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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1964
Page
2
A U S District Court jury awarded Charles Pia of Connecticut ten thousand dollars for the loss of a finger from a hunting accident on November 26, 1960 near Castleton Vermont. Earl Lavinia of Castleton was the defendant. Pia sought seventy five thousand dollars.
In New York City a two-alarm blaze damaged the three story brick building once housing W. & M. Gross at Congress Street and Fifth Avenue. The fire forced occupants into the street and damaged an adjacent business. Authorities seek two unidentified youths seen leaving about an hour before discovery.
John Francis longtime editor publisher of the Berkshire Courier died Monday after a heart attack last Thursday. He joined the weekly in 1944 becoming editor publisher in 1945 and began his career with the Louisville Herald before stints at the Louisville Times. In Pittsfield police pay row wives of patrolmen protested mayor’s proposed raises, saying it would widen the rich poor gap as council debate looms tonight. A separate Pittsfield Reading Red Sox transfer hearing was postponed awaiting park cost details with a late afternoon session planned.
UPI reports a list and comments on early movers across sectors in New York trading. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea up 1 percent to 42 34, General Dynamics up to 37, Polaroid 1 percent to 179 34, American Telephone up 14 to 66 , Sears Roebuck 4 to 129 34, Texas Gulf Sulphur 1 percent to 51 14, Royal Dutch Y to 45 4, Westinghouse 1 to 45 34, Chrysler up 5 to 62 14, American Motors down 1 4 to 14 14, Bethlehem Steel off 1 to 35, Eastman Kodak up 1 4 to 137 14, Du Pont up 5 to 232, Comsat down 1 4 to 53 1 2, ACF Ind 6 , Air Reduction 5 33 4, Alco Products 29 54 , Allegheny Lud Sdl 41 4, Allegheny Power 28 74 , Alcoa 61 4, Alside 9 34, American Airlines 45 5 , American Cyanamid 64 14, American Can 42 34, American Metal Cl 64 14, American Metal pd 19 3 4, American Motors 14 44 4, American Optical 38 lg 14.
Newport Rhode Island plans a pre Christmas reading of A Visit from St. Nicholas by author James Van Alen at Tudor Hall, Moore's Newport home. Van Alen's wife will portray Mrs. Moore while four Newport children reenact the Moore offspring. Santa will arrive by fire engine for talks with children and spectators, continuing the holiday tradition of Clement C Moore's poem.
Boston authorities remain without arrests after the August 14 1962 Plymouth mail truck heist using props of a police stop to unload 1.5 million dollars. Four to seven gunmen aboard the vehicle coordinated detours and bound mail clerks. most money remains unrecovered.
The National Safety Council predicts 550 to 650 traffic deaths over the Christmas weekend. The holiday runs from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday, reflecting a 10 percent rise in fatalities since 1963. The 1955 three day record was 609 deaths. last year’s three day period saw 226 fatalities.
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