Bennington Community Notices and Upcoming Meetings Highlight Local Activity
The League of Women Voters hosts an open meeting at the Court House on South Street at 8 this evening to explain five articles on the Sept. 18 Special Village Meeting. Rehearsals for the Bennington College Community Chorus begin Sept. 18 at 7 30 p.m. in the Carriage Barn. Nellie Houghton will have an 88th birthday card shower Saturday. Messages note nursing home and church group gatherings, Jaycees meeting, job ads, daycare, junior bowling registrations, and a Mt. Anthony Country Club clambake on Sept. 16.
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League of Women Voters
Court House
South Street
Bennington
John P. Morrissey
Bennington College Community Chorus
College Carriage Barn
Nellie Houghton
Warner Nursing Home
South St
Bennington Jaycees
Fall Inspection For Autos Begins
Montpelier Mdsv official Robert C. Schwartz announced the fall motor vehicle inspection period starts Sept 4. Except for school buses, every registered vehicle including motorcycles and trailers must be inspected by Nov 1. He urged owners to inspect early to avoid a last minute rush. The windshield sticker features black lettering on a white background and must be placed in the lower right corner before Nov 1.
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Montpelier
Cmsr
Robert C. Schwartz
Department of Motor Vehicles
Schwartz
New England Governors Advocate Compact and Aid
Governors from six states pressed for a regional highway safety pact and uniform penal codes at a Rhode Island meeting. They urged federal subsidies for air service to small communities and discussed Cape Cod traffic plans ahead of the park’s 1963 opening. Attending were Volpe Powell Keyser Armenian Zurner and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
Reed
John A. Volpe
Massachusetts
Public Works
mid-Cape Highway
Cape Cod National Seashore Park
Eastham
Volpe
Hospital Notes Admissions and Births Reported
Admissions include Leona Miller of North Pownal Deborah Cutler Master Robert Appel Jr Master Brian Appel of Hoosick Falls and Mary Waine of North Bennington Discharge notes list Mrs Barbara Houran and daughter Bennington Birth announcements record a Hoyt couple of 204 Gage St Sept 10 a son and Joseph Higgins couple of 19 First St Hoosick Falls a daughter Sept 10
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Leona Miller
North Pownal
Deborah Cutler
Robert Appel Jr
Brian Appel
Hoosick Falls
Mary Waine
North Bennington
George Hoyt
Gage St
Joseph Higgins
First St
Saturday Deadline For 1962 Vermont Veteran Tax Abatements
About 50 Bennington veterans or widows may seek 1962 tax abatements or refunds under a special General Assembly act. The board of abatement will meet Sept. 18 to act on applications, with eligibility restored for non service connected disability pensions and widows. Eligible property includes home and personal property used as residence, exemptions up to 6000 of assessed value, and refunds for any 1962 payments made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Bennington Sisters
General Assembly
Board of Civil Authority
Board of Abatement
Listers
Veterans Administration
Tax Department
Playhouse Fire Quenched on Airport Road
A small playhouse and old logs on Frank Hurley’s Airport Road property were destroyed by a fire reported about 8 30 p m. The Bennington Rural Fire Department quickly suppressed the flames with no loss estimate issued.
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Airport Road
Bennington
Frank Hurley
Three Vehicle Mishaps Leave Cars Damaged in Bennington
Bennington police reported three accidents Monday with moderate vehicle damage and no injuries. Theodore Senecal scraped a 1958 International truck driven by Michael Caola on North Street. Eunice Gilford stopped on Main Street to ask directions, and her 1957 Cadillac scraped the stopped car. Ethel Streiber parked her 1954 Chevrolet and left to avoid the stopped car, causing a fender scrape. Donald Bourgois, pulling from a lot, collided with Albert Gdula as Bourgois’ 1951 Jeep hit Gdula’s 1962 Chevrolet.
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North Street
Pleasant Street
Theodore Senecal
Filmore Street
Michael V. Caola
Troy
N.Y
Eunice S. Gilford
Nashua
N.H
Main Street
Bennington
Ethel K. Streiberp
York
Donald E. Bourgois
Andy
South Street
Albert Gdula
Albany
Bourgois
Gdula
Rural School Election Seeks One Candidate and Bus Upgrades
The district lists a single candidate for rural school election and discusses replacing 1955 model buses. It urges salary-study completion by Feb 1 and sharing results with the Union School committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Union School Committee
Banks on Musial
Washington AP report describes Casey Stengel joking with bench players while Ernie Banks roasts him by recalling Musial’s alleged 10 year signing after Musial hit four straight home runs at the Polo Grounds against Stengel’s team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Casey Stengel
Ernie Banks
Chicago Cubs
Stengel
Cardinals
Stan Musial
Polo Grounds
Spokane men locate wreckage after plane disappears
Bert Smith Irving Hamann and Wayne Hamann all from Spokane join search after a missing plane is reported down in the Mt. Spokane area. They descend a steep slope noting a strong smell of smoke and find wreckage with three badly burned bodies. They notify Barbara Rainwater's ranch to call authorities.
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Bert Smith
Irving Hamann
Wayne
Spokane
Mt. Spokane
Mt. Kit Carson
Smith
Hamann
Barbara
Rod and Gun Club Elects Officers at Annual Meeting
James Feeney was named president of the Bennington Rod and Gun Club at the Shaftsbury Club House last night. Other officers include Robert Kier as vice president Ronald Knapp as secretary Calvin Dommke as treasurer and Ray Crozier James Bow and Mike Early as three year directors. Perley Gates announced a shotgun turkey shoot on Sept 23 and plans for an ATA shoot and barbecue on Oct 7 both at the club and open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Feeney
Bennington Rod and Gun Club
Shaftsbury Club
Robert Kier
Ronald Knapp
Calvin Dommke
Ray Crozier
James Bow
Mke
Perley Gates
Havana reports pirate attack on Cuban freighters near Cuba
Havana radio said two cargo ships were attacked by a pirate ship off Cuba's northern coast. The Cuban freighter San Pascual was hit 18 times and a British sugar carrier 13 times. another British vessel escaped. The report follows prior offshore shelling of Havana and comments on ships with Communist flags as targets.
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Key West
Fla
Havana
Cuba
New Land
Havana Radio
Juan Manuel Salvat
Caracas
Venezuela
New England Delegation Roll Call Votes
Washington AP records how New England members voted on recent roll calls. Amendments by Young and Proxmire were rejected. Mansfield motion to tax-deductible plans for self employed killed. oil and gas depletion cut failed. Final passage of tax revision bill approved 59-24 with several from the region voting for and against. No house roll calls conducted.
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Washington
New England
Congress
Young
Ohio
Aiken
R-Vt
Cotton
R-N. H
Dodd
D Conn
Muskie
Maine
Pastore
D- R.I
Pell
D- RI
Prouty
Smith
D - Mass
Bush
R-Conn
Murphy
N.H. Saltonstall
Mass
Proxmire
D - Wis
Murphy, Muskie
Saltonstall
Smith Mass
Mansfield
D-Mont
Dirksen
Mukie
Aiken Bush
Douglas
D-Ill
Dodd, Muskie
Pele Smith
Nationalist China Breaks With Laotians
Nationalist China cuts diplomatic relations with Laos after the Laotian coalition government recognizes Communist China. Laos also recognizes Communist North Viet Nam and opened formal relations with Czechoslovakia, with similar moves anticipated toward other Communist bloc nations.
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China
Taipei
Formosa
Laos
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Czechoslovakia
Father Departs Haircut Duties For Cataract Surgery
John P. Forrer of Rantoul, 56, sat in a barber chair for the first time as his 83-year-old father, who has cut his hair since youth, awaits spectacles after cataract surgery. The Ottawa, Kansas note records a family haircut ordeal caused by a medical procedure.
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Ottawa
Kan
John P. Forrer
Rantoul
Forrer
Dr Charles Harwood Died After Long Illness Obituary
Private funeral services were held in Waterbury for Dr Charles E Harwood 53 a Dorset native and longtime general practitioner He delivered over 2000 babies and was honored by teachers and communities He served on hospital staffs and was a regional medical examiner Survivor list includes wife Edith son Brian siblings and many nieces nephews
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Waterbury
Charles E. Harwood
Dorset
Perkins Funeral Chapel
Harwood
Mad River Valley
Funeral services for North Hoosick resident Harry E Patterson
Funeral services were held today at Robson Funeral Home Hoosick Falls for Harry E Patterson 73 native of Hoosick Falls who died Sunday at Putnam Memorial Hospital Bennington after a brief illness He worked in Detroit shipyards and Ford Motor Co before retiring to North Hoosick
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North Hoosick
N. Y
Harry E. Patterson
Hoosick Falls
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Robson Funeral Home
Wesley T. Miles
First United Church
Patterson
Detroit
Mich
Ford Motor Co
WWI Veteran George McBride 72 Die. rites set
George McBride 72 a World War I veteran died Monday at Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington. Born October 16 1889 in Dorset he was a son of William and Mary McBride and a member of the John J. McBride Harwood Post American Legion Dorset. He survived by two sisters a brother and nieces and nephews. Funeral at St Jerome's Church East Dorset at 10 a.m. Wednesday with Rosary tonight at 8 from Brewster Funeral Home Manchester Center.
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Edmond P. Lauzon
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Sacred Heart Church
Joseph F. Wiseman
Manchester
George McBride
Bennington
Dorset
William and
Mary
Maho
John J. McBride - Harwood
American Legion of
Sarah A. Miller
Mamaroneck
N.Y
Rebecca Bell
Manchester Center
Charles McBride
Brooklyn
N. Y
St. Jerome’s Church
East Dorset
St. Jerome’s Cemetery
Brewster Funeral Home
Joseph Connolly
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Bennington Briefs
First Methodist Church
Walter Danish
Robinson Avenue
Galipeau
Blodgett Day Nur
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Columbia Pictures
MICHAEL _ CLIFF _RO
Callan Bertson
N.E. Governors
Wesley Powell
New Hampshire
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Vermont
Anthony Armentani
Connecticut
Melvin Zurner
John Dempsey
Barbara Houran
Village Highway Department
George Cushing
Burgess Road
Highway Department
Union Street
Greater Bennington Association
Edmunds
Telefunkens
NEW World OF Sound
Noveck-Shultz
Noveck - Shultz, Inc
Dial
Salems Super All Beef
Hamburg
Sks
N.B.C. Saltines
Bennington Village
Prudential Committee
Percy
Wagner
Molly Stark
Rod & Gun Club
N.E
Senate
Papa
Charles Harwood
Heaton, de Goesbriand
Mary Fletcher Hospitals
Vermont Medical Society
American Medical Association
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Elmer
Emma
Maranville) Harwood
Edith Pollard Harwood
Brian
Olive Dern
Walter
Eleanor) Hayes
Clyde
Margaret) Bryant
Donald Harwood
Columbia
S. C
Theodore Harwood
Grand Forks
N.D
Dunning Harwood
Stoughton
Thelma Herrington
Panama Canal Zone
Robert Herrington
Lynn Whitbeck
Lionel Marcoux
George Allard
Julian Rousseau
Louis, Victor
Anthony Gauthier
Vincent J. Spinelli
Park Lawn Cemetery
Fr. Wiseman
Williamstown
Worcester
Brattleboro
Keene, N.H
Jackson and
Salem, N.Y
Ney) McBride
Bennington, Vermont
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