau
Gage St
John Mason
South St
Sally Hyman
Main Street
New York
Eagle Bridge
N.Y. 7
Selectmen tackle sloppy dumping and road fixes
Bennington selectmen discussed indiscriminate dumping near the former town road to the old town dump and planned to turn the matter to Health Officer William H. Fox for possible court action. They also considered closing the road to vehicles and reported a clogged chlorine line at the Sewage Treatment Plant needing a contractor to locate and fix the source. Road repair requests from residents were reviewed.
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Joseph Higgins
Chapel Road
Old Town
Higgins
William H. Fox
Richard van Santvoord
Paul Kelley
Kelley
van Santvoord
Selectmen
Funeral for Charles F. Silver Held in Sacred Heart Church
The funeral of Charles F. Silver of 713 County Street, longtime Bennington post office custodian, was a Requiem High Mass at Sacred Heart Church. Fr. Joseph Wiseman led the service with a prayer service the night before at Mahar & Son Funeral Home. Bearers included Bernard F. Ryan and others. Burial followed at Park Lawn Cemetery with committal prayers by Fr. Lawrence McAuliffe. Relatives came from Keene, New Hampshire, New York City, Troy, Syracuse, Long Island, Rutland, Windsor, and nearby areas.
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Charles F. Silver
County St
Bennington
Sacred Heart Church
Joseph F. Wiseman
Mahar & Son Funeral
Bernard F. Ryan
Joseph Fox
John Gygax
Francis J. Hogan
Ralph Thurber Jr
Richmond Thurber
Father Wiseman
Stanley Pekalski
Post Office
Aerie
Order of Eagles
William Kilroy
Ralph Bent
Silver
Bennington Lodge of Elks
Louis Bellemare
Donald Greenslet
John Ahearn
Dominick Yarnel
Albert Jones
Esquire
Park Lawn Cemetery
Lawrence McAuliffe
Keene, N.H
New York City
Troy
Syracuse
Long Island
N.Y
Rutland
Windsor
Contraceptive Sales to Teens Legalized in New York
Albany reports the 1965 legislative session repealed the general ban on selling birth control devices to those 16 and over. Sales now allowed only in licensed pharmacies with no advertising. The measure accompanies other sweeping statutes including involuntary admission rules for alcoholics and mentally ill patients, and an anti pornography bill restricting under 17 sales and minor access to certain films.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N.Y
Senate Unit Approves New U.N. Team
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved three nominations to work with new U.N. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg. Charles W. Yost was named deputy U.S. representative, James Roosevelt to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, and Eugenie Anderson to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, forming the core of the Washington delegation under Goldberg after he replaced the late Adlai Stevenson.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Nations
Arthur J. Goldberg
Senate
Charles W. Yost
U.S
World Organization
James Roosevelt
D-Calif
U N. Economic and Social Council
Eugenie Anderson
U.N. Trusteeship Council
Yost
Goldberg
Supreme Court
Adlai Stevenson
Vermont Receives 59046 Forest Road Funds
President Johnson announced an apportionment of 59 046 dollars to Vermont for highways in or near national forests for the 1967 fiscal year. The funds stem from the Federal Highway Act of 1964 and are part of a 33 million dollar nationwide allocation to 40 states including Maine and New Hampshire. Vermont’s share, determined by federal land area within state national forests, totals 59 046 dollars.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Congress
New England
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