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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1968
Page
5
Republican gubernatorial candidate James L. Oakes urged abolishing the personal property inventory tax saying it is unfair discriminatory and unrelated to sales income or ability to pay. Tax Commissioner Gerald Witherspoon advised exemptions for unsold artist works as household property.
State Farm will raise car insurance rates in Vermont starting next week, with a 4.7 percent across the board increase effective now. In Burlington, bumps range from a 4.50 decrease to 4.70 increase, Rutland sees 80 cents to 10.90 changes, and the rest of the state varies from a 4.80 decrease to a 3.10 rise. A statewide Nixon Agnew group forms in Vermont, led by Robert W. Maguire Jr. of Springfield, to support the Republican ticket with headquarters in Washington. Maguire quits his master’s plan to work full time on the campaign.
In Washington County, 19 year old Lawrence Wang was charged with mutilating and defiling the American flag by wearing it as a patch on his pants in Plainfield. He pleaded innocent and posted 100-dollar bail after a Northfield District Court appearance. Separately in Vermont, total school enrollment is expected to reach nearly 115000 this fall, a gain of about 3500 from 1967, with public schools around 99000, elementary about 65600, and parochial enrollment near 6700.
State police and village officers swooped Green Island Tuesday arresting George A. Ryesdorph age 57 at his home for booking horse bets and gambling records Rocco DeMento 59 at his grocery for four revolvers without a permit and Joseph M Daniels 57 at Daniels Restaurant for betting and gambling records All six investigators two patrolmen and leaders took part in the noon raid in Green Island
Berkshire dispute over local water fluoridation surfaces at selectmen meeting. Petition threshold for a referendum, historic 1952 1953 adoption, and a protest by Mrs. Ann Southwick frame the local debate. Separately in Lenox Rockefeller Foundation grants 125000 over three years to aid Boston Symphony Orchestra Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood with 50000 required this year for Friends of Music.
Springfield police recovered about $20,000 linked to a July 29 theft of $62,000 from the Pittsfield National Bank after a 1965 Ford found on Interstate 91 was opened with a search warrant. The FBI joined the investigation as authorities traced the vehicle to Richard Palmer of West Stockbridge.
In Montpelier the President's Advisory Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty urged a federal study of Vermont's new anti billboard law. The plan bans off premise roadside ads after July 1969 and will replace private signs with state erected directional signs and plazas. The study could be conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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