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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1963
Page
2
Public hearings on zoning changes set by the Brattleboro planning commission and subject to selectmen approval as the town updates its decade old ordinance. Changes would realign industrial commercial and residential zones to accommodate growth and adaptation.
Rockefeller signs a $2 million ten year program to encourage regional water systems. The state will cover planning study costs for multi jurisdiction projects and start is delayed to April 1, 1964. Waterford boards set May 14 for a public hearing on a children's curfew.
Two Cheshire schoolgirls, Darlene Jandran and Terri Comstock, were released from Plunkett Memorial Hospital after a windstorm accident that left them seriously injured. They are not expected to return to school soon.
A proposed cross border highway would connect Petersburg New York to U S 2 in Massachusetts and skirt the Pownal race track in Vermont New Road would bypass Vermont 346 and a steel bridge, carry most cost as a defense road and ease traffic to the track from Troy Albany Pittsfield and points south. The route would pass Northwest Hill Hopkins Experimental Forest and join U S 2 near Williamstown with a traffic circle at U S 2 and would face obstacles along Northwest Hill and regulatory plans. Local reaction says it could relieve track traffic though Massachusetts approval depends on Fisher Co plans.
Gov. Philip Hoff bluntly links Rutland Railway problems to former Gov. F Ray Keyser and criticizes a $3.5 million plan to buy the line as impractical Hoff defends efforts to salvage the situation created by Keyser while denying anti Americanism reports in Canada are accurate Hoff and legislators spent a weekend in Ottawa for a cross border trip and Hoff calls press reports of anti American sentiment exaggerated In Montpelier three state senators were reappointed to the Interstate Cooperation Commission as Lt Gov Foote renames them Newell Oakes and Viens details follow.
Montpelier Administration Commissioner William F. Kearns Jr. says he opposes a state sales tax for four reasons. He argues the tax is fundamentally unfair, placing the burden on those least able to pay. He also says it is not economically suited to the state’s needs.
A Democratic legislator in Vermont proposed a bill to force state party conventions to endorse candidates for statewide and congressional offices. It would bar open primaries by requiring voters to join the party whose primary they vote in and set a 25 percent delegate threshold for endorsement.
E S James editor of the Baptist Standard praised Kennedy for his stand on church state separation after opposing a Catholic president in 1960. He said Kennedy disillusioned many and affirmed Kennedy’s independence from church influence.
In Kerak, southern Jordan, workers renovating a hospital uncovered about 1,000 11th century silver coins. Authorities cordon the site as archaeologists study the hoard.
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