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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1966
Page
2
GBA president Thomas Hall announced a major August campaign for Aug 8 9 10 led by William Hoisington with aides Donald Sprague and Robert Stout. The effort aims to grow Bennington area business and professional membership beyond 225 to support orderly growth and civic progress.
Funeral services for Hall Park McCullough 94 who died Friday morning will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. from the Hall Farm. Committal in Old Bennington cemetery mausoleum. Officiating will be the Rev Frederick B. Wolf and the Rev James L. Whitcomb.
In Austin Texas a sniper killed 15 people in the University of Texas tower. Charles Whitman spared a young couple moments before his death, smiling at them on the observation deck. The couple described his friendly greeting before the rampage.
An unusual mythic aside opens the note while local police report three traffic incidents in Bennington Village on Friday. Motorcyclist Joseph Russell escaped serious injury after colliding with Seymour Brooks in a 8 10 p m crash at Elm and Dewey. Russell suffered minor abrasions and a knee wound and was treated at Putnam Memorial Hospital.
State Auditor Jay H. Gordon urged major changes to state auditing at a Rotary Club meeting. He called for eliminating routine town audits, focusing on state funds, and allowing towns to choose professional audits with his office reporting on audits done. He pushed for a uniform town accounting system and central data processing, noting staffing limits and a coming information revolution. A separate Vienna dispatch reports an anonymous bribe confession letter sent to a public transport director, with a $36 check and admission of past fare cheating.
The House backed the civil rights bill’s open housing clause by 198 to 179 in a non-record vote, saving the partial ban on housing discrimination from defeat. The measure could still be defeated on roll-call votes next week as final action on housing and other sections remains uncertain.
A Shaftsbury community drive to assist 15 year old Ronald Stufflebeam in Albany Medical Center is under way. A self-appointed local committee, aided by Girl and Boy Scouts, leads the effort with Mrs. LeRoy Becker and others serving as prime movers. Contributions can be given to Mrs. Becker or at her Church Street home.
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