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Newspaper

Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

Apr 03, 1962

Page

7

Stevens Starts Christ Story Film Effort

Renowned director George Stevens plans a homegrown Christ tale backed by United Artists. He moves production to Desilu Culver City with at least 26 weeks of shooting and locations in Utah Arizona and a large backlot set. Actor Max Von Sydow is attached to play Christ.

United Artists Stevens and Company Fox Westwood Lot Desilu Patke Culver City Stevens Utah Bear Lake Sea of Galilee Arizona United States Max von Sydow Christ

Family Doctors Vote to Move In Smoking Issue

Vermont family doctors at Rutland Hospital session recognize link between cigarette smoking and chronic lung disease. Dr William Schillhammer of Dartmouth Medical School notes 99 percent of emphysema patients are or were heavy smokers and urges patients to quit smoking as key treatment. Executive Committee votes to acknowledge the connection.

Rutland Thurdsay Vermont American Academy of General Practice Rutland Hospital William Schillhammer Dartmouth Medical School Hanover N. H Schillhammer Family Doctor Organization Bennington Catholic High School Vermont Association of Student Councils Mary Ancilla BCHS Carl Miller Brattleboro Union High School William Hayes Susan Deneault

Button Bay Roundup Gains National Publicity in 1962 Scout Event

Vermont highlights a national publication feature on the 1962 Girl Scout Roundup at Button Bay. Parents Magazine covers planning and work for the event, noted as the largest encampment of girls in the western world dating to July 1831.

Button Bay Vermont Development Department Parents Magazine

Cockroach Found In Complex Baltimore Research Machine

In a famous city hospital, researchers puzzled by a complex scientific device discovered a cockroach inside the apparatus, prompting a pause in the experiment and a review of containment procedures.

Baltimore

Court Orders NAACP Cases Re-argued

The Supreme Court ordered fresh arguments on NAACP suits against Virginia and Florida along with other cases including trade regulation and divorce tax deductions. The vote was 6 to 2 and no hearing dates were set.

Washington Supreme Court National Association For the Advancement of Colored People Virginia Florida Kennedy NAACP

Miss America Pageant Parade May Become Daytime TV Spectacle

Atlantic City plans to relocate the annual Miss America Pageant parade from night to daytime to fit a color television spectacular in the next year or two. Pageant president Albert A. Marks Jr. announced the consideration of this change.

Atlantic City N. J Albert A. Marks Jr Marks

Filipino to Speak At St Michael's Commencement

Carlos P. Romulo former Philippine Ambassador to the United States and UN representative will deliver St. Michael's College 58th commencement address on June 4 at Burington's Memorial Auditorium He will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Romulo Asia's noted English spokesman Pulitzer winner 1941 for war correspondence

Winooski Carlos P. Romulo United States United Nations St. Michael’s College University of the Philippines St. Michael’s Gerald E. Dupont S.S.E Romulo Burington’s Memorial Auditorium St. Michael's Philippines Quezon

Secret to long life found by centenarian Ida Offord

Mrs Ida H Offord, a New York native now in St Petersburg for 42 years, says happy thoughts keep her living to 100. She recounts counting blessings and thinking of the opposite when faced with misfortune, just after her centennial birthday celebration.

ST. PE

Police Taught to Use Drunkometer in Tests

Boston AP reports plans to train state and local police to administer drunkometer breathalyser tests to motorists. George H. Perry of the Massachusetts Safety Council says drink drivers will be tested to reduce accidents. the state legalized the tests last year, with funds lacking, the safety council funded Sgt. James F. Cummings to study at Northwestern University.

George H. Perry Massachusetts Safety Council Massachu The Safety Council James F. Cummings Northwestern University

Fallout from Red Tests Expected to Begin Soon

Officials from the Public Health Service and Weather Bureau forecast fallout from last fall’s Soviet nuclear tests will start to descend from the stratosphere within weeks. Strontium 90 in milk would signal initial levels, with precise analysis taking weeks. peak debate suggests late April to early May, with debris potentially arriving over several springs.

Public Health Service Weather Bureau The Health Service Division of Radiological Health

Mailbox Stunt Sparks Firefighter Rescue Tale

Firemen carrying a man on a stretcher during an ambulance run in New York's Stretcher Clean area descended two tight stairways. At the bottom the patient set the stretcher aside, retrieved mail from his box, then returned to the stretcher and quipped he might read it in the hospital.

Clean N. Y

U S and Poland Launch Joint Medical Research Program

The United States commits 2 million dollars to a joint Polish American medical research effort, first such collaboration with an Iron Curtain state. Over five years, up to ten laboratory projects, eight with the NIH and two service projects, funded via counterpart funds from surplus farm product sales. Most work will occur in Poland with Polish scientists.

Washington United States Public Health Service U.N. Natural Institutes of Health Poland

Prospective Juror Excused Over Concrete Pouring

In Clearwater Florida a prospective juror was excused by Circuit Judge Charles M Phillips Jr after claiming a concrete pouring for the courthouse expansion required his presence. The judge told him to go and not stop along the way.

Clearwater, Fla Charles M. Phillips Jr

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