Plight of Amerasian children described for Manchester BPW
Pearl S Buck highlighted the founding of the Pearl S Buck Foundation at the Manchester BPW meeting. She described Asia’s conditions that spurred aid for Amerasian children fathered by American servicemen and noted staff challenges, stressing this is a new Asia and a largely unexplored assistance area. Theodore F Harris and Vasanti Patil joined her, with Nora Wright unable to attend due to midwestern college commitments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Pearl S. Buck
Worthy Inn
Miss Buck
Asia
Theodore F. Harris
Vasanti Patil
Bombay
India
Malcolm Clough
Dorset
Nora Wright
Madrid University
Spain
Mid-Western College
Michael Campisio
World Affairs Committee
Harris
U.S
Viet Nam
Pownal church resumes services and local notices
Pownal Center Community Church will resume Sunday services at 11 with Lay Reader Howard Van Horn. Sunday School starts Sept 18 at 10. The Pow nal Board of Civil Authority meets Saturday at 7:30 to revise the checklist for Tuesday’s Primary. Absentee ballots must be requested by 9 p.m. Friday. Mrs. Harold Andrews and son Clifton plan to spend fall and winter in Mt. Dora, Florida. The hot lunch program resumes Tuesday in Oak Hill North Pownal and Pownal Center schools with head cook Dorothy Andrews, assisted by Ruth Foster and Alma Ricker. Marilyn Gardner named agent for the program. The foundation aiding Amerasian children reports 30,000 children. in Korea Amerasian children lack citizenship by law and officials aim to help via schools and registries. Last year foundation contributions totaled $348,000, with over $130,000 from Miss Buck. Prostitution is not alleged of the women mothers involved. 60,000 registered prostitutes exist in Korea, with an 8 to 1 ratio of registered to unregistered. Viet Nam relief efforts are being studied under Ambassador Lodge’s order, stressing moral responsibility. A Pearl S. Buck Foundation benefit dance is tonight at Equinox House. Miss Patil shared India slides and experiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal Center Community Church
Howard van Horn
Pownal
Korea
Harris
Foundation
Miss Buck
Viet Nam
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
Pearl S. Buck Foundation
Equinox House
Patil
India
Daughn Austin
Mary Hitchcock Hospital School of Nursing
Hanover
N.H
Martin Conway
Plattsburgh
Eugene Conway
Edwin Fillmore
Holstein - Friesian Association of America
Hollis E. Cornell
London
England
Associated Country Women of the World
Cambridge Central School
William Austin
Brian Skiff
Bridget Hayden
Richard DeMarco
WSCS
Methodist Church
Oswald A. Muller
George Allen
Alfred Stannard
Stuart Allen
Stuart Brownell Jr
Malcolm Hamilton
Joy
David
Syracuse
Washington County
John
Carl Hamilton
Norma Allen
Pleasant Valley Grange
Grant van Avery
Eileen Hamilton
Eva Mae Durant
Kevin Gurdon
Susan Brownell
Tommay Hopkins
Billy English
Claudia Durant
Roy Johannsen
Ellen Hamilton
Pomona
Kitty Hopkins
Tammy Hopkins
Barbara Durant
Manchester Begins School Year News and Vacation Plans
Manchester social and school notices cover nurse vacation Sept 12 to Oct 18 with home visiting by Janice Ameden and emergencies by Marjorie Porter at the elementary school. Dr Ruth Steinman and volunteers saw 21 children at Well-Child Conference Sept 1. Dorset children attend MWNA clinics. Plans include a nine day Ireland trip for Mrs Torrey and friend, plus Rome Florence Venice and travel details. Garden Club meets at Equinox House with flowered hat contest. Bible study begins in October on The Book of Acts. First Congregational Choir to start Sept 15 under new director Doris Rigney. other local updates on residents and school enrollment at Manchester Elementary. Sundays at St John’s Chapel end. Zion Episcopal resumes Sept 18. Snelling addresses Rotary on Vermont tax reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary D. Torrey
Manchester
Ruth Steinman
Torrey
Ellen McCooey
Dorset Nursing Association
MWNA
Dorset
Warren Chase
Paul Todtschinder
Edith Snare
Ernest Edgerton
McCooey
Boston
Lisbon
Naples
Rome
Florence
Venice
Italy
Milan
London
Dublin
Ireland
Elizabeth Ayers
Worcester
Mass
Shannon
Garden Club of
Equinox House
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
First Congregational Church
Doris E. Rigney
Celon Harwood
Manchester Center
Rutland Hospital
Harwood
Equinox Nursing Home
Judy Pennock
Castleton State College
Neil E. Cross
Vermont
Burlington
Clyde Byrant Sr
William G. Mallin
Sisters
Mallin
Donald R. Shanks
MES
St. John’s Chapel
Zion Episcopal Church
Miss Anne Winter Heads to Mc Callister College
Miss Anne Winter daughter of Mr and Mrs Gibson Winter left Sunday to start studies at Mc Callister College Minnesota after a one day Dorset visit with her family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Winter
Gibson Winter
McCallister College
Minnesota
Dorset
Local club notices and church gathering announced
South Cambridge residents Howard Olive and Patricia Herrington enjoyed a week at Skye Farm Methodist camp. Crystal Clover 4-H Club schedules a Saturday meeting at 8 p.m. in the town hall. The Women's Society of Christian Service will meet tonight at 8 in the Methodist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard
Olive
Patricia Herrington
Skye Farm
Crystal Clover
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Light Turnout At Shaftsbury For Caucuses
In Shaftsbury Cole Hall hosted both Republican and Democratic caucuses Tuesday night with light attendance. Republican chairman was Tracy Kenyon Jr and clerk Mrs. William Center Sr. Nominations for jus tices of the peace included Theresa Wood Bertha Thomson Frances Stacy Merton R. Snow William Overlock L D Sanborn and Alvan Lawrence. Democratic chairman was Bernard McCarthy with clerk Mrs. Marion McCarthy. Nominated justices were Laura Montgomery Roberta Haynes Henrietta Billow Ezekiel Cross Jr Clinton McDonald William Stufflebeam and Bernard McCarthy.
Oriental restaurant planned at Manchester Depot Center
The IVOW Corp leases space for an oriental Polynesian restaurant of about 5,000 square feet with 100 plus seats at Manchester Depot Shopping Center. William G. Staats of Jamaica named as lessee. architect Fritz Dillmann handling building designs. Other local items include nursing student return, family visits, 4-H dress revue participants, and a Pleasant Valley Grange officer election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Manchester Depot
Ivow Corp
William G. Staats
Jamaica
Fritz Dillmann
Manchester Selectmen to study possible town incorporation
Manchester selectmen voted to explore writing a charter and pursuing incorporation, with Town Agent John Hutton to study the matter. They approved a Viet Nam map sign plan for the Greater Manchester Area Chamber of Commerce in Manchester Center and funded front end loader repairs, crosswalk painting, and an access road acceptance to Potentials Inc. development, contingent on culvert enlargement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Selectmen
Stanford Zecher
Ferdinand Bongartz
Orrin Beattie
John Hutton
Greater Manchester Area
VFW
Main Street
Memorial Avenue
Potentials, Inc
Weekend Guests at Lyons Residence in Winhall Hollow Road
A notice details visitors staying with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Lyons on Winhall Hollow Road. Among them were Robert Gray and family of Lexington Massachusetts Kennan Lyons and family of Hartford Vermont Frederick L. Lyons and family of Shaftsbury Sprague Lyons of Lexington Massachusetts and John D. Britton of Hartford Connecticut. The Brittons recently returned from a European trip including Norway Sweden Denmark and the British Isles. Also noted is M L Ackert Nursery run by Mrs. Julia B. Ackert of Danby now taking ferns in town at John Slade's garage with later cones and evergreens. Inquiries via phone at 824-6619.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick E. Lyons
Robert Gray
Lexington
Mass
Kennan Lyons
Hartford
Frederick L. Lyons
Shaftsbury
Sprague Lyons
John D. Britton
Hoosick Falls Board Salaries Increase in Resolution
At a special meeting on September 1 the Hoosick Falls village board passed a resolution raising the mayor’s salary from 800 to 2000 annually and trustees from 300 to 1000 annually. The total increase amounts to 5400 annually and is subject to permissive referendum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Londonderry School Opens as Lunches Delayed
Londonderry Union No. 20 School will open Monday with 14 teachers ready. Pupil lunches will be delayed until Sept. 19 due to late kitchen equipment delivery and installation and a late change to a hardwood auditorium floor. Lunches will be prepared by Charmaine Richardson, with Florence Holton and Gladys McKinstry assisting. they report Sept. 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Londonderry
Union No
Charmaine Richardson
Florence Holton
Weston
Gladys McKinstry
South Londonderry
Warm Welcome For New Theater In Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls updates include a new theater welcome and local notices. Mrs John Shaw travels to Bethesda for observation while son John Shaw awaits Viet Nam duty at Fort Dix. School census hits 1545 as district growth outpaces last year. Worship time shifts at Bondville Church and new pastor Sidney Lambert noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Shaw
River St
Bethesda
Heart Institute
National Institute of Health
Spec
John Shaw
Fort Dix
N.J
Viet Nam
John Jr
Germany
Hoosick Falls
Philip Leonard
Leonard
Bondville Methodist Church
Sidney Lambert
Weston
Ormsby Hill Closes Down For Winter
Ormsby Hill remains closed this winter as Mr. and Mrs. William M. Martin take a sabbatical from duties at the summer camp and home for boys on U.S. 7. The 11 year operation pauses to repair the old Isham estate. Boys housed there return to New York City until reopening in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
William M. Martin
Ormsby Hill
U.S
New York City
Martin
Isham
Sam Ogden Jr Opens Buffalo Sculpture Show
Samuel Ogden Jr of Landgrove and Manchester opens an exhibition at the Members Gallery Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo New York. The show runs about a month and features 20 to 30 pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landgrove
Samuel Ogden Jr
Manchester
Members
Albright-Knox Gallery
Buffalo
N.Y
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Vera Langlais
Winhall
BPW
Karmode
International Farm Youth Exchange
Ringheiser
Chet Ringheiser
P.O. Box
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Detroit, Mich
Mrs
Theodore Maher
Richard A. Snelling
Shelburne
Rotary Club
Rotary
Snelling
Reet
Wermwon Iy
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
BRATTLEBORO + BENNINGTON COMPANY
WATLAND + BELLOWS FALLS
Chester
Marden Skinner
Kendallville, Indiana, U.S.A
South Cambridge
Margaret Aiken
Main ST
Bennington, VT
Dial
MAIN
BEI Ier IV, Inc
Bennington
Bondville
Edith Beaumont
Marion Edgerton
Schenectady, N.Y
Paul Edgerton
Chester P. Henshaw
Mount William Lake
South Weare
Chester T. Henshaw
James DeWolfe
Lisa
Jimmy
Margot
Greenwich, Conn
River Road
Kathy
Donna Dayton
Clarence Dayton
Edward Grimiski
Webster
Robert Vail
Greenfield, Mass
John Korpi
Taylor Hill
Alphonse LaBounty
Manchester Shopping Plaza
Willis Jones
Cambridge
Classic Street
Burchard Avenue
Henry Marchand
Wilder Avenue
Ellis Hospital
Schenectady
Arlington High School
United States Army
John J. Miner
Richard R. Miner
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Milton Rockwell
Sam Ogden Jr
South St. Bennington
Riverside
Madkour
Syanee
Sears Roebuck
North Street
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