Bennington Evening Banner (Newspaper) - August 21, 1961, Bennington, Vermont Weather Picture Rain changing to occasional showers little change in Tuesday partly cloudy and scattered afternoon Yesterday's local high 82; 63; today at 7 63. Precipitation totaled Sunset at sunrise tomorrow at a.m. The first star to appear after sunset is the iant high times as large as our sun. 1 Bennington 58th Number Price Seven Cents Banner August 21, 1961 Bizerte Crisis Faces General Assembly Streets Jammed For Big Parade CARBIDE prize for float in the parade went to this entry by Union Carbide Consumer Products Co. The prize 75-foot-long float was built by John Nilus and AI First section depicts the MUSICAL TOAST TO THE QUEEN Is played by the Vagabonds in front of the reviewing Photo Bicentennial Deficit Of Estimated The Bennington Bicentennial Corp. will show a loss of some on the week's events sored by the ident Sal Santarcangelo mated this Santarcangelo said the drum and bugle corps competition took in instead of the originally hoped The estimated deficit does not include the outstanding stock worth about when Directors of the will meet Tuesday to go over nal bills and receipts to pre- pare a financial summary of the celebration organizational town meeting of tiie second shows the Ainer leans defeating the British at the Battle of Bennington anil the third shows modern Two question posters indicating future Parallel Alexander Exhibition with every error or blemish de- of a point from score of 100 a perfect score virtually the judges scored the its on o p 1 a der judges sayed drumming anc with 10 points a ore in marching on the Id was worth 30 drum ing which there are 26 rudi was worth a possible 20 and was her 20 Stern Scoring Standards Every note played by the musi ans and every maneuver uding individual wa to When the scores were added up e had registered per the Vagabonds o 66.15; tire Buccaneers The Jolly Whalers and S fi. id per cent. While the seven mem rs of the United Judges Asso ation and all from New Jersey ere paying to th of the crowd wa the program from ai esthetic point of Each uni applauses as i included its turn on the Awards Presented Following tire Pau executive director fh reater Bennington Association traduced Molly remov of Gen. John leader o forces durin he Battle of to th Miss Slaik was given a book en tied is Where Yo ind signed by Gov. F. Ra By TAYLOR HOLBROOK First prize money of hung in the balance as five drum and bugle corps look to Alumni Field Saturday witli each given from 12 to 14 minutes to present bid for top When the colorful maneuvering and musical tations were the from the Berkshire and Rensselaer County Councils of the can Legion were judged The prize brought total ings for the day lo as they were also judged the best ing unit the morning Watch Exhibition prize of went to the vested and led Torrington Third place money went to the who were awarded and the Jolly Whalers of New and the Binghamton bonds each received fourth and fifth place re- An estimated crowd of looked on as judges among the performing checking every detail of their per Judging was based on a nationally recognized basis GBA TIME CAPSULE AT MONUMENT As U. S. Robert T. Stafford president of the Greater Bennington dumps a of dirt on time capsule buried at Monument containing ials from various governmental the ton and the Bicentennial Corp. Chairman of the was James W. officiating we're Peace Corps Volunteers Train VL Twenty nine men and women today be gan eight training fo Peace Corps service in East Pak The in age from 20 to 62, has experience in farir medicine engineering youth univer sity library tion and They wi go to East Pakistan in Dean of the group is Mis Jeanne 62-yearold from Nev. The volunteers were welcome yesterday lo the headquarters the Experiment in where they Among the group are these F. George 28, M. Lin GBA executive Joseph New indus American and Molly guest trial arts teacher and nn 3 und 8. Civil Rights Legislation Faces Senate WASHINGTON The Sen le plows into a scrap over smol iring civil rights legislation to while the House lakes up a ill providing a death penalty fo Promising sparks in the Senate ras a mov suspend the rules and nto an appropriation a two ear extension of the Civil Right now due to 9. Death for Hijackers Advocates of other civil right measures planned to try to gi n some licks of their own de pile the damper the Kennedy a has put on ion in field this The hijacking up for actio n the along wilh a of routine is simila o legislation recently passed he Senate in an effort lo halt a outbreak of piracy in the skie It provides for a maximum pc ilty of and not less tha 20 for acking In makes federal offenses a robbery and ot er crimps committed aboa Tic to In Funds Rill the Democrat Mike Mansfield of Mo ana and Republican E M. Dirksen of Illinois Iry lo attach a extending t Civil Rights Commission to a million appropriation f the Stale and Justice Depa ments and Ilie federal To carry out this will be necessary to obtain a thirds majority to suspend a fie ate rule banning extraneous le in an appropriation Continued on Page 3 SOP n TOUTS Gov. Ralph E. Foole Rep Robert T. Stafford an of Bennington Presiden C as a f her visit Continued on Page 2 See DRUM CORPS By JON FLEMING Crowds of and visitors lined Main Street from Town Hill fo Safford Street to watch the Bicentennial Parade Saturday Village police said the crowd one of the largest in recent to see a parade Some observers estimated tiie crowds at over The line of march of the 13-divi- Hm parade started from the Battle Monument in 0 I d shortly after 10 a.m. iw Bennington Catholic High marching bringing p the rear of the d the reviewing stand at be parade continued on d o w n Tain Street to Safford Street and at Memorial Float Winners A huge 15-foot its three depicting the history of won a first prize for to Union Carbide Consumer lucis Co. Bennington Electronics won a nd prize for a float showing in schools in Papers division ol Dow Chemical won third for i luge paper statue of amous symbol of the avern where the Green Mountain Boys Vim Tiie of Troy and in the parade Irum and bugle corps winning a total of boasted a corps of 65, led by a coloi guard breasted by eagles of t h jerman The Carbide hree floats drawn by a van showed organization of the town of Bennington in 1761; llw if Bennington between the and and Benning ion Progress in 1961. Free lollipops given away by ttx Cooties of VFW Post 1332 of Ben were one of th larade for as well as a anta Clans atop the Gran Mountaineers A sheep Irol ting alongside the mammoth farr division of the parad attracted youngsters on W e s Main Street who rushed out to pe the docile John skill on th of the 1890's won a bi round of lie was traile by a modern child's H. T. Cushman celebrate Sage City's later Nort Dice moon shine and general merrimen seemed lo be the favorite sporl in Sage City's the float and Life in a covered wagon was the Welcome Wagon when a youngster g the wagon got out during a op and was nearly left behind hen the parade A strong woman whisked the youngster up in her rms and chased afler the ering f The Green Mountain Boys er sponsors of attle of Bennington ang their way down Main Street a followed by a and jazz the The Bicentennial Corporation re may have dropped n Saturday's but a pop orn and lemonade stand run by at Main treet and netted al ast Tiie Fort Devens ives made a spectacular entry lo 3enninglon when they roared in Continued on Page 2 See HUGE PARADE Johnson Returns From Talks on Berlin Measures WASHINGTON Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson arrived back in the nation's cap- ital today to report to President Kennedy on his 36-hour ful mission to West Johnson's plane landed at An- drews Air Force Base at a.m. lojan BERLIN Presiden B. Johnson flew horn West Berlin today to te Kennedy his missio lad been successful and aim that new Soviet challi may be in the The vice president's 36-hou visit lifted the will of the 2.5 mi lion West Berliners to resist Com munist pressures and quiete they might be forsaken wit Ihe Red closing of the city's Eas West Bra mil Praises Visit West Berlin Mayor Willy Branc who had demanded by the allies rather tha said Johnson visit was greatest v could get at this Before the vice president lei a fresh battle group of 1.5C American troops rolled in strengthen his repeated that the United States will slai tl never be into the surre der of its firm with West Berlin and city Resolution Asks Ff To Pull Out UNITED Thirty-two countries proposed that the U.N. General embly call on France to tc for the withdrawal of all roops from including her ig base at They submitted a resolution to wt effect shortly before the 99- ation assembly met in a special on grave situation in set up after the Security deadlocked on the Not Represented France's delegation was not resent at the The sponsors of the resolution 31 countries from Africa nd Asia plus The resolution calls on o withdraw her troops occupying It also calls on France nd Tunisia to open immediately on the of U French forces from Tunisian em The session posed a new test of lie Kennedy administration's an- Informed sources said there vas a possibility the United States would vote for the iont hut many diplomats be- it would One Afri ran delegate said unless the ed Slates supported it could expect little support from countries if if bring Berlin crisis be- the United May Boycott Session There was some belief the ed States abstained on the ty Council vote because .it then it could get the French to negotiate with the Chief U.S. delegate Ad- ai E. Stevenson raw abandoned this and backers feel that the ed States which Stevenson scribed as the nial join in censure of France even though France is one of the United most important European The French has re- fused to discus a schedule withdrawal froio the big naval and air claiming that Tunisia is trying to hold a gun to its The French indicated they would boycott the General Assembly The resolution prepared for in the General bly says the presence of French forces in Tunisia against Tunisia's will violates the sovereignty of the former French protectorate and endangers international It also calls on the to obey the Security Council's July 22 resolution by pulling their forces back into the naval DRUM AND out during Ihe formal competition at Alumni Field Saturday who look first place in drum bugle corps and the grown represented the and N. County Councils of the American
