Bennington Banner (Newspaper) - June 29, 1963, Bennington, Vermont Scattered Showers There's a fair of scattered thunders bowers this afternoon The high temperature will be in the Fair tonight and tomorrow with little change in temperature The Northern Crown is directly over- head at 9 tonight The prominent star is Alphecca Bennington Vermont Saturday Juno 29 anner Established 1841 Year No Price 7 Cents Mac Plans to Lead Tories at Election LONDON AP Prime ter Harold said Friday night he would not panic over the Profumo scandal and he Intends to lead the Conservative party hi Britain's next election A Tory critic of Macmillan quickly com- this would mean civil war within the party Recording his first television interview since a sex and security storm forced his war minister John Profumo out in disgrace Macmillan All being well and if I keep my health and strength I hope to lead the party at the next tion An hour before appearing on the nation's television screens he Slate Roundup Senate Kills School Aid MONTPELIER AP Hopes of final adjournment of the Vermont Legislature by row were dealt a setback late day when the Senate defeated a school aid favored by the House The vote was The measure would pump some of state money into local school systems during the 1964 fiscal year Opponents said It would only extend existing Inequities In distribution Several House members who were strong supporters of the said a battle royal would be put up In the lower chamber when the general appropriations ure the key to comes up for debate The omni- bus spending has been passed by the Senate Grants Killed AP The told a public meeting in industrial Wolverhampton that in handling the Profumo affair he did not in- tend to fall either into panic or complacency Ke said My own duty is clear I have first as head of ment a duty to the nation as a whole I liave also as leader of the Conservative party a duty to the party its life its strength and Us future Both these duties I intend to discharge Macmillan emphasized his re- to quit less than 24 hours before he is due to meet dent Kennedy for important talks By serving notice he is no duck premier he possibly strengthens his own negotiation position At the same time he lets the rebels in his own party know he is still a force to be reckoned with Political authorities in touch with Tory opinion had been suming the best will in the world Macmillan was ly to stay on as prime minister much beyond late summer Only Thursday the atmosphere of confusion and division sened when a party caucus ing wrangled bitterly over the leadership issue and maneuvers to keep him in office There were two qualifications in Macmillan's pledge Ke left himself the chance to retire for health reasons if the going gets too tough His reference to all being well could be taken to mean that his future rests on what support he can win One of the prime minister's most persistent critics within the Tory party reacted fast Lord Lambton who holds a courtesy title and thus sits in the House of Commons warned there wouldbe civil war in the Conservative party if Macmillan stayed on Macmillan drew support from an unexpected quarter Labor party leader Harold Wilson at- tacked the Sack Macmillan movement in sections of the con- Pledges U.S Effort To Halt Atom Arms DUBLIN AP President Kennedy pledged Friday that the United States would use all its power to forge a worldwide pact to freeze the spread of atomic weapons In an unprecedented ance before wildly applauding members of the Irish Dail recalled that It was Ireland which sponsored a resolution to stop the spread of nuclear arms and find a way to control them I pledge to you that the United NAMED TO SUCCEED Godber 49 above has been named to succeed the disgraced John fumo as Britain's war minister Godber has been minister of state for foreign affairs Profumo resigned June 5 after admitting he lied to the House of Commons when he denied an affair with Christine Heeler Photo Christine Says She Did It All for Dear Old Mother veS Senate de party there a bin to establish truce at least scholarship board The vote was mth President Kennedy to reject the measure which had won passage earlier over strong opposition The would have transferred to the board authority to award some 600 scholarships annually now handled by the 30 senators themselves and by Norwich Uni LONDON AP Christine Keeler told a court Friday she had sexual relations with former War Minister John Profumo for money slept only one time with Soviet naval attache Yevgeny Ivanov and Lord Astor once paid her rent The self-styled model her red hair falling over her face was the first tion witness at a magistrate's hearing to decide whether society osteopath Dr Stephen Ward 50 must stand trial on vice charges Ward introduced Christine to Profumo and Ivanov and also broke the scandal of the Vocational School Cost Estimated at Million sponsored by Sen Graham S Newell Bridge Killed A self-contained vocational school for 500 students versity and College would cost about million Nursing scholarships also would according to state education de- have been administered by the estimates the Mt An- board under terms of the thony Union school board ed last night The estimate was sought by the board in connection with the suggestion for such a school for the Bennington Graded School MONTPELIER AP The made by George Allard Vermont House killed a 315 County st a day providing a million bond ponent Of that district's from the union district the next two fiscal years The department's director of Opponents of the said education Harold F ing should be for im- Graeme said that development only not for of a school is not the tenance philosophy of this division be- The Senate gave unanimous cause lt does not the aca proval to a providing Gov flexibility that each pupil Hoff with an additional have for his planning council The estimate covers costs of Sen Frederick J Fayette D- construction and equipment only Chittenden introduced the on union board said and does behalf of the governor after Hoff not include costs of site or ar- had requested and was denied fees the money by the commitee of The figure directors said was conference roughly comparable to the million construction costs of the million proposal for a comprehensive high school This was planned for an initial capacity of 900 students with some basic portions capable of serving students Graeme said We edly subscribe to the philosophy of education which allows a pupil to have as strong an academic program as possible in addition to vocational education fore we believe that a strong vocational education program identified directly with a com- prehensive high school more adequately meets the needs of all the pupils The estimate given by Graeme provided for full shop and other vocational training facilities but only limited space for subjects The retiring board so reported that it has started investigations Into two other See UNION BOARD Continued on Page 2 Grandma Moses Exhibit Opens Today The Home Country of Grand- ma an exhibition at the Bennington Museum officially opens to the public today But a special showing for members of the museum was held last night as part of the annual meeting At the meeting Ferdinand throp Mayer was elected man of the board of trustees T Garry Buckley is the new chairman of the executive com- Newly elected members of the board of trustees bur Rice Mrs John Bryce Sen Eugene Clark Herbert A Leonard John Hamlin Mrs Charles Dollard and lace Miss Caroline Craig ton was re-elected secretary and Mrs Van Vechten Graves was re-elected to the er's post which she has held for the past 25 years Reflected to the Board of Trustees are ley Miss Darlington Arthur J Dewey Jr Theodore N dard Franklin P Jones James Colgate Jerome Mrs Robert J Parmelee John Sloane and Townsend K Wellington A highlight of the evening's social hour from to was a visit by Forrest Moses See GRANDMA MOSES Continued on Page 2 States will do all in its power to achieve such an agreement and fulfill your he added Kennedy's appearance before the Dall climaxed another day of heartwarming reception of the a day in which Irish enthusiasm momentarily gered his safety At Cork City Hall an excited Irish onlooker grasped Kennedy's hand as he stood in his car The man refused to let go as the car started to move and Kennedy stumbled and fell below the edge of the car A secret Service man tumbled on top of the President who picked himself up quickly and again flashed his smile at his welcomers There was no harm done except to the nerves of Kennedy's Secret Service guards The roared its proval of the great-grandson of Patrick Kennedy who emigrated from Ireland about 120 years ago Outside tens of thousands of Irishmen thronged Dublin's Khrushchev Lays an Egg In Visit to East Berlin OPENING Carter Barret nf the Museum and Mrs Doris Green ate director discuss the Grandma Moses exhibit during one of he less hectic moments at last night's members party and exhibition way relationship that ruined career and almost toppled Prime Minister Harold lan's Conservative government She gave Ward about half the money she got from men tine testified but money and gifts from Profumo went to her mother Lord Astor with no ulterior she said once paid the rent on the apartment she shared with Marilyn Mandy Davies 18 who took the stand While I was living at the said Mandy a dimpled blonde I had intercourse with Lord tor The girls both beautiful ed a sensational story of sex In London's governmental and high society circles that seemed certain to rock the country as strongly as the original disclosures As Prosecutor Mervyn ith Jones outlined the background Ward burst It's quite un- true It's quite His lawyer said the doctor would plead innocent to eight charges which include procuring running a brothel arranging abortions and living off the ings of prostitutes Ward introduced Miss Keelor to Profumo at Lord Astor's tate Cliveden one of the liest homes In England prewar headquarters of the Cliveden Set presided over by Astor's mother Lady cy Astor a cottage there said she was clad only in a towel at the meeting with Profumo having just ed out of the pool after a midnight swim in the nude Miss Keeler brought a burst of Ho ho from spectators in jampacked Court when she insisted her relations with Ward were those of brother and sister Dressed in a demure gray suit and speaking softly she went Into detail about her life with Ward She said she did pretty much what he wanted because I ad- mired him Ward said I would not be a prostitute or a call girl and I know this myself He used to say it was the frame of mind I was See CHRISTINE Continued on Page 2 On the Inside The rooms and meals tax goes up Monday Page 2 Nancy Hoisington marries Dr Humphreys and other social events Page 3 Columnist Sumner Kean takes a look at business in the Pownal Valley Page 4 Progress at the Vermont Tissue Paper A page of Page 5 The Terrace Restaurant in Shaftsbury offers a lar view Page 7 Pope Paul VI is trying to lev late the condition of behind the Iron Curtain Page 8 BERLIN AP Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev flew to East Berlin for a demonstrative visit Friday on the heels of President Kennedy's triumphant reception in West Berlin If it was his idea to outdo the President he failed The official East German news agency ADN said half a million East turned out ern correspondents estimated the crowd at less than West Berlin police estimated cheered Kennedy Walter Ulbricht East German Communist party chief was at the airport to greet Khrushchev who arrived with his wife Khrushchev did not bring with him Tereshkova the Soviet space woman as some speculated he would do in an fort to stir up public excitement about his visit Ulbricht said in his welcoming speech that Kennedy came to West Berlin Wednesday to whip up enmity between the people of West Germany and East Germany in the interests of the American chev said he agreed Khrushchev himself was off form He was not his usual wise cracking bouncy self At times he looted almost bored with the In a speech to a gathered at the East lin City Hall he spoke of ing but the virtues and of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Communist party He made no threats toward the West nor did he praise Ulbricht It is Ulbricht's birthday day which ostensibly drew Slimmer A SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT Bennington Summer is enclosed with today's Banner A 1963 vacation guide to western Vermont the supplement includes a map for tourists concert ings information or where to stay and eat and many other interesting features In a 48 page handy tabloid format Khrushchev to East Berlin Actually Khrushchev will have a summit meeting of Soviet bloc nations and there should be some fireworks before lie heads back home next week Foreigners have often come to Berlin in the recent to East and West Khrushchev said at City Hall But what have these visitors in their Some come to the West and say they want to im- prove and normalize relations but their actions prove otherwise As far as we are concerned we have come to Berlin to brate the 70th birthday of our friend Walter Ulbricht His reference to visitors in West Berlin obviously was ted at Kennedy but he never him by name While Kennedy drew a crowd of when he spoke at the West Berlin City Hall not more than East heard Khrushchev Khrushchev is meeting four top leaders Ulbricht Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland Antonin Novotny of kia and Janos Kadar of Hungary U Thant Is Checking If Prostitutes Are Operating in the United Nations NEW YORK AP United Nations Secretary-General U Thant said Friday he is looking into reports that prostitutes op- in the international with diplomats as their prey He told a news conference he was apprised of the reports ried in some newspapers and I immediately asked the head of the responsible department to submit a report He declined comment pending receipt of the department report The newspaper reports first appeared in the New York last weekend The newspaper said an international ring of call girls operated in the United Nations of the girls hiding behind the immunity of foreign diplomatic service It said the Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI were looking into the possibility of such a ring Neither agency would comment on the report Last Tuesday the American and the New York Daily News said agents of both federal agencies were attempting to determine if a blonde Czech girl who fled from the United States in 1961 had sought secrets for the The newspapers said Maria Novotny a niece President Antonin Novotny had operated as a high-priced call girl in the United Nations and in other diplomatic circles She was arrested In Manhattan with British television producer Harry Alan Towers 42 in 1961 on vice charges Towers accused of being her procurer skipped bail and now Is reported living in Prague Czechoslovakia The government said he brought Miss Novotny into the United States from Britain for purposes of prostitution Miss left the country hurriedly while on probation after conviction of prostitution In London last Wednesday Miss Novotny said reports security agents checking Into a vice ring that catered to diplomats were being used as a smoke screen In another development Friday a woman investment counsellor convicted of prostitution day was paroled until more in- formation can be obtained on her background in the investment field and as a pondent It also was revealed in inal Court that the FBI tion and Naturalization Service and the Internal Revenue Service were looking into the background of the Davis Mrs Davis 33 was arrested last week at a midtown hotel and charged with offering to commit a lewd and Indecent act and prostitution She was described as an ment counsellor and a cor- respondent for a monthly Filipino-American Newspaper streets to cheer Cousin Jack The President's speech to Parliament climaxed his second full day of ing in the Irish countryside since he flew here Wednesday night During the morning he went by helicopter to Cork and received the freedom of the city from which so many Irishmen had sailed to the United States over the past century or more Back hi Dublin the welcome for Kennedy was just as astic as ever but the crowds were reasonably disciplined The President visited ment around what the Irish call tay shortly after 4 p.m He stopped earlier at the Arbour Hill Cemetery attached to the Church of the Sacred Heart where he lay a wreath at the graves of 14 Irishmen who were executed for their part in the 1916 rising against the British The fifteenth man of that party was Eamon de Valera host as president of Ireland Korth Calls Best Deal WASHINGTON AP tary of the Navy Fred Korth in- to Senate Investigators Friday that the design he proved for the TFX warplane promised the best aircraft In available and at the least program cost I stand firm summed up position when he testified before the Permanent tions subcommittee This group is attempting to determine whether sent the huge expected to cost 1 to General mics Corp of Fort Worth Tex rather than to the rival bidder Boeing Co of Seattle Wash Navy and Air Force off leers of high and low rank have told the senators that the Boeing promised a superior performance TFX for both vices at a cost substantially lower than General Dynamics appearance marked the beginning of the closing phase of in the prolonged inquiry He will be followed to the stand by Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M Zuckert while Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara will be the final ness The testimony all taken In cret has been released form after each of the dozens of hearings Based on these transcripts the attacks have been directed almost ex- toward the judgment of McNamera who made the final decision and his civilian ad- visers There has been no charge to the subcommittee that anyone ed Improper influence at ara or his top aides or that one succumbed to such pressure But Korth in his ment took cognizance of this un- developed phase of the inquiry I am aware that public con- in our public processes demands not only impartiality but also the appearance of With these circumstances in mind I reached my conclusion independently on the basis of all the Information available to me Scott Warns Republicans To Cut Out the Feuding A ROSE unusual high rosebush hugs the home of Miss Louise Vail of Vail Road She estimates itto be over old It Is cultivated variety with white double blossoms Us burst of blooms in the last few days have been quickly wilted by the high temperatures SAN FRANCISCO AP Sen Hugh Scott told quarreling young Republicans Friday night the way for the party to lose the 1964 presidential election is to beat each other to bits now In a row His forum was the Young Re- publicans biennial convention where hot debate has continued for four days The convention voted down a policy at the American Nazi party the John Birch Society and a variety of pro-Fascist words were those of Jean McKee of New York who of the posal She Is chairman of the New York delegation which Is ered liberal because It leans ward New York Gov Nelson A Rockefeller as a presidential nominee In a speech prepared for a tional convention of Young licans which has demonstrated marked approval for the views of Sen Barry Goldwater of Arizona Scott said misplaced zeal and unduly violent clashes of opinion could cripple the party and lose the next election Scott a Pennsylvanian and a former national chairman who Is regarded as a moderate called on his listeners to support the party's choice of presidential and vice- presidential candidates by 1964 whoever they may be I am for a Republican victory next he said You are for a Republican victory next year But to beat each other to bits now is a sure way to let our opposition beat us once more at the polls Let us leave lunacy to those who would ride our money to the moon Let us never forget who our real opponents are
