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14 Banner, Tuesday, May 29, 1973 Delbanco of college faculty wins a writer's fellowship Nicholas Delbanco of the on leave diring 1970-71. He United Nations in Geneva as literature faculty of Bennington received his A.B., Phi Beta Iternational Fellow. College is among the 60 creative Kappa, Harvard 1963 and holds The grantees included fiction writers who have received his M.A. degree from Columbia writers, poets, playwrights and fellowship of $5,000 each. It was University, 1966, under Woodrow essayists.

Delbanco is the author announced by Nancy Hanks, Wilson Fellowship. He was the of "The Martlet's Tale," chairman of the National En- recipient of four Harvard College dowment for the Arts in scholarships, David McCord prize, John Noble Leadership Fellow, U.S. delegate to the Geneva Internship Program, Auto accidents were few Salmon tips tax gripers on quiet 3-day weekend work within channels Washington, D.C. Delbanco has been on the college faculty since 1966 and was Court hears DWI pleas "Grasse" and "Consider Sappho Burning." Miss Hanks pointed out that "these fellowships to individual writers will enable them to advance their careers through providing time for writing and funds for travel or materials. Since this is the first time the And, depending on the cir- Endow ment's literature program has asked for, and received, State Police report a relatively quiet Memorial Day weekend as only three auto accidents occurred around the county.

Monday morning at 12:30, Robert Nickelsberg, 22, of Manchester, lost control of his car on a cure on Morse Hill Road in East Dorset. The car, a 1970 BMW, rolled over and caught fire. The driver escaped with only minor cuts, which were treated by Dr. Mason Barney. The foreign sedan demolished.

Sunday at 5:40 p.m. two cars collided on Route 7 by the race track entrance but no one was injured. Michael Bak, 42, of sustained moderate damage when it swerved to avoid striking a squirrel and hit a tree. Police said Malcolm was traveling south on Monument Road at the time. He was given first aid at the scene for minor cuts.

In another single-car accident, Denise H. Therriault, 18, of Bennington, was driving a 1970 Ford sedan east on Route 67A Saturday at 12:20 a.m., when, according to police, she over- Gov. Thomas P. Salmon Friday urged all Benningtonians with complaints about their property appraisals to work through the hearings set up by the Cole-Layer-Trumble Co. and other normal channels.

Salmon, who met briefly Friday morning with state Rep. With the new driving-while- under-the-influence law now in cumstances, Judge Morrissey vu effect, Bennington District Court may either order or suggest that applications rom the field on an Northampton, operating Judge John P. Morrissey is the convicted driver participate basis we were gratified by a 1966 Lincoln convertible, was empowered to suspend im- in the CRASH program to get his the response and the high entering the race track when a mediately the license of anyone license reinstated in 90 days, aua tv submissions Ap- collision occurred with a south- convicted of committing the instead of the normal one-year pu ca tj ons were received from bound car driven by David suspension period. In Bennington District Court today, Jay E. Arnold, 3i, of North Hoosick, N.Y., pleaded guilty to Charles Sauer, D-3-2, said he has been keeping an eye on the in the reappraisal were "a little i a a i a high," but that others were in line situation, and stated that most of with the going market price in was compensated coming out of the the major grievances which local Southern Vermont.

sharp curve near Economy residents have can be ironed out The District 3-2 representative in the company hearings and at also urged everyone who is later meetings of the listers and dissatisfied with a reappraisal to Board of Civil Authority. contact the Cole-Layer Co. for a The governor, who Sauer said grievance hearing. He said he was well' informed about the was afraid many people, par- situation, also said that Cole- ticularly older people, would Layer-Trumble has a reputable accept higher assessments name in the state and can be without raising a fuss, and could counted on to cooperate with lose their house or land as a townspeople In reappraising the result, reappraisal. Sauer said that the governor Sauer said the governor felt promised to keep tabs on the some of the land values reflected situation.

Graphics and crossed the highway, striking a guardrail. The car sustained only light damage. offense. TM lecture at driving while under the influence on Route 7 in Shaftsbury May 11. 1,240 writers for this year's program.

Applications were screened by independent readers and the members of the Endowment's Smith, 28, of Washington Depot, Conn. Both cars sustained moderate to extensive damage. Saturday night at Arthur J. Ingersol, 30, of Albany, N.Y., was literature slightly injured when his car Peter Rousseau, southern His license was suspended for finally, reviewed by the National went off Sunderland Hill Road in Vermont co-ordinator for the one year, and he was given the council on the Arts. International Meditation Society, option of attending CRASH.

He will present a free public lecture was also fined $150 and given an principles and practice of alternate 30-day jail sentence if Transcendental Meditation on the fine Wednesday May 30, at 7:15 p.m. Monday, in the meeting room of the Bennington Free Library. This lecture begins the second series on TM in the area since the establishment of a center in Bennington to serve Vermont's four southern counties. is not paid by next CLT deadline is extended The presentation will open with Vemon R. Smith, 32, of Manchester Center, pleaded guilty to driving under the influenceMayl2 on Route 11 and 30 in Manchester.

He was fined $150 and his license was suspended for one year. was also given the option of at- properties in Bennington. tending CRASH. TM mn make Thomas M. Morrissey, 34, of appointment for a hearing The Cole-Layer-Trumble Co, has extended until today the deadline for making appointments for company hearings on reappraisal of Sunderland and overturned.

Ann McGuire, 22, a passenger, was also injured. Both were taken to Putnam Memorial Hospital where they were treated and released. Ingersol's car, a 1973 Opel, was extensively damaged. Three accidents occurred on town roads over the long Memorial Day weekend, but no one was hospitalized and only light-to-moderate damage was sustained by the cars involved. A two-car crash at 5 a.m.

Saturday occurred at the in- Selectmen, listers tonight to brainstorm on reappraisal Bennington selectmen, listers, the Cole-Layer-Trumble and a taxpayer's representative will hold a brainstorming session tonight to work on problems raised by the recent professional reappraisal. The parley, which selectmen are calling a "working session," will be closed to the public to allow concentration on the matter, but the press will sit in, along with Kep. Charles Sauer, D-3-2, who will represent the public and taxpayers. The session will be part of the board's regular Tuesday night meeting. Selectmen decided to call it after a rising tide of public concern about the reappraisal spilled over into protests at their last two weekly meetings.

Other business to be discussed by the board during the public portion of the meeting will include a request by Main Street businessman Fred Grant to have the town set aside a 40- foot portion of Silver Street adjoining his Adams Hardware Store as a loading zone and parking space for his delivery car. A proposed new retirement plan for town employes will also be discussed further. Area Obituaries Annual art show set Aug. 15-21 Plans have been progressing for the sixth annual art show and sale sponsored by the First United Methodist Church, Bennington, from Aug. 15 through Aug.

21, which includes Bennington Battle Day. All artists, of every age, and both amateur and professional, in Bennington and surrounding areas are invited to exhibit or sell their work at this show. Because of the growing popularity of ceramics, those interested in thus form of art welcome to participate. Entry blanks will be mailed to form'er exhibitors at a future date. Others interested should contact Ruth Boodakian evenings at 442-6860 or call the church office, 442-5920, for further information.

series of slides illustrating the Manchester Depot (no relation to unique "Physiology of Transcendental Meditation" and discussion will focus on the practical value of this state of "restful alertness" in developing greater dynamism and creativity in daily living. Judge Morrissey), changed his plea to guilty to driving while under the influence Jan. 12 on Routes 11 and 30 in Manchester. He was fined $150 and his license was suspended for one year. He may attend CRASH if he wishes.

Howard Hunt streets, involving a 1969 Dodge sedan driven by Robert Green, 20, of Bennington, and a 1973 Chrysler operated by Carl L. Tucker, 64, of Pownal. Bennington Police said Green was heading north on Silver and Tucker east on Union when they collided in the intersection, toth cars Continued from Page 1 knock out the Cuban Air Force. There was no restriction on the number of strikes," Cabell was told. But Cabell insisted "to be on the safe side, I'm going to ask (Secretary of State Dean) Rusk about it.

Cancel that strike order until I can get someone to approve it." Hunt said he was told by Bissell that at a hurriedly called meeting later that day attended by Kennedy, Walt Hostow, his Policy Planning council chairman, Rusk, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, and special counsel Arthur Schlesinger, among others, Kennedy decided there would be no second strike. Bissell said, however, that vasion's aftermath. HAROLD E.RUSSELL The funeral of Harold E. Russell, 59, former chief of the Buskirk Fire Department, who died Friday at Putnam Memorial Hospital, was held this morning at his residence in Buskirk, N.Y.

Burial was in the West Hoosick cemetery. Mr. Russell was born in Springfield, but spent most of his life in West Hocsick and Buskirk. He formerly delivered milk in the Bennington- Hoosick Falls area. In recent and was graduated from Lehigh he had self employed Tlnivprsitv in 1917 in the pulping industry.

University in 1917. Survivors include his wife, the Mr. Graham was deeply in- orlner Etta Crandall; two sons, terested in railroads, the Eastern Ha rold Russell Jr. and Daniel Police are still looking for the Pennsylvania railroads RusseUi tath Busklrk five driver of an unidentified car that teln nls a TM rlte ev a daughters, Mrs. Harold Levin pre- Louis Perrotta, Ronald Knapp, struck and damaged a fire rtuKelly hydrant and street sign early TM dre ew Yor Bennington, Mrs.

Hugo Andreolle Sunday morning on Water Street of Hollywood, Loretta 442-5340. Appointments will be scheduled for between now and June 15. Five vie for BSD Five candidates will compete for two vacancies on the Ben asion 5 aiiemiaui. lur inu vaL-cuiuca un ucn- Saturrlav Hunt also said that Steven- nington School District Board F.STEWART GRAHAM F. Stewart Graham, 78, formerly of Old Bennington, died Monday in Houston, Texas, where he had-lived since his retirement in 1967.

Mr. Graham came to this area in 1927 and was manager of the James C. Colgate estate and Fillmore Farms until his retirement. He was born in Kingston, Dec. 15, 1894, son of Charles and Martha (Stewart) Graham.

He son, who was later to allege during the June 26 election. TMJ" 1 attended Pennsylvania schools being kept in the dark about The following school board John Malcolm, 22, of Rupert, the invasion, had been briefed hopefuls filed nominating by Barnes "well prior to petitions, with at least 63 invasion date." signatures, the minimum Moreover, the Joint Chiefs of required to have a candidate's Staff--who later maintained name printed on the ballot, they had no opportunity to The candidates are incumbent determine the military paredness of the invasion forces James Henry, Virginia --had sent "an assessment McKenna, and Gerald Cornell, team" to the Guatemalan The vacancies on the seven- camps and had "cabled back member board come from ex- an enthusiastic appraisal of the piration of the terms of Perrotta (Cuban) Brigade and Air Force and Charles Sawyer. Sawyer has as well-trained and battle- decided not to seek re-election, ready," Hunt said. Voting on the candidates, and Three persons who are several money articles as well, involved in the Watergate affair will take place at the Bennington appear in the book. Elementary School on School Hunt recalled a luncheon he streeL from 10 a.m.

until 7:30 ternoon at Simmons Funeral Home, North Adams. The Rev. Lafayette H. Sprague rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, North Adams, officiated.

Burial Ackley Funeral Home in Cambridge with the Rev. Robert Purrinton, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Island Hill in Maxmillian. Police seek hydrant buster was in the family lot in Oak Hill. Cemetery, Buskirk.

Cemetery, Pownal. Calling hours at the funeral Memorial contributions may home are tonight from 7 to 9 and be made to the Pownal Public from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 Library in care of Mrs. John p.m. Mrs. JOSEPH LeCLERC Mrs.

Joseph LeClere, 70, of 216 Park the former Yvonne Boutin, died Sunday at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Born in Armagh, Canada, Feb. 24, 1903, she was the daughter of Wenceslas and Celcstine (Goulet) Boutin. Her schooling was received in Canada and she Mrs.TONIDUPONT Mrs. Toni Dupont, 38, public relations director of the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, died Sunday at Springfield Hospital Medical Center.

She resided in East Longmeadow, Mass. Funeral services will be held in Ware, Wednesday. IRVING! A. HUNT in North Bennington. According to reports, the hydrant and sign were struck at about 1:15 a.m., and police followed a trail of water that dripped from the car's damaged radiator through the village before it petered out.

Beside radiator damage, the car police are looking for also Historical Society. Survivors include his widow, the former Elsie Carpenter, and two sons, William Graham of Houston and F. S. Graham Jr. of Durham, N.C.

Graveside services in Old Bennington Cemetery are pending. Arrangements are by Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Durkee of South Carolina, and Mrs. Glen Gay of Rochester, N.Y.; a half-brother, Walter Russell, and four grandchildren. Mrs. LAWRENCE BUSBY Private funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m.

at the Mahar Funeral Home for Mrs. Elizabeth M. Busby, 59, of 171 Main Hoosick Falls, N.Y., moved to Bennington in 1921. She had been employed in various textile plants in town. She was Irving A.

Hunt, 45, lifelong married to Mr. LeClere Nov. 7, resident of Buskirk, N.Y,, died 1927 in Sacred Heart Church and Monday But Castro's remaining fight- dent Nixon. College building, an as-yet ers, Hunt said, easily knocked "Cushman told me that the undisclosed budget, and several out" the rebel planes as well as vice president was the (inva- rou tine money articles, most of the invasion's landing sion) project's action officer smps within the White House and Destroying Castro's danes that Nixon wanted nothing to go Bennington Briefs Castro's planes was "basic To the success of the entire invasion," Hunt said. A final decision by Kennedy, according to Hunt, to send fighter planes from the U.S.

carrier Boxer to provide cover for the last rebel forces coming ashore was made too late. Hunt said the Boxer was the flagship of a naval task force, which included Marine landing forces, that was stationed in the waters off Puerto Rico. "By some incalculable mischance the timing had been fouled up," he said. "By then we had run out of time, aircraft and men. The invasion was over." Entitled "Give Us This Day," Hunt's book described a meeting he attended in Schlesinger's White House office to discuss the administration's white paper on Cuba with Bissell's assistant, Tracy Barnes.

"Barnes and Schlesinger discussed various problems of the invasion and I think it was then I learned Dean Rusk had vetoed our plan of seizing Trinidad by air" as a staging Watergate wrong." Continued from Page 1 Cushman, now Marine Corps Ue abuse flf authorit commandant and member of of me fe(feral th mt niA prosecutors if in tact they made ation A sUatements attributed to burglarizing the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. One of Hunt's closest assistants among the Cuban exiles in Florida was Bernard L. Barker, a Cuban-American who was convicted with Hunt for the Watergate break-in. "I welcomed his assistance Miss Trina Johnson of Park Robert LaBeau, a member of Street Extension and Miss Donna the 1973 graduation class at the Boutin of Division Street arrived Austin School for the Deaf in back home today from Honolulu, Brattleboro, has been notified of Hawaii, where they have been his acceptance into the National spending a week's vacation. Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of The Well Baby conference will Technology.

Six of last year's be Monday, June 4, from 8:30 to graduates are attending this Ervin said another reason for a.m. at the Second school. The graduate fromerly the delay in calling Dean and Congregational Church, Hillside lived in Bennington. former deputy campaign Street; manager Jeb Stuart Magruder Members of the immediate The ladies' auxiliary to the was the Justice Department's famUies of guardsmen who are Fraternal Order of Eagles aerie refusal to waive a 30-day at camp Drum, N.Y., 1861 will hold a special meeting waiting period needed to put contact them through the Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the into effect limited immunity so Nat Guard Armory in case Eagles rooms.

It is important that their Senate testimony emergenc y. For more in- that all members attend. could Mt an eager, emcient ana jn cour rh aw provides for dedicated," Hunt said of Barker. Another Watergate conspirator, Frank Sturgis, who then went by the name of Frank Fiorini, piloted planes over Havana to drop anti- Castro propaganda leaflets, Hunt said. Hunt said he wrote the book in 1967 and intended it as "a this waiting period immunity goes into unless the 30 days are waived.

The Senate hearings are in recess until June 5, when Sally Jackson Harmony, secretary to convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy, appears as a witness. Mrs. Harmony will be followed by Robert Riesner, who emergency involving guard- be or sman's families, one should call the National Guard Armory 4426875 or if no answer 442-8567 or 442-4312. in Maple Grove Cemetery.

Mrs. Busby was born in Hoosick Falls, April 8, 1914, daughter of James and Maude (Niles) Waddell. She was graduated from Hoosick Falls High School and the former Troy Normal School. She had taught in the White Creek elementary and was later employed at the lieis textile mill in Cambridge. She was widow of Lawrence Busby who died Sept.

28, 1972. Survivors include one daughter, Miss Sally Busby of Hoosick; a brother, James M. Waddell of Binghamton, N.Y., and three nephews. The Rev. John Y.

Elliott, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Busby was a member, will officiate. Memorial contributions may be afternoon at Mary McClellan Hospital in Cambridge, N.Y., following a long illness. He was born in Buskirk Dec. 26, 1916, son of Harry and Addie (Barnhart) Hunt.

Survivors are his wife, the former Wanda Raczkowski; three daughters, Mrs. Drothy Gibbons and Mrs. Marie Rogers, both of Bennington, and Miss Linda Hunt of Bushirk; three sons, Stanley of Buskirk; Edwin and Harry, both of Bennington; six grandchildren; seven sisters, Mrs. Mildred Caswell of Elnora, N.Y.; Mrs. Elsie Brown of Cambridge, N.Y.; Mrs.

Bertha Cole of Schaghticoke, N.Y.; Mrs. Florence Swazyer of Pennsylvania; Mrs. PaulineBerrier of Cambridge and Mrs. Joan Coon of Hoosick Falls and Mrs. Geraldine Harwood of Cambridge; three brothers, Chester of Petersburg, N.Y.; Malcolm of Buskirk and Eugene Hunt of Cambridge.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at Charles A. they have lived for a number of years on Park Street. She was a communicant of Sacred Heart Church and a member of St. Ann's Society of that parish.

Survivors besides her husband are two sons, Hymond J. LeClere of Bennington and Richard J. LeClere of Plainville, one daughter, Mrs. William (Mary) Osborne of Troy, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Clarina Bellemare, Miss Emma Boutin and Mrs.

Charles (Gabrielle) Bortell, all of Bennington and Mrs. Lydia Delisle of St. Petersburg, four brothers, Leon J. Boutin of Pownal, Louis Jules and Roland Boutin, all of Bennington; two aunts, several nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral services were held late this morning in Sacred Heart Church and interment was in Park Ijwn Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Bennington Rescue Squad through Mahar Son Funeral Home offices. The color guard and newly elected officers will meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. sharp at made to the Cancer Fund, care of John XXIII Institute for the funeral home. rehearsal. Hospital Notes FRIDAY, MAY 25,1973 Admissions Maureen Gorman, Ben- private legacy to my children was ad inistrative assistan to ningtpn; Clyde Baker, Dorset; But due to the Watergate der who would have a Rudd, Arlington; publicity and disclosure of his about secre( mice Hull, North Pownal; CIA background Hunt said he tta at which Wat ergate Frederick Kenyon, North Ben- area for the offensive, Hunt decided publication would serve scwsed early nington.

'distorted accounts said. Hunt said that despite Schlesingers knowledge of the entire plan, the White House Discharges a i Cossayuna, N.Y. MONDAY, MAY 28, 1973 Admissions Gerald Wheeler, Whitingham; Mrs. Frank Holt, Ingrid Markiewicz, Hoosick Falls; Albert Fox, Jacksonville; Harold to correct "uisioriea accounts Discharges of my involvement in the Bay Haldeman and Ehr ii hman Irene Joly, Joanna Reed, of Pigs invasion. thejr depos it ions the Bennington; William Harris Sausville, North Bennington.

In the past, Hunt has written jvU suit agt wegk tf)at (h Everett Squires, East Discharges Intellectual criticized the CIA's! several fiction spy stones under Uarned last March about ihree Arlington; Mrs. Patricia Smith Sharon Pine, Hoosick Falls; "Gunsmoke stance" in the in-; differing or mee tj to discuss and daughter, Bennington. Rosemary Farris, Pownal; Thinking of a hearing aid? Zenith has SO years of electronic experience in case you haven't heard You can't buy a finer instrument than Zenith. 18 different models. From one so tiny it fits in your .10 one for the severely deaf, lie Until 01 Fin SATURDAY, MAY 26,1973 Admissions Linda Dowd, Bennington.

Discharges Susan Matte, Nancy Liporace, BENNINGTON HEARING AID CENTER KENNETH A. BEAUCHEMIN CERTIFIED HEARING AID HOURS: 449 Main Si. Bennington intelligence gatherings. Ehrlichman said he learned of one meeting as early as December 1971 at which then Attorney General John N. Mitchell allegedly was present and of ong fl ROSS; other meetings in February and Hoosick Falls ath i ee Mar wale North Bennington; Gladys Mrs.

Margaret Boulet ington; John Cole, ai mree meeiuw. a a Sabia at which a bugging operation Jacksonvil was proposed but that he always rejected it. SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1973 The depositions of Haldeman Admissions and Ehrlichman will be made Donna Jean Galvin, Rosemaire public this week. Dufresne, Bennington. gate itself was discussed.

Mitchell said in April that he Myron Lake Mrs. Noreen Paligo and son, Bennington. Births Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Paligo of 120 Coolidge a son May 25.

Mr. and Mrs. Vernon I-asala of Shaftsbury, a daughter May 25. Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond Myers of West Road, a son May 27. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Territo of Miss ED WIN A C. BARBER Miss Edwina C.

Barber, 69, of 1256 Farmington West Hartford, formerly of Pownal, died Friday in a convalescent hospital in Hartford. She was born in Pownal April 2, 1904, a daughter of the late Edward and Alice (Thompson) Barber. She graduated from Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Wheelock College in Boston and Smith College of Social Work in Northampton. Miss Barber was associated with social work services for many years and was last employed at the Family and Children's Agency of the Oranges at East Orange, N.J: A member of the Pownal Baptist Church, she later became a member of the Central Brick Presbyterian Church in East Orange. Survivors are-a sister, Mrs.

Pauline B. Hosley of West Hartford; two nephews, Richard 110 South Branch a daughter B. Hosley of Alameda, N.M., and May 28. Donald G. Hosley of Simsbury, Other births three cousins, Miss Mabel Thompason and Mrs.

John Maxmillian, both of Pownal and Mr. and Mrs. William V. Parks of Middle Pownal Road, Pownal, a daughter May 24 at North Adams, Regional Hospital. Mrs.

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