North Bennington Bank Reopens After Remodeling Project
North Bennington First National Bank returns to its rebuilt lobby on Bank Street after months in temporary quarters. The old Meagher building on Main Street will be demolished this week to widen the drive-in and parking. A public open house is planned when remodeling completes.
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North Bennington
First National Bank of
Bank
Bankestaffer
Meagher
Main Street
James
Richard
William
Flower arrangement experts speak at Taconic Valley Club meeting
Petersbug area Taconic Valley Branch of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association hosts two speakers, Mrs. John A. MacMorris of Argyl and Mrs. H. Sumner Lind of Buskirk, demonstrating centerpieces and planning tips for fresh and dried arrangements at Veterans' Memorial Hall. Donald Thompson, Rensselaer County agricultural agent, will discuss winterizing gardens on Oct 8 at 1 30 p.m.
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Friendship Market
Edwin Church
Donald Kling
Henry P. Allen
Donald Thompson
Rensselaer County Agricultural Agent of
New York Extension Service
Petersburg Memorial Hall
Brooklyn mother praises Vermont summer for son’s safe escape
Mrs Marian Kirton of Readsboro lauds Earl and Mrs Holland for hosting her son George Kirton during summers to steer him away from Brooklyn streets. She credits the arrangement with offering hope that white and Black Americans can coexist and that youth will learn to judge individuals rather than races. The Hereford Tribune Fresh Air Fund coordinator Frances Stacy said she will arrange a Vermont visit for Kirton’s five year old next summer.
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Readsboro
Brooklyn
Earl S. Holland
George Kirton
Marian Kireton
Frances Stacy
Bennington County
Hereald Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Globe Explorer crew to rest in New London after blaze
Thirty three crew members ashore in New London after being rescued at sea by Coast Guard cutter Owasco following a fire on the freighter Globe Explorer. Crew described calm abandonment and safe rescue after four hours in lifeboats.
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New London
George Owen
Rescue
Cape Charles
Owen
Rockwell
D. Baer
Maritime Overseas Corp
Explorer
Coast Guard Academy
Coast Guard
Baer
Earl Cade
John Fisher
Philadelphia
Cade
Somerset Brush Fire Extinguished
About a dozen Wilmington Fire Department members fought a brush fire on the Castle Brook in Somerset. Firemen under Chief Harold Lackey worked until after dark with portable pumpers as the blaze spread underground. State Trooper Peter Barton assisted the firefighters.
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Somerset
Wilmington Fire Department
Castle Brook
Harold Lackey
Peter Barton
Vermont Seeks Dollars for Scholars Growth State Committee Formed
Five Vermont towns including Essex Fair Haven Hartford Brandon Montpelier and St Albans form CSF chapters to raise funds coordinate grants and help families fund post high school training. The state committee aims to establishCSF chapters across the state by June 1965 led by Francis R Folino with Dr Thaddeus Symour set to speak at the PTA convention and public events in White River Junction and Hartford High School.
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Readsboro
Vermont
Francis R. Folino
Essex
Essex- Burlington
CSF
Fair Haven
Hartford
Brandon
Montpelier
St. Albans
Gerald Greenmore
Governor’s Committee On Children and Youth
Philip H. Hoff
New England
Fall River
Mass
Fradkin
Fredric Margolis
Donald J. Tobin
Edwin Jacobs
Rutland-Fair Haven
Peter Flana
John Jay Film Premieres At Mount Snow
John Jay's new ski film Persian Powder screens Tuesday at 8 30 p m at Sundance Base Lodge Mt Snow announced Harvey Clifford Mt Snow Development Corp The film covers the Middle East New Mexico and Colorado then returns to Vermont for Mt Snow North Face shots with Bob Gratton and Mt Snow Ski School members.
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West Dover
John Jay
Sundance Base Lodge
Harvey Clifford
Mt. Snow Development Corporation
Middle East
New Mexico
Colorado
Vermont
Mt. Snow
North Face
Bob Gratton
Mt. Snow Ski School
Shaftsbury CD Tours Danby Fallout Shelter
Shaftsbury Civil Defense members toured the Danby fallout shelter in the Vermont Marble Co. quarry on Troll Hill. The 300 foot underground shelter with water supply prompted ideas for neighboring towns to join and share supplies. NORTH BENNINGTON The Women’s Auxiliary of the North Bennington Fire Department plans a rummage sale Sept 19 at the fire house from 10 am to 2 pm.
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Danby
Shaftsbury
North Bennington
Carmen Napolitano
Marine PFC Ryan Completes Guerrilla Warfare Exercise
Camp Pickett Virginia saw Marine PFC Richard F. Ryan finish the guerrilla warfare drill Operation GRASSROOTS. Units from the Second Marine Division and Army collaborated with locals acting as guerrilla sympathizers under the Fourth Marine Expeditionary Brigade.
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Camp Pickett
FHTNC
Richard F. Ryan
Francis V. Ryan
Parks Street
North Bennington
Sixth Marine Regiment
Second Marine Division
Camp Lejeune
N.C
U.S. Army
Second Marine Aircraft Wing
Teamsters Strike Calif Food Haulers
The Teamsters Union struck Certified Grocers Co in the San Fernando Valley late Sunday night. The move threatens 56 wholesale dealers and could idle 5,000 union members and disrupt supplies to about 3,000 Southern California markets. Retailers would stay open.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Teamsters Union
Certified Grocers Co
San Fernando Valley
Food Employers Council
Teamster
Cystic Fibrosis Spread By Unknowing Carriers
About 30,000 children are doomed as parents unknowingly marry carriers of cystic fibrosis a fatal inherited disease. One in 20 people may be carriers and no test exists to detect carriers before marriage. Thirty four centers nationwide join a cross country drive to raise $2 million for research sponsored by the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation.
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Philadelphia
National
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Robert P. Bliss Jr
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St. Johnsbury
Robert Pierce
Northfield
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