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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1962
Page
3
Athens Tenn AP Fire chief Bill Knox says Robert Miller 22 of Etowah Tenn told police he became angry after finding doors locked and his mother gone. Miller signed a statement admitting setting fire to the house two automobiles two out buildings and several acres of timber. Miller was charged with arson.
Hartford Hospital faced criticism from Springfield Hospital officials over ads offering higher pay and moving benefits to attract nurses. Hartford’s Dr. Ernest Boettcher defended the recruitment as routine and noted gap in state needs with nursing pay in the Springfield Holyoke area about $12 a week lower.
A fragmented listing shows an early schedule with a 6:50 news segment and a 7:00 weather block. Program host Jack Lealanne appears at 7:00 with a 7:30 segment titled Say It With. The brief text is incomplete and lacks full details.
A clock exhibit in the Vermont Bank & Trust Co lobby features over a century old shelf and mantle pieces from Bennington collectors Schuyler Vander Veer and James S. Oatman. The pair, both local hobbyists and clock repairs, display a rare double steeple clock and other iron and wood works, with pieces from Jerome & Darrow of Bristol and Atkin Clock Co. of Springfield.
Public schools in the Bennington Graded School District reopen on September 5 with high school sessions from 7 45 a.m. to noon for a half day. Elementary pupils start at 8 15 a.m. with classes at 8 30 a.m. First graders have morning only sessions this week, full days from Monday September 10. Staff meetings precede opening with group sessions and a dinner with Dr. Irving Adler as keynote and consultant for six in service workshops.
A Quaker from India, Gurdial Mal, will join the Sunday gathering at the Adams Massachusetts Meeting House for the annual meeting at 3 p.m. Friends from New York Massachusetts and Vermont are expected, with visitors welcome. The old meeting house welcomes a respected guest who once worked with Gandhi and taught at Tagore’s school.
Washington scene details a new automated press agent by a Labor Department memo describing the system as an experimental tool. The piece mocks potential political misuses and imagines absurd government voice outputs from agencies including White House Agriculture Justice and Treasury.
New York AP report says singer Jane Morgan aged 42 was taken unconscious to Roosevelt Hospital Monday night after telling a friend she had consumed a dose of pills. She regained consciousness early today and her condition was listed as good.
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