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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1966
Page
2
Vermont Liquor Administrator Roger Sheridan announced a record 19.2 million in liquor sales for the fiscal year ending June 30, up 3.5 million from 1965, with 4.5 million in tax revenue. The department runs 28 stores and supplies 23 private shops, but sales at the state warehouse ceased October 1 to end wholesale discounts of 2 percent to distant sellers.
Middlebury hosts the 50th session of its Spanish Summer School with Sen. Luis Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico joining Dr. Francisco Garcia Lorca, director of the Hispanic Institute, as guest of honor at the 8 p.m. commencement. The event ties to the Middlebury Language School summer program and honors former Puerto Rico governor Munoz Marin.
A four hour fire devastated a large dairy barn owned by Wilmer Lawrence at Tinmouth, destroying 7,000 bales of hay, milking equipment and a hay conveyor. No injuries were reported as about 30 volunteers from Wallingford and Clarendon battled the blaze. Lawrence was in the barn about five minutes before the fire erupted and had gone inside his house when alerted by barking dogs.
In Williston voters approved a 1 million dollar bond to add six classrooms at Central School and a 256000 dollar bond for a new cafeteria by margins of 94 to 29 and 91 to 32 respectively. Only 12 percent of the 1000 eligible voters cast ballots in the Thursday election. A separate report from Shrewsbury notes a fire gutted a Spring Lake camp owned by Richard Congdon drawing 15 volunteers plus 12 ranch staff to help extinguish the blaze.
Shirley Muldowney the sole woman licensed to drive a B-gas dragster in the United States was briefly suspended by the NHRA amid publicity that spurred a nationwide push for dragster licenses. She was reinstated hours later as NHRA reviewed other women licensed to race on NHRA tracks.
Troy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute selects Harold E. Strang formerly a Vice President at General Electric as general co chair for the 79 million 150th anniversary fund drive announced by President Richard G. Folsom. The goal for 1974 supports higher enrollment faculty expansion and plant modernization.
The Comedy Arts Theatre in Saratoga Springs will close after Sunday’s Molliere production The Imaginary Invalid. The theater had planned August shows including The Torch Bearers but canceled due to insufficient receipts.
The Boston Symphony and Berkshire Music Center Orchestras performed for the Center's scholarship fund. Senator Edward M. Kennedy narrated Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait while Copland conducted. Erich Leinsdorf and Copland shared conducting honors.
The City Council narrowly approved a rule allowing patrolmen to reside outside Pittsfield. Officers must have five years on the force and may live no farther than ten miles beyond city boundaries.
The Selectmen announced no political signs or posters may be displayed on public land or in residential districts. Bylaws reviewed show no prohibition on signs in windows or flat on buildings in business districts, but public property and residential areas are off limits.
A break at the Thriftee Bundle Launder on Ashland Street netted about 50 cents after the laundry bag dispenser was forced open. Police said plastic bags and change were taken, with proprietor William Trombley of Adams estimating the haul at 50 cents.
Boston readies a burlesque comeback at the Seville Follies Theatre East Boston August 29 but with no stripping. Blaze Starr Winnie Garrett Tinker Bell and Tempest Storm will perform songs poetry and clean jokes replacing old provocative acts.
A small tornado tore a 40 to 60 foot swath through Holyoke Massachusetts in the Wycliff Park section. It damaged roofs, toppled a tree onto a home, and smashed a clubhouse wall before dissipating near the Connecticut River. No injuries were reported amid residential and farm property damage and service outages.
Washington congressman Robert T. Stafford was named to a five member House Armed Services subcommittee on anti submarine warfare. The panel will begin deliberations within a week to assess how well the Navy can handle the Soviet submarine threat and will review organization, research, and decision making for anti submarine forces. Also named were Samuel Stratton Robert Leggett Floyd Hicks and Charles Chamberlain.
The Bennington Banner lists contact numbers for news, business, and advertising. It notes daily publication except Sundays and holidays, address at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont, and subscription rates for local Vermont and U.S. deliveries.
Boston A P S New England Telephone Co official Jay H Whatley says customers prefer high quality service over privacy concerns and opposes automatic cut off monitoring. He told the state Public Utilities Commission that observation of calls is needed to ensure service quality and noted more compliments than complaints since the practice was publicized.
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