Bennington Banner (Newspaper) - September 18, 1962, Bennington, Vermont Showers and Cooler showers tonight and High in low in upper 40s. Yesterday's 75; 52. Today at 7 54. The prominent star in the northeast is the head of 90 light years Sept. 18, 1962 Watches Storm Conditions anner Established 1841.59th No. Price 7 Cents Sixth Weather Satellite Put Into Orbit By U.S. CAPE Fla. sixth in a series of Tiro weather satellites rocketed in orbit today and its camera eye went on immediate alert for hu typhoons and othe storms around the The electronic weatherman sho away from Cape Canaveral a a.m. aboard a About tw hours later the National nautics and Space Administratio announced the was i successful orbit about 400 mile Success It was the straight success ful satellite launching for the 92 foot Delta this most reliable space I also made six successful in as many tries for the Tiro satellite The two television cameras car ried by Tiros 6 were to transmitting cloud cover after two orbits were completed During the early phases of fligh tracking stations were to deter mine the precise course and how well the satellite equipment was The NASA statement said ros 6 is in orbit and all systems appear to be functioning nor Weather Guide The satellite also could the weather for next week's scheduled orbital flight of U.S astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. Sea conditions in the and Pacific recovery zones wil be watched closely as Sept. 28 launching date nears Hurricanes and typhoons are def inite threats in both oceans thi time of If Schirra is brought hack to earth after two or his capsule will land in the Completion of five or six orbits would drop him in the Tiros 6 originally was sched uled for launching in but was advanced two months td provide insurance in case the ail ing Tiros 5 satellite should lose its one remaining camera 14 Voters Elect Smith to Seat On School Board Fourteen voters of the Greater Bennington Inc. last night unanimously elected W i 1 liam F. D. Smith of Robinson Avenue to fill Robert M. 3-year term on the Morris Hughes of Drive was elected district Moderator Franklin Jones en a motion to just six minutes after the meet ing came to order in the Molly Stark Following the dis the Committee held a half-hour busi ness Award Contract Chairman Mrs. Harriet M. is suggested that the district em- ploy a form by which doctors would be guided in giving physi cal examinations to school bus agreeing that they should know what is cov ered in the voted to act on the Sealed bids from Wilson Ford and Whitney's Garage for district vehicle maintenance were opened and read by Prudential Committee clerk Stewart E. Wilson of- the Labor per hour and per hour for body with a 20 to 30 per cent dis- count on all Whitney's of- labor at per hour and per hour on body work plus 10 per cent discount on all Whitney stated it could give a better discount on large repair jobs such as motor The Committee voted in favor of the Wilson bid and the savings that the 30 per cent on parts will School lunch program working for the past eight years at a fixed fee of an were given a pay raise to per In a final the tee voted to purchase 14 new bus tires and to seek bids on a now 54-passenger school bus. Bids on these items will bo SONS Peter and 7 and 5, are shown with their teacher at Rancho Santa school as she traces the possible orbit of their spaceman Lt. Charles Soviets Expected to Blast U.S. Policy Toward Cuba opened nt a meeting at the Mt. Anthony Country Club at 6 p.m. Sept. 27 prior to the ner scheduled for that The U.N. General Assembly pens its 17th session today amic signs that the Sovie plans an all-out blast at policy on Cuba and other The opening session was ed to the formalities of electing new assembly president and roving the admission of four new but even on the contest there was an Clash Expected Western backed Muhammad veteran Pakistani appeared sure to win his J. P. refused to acknowledge de- at and indicated he would not The main clash is to develop later in the eek when U.S. Ambassador Ad- i E. Stevenson and Soviet For- gn Minister Andrei Gromyko de- ver their main policy Moscow dispatches confirmed what Western diplomats had ex- Gromyko will lose no time in bringing up the Cuban question and renewing Soviet charges United States is planning an U.N. The Soviets also are expected to attack U.S. positions on nuclear the latest U2 sance Berlin and the Con- The United on the other has indicated it will assail the Soviet Union for refusing to pay its U.N. assessments for the Congo operation and will press for assembly action to back up the advisory opinion of the World Court holding such assessments are While the Berlin question was expected to get a full airing in the main policy there was no evidence that the issue would be put on the assembly agenda for Acting tary General U Thant told a news conference Monday neither Pre- Soviets Spurn Four-Power Berlin Plan BERLIN The Sovie Union has refused to renew four Dower relations in Berlin and ha issued a new call for the Western Allies to abolish immediately their military in the di- vided Troop Test The Soviet statement came day as thousands of Allied troops n combat gear launched a major est of their ability to spring to West Berlin's The involving most of the West's ended early Military officials were reported satisfied with the The Soviet government released in ed the Western position that lin still is under four-power con- It ignored Allied calls for re- establishing relations broken last month when the Soviet Berlin commandant was withdrawn and his post turned over to an East The statement claimed power administration has not been in existence since 1948 it the United and Britain set up a separate military NATO Bloc Charge Berlin has now been turned into a military base of the aggressive North Atlantic bloc di- against the the and er peaceful the statement Calling for abolition of the ern the statement Soviet Union had nothing to do with these unilateral actions of Jie Western powers and cannot 3ear responsibility for their con- First Since April The West Berlin alert was the irst major Allied test exercise since April 3. A spokesman said ii was designed to and j the mobility of Allied units and their ability to react to ous The test was directed by the French Maj. Gen Edouard He was ed by the U.S. and British com- Maj. Gens. Albert Wat Massachusetts Primary Vote Expected To Top 1 Million Contest May Draw Record Turnout SENATORIAL CANDIDATES The two candidates for the Republican nomination for a United States Senate seat from Massachusetts shake hands before a recent television Veteran Congressman Laurence Curtis is at left with George Cabot son of the former United Nations Primary elections are under way in Massachusetts Stormy Convention son II and Claude The U.S. Army has men in West the British and the French about Unemployment Claims Down 2.2 Per Cent Vt. Unemployment claims filed in Vermont last week declined by 61 2.2 per cent from the week ended Sept. 8, the Depart ment of Employment Security said The state's jobless lists includ ed registered the department fewer than the same period last Initial indicating nev totaled 383, dowr mier Khrushchev nor President 20 per cent from the Kennedy has indicated any desire j Six of the state's 11 o bring the problem to the United tors reported declining Nations at this N. F. Democrats Pick Morgenthau BOSTON Massachusetts voters decide today whether an- other Kennedy will run against another Lodge in another round of a political feud between the two over the same seat in the U.S. Edward M. youngest brother of President John F. is running for the cratic nomination in today's party Lodge Makes Bid George Cabot Lodge seeks the Republican He is a son of Henry Cabot wh held the seat at stake from 194 until John F. Kennedy won it in 1952. Kennedy and Lodge won the en of their party conven tions in over the same men who are their primary Edward J. McCormack Jr. state attorney general and i nephew of Speaker of the House John W. McCormack of opposes Age and Experience Rep. Laurence is running against congressional district was elim in this year's reapportion which cut the delegation from 14 to 12. The vote is expected to set a topping 1 Polls open at various hours anc close at 6 or 7 p.m. Age and experience have been prime issues in both Kennedy turned 30, minimum comer to fell seven votes York long racked by internal chose Robert M Morgenthau at a chaotic state convention early today as their gubernatorial former U.S. ney in New York City and the soft-spoken son of a famous was nominated ly over four rivals on the second ballot to oppose Republican Gov Nelson A. Rockefeller in the No- vember Old Wounds Reopened Veteran Democrats called the convention session one the most unruly in the party's It threatened to wounds still unhealed after the party's divisive convention years Despite the support of the most powerful Democratic leaders in a Resources Plan Backed by NEC Aiken Predicts Northeastern Compact Will Work to Detriment of New England WASHINGTON -A posed Northeastern States Water and Land Resources Compact was endorsed today as essential to the region's development and condemned as useful nor These conflicting views were presented to a Senate judiciary subcommittee cons i d e r i n g a House passed to give con- gressional consent to a compact involving the six Nc w England states and seven federal agencies concerned with water and related and Is Critical Peter secretary of the National Resources Committee of the New England a non- profit regional development said in his prepared statement that his group believes that full potential of water resource development can only be realized by federal nnd state nnd that can come about only through an Interstate agency which would bo created under the Sen. George D. said in his statement that he was lot against interstate compacts as such and believed ho knew n good one when he saw but regret to say that the com- pact which you are now asked to give your approval is without doubt the worst that has ever been is neither useful nor able and is only capable of ing much grief and con- to the New England states if it is Voting Membership The provisions of the proposed compact have been subject to such controversy since it was proposed in the last Congress by John W. D- Special Village Meet At 8 This Evening Voters of the Village of meet tonight nt the Armory nt 8 p.m. to net on n 5-nrticle warning for the special of the five articles ment of n Special Charter Study hiring of a special investigation expert and tion of a village ing false fire and Chester E. Merrow The passed by the House over the opposition of 13 bers of the Public Works Com- which considered vides for full federal tion through seven voting bers to be appointed to a com- pact commission by the dent from federal agencies re- sponsible for resource The proposed voting ship of federal agency on the commission has generated a portion of op- position to the All the federal con- cerned nnd the Bureau of the Budget endorse the of the compact but object to the principle of equality of Fear Commitment The agencies expressed fear that the federal government might be committed by the vote of its representative and that the commission so constituted might interfere with the jurisdiction nnd powers of the various federal See AIKEN PREDICTS Continued on Page 10 PRIME MINISTER For- mer Minister Hermes progressive was named last night by President ns prime minister nf Ills will he a caretaker government until a new congress returns In short of winning the nomination on the first A brawling tumult lowed during which his backers sought to start an immediate ond call of the roll while his op for the nomination trie in vain to recess the conventio until later His nomination was made unan on the second ballot whe it became clear he had picked more than enough strength to win Morgenthau's closest rival Queens Dist. Atty. Frank D. 0 received 375 43, son of Morgenthau secretary of the treasury under President Frank D. had the of Mayor Robert F. Wagner o York former Gov. Her Lehman and Rep. Charles A veteran Bronx GOP Jumps Onto Pile He reportedly had the backing also of the Kennedy administra but publicly Washington democrats kept hands off the bitter state whose state con opened in quiet harmony n Buffalo quickly zed on the Democrats Walter J. Republican eader of the state charged in his prepared keynote address that delegates to the 3emocratic convention had been into choosing by alleged party The will renominate U.S. Sen. Jacob K. Javits and other members of the Rockefeller Atomic Electric Plant Before President WASHINGTON ate sent to President Kennedy dny the tion for construction nt of the world's largest atomic electric The which long has vored the completed action by adopting on voice vote a compromise Atomic Energy Commission spending The Hanford item was the only controversial one In the The proposed plant would be capable of generating kilo- watts of The proposal has been a point of bitter controversy public and private power Rail Crossing Mishap Claims Elderly Man HOSICK Dan iel A. 70, of 9 First was killed instantly about 10 p.m. last night when he was struck in the head by a Boston and Maine freight The accident took place at the Hoosick Street crossing near the Barclay Home Products one of four crossings in the v i 11 a g e where freights and one of the crossings which village fathers are attempting to The operated by Engineer James Wooliver of West was reportedly going only 10 miles an hour at the Resting By Tracks Parker was believed to have en after resting near the crossing on his way and possibly was dazzled by the Dr. Philip Martinez of Hoosick Falls i pronounced him dead of back and head Rensselaer ty Coroner Anthony E. Matera dered an autopsy at Samaritan but no verdict was available this A suitcase and hat found near scene were believed to have to State Police Eagle Bridge and East joined Hoosick Falls Police in the The freight was traveling from to The engineer reportedly tried o but the train was too o Parker when he was Parker had at various times for Noble and Wood Nancy Shoe and the Boston and Maine He is survived by his a brother James of Hoosick two Daniel Jr. of Johnsonville and larold of Hoosick two Mrs. Dorothy Lackey of and Miss Ruth age for a last Feb. 22 just before he announced his for the seat his brother vacated on winning the presidency in 1960. 39 last is a graduate of the U.S. Naval He has stressed his record of holding public office for the last 10 On the Republican 69, cited his experience in state and national office as a con- trast to Lodge's first try for public Lodge is 35. The feud for the Senate seat goes back to 1916 when Lodge's Henry Cabot defeated John F. the President's for the The second round was the 1952 election when John Fitzgerald Kennedy evened the score turning the younger Henry Cabot later U.S. ambassador to the out of the Long Campaign The third family contest was in 1960 when President Kennedy's victory was a defeat for the Re- ticket on which the for- mer U.N. ambassador was the nominee for vice The voting is the climax to one of the state's longest primary The combatants be- jan stumping immediately after the June Kennedy's the dent and U. S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. stood clear of the primary but the dent has said he will support the Democratic Mother Aids Son Speaker McCormack at first an- he would campaign for lis nephew but kept out of it at the In the last week or Mrs. Rose Kennedy has campaigned or her both in personal and on The contests for the Senate have all but obscured contests for other state Endicott en- by the Democrats for has a state auto Clement A. Gov. John A. Republican is unopposed for re- nomination for a second There also are contests for for state attorney eral and for other statewide of- In the voters will hoose candidates for 40 Senate and 240 House seats in the state Parker of Hoosick a step- Mrs. Flora Hoffman and Francis both of and nine grand- Funeral Arrangements The funeral will be held at the Funeral Home in ick Falls at 1.30 p.m. services nt the Hoosick Falls Church at 2 p.m. Rev. Plumley will in Island Hill hours M the funeral ome will bo Wednesday evening nd Thursday afternoon nnd Cuba Reported Building Base For Soviet Ships GUANTANAMO NAVAL Cuba in contact with the Cuban underground say information they have received may indicate a move by the Castro government to a naval base on Cuba's north These sources said that for eral weeks the Cuban government lias been removing families from an area near a town called The Banes area is about 20 miles northwest of The town of Banes is at the northwest end of Bahia Be de Red Torpedo Boats Cuba doesn't have much of a but President Kennedy an- recently that the sians have been sending armed torpedo boats to Reports of the activity on the north coast came through sources which Navy officers at this base said have proved These sources also said they had received information that Russians and Czechs have in some numbers in ern Cuba nnd have been seen ing in camps near about 50 miles from Food Shortages Cubans who work on this base nit live in Fidel Castro's territory told of increasing food rising prices and a thriving black
