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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1969
Page
5
John J. Wackerman citing personal reasons will resign Sept 26 from the Vermont Social Welfare Department after a decade as head. The 49 year old former senator and judge said the move is for family reasons and not tied to salary or pressures.
The Social Welfare Board endorsed a $19.5 million state funding request for fiscal year 1971, $5 million more than 1969 appropriations. Inflation and higher family services costs require raising from $14.9 million to $18.1 million to hold current programs, plus $1.4 million for rate increases, program expansion, and 100 extra staff. The total including federal funds would reach $48.06 million.
Vermont Attorney General James Jeffords said he will ask the 1970 legislature to authorize hiring two more lawyers for his office to cope with highway right of way land taking cases. A letter from Albert Purchase of the Bureau of Public Roads cited understaffing and a pending recommendation for Emergency Board approval. The Bureau has reimbursed Vermont $350,000 of $600,000 for land acquired for Interstate construction in 1965. A second item reports a gas truck fire destroyed a barn in Bethel delaying its transport from Albany to Barre. The driver escaped unharmed. A third note: a vacationing psychiatrist has forced postponement of the Sept. 2 murder trial of Reginald Currier in St. Johnsbury. Currier pleaded innocent. A fourth item states Gov Davis’s Welfare Investigating Committee set Sept. 12 as the target date to complete its comprehensive report with recommendations for new Welfare Department techniques.
In Albany the Office of General Services weighs building a parking lot east of Hawk Street viaduct after abandoning Lafayette Park plans. Mayor Corning proposed the site, with the city owning much of the property, while the state weighs two or three alternatives.
In Berkshire County two men died in separate incidents on Tuesday. Lee 21 year old Dennis Fontana was killed when a trench collapsed at the Lenox sewage plant site. Gardiner motorcyclist Robert Dudzienski died in Great Barrington after his bike struck a tractor tanker.
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