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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1962
Page
5
John H. Williams and Walter Danisch led a two hour briefing at Pownal Center School on joining Union School District No. 14. They outlined articles for admission, grade participation, and budget implications including a 1965 building cost and 900 pupil capacity by 1972.
Bennington College senior Ann Forrester and eight other Americans plus one Canadian and ten Ugandians constructed a cement block school in Kasasi Uganda and leveled a dirt road to Katwe connecting to Kampala under an English engineer. Crossroads to Africa promotes exchange of ideas skills and learning by building infrastructure and schools in African villages. Katwe and Kasasi are small Ugandan villages.
North Pownal residents plan an informational meeting on Union School District No 14 ballot issues for Oct 1. The event follows a warning and outlines. other items include a Fire Dept Women’s Auxiliary chicken pie supper on Sept 29 and a Wesleyan Church class benefit auction Oct 6.
North Bennington notes remind Villagers' Home Demonstration members of a Sept 25 meeting with a covered dish supper at the library. Janet Barton departs for Lasell Junior College in Auburndale to study interior design. Edgar Matteson Sr and Jr visit Dartmouth for the new year. Personal notes include Frances Smith visiting friends en route to Montpelier. Gerald Elwell reports a new Marine Corps address at Camp Lejeune.
Eleanor Niles and Mrs. Robert Masten are patients at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Miss Alice Gulley, a State University at Oswego freshman, and was home for the weekend.
The Walloomsac Division of Columbia Box Board Mills, Inc. in Waloomsac New York is switching from coal to oil and has installed a 40 ton package boiler. The unit was delivered on flatcars, raised 13 feet, and moved into place by contractor Kenneth Lester of Hoosick Falls. The boiler from Wickes Boiler Co of Michigan will be used about a month before full operation and will shoulder about 65 percent of the plant load, allowing one coal boiler to be retired.
Local moves and visits mark Cambridge area life as families relocate from Herrington house to Bacon Hill and travel to Glens Falls. A killing frost settles over the region with readings in the 20s and 30s. Booster night at Pleasant Valley Grange is Sept 28 at 8 p.m. Public invited. Library changes hours starting Oct 1 with new afternoon and evening slots. Community profiles include college students Bryan Pendleton and Nancy Cole, Betsy King, and Miss France Burch celebrating her 75th birthday with 30 relatives. Sheriff Buckley attends Republican state convention. Holmes family visits relatives in Verona and Aberdeen.
Williams College in Massachusetts has been awarded a 5000 dollar National Science Foundation grant to support its honors program in experimental physics. The funding will extend independent student projects through the first half of the senior year, covering equipment and program costs. Associate Professor Fielding Brown will administer the grant and students Stephen Thomas Kanda Sundaram and Robert Engle III will continue their projects this semester.
Voting schedules announced for Union District residents with polling details at Pownal town hall Woodford Hollow School North Pownal School and Arlington Sunderland tentative date. Informational meetings listed for North Pownal School and Hollow School with times.
Patricia Hess returns to the University of Vermont as a senior in home economics. Mary Langlein visits from Newburyport and travels back with Hess. Robert Morehouse and Mrs Morehouse visit from Evansville Indiana to see Mrs Jennie McKee. William Tefft Schwarz and wife close their Sandgate home and plan to return to Merion Station Pennsylvania. Marian Phillips of Pelham New York buys the Bartlett lot and restores the old barn. Dr and Mrs William Young of Huntington Long Island visit with five children at a Sandgate corral. Maurice Belair and family speak at Sandgate West Arlington churches before returning to Southern Rhodesia to work as missionaries. Belair discusses cross cultural teaching challenges and how Americans can help through money prayer and travel.
Manchester officials reveal plan to rename the Four Area Association due to size and membership changes. The booking service will move to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce building by December 1 with Miss Judith Jost heading it. A new accommodations directory and shared ski pass across Stratton Bromley and Magic Mountain are among promotions.
The Hoosick Falls Women’s Republican Club held its season opening at Hazel Hill’s home. Eileen Van Keuren of Rensselaer County Republicans discussed Rockefeller slate campaign plans and invited members to a card party in Troy, conflicting with a GOP workers dinner. Delegates reported on the State Federation convention featuring Gov Rockefeller and Lt Gov Wilson, with a 400 delegate turnout. A food sale was planned for Friday Oct 5 at Gillespie Store.
North Pownal residents in need can obtain water at The Ponderosa on Dean Road. The offer comes from property owner Joseph Sarkis who said several residents cannot access adequate water from their normal sources.
Miss Ellen Batonick from Shaftsbury has completed orientation at Burdett College Boston and now attends freshman classes in secretarial science. A 1962 North Bennington High School graduate she majors in legal secretarial studies. Burdett College, coeducational, has 80 years of business training experience.
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