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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1974
Page
8
The Vermont State Fair opened Sunday and runs through Saturday. The midway shows a mix of prurient and wholesome interests while giant produce, livestock displays, and a fiddler near the maple house draw crowds. A strange sideshow allegedly features a student degraded by drugs as observers wait for more at the fair.
The Pownal Baptist Church choir will rehearse tonight at seven. The Rev. Kenneth Schwebel and church members thank supporters of the Royal Wild West Circus, especially Dan Laughlin for parking lot use and Pic n Pac and Gardner's store. Pownal Elementary School opens Wednesday for grades 1-6 with 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for grades 1-3 and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for grades 4-6, full-day Wednesday, hot lunch 40 cents, milk four cents. Kindergarten conferences Wednesday and Thursday, classes begin Friday. kindergarten hours 8:30-11 a.m. and noon-2:30 p.m. Bus routes and drivers listed with start times from 7:20 to 8:10.
A Well Baby Clinic will be held at the Second Congregational Church on Hillside Street Bennington on Friday September 6 at 1 PM. Ap pointments may be made by calling 442 5502. All Pownal residents are welcome.
Wilmington hosted the 57th Deerfield Valley Farmer's Day Exposition at Baker's Field featuring more midway booths games and rides than prior years. Attendance was about 4000 compared with roughly 6000 last year. Highlights included horse shows farm animal displays hayne's Floral Hall prize crops and a Student Activity Fund lunch counter. Notable winners from Searsburg included Hazel O'Brien with six blue ribbons for quilts afghans and knitted items and Trudy Braisted earning two first prizes for gladiolas and marigolds with additional thirds.
Harold S Geneen will keep both chairman and chief executive posts at International Telephone and Telegraph Corp despite rumors of potential nonreappointment. The board acted amid past unfavorable publicity from a Justice Department antitrust settlement.
Town officials report no word on Bureau of Outdoor Recreation funds for the new pool. Construction was to start last week but halted after Andrea Sardelli of Colonial Swimming Pools protested that Colonial should have won the contract. Colonial lost to Paddock Pools of Albany, N.Y. by 22350 in bid. Sardelli filed a complaint with BOR.
A three car collision on Route 7 north of Center at 5 07 a m Saturday left David Reynolds 32 East Dorset with a dislocated hip and Harris A Steward 20 East Dorset with facial cuts both admitted to Rutland Hospital in good condition. James Pecor 26 Danby uninjured. Reynolds and Steward driven vehicles demolished while Pecor's Plymouth sustained light damage. The crash halted progress on a town pool project reliant on state and federal funds.
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