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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
The Bennington Graded School District seeks funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity to finance a summer teen age work program for needy high school and college students. The plan includes a Head Start preschool project and continued part time work during the school year to curb dropouts and boost families financially. Principal Ralf S. Kates notes nine of Benhi’s 14 dropouts might have stayed in school with such programs, though outcomes remain uncertain as the new anti poverty initiative develops through trial and revision.
The Labor Department ruled James B. Carey was not legally elected president of the IUE, confirming the anti Carey faction’s rise led by Paul Jennings. A new election seems unlikely to reverse the result, with AFL CIO likely to review ethical violations and potential fraud. Carey’s grip appears irreparably weakened as rank and file support wanes.
Editor’s Notes praise Bennington as a live work and meeting town. A May medical symposium for distinguished women of science will be at Putnam Memorial Hospital Institute for Medical Research led by Dr Helene Toolan. Paul Feeley’s painting appears in The Responsible Eye at the Museum of Modern Art.
President Johnson's Johns Hopkins speech aims to reassure world opinion that the United States seeks a peaceful settlement in Viet Nam while expanding aid programs. The address highlights possible negotiations with North Viet Nam and nonaligned nations, notes limits on talks with the Viet Cong, and signals a broader US involvement through development aid and rural electrification plans in Vietnam.
In Montpelier a vote split over a 210 member plan shows 136 lawmakers hold sway against any reapportionment, risking court battles and heavy urban shifts. Rural Republicans fear loss of influence as Burlington and cities gain representatives. calls grow for realignment to modernize representation before sessions end. A late snowstorm anecdote closes the page.
Vermont Fish and Game announces contracts for an earth dam and access roads on Mill Brook in Winhall to create Gale Meadow Trout Pond, a public fishing site. The piece covers Udall receiving the 1964 Winchester Outdoorsman of the Year Award, Weber’s new Split-Spoon lure, and pollution concerns on the Walloomsac River below the Vermont Tissue Mill with no trout stocking there pending action.
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