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NO VER GAZETTE The Landmark EX NO. 4 WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1950 1950 CENSUS DATA WILL ASSIST SCHOOL AUTHORITIES "The Census figures are helpful to us. I hope we, as Vermonters can help the Census." Thus spoke A. John Holden, Vermont's Commissioner of Education recently as he urged Vermonters to cooperate with enumerators in the 17th Decennial Census. Census figures will supplement in a valuable way the information obtained from the survey of School Building, Needs now being carried on throughout the State by the Vermont Education Department, Commissioner Holden pointed out.

What effect will the upheaval wrought by World War II have on the nation's future school needs? Statistics tabulated from the results of the 17th Decennial Census will throw considerable light on this subject. Distribution of Federal aid to schools, as now progosed in bills before the U. S. Congress, would be based upon relative need as shown by the enumeration of children in various age groups. There is no doubt that a large increase in the number of children in America has resulted from the unusally high rate of marriage during the war and post-war periods.

Just how much this trend has been reflected in Vermont will be of the utmost tance in determining the need of expansion of school facilities in the State. According to the 1940 Census, of Vermont's total of 124,115 inhabitants between the ages of 5 and 24, were attending school. This ranked Vermont fourth among the six New England States in this category. However, of the 13,136 Vermont children who were 14 and 15 years old in 1940 only 90.2 per cent were ling school. This was well below the figure of 95.2 percent for this age group who were still in school throughout New England at that time.

To what extent these figures will be revised will be determined in April when the. 17th Decennial Census enumerators call at your home. WIN-CO-VER FEEDS DOG FOOD FERTILIZER FARM SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS Windsor County Farmers' Exchange, Inc. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION TEL. 600 RANDOLPH SOUTH ROYALTON WINDSOR TEL.

192 TEL. 4 TEL. 32 COLE -FLETCHER The Rev. Clarence W. Fuller performed the double ring ceremony at the First Congregational church, Melrose, Saturday afternoon, January 28, at which Miss Marjorie Fletcher, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank W. Fletcher of 25 West Emerson of Melrose, and Reuben Davis Cole, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest B.

Cole of Lebanon, N. were united in marriage. The service was performed in the presence of the immediate families of the bride and bridegroom. Given in marriage by her father before an altar decorated with gladioli and snapdragons, the bride was gowned in white satin designed with long pointed sleeves, lace yoke and trimmed with a lace peplum, tapering into a cascade in the back. Her finger-tip veil was secured to a pearl trimmed tiara and she carried a crescent shaped bouquet of white gladioli with orchid center.

Mrs. Armand Wood of 94 Rowe Melrose, the matron of honor, wore an American Beauty taffeta gown with matching mitts. She carried a bouquet of pink snapdragons and sweet peas. Mr. Cole had as his best man, his brother, Stephen Cole of Lebanon, N.

H. Following the reception which was held at the home of the bride, the couple left for 3 wedding trip to Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Cole will mike their home in Durham, N.

until June when the bridegroom will graduate from the University of New Hampshire. The former Miss Fletcher was graduated from Melrose High school and the University of New shire, where she was a member of Phi Mu Sorority. Mr. Cole was graduated from Lebanon High school and at present is a senior at the University of New Hampshire, where he is a member of Phi Delta Upsilon. -0- $100,000,000 hotel chain project is being mapped by Japan.

THE SHEPARD COMPANY, INC. White River Junction, Vermont Give Me Vermont About this time of year, when the business rush has slackened and the snow slows up the traffic, we folks of this Green Mountain State should pause for a moment and count our blessings. Vermonters have a lot. We have a clear, cold, invigorating climate; healthy, robust, free from the smoke and smell of the industrious centers. Vermont air is clean.

We have good pure water and fresh food right off the Vermont Farm. We have Good Churches and Good Schools; comfortable homes, and we have friends, home folks, comfortable folks who know us and we know them. We do not "stand on ceremony" here in Vermont. We know the town's people, we call by first names the Village Police, the Town Officers, the Bankers, they are our friends and we are theirs. We are Vermont Americans and glad of it.

Our Plumbing and Heating Business is taking a Winter's Seasonable Rest right now, but Spring is not far ahead and we are using this time to prepare for the Spring Rush. The Spring Rush means Carloads of Bath-Tubs, Lavatories, and Closets. A lot of Sinks, Wash Trays and Fixtures. It means Soil Pipe, Iron Pipe, Copper Pipe and Septic Tanks, Lead Goods and countless Fittings to go with them. Also it means Furnaces, Boilers, Radiation, Valves and Heating Goods.

It means Hustle and Work fast, Check in the Goods and Ship 'em out. Figuring Estimates, Drawing Plans; It means giving Vermonters the Best Goods for a. Reasonable Price. It has the snap of Winter Snows, The Warmth of Summer's sun. It isn't just a worn-out world But Nature, just begun.

It's Folk are friendly, kind and true, They neither boast nor vaunt; It's just the place called Home Sweet Home, That's why I like Vermont. Price $2.00 per year STATE NEWS A. H. Packard, Pres. Vt.

State Farm Bureau, Retires Burlington--Retirement of Arthur H. Packard, Jericho, from his as regional sales manager for the Farm Bureau insurance companies, of Columbus, Ohio, was announced last week by Bowman Doss, agency vice president. Packard, who is president of the Vermont State Farm Bureau, has headed the insurance companies' agency force in Vermont since 1930, first as state agent and later as regional sales manager. A successor will be named shortly, Doss added. A native and life-long resident of Jericho, Packard has been a Farm Bureau member for more than 30 years and has been state president of the organization since August, 1928.

In 1929 he became associated with the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, first of three insurance companies founded by the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, and the following year became state agent He was named regional sales manager in charge of the Vermont area last October. The Farm Bureau insurance companies, the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, the Farm Bureau Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and the Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, maintain Vermont regional offices at 323 Pearl St, Burlington. Burlington- One man was fatally hurt and another injured slightly when their car plunged over a 90-foot embankment on North avenue Friday. William Barrows, 32, of Winooski, was literally dug out from under his sedan. He died on the way to the Bishop DeGoesbriand hospital.

In the hospital is Raymond Senna, 19, of Burlington, a relative of rows. He has a lacerated arm. The pair was traveling north along North avenue when Barrows, who apparently was driving, failed to make the turn after passing the Arms farm. The car crashed through guard and plunged down 90 feet into a wooded ravine. Trees and brush along the way were felled.

Police had to search for some time before locating Barrows. They found him by going through the trunk of the wrecked vehicle. He was bleeding from the mouth, nose, and ears, and authorities said he died as the result of a fractured skull and back and internal injuries. Barrows, who worked for Abraham Baker, local junk dealer, is survived by his mother, Mrs. Dora Greenwood of the same address.

-0 DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE TO HOLD DINNER A meeting of the Democratic State Committee was held at the Pavilion Hotel, Montpelier, on Friday, February 3, and it was voted unanimously to hold a Jefferson-Jackson Dinner sometime between April 15 and May 15, at which time it is planned to have a speaker of national prominence. The dinner will be held in Burlington. It was also voted that henceforth all patronage matters will be handled by the State Committee under a plan adopted at the meeting. 0 THE JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET TO PRESENT CONCERT Next Thursday evening the Juilliard String Quartet with Artie Shaw playing the concerto on the clarinet will present the next in the concert series at Hanover, N. H.

The quartet has been heard there before and is always welcome. One member, Raphael Hillyer, was formerly a Hanover resident, and a graduate from Dartmouth. The quartet is made up of members of the Juilliard school instructors in New York City. Mr. Shaw, the clarinetist has drawn very favorable notices from the critics wherever he has played.

0 New discoveries hint man lived in U.S. 40,000 years ago. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SPONSORS PRE-TOWN MEETING The third in a series of meetings onl civic affairs will be held Wednesday February 15 in the High School Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The Board of Selectmen will be present 1 to discuss the Town Warrant. Due to the inability of many people to spend as much time at Town Meeting as is necessary to properly understand the Warrant, the Selectmen are giving us this opportunity to question them.

All persons or organizations soring an article or articles in the Warrant are urged to be: present to state their case. Please make every effort to attend bring your neighbors. The town your business. 0 DR. MARION L.

BUGBEE Funeral services for Dr. Marion Lewis Bugbee, who died in Brattleboro on February 3, were held at the Powers funeral parlors last Sunday afternoon, and the body was placed in the Hartford Cemetery tomb. Rev. Clair Carpenter officiated at the services. Dr.

Bugbee was born in Hartford, September 2, 1871, the daughter of Jonathan Bugbee and Ellen (Lewis) Bugbee. She graduated from Tilden Seminary in West Lebanon, N. in 1889, and took her medical degree from the Woman's Medical College of New York Infirmary in 1897. She was engaged in general practice in Hartford from 1897 until 1909 when she led the post of physician in charge of the New Hampshire Memorial Hospital for Women and Children in Concord, which she held until 1931. She later practiced in this town until 1948.

She was a member of the American Medical Association, the New Hampshire Medical Association, and a number of other professional organizations. Survivors include one brother, Edward Bugbee and a nephew, Maurice Bugbee. -0 JOHN C. STONE Funeral services for John C. Stone, who died last Sunday, February 5, at the Veterans' hospital were held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home on Church street and burial was in Mount Olivet cemetery, Rev.

P. A. Barry officiated. Mr. Stone had been in poor health for several yeras.

Born in Petherton, England the son of John Stone and Elizabeth Hawks Stone, he came to. this country, when very young. He attended schools in Lyme and Hanover, New Hampshire and at Thetford Hill. At the outbreak of the Spanish American war he enlisted in the First Vermont Regiment. Following his return after this war he was in the restaurant business in this village and on the police force for several years, until poor health forced him to retire.

In 1907 Mr. Stone married Miss Anne Elizabeth Ryan and to them five sons were born, all surviving him. These include, Francis, Ralph, Robert, John all of this town and Thomas C. of Pitman, New Jersey. Other survivors include two sisters Annie Stone, who lives in the Stone home here, Mrs.

Rose L. Bond of North Deven, England and two brothers Thomas H. Stone of London, England and Richard S. Stone of Bridgewater, England, and four grandchildren. WOODSTOCK ROTARY CLUB GUESTS OF LOCAL ROTARY Tuesday noon at Hotel Coolidge a very interesting movie was shown by Harris W.

Soule, managing director, Vermont Development Commissiontitle "Thanks to Vermont." The movie showed general agricultural progress in the state, and rural life. Mr. Soule stated that they have several movies on Vermont and they' were in great demand, and that last year over 200,000 people out of the state saw these movies. Attention Farmers Call your authorized dealer for DeLaval, Milkers, Coolers, Can Hoists, Freezers, Water Heaters and Parts. SALES Lester F.

Hoyt SERVICE White River Junction, Vermont Phone 791-W4 WASHINGTON LETTER President Truman's Budget J. E. Jones Our Washington Correspondent Washington, D. February---The President wants "wide-spread" creases in the number of Federal jobholders. We pause to observe that the people of the United States would be much better off if they had fewer Federal job-holders.

They already number around the two-million mark. Senator O'Connor, Maryland criticizes the White House for recommending thousands of new jobs in the face of estimated spending. O'Connor is one of many shouting from the floor of the Senate (in behalf of a program that will cut wild spending. In both branches of Congress Government extravagance is being attacked by Democrats and Republicans- and believe it or not, the President of the United States is going a terrible spanking when he pleads for a 439,000,000 budget for the next fiscal year. As one looks over the estimates to discover what it is all about, he learns that the President is recommending millions of dollars to cover great increases in funds for the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Marketing and Production Administration, Public Housing, Wage and Hour division, Farmers Home Administration, the Forest Survey Service, Survey, Home Finance Agency, Aeronautics, Bureau of Labor Management, Bureaus of Old Age Insurance, The Labor Department- apparently everything that has been thought of up-to- date.

Let's Rediscover America Only about 25 per cent of the United States has been adequately mapped. The Secretary of the Interior Department in Washington has furnished this information to "We, the People." This isn't fair to the grass roots- that is a part of the country that isn't on the map; that is a great section of the United States that is a good deal more important than lots of our big cities who are busy right now squalling about affairs in their congested communities. The Secretary tells us that most persons find it difficult to explain why such large areas, aren't on the map. He suggests that a slogan for new Federal mapping might well be "Let's Rediscover America." Eleanor Roosevelt The boys born to Mr. and Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt aren't living up to the high standards of their parents. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt carries on, and her column in the newspapers contains articles rich with first class tion and opinions. We all tip our in respect to this great woman.

But that's all there is to say in favor of their children. Congressman Brown of Ohio digs up the record, and says that young Roosevelt from New York City has failed to respond to 30 roll calls out of 65 vote recordings on "important" measures in Congress. Brown said that Roosevelt spends too much time in New York night clubs, and in "nocturnal meditation on 52nd Street." Senator Taft has added a few knockout blows in digging up the record of "Junior" Roosevelt. Noisy California Roosevelt doesn't seem to be doing anything to hold the standards of his illustrious parents. Eleanor carried on, and whether you agree with her or not you must respect and give her credit for doing a good job.

A Man with a Mission James F. Byrnes, onetime Senator, Supreme Court Justice, wartime "assistant President" and postwar Secretary of State, is returning to the political war at 70 as a man with a mission. Mr. Byrnes is running for the post of Governor of South Carolina. But he is seeking much more than that.

His mission is to stop the Truman "Fair Deal." Behind Mr. Byrnes's determination lies a strange story that has taken many politicians by surprise. A tiful friendship between Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Truman has soured.

Only bitterness and recrimination remain. This enmity is dramatized by the President's press-conference comment that Mr. Byrnes can "do as he damn pleases." It is stressed, too, by an acid exchange of letters in which Mr. Truman likened himself to Caesar and THETFORD ACADEMY BENEFIT W. E.

Green, Famous Wild Animal Collector To Be Guest Speaker Under the auspices of the Richard Wallace P. T. A. of Thetford Center, William E. (Bill) Green, cf ville, New Hampshire, will speak Thetford Academy Auditorium on Tuesday, February 14 at 8 o'clock.

He will talk about his experiences as a collector and hunter of wild animals in this country, Mexico and South America. The public is welcome. It is expected that Mr. Green's subject will as interesting to students of school age as to adults. There is charge for admission; but a voluntary collection will be taken for the benefit of the Thetford Academy Building Fund.

WOODSTOCK TOPS HARTFORD 54-47 Last Tuesday, February 7, Hartford played Woodstock on the Woodstock court, with a large crowd from Hartford to cheer their team on. Even though Hartford has had a tough season, the school students and the faculty have been right behind them to see them through. Starting of the first quarter O'Connor sank a beauty in the hoop. Hartford seemed to have a good start, but the score seemed to register more for Woodstock. Coach Cottone put Paige in to replace Agan in the first quarter.

The first quarter ended with Woodstock 13 and Hartford 11. Hartford fought for the ball and kept their own during the second quarter. Agan was sent in again to replace Reeves at the half with the score favoring Woodstock by three points, 27-24. Woodstock with more pep and steam than the first half, kept Hartford on the go. Reeves came in and replaced Paige at the beginning of the third quarter.

Agan went out on fouls. At the end of the third quarter Woodstock 41; Hartford 34. In the last quarter with four more minutes to play little Teddy Haley was sent in and replaced Reeves. O'Connor went out on fouls and was replaced by Thibodeau as Hartford was still trying to build the score up in the two minutes that remained. Then little Teddy Haley sank one in the hoop which brought a grand applause from the visitors and home team fans.

Covell came in and replaced Paige. The victory score was 54-47 in 1 favor of the green and white Woodstock team. High scorer for Woodstock was Flemming with a total of 20 points, and for Hartford, O'Connor with 19. Hartford J. Agan, If B.

Paige, r.f. E. Reeves, r.f. J. Harrington, 1.f.

N. Jones, c. 12 P. Covell, c. B.

O'Connor, r.g. 19 B. Thibodeau, r.g. B. Beattie, 1.g.

2 2 T. Haley, 1.g. 0 Woodstock Carr, r.f. 5 0 10 Blake, r.f. Ellis, c.

Allcroft, 1.f. Perkins, I.f. NONMayo, c. Fleming, r.g. 20 Patenlaude, r.g.

Walker, 1.g. 8 LaMontagne, lg. 3 Mr. Byrnes to Brutus. In reply, Mr.

Byrnes denied he was a Brutus and said he did not consider Mr. Truman as a Caesar, either. Personal relationships thus are woven tightly into the fabric of a situation that could affect the Nation's history profoundly. "Push-Button Warfare" Manpower war on the battle fields is the worst thing ever heard of. A smart Doctor O.

M. Solandt, chairman of the Canadian Defense Research Board woke up Toronto by telling the people: "Push button warfare will enable men to send out machines to fight for Of course the Number One machine is our "atomic" bomb. If Doctor Solandt has the idea he should be covered with glistening push-button medals. Always ask For GRANDIN'S FEEDS AT ATWOOD'S FEED STORE WHITE RIVER JCT. TEL 313-M MOOSILAUKE BUS SERVICE STARTS THIS WEEK Weekly ski trips on an all-expensepaid basis from Hanover 10 the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge will start this coming week-end, Robert S.

Monahan, manager of College Outing Properties, announced Wednesday. Buses will leave the Hanover terminal at 1 p.m. on Saturdays and 8 a.m. on Sundays, returning to Hanover by 6 p.m. Sunday evening.

Tickets covering bus transportation, use of the new 1600-foot Moosilauke ski tow, and accommodations at the Ravine Lodge are on sale at the ticket office and the Dartmouth Outnoting Club headquarters in Robinson hall. This service will continue each week as long as satisfactory ski conditions continue at Moosilauke, Mr. Monahan added. At present skiing on all three new trails is considered excellent with substantial snowpack that should assure several more weeks of good skiing, if seasonable weather continues. --0- ELECTROCUTED IN BATH Miami, Fla.

-Mrs. Ellen A. Carney, 37, was electrocuted in her bathtub when she used an electric hair dryer while taking a bath. Efforts to rescuscitate her proved unsuccessful. 4 YEARS IN ARMY AT 18 Cumberland, he is only 18.

Richard Riggleman has just completed a four-year hitch in the Army, three of them spent in Germany. Richard signed up in 1945, when he was only 13. Large for his age, he said nobody doubted him when he said he was 17 when he enlisted. General Trucking and Rubbish Disposal GUARANTEED SERVICE F. C.

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