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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1961
Page
1
The thaw across southern England replaces the deep freeze with slush and fog causing travel disruption. London Airport runways were blocked by thick slush and inbound flights diverted to Gatwick and Hurn.
Laos remains a regional problem as coalition talks among princes faltered in Vientiane. Souphanouvong returns to Pathet Lao stronghold while Souvanna Phouma plans to withdraw, keeping aims of a coalition alive. Geneva conference reconvenes next week under pressure from the Soviet envoy to push a peaceful settlement.
Newport Vermont Jake Robitoy 76 died Friday at Orleans Memorial Hospital from head and other injuries after a car he rode in collided with another Saturday night in Newport.
A spectacular collision on the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys sent two trucks into the Atlantic and Gulf waters. Two men remained missing as divers searched. A man and a woman were swept out to sea but rescued by a Navy helicopter and a private boat.
The Banner's yearend edition will be abridged due to the Oct. 10 fire destroying its building. Tuesday's issue includes a page of photos from the past year and a complete 1961 obituary compiled by the Bennington Museum Genealogical Department.
President Kennedy on holiday in Palm Beach received a clinician noted improvement in his father Joseph P. Kennedy after stroke with pneumonia, while Adlai E. Stevenson gave a sobering UN report criticizing Security Council inaction over India's Goa takeover. Stevenson warned such inaction could open a Pandora's box endangering world peace.
Paris AP De Gaulle announced plans to pull most of France’s 400000 plus troops from Algeria within a year as riots erupt in Oran. He pledges modernization and possible nuclear force while pursuing settlement with Algerian nationalists, drawing fire from right wing European settlers.
Four nations issued alerts after Ismet Khan 24 who traveled from Karachi to London on Christmas Day contracted smallpox. Passengers and airport staff at Paris Orly and Leonardo da Vinci were vaccinated, with many contacts traced in London and Dartford isolation center. Authorities sought 29 more contacts including three Pakistanis and a taxi driver.
U S senators from Rhode Island urge a Department of Justice investigation into a drastic rise in Eastern gasoline prices after major oil firms halted discount allowances. Prices could jump up to 4.3 cents a gallon across Maine to Florida with Esso and American Oil cuts and Mobil raising tank prices. Local gas station owner Sanford Willis doubts immediate impact.
President Moise Tshombe charged that Congo army troops aided by the United Nations attacked north Katanga. He appealed for aid to Kennedy U Thant and Adoula. UN in New York denied joint operations with Congolese forces.
The National Assembly in Santo Domingo approved a constitutional reform creating a seven member provisional state council of government to replace the Trujillo regime. Balaguer will lead it temporarily and resign after OAS sanctions are lifted. The council plans to govern until February 1963 when elections are due.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson widow of World War I president will be buried New Year’s Day in a crypt near her husband at Washington Cathedral. An Episcopal service will be held at 11 a.m. in the cathedral’s great choir. She died Thursday at 89 after respiratory illness and heart disease. The Wilson mansion at 2340 S Street NW becomes a memorial to her husband under a 1954 deed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation with a $250000 fund for upkeep.
Carl Henning of Shaftsbury died Friday night at Putnam Memorial Hospital after an illness. Born in Sweden on July 31 1884 he is survived by his wife Hulda. Funeral arrangements are handled by Mahar and Son Funeral Home in Bennington. A full obituary will appear in Tuesday's Banner.
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