Champlain Cutoff Hearings Near End as Public Forum Opens
Champlain Waterway Commission holds its fifth public hearing in Middlebury tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. on linking the St Lawrence River with New York ports. Sen. James L. Oakes says the session is open to all who wish to speak as the panel prepares a report for the International Joint Commission this fall in Burlington. Critics warn of pollution and loss of lake recreation. the Lake Champlain Committee backs opposition with members from Vermont and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlebury
Champlain Waterway Commission
James L. Oakes
Windham
Commission
St. Lawrence River
New York
Burlington
Waterway Commission
Lake Champlain Committee
Vermont
New York State
Congolese Youth Worker Tours Vermont Facilities
Philippe Yau, director of youth activities for Elisabethville Congo, visited Vermont for two weeks under U S State Department and state Recreation sponsorship. He met with Recreation Board members, toured facilities, attended Woodstock Water Carnival and Proctor Swim Meet, stayed at Camp Holy Cross, and visited Weeks School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Recreation Board
Woodstock
Proctor
Camp Holy Cross
Weeks School
Huntsville School Start Delayed and Desegregation Orders Spread
Tuskegee boosted patrols to 215 uniformed officers with help from surrounding towns. Governor Wallace ordered Huntsville to delay the start of school until Friday, and one school to admit Negro students today. The board voted to comply. Federal court orders also require desegregation in three Birmingham schools and one Mobile school this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Huntsville
Birmingham
Mobile
No Fatalities in Area Accidents over Labor Day Weekend
A three day Labor Day period in the Bennington area saw several highway crashes on U S 7 in Shaftsbury with no fatalities. Two out of state cars were wrecked in the mid morning collision near the White Pillars gift shop injuring 10 people including four elderly. Passengers from Connecticut and New York were hospitalized with facial injuries and other treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York 7
Hoosick
N.Y
Thomas Norton
Harrison
N.J
Norton
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Buick
Floyd O. Blake
Bennington
Blake
Beaumont
U.S. 7
Shaftsbury
Vermont
White Pillars
Joseph McCarthy
Torrington
Roslyn Heights
L.I
McCarthy
Rose
Stasia
Mary Richardson
Putnam Hospital
Albany Medical Center
Anne Ashley
Howard
Albany Hospital
Ashley
Barbara
Karen
David
Julian Jonas
Buckler
Colliano loses license after DUI test refusal in Bennington
In Municipal Court Judge George M. Fienberg ruled Rocky N. Colliano refusal to take a blood test after a DUI arrest was unreasonable. Colliano pleaded not guilty, then changed to not guilty and was fined 100. State law suspends his license for six months. Colliano was arrested Sept. 1 in Bennington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky N. Colliano
George M. Fienberg
Colliano
Fienberg
Bennington
John B. Harte
Raymond C. Lake
Granville
N.Y
Lake
Waterbury
Edna Lake
Rufus Lake
Dorset
Harry Barber Jr
Manchester
Bennington Area Hospital Report Summary
Admissions list multiple residents from Hoosick Falls Bennington Shaftsbury and Wilming-ton including Janet and Elizabeth Daven danis Diane Nichols Cath erine Sausville Marilyn Cooke and Mrs Louise MacDonald Discharges include Margaret Sausville Carolyn Ritchie James Main Sr and Howard Amidon Births note several babies born to local families A two car collision on US 7 in Pownal caused about 525 in damages two minor injuries and a single car crash in Bennington caused 800 damage to top and left side of a vehicle
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Bennington
Hoosick
N.Y
New York State
Floyd O. Blake
Chimes St
New York 7
Blake
Sylvia
Vermont
Woodford
Frank Hager
Woodford Road
Milton Pratt
Bellows Falls
Pratt
Hager
Janet and
Elizabeth Davendanis
Hoosick Falls
Ken and
Clay LaPorte
Diane Nichols
Catherine Sausville
Marilyn Cooke
Mrs
Louise MacDonald
Shaftsbury
Julius Manes
U.S. 7
Pownal
Dominick C. Falzerano
White Plains
Henning E. Petersen
Dobbs Ferry
Petersen
Ladd Brook
Falzerano
Ford
Anita Falzerano
Michael Sannicandro
Robert F. Cleary
Bennington Village
Cleary
East Main St
North Villager Hurt at Rutland Fair in Freak Accident
Joseph LaBrecque of North Bennington Road was struck on the head by a plank torn from a rail around a stock car track at the Rutland fairgrounds. He was knocked unconscious, suffered a concussion, fractured jaw, and lip cuts, and was hospitalized in Rutland. He operates LaBrecque's Automotive Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph LaBrecque
North Bennington Road
Rutland
Rutland Fairgrounds
LaBrecque
Consciouness
North
Bennington Road
Miss Morrissey Concludes Takodah Camp Session
Patricia Morrissey daughter of Mr and Mrs Francis E Morrissey of 349 Elm St returned home after five weeks at Takodah Camp Takedah in Richmond New Hampshire for girls 42nd annual session She joined in rewards programs for sports aquatics and camp emblems and led in the camp dramatic production Peter Pan as a Camper Council member from Cabin 19 The 47 year history of Takodah and 50 years of Cheshire County YMCA youth service were celebrated with over 1400 certificates patches and emblems awarded to qualified campers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Morrissey
Francis E. Morrissey
Elm St
Cheshire County
Takedah
Richmond
N.H
Morrissey
Peter Pan
Campers Council
YMCA
Cheshire County Ymca
Earl Callahan
Robert W. Hoyt
Franklin D. Buck
Wytherville
Alice Hoyt
Depot Street
Paula Hoyt
Wytherville, Va
Bennington Briefs Highlight Local Events and Notices
Bennington briefs cover a Carier Bennington visit to Seattle for Navy Day, lost puppy alert, VFW and church activities, cancer society unit meeting, Kings Daughters sales prep, forestry society meeting, a film showing at Bennington Elementary, United Commercial Travelers gathering, Senior First Methodist Youth Fellowship, and a rummage sale. Public works updates list Vermont road resurfacing on three routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Laboratory of the Ornithology of
Cornell University
National Audubon Society
Garden Club
United Commercial Travelers
Bennington Club
First Methodist Youth Fellowship
Ellen Gird
OES Mt Anthony Chapter to Meet at Masonic Hall
The OES notes a Wednesday evening gathering at the Masonic Hall with dues collected. Sisters Edna Seymour Blanche Strohmaier Kitty Camp are ill. Maude Estes in hospital. Charlotte Gardner confined at home. Remember them with cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony
O.E Sey
Masonic Hall
Edna Seymour
Blanche Strohmaier
Kitty Camp
Maude Estes
Charlotte Gardner
Stock Averages Report Noon Trading Totals
The Dow Jones industrial average stood at 732.114 with a gain of 2.79. Railroads advanced to 176.93 up 4.07, utilities rose to 144.08 up .12, and the composite average reached 263.20 up .64. Total sales were 2,530,000.
Crowding and Dropouts Highlight Bennington Schools
Superintendent Allan J. Heath cites overcrowded classrooms and rising high school dropouts as key issues for the coming year urging early dropout identification and security through success. He backs a Ford Foundation funded curriculum project involving ten districts and plans a high school union as space needs grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan J. Heath
Bennington Graded
Heath
Riculum
Ford Foundation
Fund For the Advancement of Education
Bennington High School
Paul E. Kirsch
Kirsch
Obituaries for Mrs Lucy Shaw and Leonard Flanigan
Obituary notices detail the deaths of Mrs Lucy Martin Shaw 87 of Hoosick Falls and Leonard A. Flanigan 69 of Bennington. Mrs Shaw, a Wellesley College alumna and Health Center founder, leaves husband Dr Clayton E. Shaw Sr and son Clayton Jr with a granddaughter Susan. services Thursday at John A Haussler Funeral Home. Mr Flanigan, WWI veteran, formerly of Cambridge and Bennington, leaves wife Mary Nash and son John L. Flanigan. services Wednesday at Mahar and Son Funeral Home and St Patrick’s Cambridge with a Rosary tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Martin Shaw
Clayton E. Shaw
Abbott St
Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls Health Center
Shaw
Easton
N.Y
Horton
Martha Cottrell
Greenwich, N.Y
Wellesley College
Presbyterian Church
King’s Daughters
Red Cross
Clayton E. Shaw Jr
Susan Shaw
Mary Fisher
New York City
Donald Moffett
Bronxville
John A. Haussler
Leonard A. Flanigan
BenMont Avenue
Veterans Hospital
Albany
Cambridge
James
Julia (Dempsey) Flanigan
Bennington
Holden and Leonard and
E-Z
National Carbon Company
Union Carbide Consumer Products Company
St. Francis de Sales Church
Mary N. Nash
John L. Flanigan
Thomas Shiland
Bernard Flanigan
Schenectady
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Robert Allen
John E. Gallaher
Bellrose
Gallaher
Hoosick Falls Village
Champlain
Oakes
Tuskegee
H. Greenberg & Son
Main St
Dial
Im. Jewelers & Silversmiths
Bennington, Vt
Pital
Hanson-Walbridge
William Bohl
Harrison, N.J
James Labor
Orleans
Bennington Hospital
Putnam Hospital Report
Mary Streeter
Wilmington
Jean Thompson
Margaret Sausville
Carolyn Ritchie
Cyrus Field, East Hoosick, N.Y
Christine St. John
Joan Gough
Stephentown
Blanche Harwood
North Bennington
Barbara Crawford
James Main Sr
Howard Amidon
Cherry Plains
Anna Robinson
Priscilla Ludwig
Carl Hess
Betty Lasson
North Pownal
Walter Kent
Manchester Depot
Edna Harris
Anna Niles
Dorothy Urban
Jeanette Waite
Arlington
Elizabeth Thompson
Esther Stratton
Bessie Eastman
Robert Anderson
James Kenyon
Charles Clark
Janet Barton
Millicent Grover
Susan Wilkins
Pawlet
Pamela Decell
Claude Reynolds
LeBlanc Ave
Raymond Walcott
West Pawlet
Miss Morrissey
Bennington Briefs
al Covello
Livingston
United States
Seattle
Wash
Sharon Shea
Grandview St
Princess
Sharon
V.F.W. Post
North Street
Bennington County
American Cancer Society
J. R. Wilson
Union St
Swanton
Edgar W. Killian
Crescent Blvd
New England
Society of American Foresters
Scituate
R.I
Scituate Reservoir
Women’s Fellowship
Second Congregational Church
Vermont Highway Department
Green Mountain Autosports Club
Mt. Anthony Counn Ry Club
OES
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Supt
Paradise
Bennington Teachers Association
Thrift Shop
G.B. Shaw
Lillian Kleine
Ruth Turner
Josiah Fuller
C.T. Adams
Universal
Mrs. Lucy Martin Shaw
Maple Grove Cemetery
Salem's
Hamburg
Sunkist
SALEM
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