Camp Ondawa reports drive for 1962 season activities
1962 Camp Ondawa season covered 40 camp days and about 2600 camper days with 550 at the Farmers Field Day. Camps hosted 8 Junior and 63 Senior campers along with numerous 4-H Dairy Day Camp and Extension gatherings. Directors plan kitchen renovations and seek affordable used equipment while scheduling two major 4-H leader meetings and a Washington leadership trip for Vermont youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ondawa Association
Mitchell Dondero
Ondawa
Homemakers
Forestry Association
Horner predicts strong Redskins season from Blacksburg
Sam Horner, a 205 pound running back entering his third NFL season with Washington, cites experience, multiple trades, and Bill McPeak’s system as reasons the Redskins will be hard to beat. He has been studying at Virginia Tech to prepare for veterinary medicine.
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Blacksburg
Sam Horner
Washington Redskins
Horner
Skins
Bill McPeak
Redskins
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Forest Festival Week Plans Highlight Oct 7 15
The 15th Forest Festival Week sponsored by the Department of Forests and Parks runs October 7 to 15. County leaders Charles Hayward and David C. Barton announce activities statewide, including an essay contest for 7th and 8th graders on What Vermont Forests Mean To Vermonters. A seed and seedling exhibit at Vermont Bank and Trust Co. promotes reforestation while local schools may arrange guided tours of the Bennington Municipal Forest. Two woodlot owners will receive certificates for five years of excellent forest practices. The week peaks with the dedication of the 1 millionth acre Tree Farm award at Riley Bostwick’s in Rochester on October 9 with field trips, speakers, and a noon beef barbecue. Reservations due by October 5 to Robert Wood in Woodstock.
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Department of Forests and Parks
Charles Hayward
David C. Barton
Bennington County
Vermont
Vermont Bank and Trust Co
Bennington Municipal Forest
Riley Bostwick
John Page Tours Eastern States Exposition Bus Trip
John Page recounts a Vermont bus tour to the Eastern States Exposition. He details dead mileage costs, Gate 10 complexities, group antics, sightings of Lynn Rudd and Mrs Rudd, Roy Rogers shows, state buildings, Ayrshire cattle, 4H ribbons, and a late return to Bennington after a 1:30 a.m. arrival.
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Eastern States Exposition
Bennington
Rutland
Lynn Rudd
Rupert
Tom Warren
Roy Rogers
Vermont
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Johnny Steel
Bob Fitzsimmons
AVM
John Steel
Steels
Jimmy Bishop
West Shaftsbury
Olive Williamson
Kate
Olive
Manchester Center
Manchester
Springfield
Home Demonstration Expands To Christmas Wrap Ideas
Home Demonstrations plan area meetings on Oct 9 and 11 at Manchester Depot Legion Hall and North Bennington Library Hall to show home made decorations and gift packaging. Leaders will present displays, with 23 groups participating, aiming to inspire Christmas ideas for the public.
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Legion Hall
Manchester Depot
North Bennington Library
North Bennington
Bennington County Home Demonstration Council
Home Economics Extension Service
Manchester
Bennington
Arthur Pierce
Hazel Sweet
Fannie Brimmer
Viola Jolivette
Charles Parsley
N. Bennington
Ruth Clough
Walter Jones
Dorset
Murray Campbell
Betty Johnson
Tax-Advantage Bill Faces Kennedy Veto Uncertainly
The House passed a tax relief bill for self employed individuals allowing a 1250 dollar annual tax deduction on pension fund investments up to 2500 dollars. The measure aims to help up to 7 million self employed people and about 11 million employees, but its fate in the Senate and a possible Kennedy veto remain in question.
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Washington
House
Senate
Kennedy
Treasury
Senate House
Presbyterians to Employ Brazilians as Mission Directors
The board of world missions of the Presbyterian Church U S (Southern) will replace American missionaries with Brazilians as directors of several North Brazil mission institutions in 1962 and 1963, the church announced in Richmond Virginia.
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Richmond, Va
Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church
U.S
Southern
North Brazil
Vermont Highway Dept Warns on Private Driveway Work
The Vermont Department of Highways urges property owners to consult district engineers before black topping or altering private driveways that adjoin state highways. Improper work has disturbed grading and drainage. engineers will advise on permits and compliance with grade and drainage standards. District engineer Ivor S. Pelsue of Bennington is named among the engineers.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Department of Highways
Improvement Bent
Russell A. Holden
Ivor S. Pelsue
Bennington
Pirates slugger Dick Stuart recalls bunting for hits
Pittsburgh AP reports Dick Stuart, Pirates first baseman, recalls bunting in two instances. He says one bunt went so hard it passed the second baseman for a hit before he could react, confirming he did bunt during his Pirates days.
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Pittsburgh (Ap
Dick Stuart
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pirates
GVA to Hear Dr Russell at Oct 4 Meeting
Montpelier The 12th annual Greater Vermont Association meeting will be held at Lake Morey Inn October 4. Albert A Flory president says new officers and several new directors will be elected. Dr Dean Russell of the Foundation for Economic Education will speak at the banquet on freedom following the market. Tickets available at the GVA office and Lake Morey Inn.
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GVA
Montpelier
Lake Morey Inn
Fairlee
N E Delegation Roll Call on Bush Tariff Powers and Trade Bills
New England members split on multiple roll calls. Votes show both support and opposition to administration trade expansion and tariff limits, with notable names including Aiken Muskie Pastore Saltonstall Smith and Dodd Murphy voting various For Against Not voting across amendments and passages.
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Washington
New England
Congress
Bush
R-Conn
Moscow
Havana
United States
Cuban
Cotton
Dodd
Muskie
Pastore
Pell
Saltonstall
Smith
Mass
Maine
Prouty
Aiken, Murphy
Williams
R-Del
West Coast
Cotton, Muskie, Pastore
Pell, Prouty
Aiken, Bush, Dodd, Murphy
U.N
Bates
R-Mass
Boland
D-Mass
Burke
Conte
R - Mass
Daddario
Donohue
Fogarty
D-R
Giaimo
Keith
Kowalski
Lane
Monagan
Morse
R Mass
O'Neill
D - Mass
Philbin
D Mass
St. Germain
D-R.l
Seely-Brown
R - Conn
Sibal
R Conn
Stafford
R-Vt
Tupper
R-Maine
Garland
Bass
R-N
H Curtis
MclIntire
Macdonald
Martin
Merrow
N.H
Steed
D-Okla
Senate
Daddario Garland
Lane McIntire
Morse Seely Brown
Curtis
Jackson Purchase region defined in Kentucky history
Paducah report explains the Jackson Purchase as eight counties in extreme southwestern Kentucky bordered by the Ohio Tennessee and Mississippi rivers. Named after President Andrew Jackson who purchased the land for the United States in 1818. It was the last part of Kentucky to be settled.
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Paducah, Ky
GE Signs Consent Decree with U S Government
General Electric Co. signed a consent decree with the federal government settling civil and criminal actions tied to antitrust indictments over heavy electrical equipment. GE must refrain from price fixing or bid rigging in manufacture and sale. Judge J Cullen Ganey will decide on approval later this week.
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Philadelphia
General Electric Co
Donald G. Balthis
Government Antitrust Division
J. Cullen Ganey
U.S. Circuit Court
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James A. Edgerton
Arlington Boy Scouts
Pomona Grange
East Arliington Federated Church School
Mack Molding Union Family
Manchester Lions Club
Arlington Lions Club
Hale Company
Camp Ondawa Association
Bennington County Farm Bureau
Henry Amadon
Clarence Decker
Harry Hayden
Arlington
Willard Lourie
West Rupert
Donald Lourie Sr
Henry Steel
Everett Lillie
Howard Hill
Sunderland
Rachel Mason
Pownal
Marion Hardy
Shaftsbury
Norman Cadoret
Avis Whitman
Leland Beebe
East Dorset
West Arlington Community House
Equinox Grange Hall
State Council
John Lourie
Leon Edgerton
Donald Laurie Sr
Washington, D.C
National 4 H Club Center
National 4H Foundation
Rosasco
Main ST
North Adams, Mass
Limelight
Italy
Our
Nickols
Union Street
John Page
Trials
Everett Farrar
Everett
Marion S. Harris
U.S.D.A
J.F.K
Highway Dept
Russell
N.E
Bates Conte
McIntire
Morse Seely-Brown
Stafford Tupper
Gianino Kowalski
Macdonald Merrow Monagan
Presidential
Merc
Bennington Garage Corp
Burt Bros
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