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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1964
Page
2
Vergennes Vermont opens a 21 percent mile long two lane bypass on U S Route 7 connecting Ferrisburg and Waltham. The state and federal funding totaled 485000 dollars. The report notes improved traffic safety and relief for the prior dangerous stretch.
State police say a $35 million annual betting ring operating across New York was smashed with 39 arrests. Eight men from Troy and Waterford were seized in Troy Saratoga Gloversville and Kingston raids, supported by about 200 troopers and BCI agents. In Albany County history event Virginia O Hanlon Douglas recalled her Santa Claus letter of 1897 as an audience guest. Allstate Air Lines officials visited Albany to promote the new carrier and aid the WTEN Cerebral Palsy Telethon, which raised over $153 000, up by about $28 000 from last year.
Pittsfield authorities report hundreds of gallons wasted after a vandal broke a faucet in the Municipal Building men's room. The same pipe had previously been torn from the wall with a sink during a prior flood.
New York stocks showed a mixed pattern in a moderate session with leaders like General Motors and General Electric edging higher while others such as Bethlehem Steel and Reynolds Metals slipped. A long list of industrials and utilities traded in narrow ranges as investors weighed gains and losses amid a fluctuating market tone. In Paris, France and Communist Albania signed a commercial accord for stepped up trade next year, following France and Albania elevating their missions to embassy level.
Three Smith College girls who hoped to make Betsy the hippo happy received toy hippos from Trinity College students in Hartford. Ellen Emerson Nancy Horner and Ann Longfellow sold the real hippo for 400 to a Texas zoo after Smith officials refused another home. The gift included a poem praising the girls for their efforts.
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