Veterans Memorial Committee Seeks South Street Park Plan
Bennington Veterans Memorial Committee plans a small park on town land between the Great er Bennington Association building and the county courthouse. The project centers on a stone memorial to all veterans, with a book for individual names. GBA removed a nearby building at the committee’s request to clear the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Veterans Memorial Committee
South Street Park
Bennington Veterans Memorial Committee
South Street
Greater
GBA
Bennington County Industrial Corp
Veterans Memorial Committee
We Trust
Donald C. Hicks
William J. Horst
Veterans Committee
U N General Assembly to debate South Viet Nam Buddhists
The United Nations General Assembly opens September 17 and is expected to consider charges that the government of South Viet Nam represses Buddhists. The session will address religious freedom concerns raised by UN members and observers.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
South Viet Nam
Disappearing American Eagle Studied by Garden Club
The Bennington Garden Club screened The Bald Eagle by the Audubon Society at Old Bennington School House with a Vermont Fish and Game Department biologist James A. Stewart outlining causes of the species decline and ongoing protection efforts. The meeting highlighted conservation education, local nesting records, and campaigns to reestablish eagle habitats in Vermont.
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Bennington Garden Club
The
Audubon Society
Th Bennington Garden Club
Bennington School House
Conservation Committee
E. E. Sarcka
Cold Spring Road
Shaftsbury
Bennington
Vermont Fish and Game Department
James A. Stewart
Vermont
Stewart
Fish and Game Department
Douglas Matteson
North Bennington
Garden Club
Audubon
Maine
On This Date in History September 6, 1963
September 6 marks events from 1901 Buffalo welcoming McKinley to 1620 Mayflower voyage and 1909 Peary pole reach. Other notes include Benedict Arnold 1781 raid on New London and Marne battle 1914.
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Buffalo
N.Y
William McKinley
Leon Czolgosz
McKinley
Plymouth
England
Benedict Arnold
New London
Konrad Adenauer
Japan
South Korea
Gloucester Drops Its Ban On Liquor for Drunkards
Gloucester voters ended the town liquor licensing board list that barred known drunks and those recently intoxicated. The list, tied to Prohibition era rules, stood for 30 years and rarely used, with fewer than two dozen names. The board dropped it after warnings of potential civil liability from a careless mistake.
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Gloucester
Mass
New England
Liquor Licensing Board
Hoff to Speak at Young Democrats Northeast Conference
Governor Philip Hoff of Vermont will address the 1963 Young Democrats Northeast Conference in Manchester New Hampshire. The event gathers 11 Northeastern states with panels training sessions and a 1964 campaign plans briefing led by Richard Rausch. Allen Howe will lead a leadership session. The conference theme centers on leadership development.
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Washington, D.C
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont
Manchester
N.H
Carl R. Tuvin
Carpenter Motor Hotel
Richard Rausch
Allen Howe
Young Democrats of America
Kennedy Plans to Hail Roosevelt and Pinchot on Conservation Tour
President Kennedy will salute Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot at the start of a 10-state conservation tour this month. He will fly to Milford Pennsylvania to tour the Pinchot home, soon a national historic site, then visit San Francisco Salt Lake City Portland and Duluth among other stops.
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Washington
Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Milford
Pinchot
US Forest Service
White House
Pinchot Home
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Portland
Ore
Duluth
Refrigerator Toll Up In Abandoned Units
The National Safety Council reports 35 children died in 1962 from abandoned refrigerators, the highest year to date. Through 1963, 13 deaths have occurred. Summer is the danger season and 36 states ban discarding a refrigerator in hazardous condition. Remove the door to render a unit harmless, typically with a screwdriver.
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Chicago
UPI
National Safety Council
Council
Montpelier Firm to Sell Vermont at World’s Fair
Montpelier public relations firm Miller and Company selected to organize a two year Vermont program at the New York World’s Fair. The plan includes about 150 events on the Village Green of the New England Stars Pavilion with Vermont scheduled for 11 events in 1964 and 1965. The program is prepared with the Vermont Development Department, and Miller and Company links with Northeast Public Relations. L Samuel Miller and Peter Miller, Weston, own the new firm.
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Montpelier — Miller and Company
Montpelier
Vermont
Theodore F’. Kane
New England
New England Stars
Miller and Company
Vermont Development Department
Northeast Public Relations, Inc
Exhibition Services International Corp
Cambridge, Mass
Northeast
L. Samuel Miller
Democratic Party
Peter
Weston
New Capital City
Radioactivity Counts Show Little Change in Vermont
Geiger counter tests by the state Health Department in Barre indicate stable airborne radioactivity last week with readings from one to nine picoeu r ies per cubic meter for Aug 15 to 28. National figures show a slight dip, while milk safety remains solid as no iodine 131 above ten picocuries per liter has been found in pasteurized milk networks through Aug 10. The New England average for late July to early August was five picocuries.
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Burlington
Geiger Counter
Industrial Hygiene Division
State Health Department
Barre
New England
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Bennington, VT
DIAL
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Economy Auto Stores, Inc
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U.N
Molly Stark
Grimm
Fie
Matteson
Connecticut
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Bennington School
Stowell Baxter
Weston Hadden
Patrick Gordon
Associated Press
Bennington Battle Monument
Col
Seth Warner
Hoff
Young Demos
N.E
Tuvin
Young Democrats
Nashville, Tenn
Teddy Roosevelt
Salem’s
Cecelia Greene’s
School OF Dance
Main ST. Bennington
Dance Educators OF America
Arlington School
Main Street
U.S
Pownal Center
Mercury
Bennington Garage Corp
Vermont Bank
Mimete Fidera
Brattleboro
Rutland
Bennington Bellows Falls
Chester
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