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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1965
Page
2
Burlington officials report receiving 373000 dollars in state aid to education, the city’s share of an 8.9 million Vermont school appropriation by the 1965 Legislature. Northfield Jaycees send Christmas greetings from Vermont to Viet Nam to Coast Guard Squadron 1, expressing appreciation for their Viet Nam work.
The Vermont Emergency Board authorized Gov. Hoff to apply for a 25000 federal grant to plan technical information sharing from colleges to industry. The move followed a Wednesday meeting, with a budget hearing set for Friday. Administration commissioner Kearns announced closed hearings Friday and Monday on 2 million dollars in supplemental requests, largely for departmental budget needs for fiscal 1967.
Vermont’s employment security commissioner says the state is enjoying its best off season since 1956. Last week 2,947 people filed unemployment claims, up 57 from the prior week, but well below last year’s 4,330. Mrs. Stella B. Hackel expects numbers to rise in coming weeks due to seasonal factors.
BARRE Henry O Donnell state director of the Neighborhood Youth Corps says Senators Aiken and Prouty are examining a delay possibly linked to a Boston Youth Corps scandal. The program operates in 79 high schools statewide with students working 12 hours weekly at $1.25 per hour.
The Fairlee based Rural Vermonter Magazine announces an increase in publication frequency to ten issues per year starting with the December issue, labeled Number 1 of Volume 4. The change aims to provide more timely rural Vermont content.
Albany permits allowing unlimited New York Thruway travel for one year go on sale at 40 dollars replacing 1965 permits which expire midnight February 10, 1966. Eligible are passenger cars, suburbans, or motorcycles registered in New York by individuals or nonprofit groups. Orders can be mailed to the Thruway Authority in Albany. The same city reports canvass results from the November 2 election with judge-elect Kenneth B Keating winning by 1,073,678 votes over Owen McGivern for the Court of Appeals and a statewide turnout of 6,098,201 voters.
The USDA Soil Conservation Service announces Harvey E. Winkley as soil scientist heading the soil survey program in Washington Rensselaer Columbia and Dutchess County Soil and Water Conservation Districts. Winkley transfers from Laconia New Hampshire where he worked in Belknap Sullivan and Strafford Counties.
Watervliet Arsenal workers ship an 800 pound load of pocket books, magazines, cakes, cookies, and candy to U.S. troops in Saigon under Project Christmas Star. The drive started when Mrs. Catherine Cavanaugh of the mail and records unit urged donations in the Daily Bulletin, sparking widespread arsenal support.
Union drivers on Berkshire County Yellow Coach Lines routes push for a 20 cent hourly wage hike and enhanced benefits. YC president Charles M Weeks III warns concessions could end public bus transport in the county. No counter proposal yet. Adams selects informal talks with county to discuss keeping the North Berkshire Registry of Deeds in Adams. Fred B Windover, 18 years on North Adams City Council, receives tribute as term ends in November. Windover began as a pages boy and rose to council president and finance chair.
Washington urged by Federal Power Commission Chairman Joseph Swidler at a congressional hearing to link utilities into power pools. He said Congress should grant the FPC authority to oversee pool development, set minimum standards, and remove incentives that discourage interconnection to gain cheaper, more reliable power and mutual aid in trouble.
Cape Kennedy reports the United States reactivated the Pioneer space probe and launched a 140 pound satellite, Pioneer 6, into a solar orbit to study interplanetary space. The Delta rocket lifted off at 3:31 a.m. EST as ground fog glowed, with all three stages firing as planned. The mission seeks data on cosmic rays, the sun's magnetic field, and solar wind to aid future interplanetary travel and protect crews from solar radiation. Pioneer 6 will approach within 77 million miles of the sun, providing the closest look yet at solar activity and flares that threaten space capsules.
National Geographic reports Sardinia, an island in the Mediterranean, hosts a population where sheep and goats total about twice as many as humans, highlighting pastoral livestock dominance in the region.
MOSCOW UPI The Russian Republic Supreme Court today refused an appeal by American tourist Newcomb Mott, 27, of Sheffield Massachusetts, who was sentenced to 18 months in a labor camp for illegally crossing the Soviet Norwegian border. The Murmansk regional court had found him guilty after a three day trial on November 24. the high court upheld the sentence, with Presiding Judge G P Chernished stating the crime was properly qualified and the sentence conforms to the law.
TWA denies responsibility for a midair collision with an Eastern Constellation over the Connecticut New York border. TWA says Civil Aeronautics Board proof shows its plane was at assigned altitude when the crash occurred. Eastern disputes the claim as premature. CAB has not commented.
SEABROOK Texas UPI The wives and nine children of the Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 crews felt immense pride at the successful rendezvous. Mrs Stafford recalled the moment with joy and nerves as the capsule came within 120 feet, while other wives watched with eager emotion from home.
In Standish Maine UPI reports a Mass at St Joseph's College Auditorium featured folk songs replacing traditional hymns. Rev John P Davis officiated with student performers including Nancy Delaney on guitar. He said the folk song Mass has diocesan approval for special occasions and may recur at the college and other institutions.
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