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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1967
Page
3
Bennington Village police and traffic committee mulled several traffic issues this week. Trustees cited complaints about directing traffic in Putnam Square on Friday afternoon.
The Vermont Fellowship of Women of the United Church of Christ holds its 40th annual meeting September 28 at Centre Congregational Church Brattleboro with Rev Nathanael Guptill as keynote speaker. A Rutland women’s dramatic group and a panel of attendees who recently joined national conferences will feature in the program. A separate town traffic discussion notes signals, signs and a request to hire an engineer to study flow, plus a parking complaint on Gage Street and through traffic signage issues near a Bennington motel. In Alicante Spain, 19 year old Jose Ortin Garrigan skindived with a harpoon gun, and surgeons removed it from his right thigh after he claimed to catch something big.
Ivan W. Atwood Jr., assistant manager at the W.T. Grant store in Schenectady, is scheduled to attend a week long training conference with Grant top management in New York starting September 11. He is among 60 store management trainees from 23 states, part of a program preparing them for store leadership. Twenty nineteen trainees have already received first store assignments.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars District No. 2 held a social at the Vermont Soldiers Home on Monday evening. Winners named include John McLane and others. district and local members attended. National auxiliary president Ruth Bogacz is slated to visit September 25 with Col. Edward Giles hosting.
Henry Mallory village president obtained a pledge from the board of trustees that the ordinance banning burning general refuse and restricting paper burning will be enforced by police. Fines can reach 20 dollars. Trustees also noted potential municipal trash service to reduce disputes and save money, with one member estimating a 36 dollar annual bill.
Frank L. Oktavec announced Herbert H. Leonard as chair of the planning committee for a 1 million dollar capital funds drive for a new YMCA Center in Bennington County. The initial gifts and major gifts committees feature leaders from Vermont banks and local firms. The center on Memorial Park will include an indoor pool gymnasium teen canteen and craft room to serve youth and adults with organized programs. Boston area forecast: temperatures two to six degrees below normal with upper 60s to mid 70s days and mid 40s to mid 50s nights through Monday and little rain.
Bennington Free Library adds several new fiction and general works across multiple genres. Notable titles include Berckman The Heir of Starvelings and Kayira The Looming Shadow, plus Spillane Vengeance Is Mine and Jackson Soviet Union. Juvenile selections feature Andersons Complete Book of Horses and Pony for Three, with nautical and travel titles like The Impossible Journey of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Caribbean Lands.
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