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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1967
Page
5
Public Service Board approves Green Mountain Power debentures due August 1, 1992 at about 6 58 percent interest to retire existing short term notes. In Montpelier, Rep. Peter Giuliani announces 1968 bill to aid towns with school construction bonds by allowing four one year extensions and 5 percent loan retirements per extension.
Dr Jonathan Leopold Vermont Commissioner of Mental Health reports Waterbury State Hospital spent 3.5 million dollars in fiscal 1967, up about 400000 from 1966. The facility admitted 726 patients and discharged 653, with in patient census from 1175 to just over 1000. Staff totaled 563 full time and five part time, including 31 percent psychiatric aides.
Vermont’s non-farm wage and salary employment reached a record 141,000 in mid July, topping mid June estimates by 6,300. Non-manufacturing jobs rose past 99,000 and manufacturing stood at 44,700, with factory workers averaging $101.16 weekly for a 41.8 hour week.
Charles W. Wiley, who runs the Vermont Pavilion at Expo 67, will become the first full time head of two state agencies. After Montreal duties wrap in late October, he will oversee the Vermont Industrial Park Authority and the Vermont Industrial Building Authority. Wiley, from Rutland, joined in spring 1966 to manage the $600,900 pavilion.
Albany reports the Constitutional Convention backed a measure to soften religious bias in adoption decisions. Bronx delegate John Carro described attempting to place a 12 year old Lutheran boy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in an institution in 1952, a move blocked by religious objections. He said the child was truancy court bound and his mother resisted removal, arguing the boy needed a sympathetic father figure rather than detention.
Rev Harold S Bosley of Christ Church New York City urged at a Rensselaerville seminar that current Vietnam policies are an exercise in futility and should be turned over to the United Nations Security Council. He warned of a collision course with Communist China and urged viewing the war from the Vietnamese nationalist perspective.
The Berkshire Probate Court filed this week reveals Betsey M. Milham’s will naming Williams College as major beneficiary. The inventory lists personal property at 565,894 dollars and real estate at The Knolls, valued at 35,000 dollars. The bequest creates the Willis I. Milham Scholarship Fund in memory of the late husband, Williams astronomy professor.
North Adams council referred to the Finance Committee a 9,682.40 dollar request by President Stanley J. Owzarski for Windsor Lake development. Funds would seed loam and grade the beach as phase two of a three step waterfront plan. The council also approved rezoning Trudeau Farm off the Mohawk Trail to permit a 2 million dollar moderate income housing project.
Paris reports President De Gaulle launches a program to aid Quebec French speakers aiming to strengthen cultural and economic ties. He pledges cooperation in culture and tech, while Ottawa and Quebec officials react with mixed signals amid earlier tensions with Pearson.
Britain's embattled man in Peking, Charge Donald C. Hopson, protested a Red Guard assault on his embassy by mailing a letter to Mao Tse-tung's regime. The commando turned diplo-
MONTPELIER Vermont officials report a low turnover rate for school superintendents this year. Dr Rupert Spencer director of special services for the state Education Department notes two of the three turnover rate for principals is higher with sixteen new principals starting this fall.
Two drifters from rural Washington are charged in a 1,000 mile murder rampage that left three dead and one critically wounded. Acting on tips, officers recovered two bullet riddled bodies near Seattle and Portland.
The Legislative Council Mental Health Committee announced sweeping reforms to the states mental health statutes. Proposals include shifting payability decisions from probate courts to an administrative agency, removing court hearings for involuntary commitments, potential five day releases upon request, automatic reviews within 30 days, wording changes from mentally ill, and allowing emergency home discharge for addicts. The plan also aims to protect civil rights and broaden care outside state prison.
Four Bronx residents tied to rightwing groups were jailed on 25 thousand bail on conspiracy to murder charges. Psyras Colitto Mikulik and Hoy are linked to John Birch Society and Minutemen. Weapons seized included an antitank gun, rifles, pistols, dynamite, grenades, blasting caps, and large ammunition stocks. The case stems from a Bronx community center bombing two days after Aptheker spoke there.
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