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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1963
Page
2
A Sunday apartment fire in Newport rendered seven residents homeless, including four widows, with most belongings lost. Red Cross to arrange relocations. no injuries reported. The blaze reportedly started in a clothes dryer.
In New York City teachers threaten to strike while civil rights groups threaten to boycott. Reports describe a double crisis for the nation’s largest cities and potential disruptions to schooling.
In Williamstown two men, Robert J. Sumner and David F. Perras, are jailed on grand jury charges after attempting to crack a Howard Johnson safe. They face grilling over four North Adams break ins, each held for $5,000 bonds. In North Adams, a Rhode Island wrecking firm must pay 23 workers $2,863 in back wages for urban renewal shutdowns on Center Street.
Boston AP reports 22 accidental deaths in Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts over the last weekend before Labor Day with 12 traffic fatalities six in Massachusetts four in New Hampshire two in Maine. Boating drownings totaled five and four other Massachusetts deaths in various incidents.
Representatives of New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. and the International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers continued negotiations today in Boston in an effort to reach a new contract.
Telephones and newsroom numbers are listed along with display advertising contacts. The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont. Subscription rates show mail deliveries within 50 mile radius and Vermont rates for 6 months and 1 year with special serviceman rates.
More than 600 people including three former governors attended a dinner honoring former Agriculture Commissioner Elmer E. Towne. Gov. Hoff replaced Towne with Raymond G. Rowley amid policy disputes. Towne thanked colleagues and announced he will chair the Hood Dairy Foundation advisory committee.
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