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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1965
Page
2
The Vermont House and Senate adjourn after week 13 and will reconvene at 7:30 p.m. Monday. The House sent Gov. Hoff’s department head pay hike bill to a Wednesday 10 a.m. special order and approved a pension bill removing some Social Security offset limits, allowing full pensions plus Social Security benefits for retirees.
Three Bennington area English teachers Lorraine Kirsch Charles Comstock and Marianne Reeves will attend the 11th Yale conference on teaching English at Yale University April 9 and 10. Yale speakers Kinney Pickrel Hamlin Parry Thorp discuss creative writing symbolism tragedy Oedipus Walden.
In a municipal court before Judge George M. Fienberg Adelbert G. Capen Jr. 20 of Manchester Depot Horace A. Crandall 19 of Weston and Joseph M. Loyzelle 18 of South Dorset pleaded not guilty to related felony charges. Capen faces a March 29 break in and trespass with intent to steal at the Wrights service station. Crandall and Loyzelle are charged with breaking into the Wrights station and grand larceny. Loyzelle faces higher bail due to a prior record. Bail set at 1000 on Capen and Crandall, 1500 per count for Loyzelle.
A Manchester meeting discussed a 13 member study commission to draft local study group plans with proposals due by 1966. The Tri Partite House plan could create regional districts by 1967, needing a majority town vote, with 30 percent state aid rise if approved. Supt Cross criticizes Senate time limits as unrealistic.
State police said two cars were moderately damaged in a rear end collision near the Vermont 67 and U.S. 7 junction on Thursday. Both vehicles were northbound on U.S. 7 when Anthony H. Craig, 39, of Schenectady New York, attempted to turn onto Vermont 67. Jack R. Snide, 19, of 142 Ben Mont Ave, struck the Craig car from behind according to the report.
Bombs found in Birmingham March 21 targeted Mayor Boutwell Councilwoman Miglionico and another, injuring T L Crowell’s 13 year old son. Dynamite reportedly from local mines. county officials puzzled by stock levels. In Camden, 65 young Negroes staged a street pray in protesting voter registration as reporters departed.
The General Services Administration proposed major repairs or renovation of 32 federal buildings and 31 new ones. Prospectuses were sent to Congressional Public Works Committees for consideration and authorization, listing New England projects with estimated costs including Fall River and Fitchburg in Massachusetts, Keene and Littleton in New Hampshire, Barrington in Rhode Island, and Essex Junction in Vermont.
Mrs Edna Merrill of 102 Putnam Street enjoyed a sunny Putnam Memorial Hospital grounds snowshoe hike on the last day of March. Michael W Carpenter, son of Mrs Ruth Carpenter, is in six weeks of basic training at Lackland AFB Texas as announced by Air Force recruiters. A 1960 Plymouth four door sedan, six cylinder, one owner, priced at 545 dollars listed by Walter L Barber Inc. Iron Kettle weekend special offers a roast sirloin dinner with peach shortcake for 2.15 and an open steak sandwich with fries and coleslaw for 1.60.
Weston voters will cast ballots Monday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on joining Union District No. 20, the first elementary school union in the state, with Landgrove and Londonderry voting Wednesday. If approved, a $255,000 bond would fund a new 12-room community school for Grades 1-8 plus facilities, serving about 275 students in September 1966, with construction bids sought after an April 27 district meeting.
In Montpelier the Vermont House debated junk car waste with humor. Rep Kenalene Collins proposed counting abandoned junkers on the way home to assess a plan to shrink them to parcels, while Rep W Arthur Simpson sought a ten day leave to begin counting. Speaker Franklin Billings mused on counting his own car as junk.
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