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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1965
Page
1
Vermont House secretly voted 210 members reflecting strong conservative resistance to reapportionment. Gov Hoff warned a veto could send the plan to federal judges. Debate showed conservatives push for minimal change while calls for a 90 to 150 member House emerged as the need for efficiency was stressed.
The Albany Novelty Division workers will vote Sunday on a company offer to accept a 10 percent wage cut. Represented by the United Papermakers and Paperworkers union, they are expected to reject the proposal, with a union ballot planned on possible strike action. A three year contract expired March 31 after wage increases and adjustments.
The Vermont Senate approved a bill by a 17-11 vote to abolish the death penalty for most first degree murder cases. The measure would forbid execution by electric chair except for police or prison guards killed in the line of duty. The House must decide whether to accept the Senate amendment, with potential conference committee action. The bill leaves treason and kidnapping as capital crimes under federal law. Gov. Hoff supports abolition and would sign an enacted bill.
Soviet jet fighters fired blank cannon over West Berlin to protest the Bundestag session in Congress Hall. Jets buzzed doors and windows as 110 miles of Berlin–Helmstedt highway were blocked by armored divisions. Allies protested through diplomatic channels demanding an immediate end.
Three of four Ku Klux Klansmen arrested for the death of Mrs. Viola Gregg Liuzzo were indicted by a grand jury on conspiracy to violate civil rights. Liuzzo, a Detroit civil rights worker and mother of five, was shot March 26 on a highway between Selma and Montgomery. The defendants Collie Leroy Wilkins, Eugene Thomas, and William Eaton were named, all from Alabama towns.
President Johnson will deliver a major policy address at 9 p.m. EST to Johns Hopkins University students and faculty in Baltimore. The speech, broadcast nationwide and abroad, aims to present long range peaceful U.S. policy for Southeast Asia and outline terms for possible peace talks. Diplomats hope clearer terms emerge while allies and neutrals urge specifics.
In Vermont, an informal poll of 15 of Bennington County’s 16 legislators after secret balloting shows a majority favor a House smaller than 210. While five support 210, others back 150, 180, or even 90, with several noting benefits or opposition to reapportionment.
Inside report from the New England regional summit in Washington notes Elizabeth Dwyer urging reapportioning Vermont deer numbers. An editorial on the House vote for 210 members discusses implications for the so called young Turks. Two apply for Bennington Village police job and North Bennington team selected for a nine state citizenship conference.
UPI reports 20 tons of rockets and napalm hit a North Viet Nam highway network while 20 U.S. Air Force jets bombed a Viet Cong concentration near Da Nang. In Saigon a battle 130 miles southwest of the city left 276 Viet Cong dead and six Americans killed. In Tokyo Hanoi claims to hold Gustav C. Hertz, a U.S. aid official, while a bombing suspect Nguyen Van Thai faces trial for the embassy attack.
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