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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1963
Page
2
Gov Hoff prioritizes fixing St Albans Bay algae and pollution. An investigation of bay-area construction in the past decade will be conducted. Water Resources Board approval required for new or increased contamination sources. Public hearings on bay classification set for October and next spring.
About 200 of 300 miles of county roads will be striped with the new yellow centerlines in a $30,000 safety program approved by the Board of Supervisors. Safety Lines Marking Co. of Cambridge Massachusetts won the contract at $129 per mile and started work in towns.
Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College opens as a seven million dollar arts complex offering concerts, art shows, films, and plays. The program named The Congregation of the Arts invites locals from Vermont and New Hampshire to partake in a summer and year round cultural lineup featuring Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Wycherley The Country Wife and Shaw Man and Superman.
Dartmouth students may not all enter theater careers but the Hopkins Center promises a richer life with exposure to art exhibits, workshops, and theaters. Bentley notes the building’s open corridors and mail room plus a daily coffee shop ensure casual campus visits and potential intellectual engagement.
The Public Safety Department announced Vermont ranks second nationwide in Civil Defense shelter marking and stocking. Spotlight magazine credits William H. Baumann, commissioner of public safety, as state Civil Defense director. A major shelter project stocks for 17 000 people, including Danby and West Rutland quarries, planned for this summer.
Chief William Lombard and six citizens honored for police service were driven to the awards banquet locked in the back of a patrol wagon due to the lack of other transportation.
U S District Judge Ernest W Gibson set aside a verdict against Mt Mansfield Co ski area in a Lemperueur negligence suit over a T Bar lift accident. The court found no contributory negligence by Ellen Lemperueur and ordered a new trial, citing passion or prejudice in the original verdict.
Rutland Railway president William S. Ginsburg says the line can be brought back to use quickly after inspection and brush removal. Gov. Hoff and Ginsburg reached a Montpelier agreement on when the state may begin buying sections of the track. Ginsburg adds trains would remove rust after a couple of passes.
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