Sisters Dedicate Convents Near New College in Old Bennington
Sisters of St. Joseph dedicate St. Josephs Convent on Catamount Lane Old Bennington with six residents including teachers from the new St. Joseph College The Sacred Heart Convent opens at 185 North St for sisters serving Sacred Heart school A third convent at 181 North St will be named St Francis de Sales Convent
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Sisters of St. Joseph
New College
Old Bennington
Bennington
Catamount Lane
Wells Field
St. Joseph’s Convent
St. Joseph College
North St
Harry R. Hurley
Sacred Heart Parish
Sacred Heart Parochial School
Sacred Heart Convent
Little Flower Convent
College
Edward Hoffman C.S
the Order
St. Francis de Sales Parochial School
St. Francis de Sales Convent
Sisters
St. Joseph
Mary Sylvester
Mary Barbara
Julia Marie
Mary Annunciata
Mary Christine
Hagerman
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Bennington Catholic High School
Funeral Services Held for Dr. Philip S. Unger
Funeral services for Dr. Philip S. Unger of West Arlington Vermont, formerly of Bridgeport, were held Friday at A. L. Green funeral home in Bridgeport with Rabbi Samuel Schwartz officiating. Burial followed in Eintracht Cemetery Fairfield. Unger was a chiropodist with offices in Bennington and a member of Temple Lodge F and AM in Bridgeport.
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Bridgeport
Rural Fire Auxiliary Plans Food Sale
The Bennington Rural Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary met with eleven members in attendance. They plan a food sale at the Vermont Gas Company on Sept. 20 at 10 30 a.m. Co chairmen are Marie Turgeon and Janet Mattison assisted by Grace Hurley and Cecile Watson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
New England Industry Talk Promises Insight at YMCA
Sumner Kean, Bennington Banner editor and Fitchburg native, speaks Wednesday at 7 30 p m before the Industrial Management Club of the Bennington Area YMCA on Observations and Peculiarities of New England Industry. A question session follows with future programs planned including an industrial education course on Sept 25 and a discussion on arbitration and union relations on Oct 23.
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New England
Industrial Management Club
Bennington Area
YMCA
Sumner Kean
The
Bennington Banner
Kean
Fitchburg, Mass
Columbia University
Fitchburg Sentinel
Tom Rogers
Vermont League protests foreign aid cut and reapportionment suit
The Vermont League of Women Voters deplored the U S House vote cutting foreign aid and sent telegrams to Sen Aiken, Sen Prouty, and Rep Stafford urging a sound, adequate program. The group met at Mrs J R Ryan’s home under Mrs Ward Phelps and discussed Atty Crispe’s reapportionment suit set for Oct 29 in Burlington.
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Middlebury
Vermont
The
League of Women Voters
U.S. House of Representatives
League
George D. Aiken
Winston L. Prouty
Robert T. Stafford
League of Women Voters of
J.R. Ryan
Ward Phelps
Montpelier
Atty. A. Luke
Crispe
Brattleboro
U.S. Court of Appeals
Burlington
Union Board to sample voter groups for survey
The Union Board plans a two–group random sample from a 3,000 name checklist, separating those who voted in prior bond votes from those who did not, selecting every third name within each group. Responses will be combined and remain uncoded. one question asks if the respondent voted.
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TAC
Obituary notes for Phebe Paddock and Inez Foote
Funeral services for Phebe Paddock 79 of Dorset will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Dorset Congregational Church with Rev. Henry Boitt officiating. Surviving sister Lucy Hathaway and relatives. In Wilmington Inez Esther Foote 89 died at Linden Lodge after residence in Wilmington and other towns. services were held today at Congregational Church with burial at River View Cemetery. Bearers and Mayflower Chapter OES attended.
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Pawlet
Phebe Paddock
Granville
N.Y
Dorset Congregational Church
Henry Boitt
Dorset
John F
Minnie (Chapman) Paddock
Lucy Hathaway
Wilmington
Inez Esther (Crafts) Foote
Linden Lodge
Whately
Mass
Bela K. Crafts
Juliet M. (Cook) Crafts
Henry Rice
Conway
Margaret
Herbert Foote
Greenfield
Florida
Floyd S. Crafts Sr
St. Petersburg
Fla
Marjorie (Beal) Grady
Stanley Crafts
Village Trustee George Ryan Recuperating at Home
Trustee George Ryan of 110 Pratt Street has returned home to continue recovery from a slight heart attack suffered about four weeks ago in Chicago. Family reports he is responding well but will be away from work for at least two weeks and had left a Chicago hospital two weeks ago to stay with a sister in the Midwest city before coming home to Bennington.
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Bennington Village
George Ryan
Pratt St
Chicago
Midwest City
Bennington
Park Street
Bennington Briefs Highlights Community Meetings and Local News
Bennington briefs list a sequence of weekly meets across churches and civic groups including the Friendly Circle of the First Baptist Church and Circle 2 of the First Methodist Church. Also notes Middlebury College freshman Mara Lusis and Stanley Kemmerer’s return to campus, plus naval recruit completion for Gerald S. MacJarrett.
Hospital Notes Admissions List
Admissions include Alan Plante Master Kevin Courtemanche Miss Anne Marie Stratton Bernard E Loomis Denise Sweeney Clif ton Tracy Martha Powers Virginia Legacy and daughter Jeffrey Carlisle Raymond F Elwell Harold D Harmon Varied locations Bennington Shaftsbury North Bennington White Creek New York Manchester Center East Arlington Wilmington read as a community mobility roster of new patients and place names.
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Alan Plante
Kevin Courtemanche
Anne Marie Stratton
Bennington
Bernard E. Loomis
Shaftsbury
Denise Sweeney
North Bennington
Clifton Tracy
White Creek
N.Y
Martha Powers
Manchester Center
Virginia Legacy
Migrants housed in multiple buildings at orchard
A farm migrant housing issue shows 17 workers and families occupying three buildings. A couple and others stay in rooms improvised with cardboard while a newer concrete block dormitory houses most workers, though some residents preferred other barns. Orchard owner Erwin W. Meyer claims dormitory capacity is adequate but some migrants moved elsewhere.
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Humphreys
Erwin W. Meyer
Meyer
The
Banner
Vermont Chamber Executives Set for Bennington Meeting
Representatives of Vermont chambers of commerce and promotional groups meet in Bennington for the quarterly Vermont Association of Chamber Executives session. About 15 executives from 16 members attend after registration at 10 a.m. They tour Green Mountain Park and dine at Paradise Restaurant where John Thomas of Worcester Massachusetts speaks on congressional action committees. The group aims to share problems and solutions.
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Chambers of Commerce
Vermont
Vermont Association of Chamber Executives
Bennington
Greater
John Thomas
Worcester
Mass
Northeast Division
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Bennington Girls described as beautiful brainy and beat
Cavailer magazine portrays Bennington College as controversial yet impressive with students labeled as beautiful and brainy. The piece notes dance heavy, literature and social science focus, avoidance of grades, and high marriage rates among graduates far surpassing national norms.
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Bennington
Greater Bennington Association
Cavalier
New Man
Bennington College
Melvin Shestack
Two Area Youths Jailed In Theft Of Car
In Rensselaer County Court Troy New York Francis R Saunders 20 Bennington was sentenced to six months in county jail after pleading guilty to petit larceny for stealing a 1955 car owned by Clover Thomas Hoosick Falls on February 22 later found in Bennington Cleo Clifton Webb 19 Shaftsbury received a similar six month sentence after pleading guilty to a similar charge. Both youths were indicted June 3 for second degree grand larceny.
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Troy
N.Y
Rensselaer
Francis R. Saunders
Bennington
Clover Thomas
Hoosick Falls
Shaftsbury
Cleo Clifton Webb
Stock Averages Move Mixed On Albany Noon Quotes
The Dow Jones Bache composite shows a 0.79 point rise to 263.69 with 2,169,000 shares traded. Industrials edge up to 742.23 and Railroads advance to 173.11 while Utilities slip to 143.46.
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Little Flower
Philip S. Unger
Rural Fire Auxiliary
Bank
Kreisler
Aree
Ahaa Eol
Atkins. Jewelers
Bennington, Vt
Vermont Women’s League
Vermont General Assembly
House of Representatives
Bennington Lwv
Clarence Howard
Magazine
Union Board
Finance Committee
Barton L. Jenks
Vermont Association of Architects
Edma A
Brad) Riley
Riley
Norman Stratton
Franklin Frantz
Woodford Town
Macon
Mercer University
Mrs. Phebe Paddock
Inez E. Foote
Bennington Briefs
First Baptist Church
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Green Mountain
Mara Lusis
Depot Street
Bennington High School
Middlebury College
State Armory
First Methodist Church
George Burke
Norton St
Stanley
Skip) Kemmerer
Short Street
Ben-Mont
Gerald S. MacJarrett
Bertha A. MacJarrett
Gage St
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Bennington Lodge of Perfection
Masonic Temple
Bennington High School Parent Teacher Association
PTA
David Candid
Coulter Street
Ann Spiro
Port Elizabeth
Union of South Africa
Fay Lang
Johannesburg
South Africa
New York City
San Diego
Calif
Dublin
Ireland
Europe
Civil Defense Auxiliary Police
Harold E. Deane
Deane
Molly Stark School
Sue Chandler
Marty Moberg
Frederick W. Vogell
D.D
Bennington Methodist Church
England
Rainbow Girls
Mt. Anthony Lodge
Arthur J. LaCroix
Interior Communications Electrician
U.S. Navy
Aurile J. LaCroix
Lincoln St
Kitty Hawk
Middle Pacific
Far East
Seventh Fleet
Honolulu
Hawaii
Bennington Lanes
Arnold Road
Pownal
Southern
Bennington Girls
By Warren Buckler
West Coast
Amherst
RPI
Williams College
Shestack
Benningtonians
Nichols
Union St
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Tobin
Webster Brand
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