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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1961
Page
2
A fire from an exploding oil burner gutted the sleeping quarters of Mr and Mrs Carmi J Wetherby and their four children at a Marlboro Road service station in Brattleboro. Damage is estimated at 2500 to 3000 dollars. the dog perished. The family was away from home during the blaze.
A 1899 painting by R. F. Zogbaum showing Admiral Dewey on the USS Olympia will be featured in a National Geographic Society publication. The work, donated to Vermont in 1940 by Bartlett Arkell, hangs in the State House lobby and depicts Dewey on the bridge during Manila Bay action.
Pittsfield doctors establish the Dr. David B. Greengold memorial fund to equip a medical library in the new hospital nearing completion. Greengold, an anesthesiologist, drowned June 25 with three fishermen when their boat capsized in Lake Champlain. The fund opens to March 1. Berkshire County eyes 74,926 for Mt Greylock upkeep for 1962.
Saratoga Springs Chamber of Commerce pursues 1963 centennial events for Spa racing after voters blocked a promotional fund raise. Officials seek alternative financing while Albany considers education aid reform proposal to boost state education funding by 96.5 million annually and raise per pupil spending to 500 dollars with wealth-based state sharing.
Astrid Hagenguth of Pittsfield will join The Banner news staff on January 2, publisher Lawrence K. Miller announced. She studied in Paris and Heidelberg and worked with the Daily Star in Beirut while abroad.
Dorset Miriam Tifft and Kenneth Wood return home for holidays. Anita Park and Helen Barrows recoveries and travels are noted along with visits by Mrs. Mildred Hulsberg and Mrs. Edward Mallory. Families including Stannards Whiteheads and Guarinos are visiting relatives in Rutland Bennington Ridgewood Burlington and Orleans.
Burlington Police Chief Donald P. Russell retires after 31 years with the department including 13 as chief. He is succeeded by George A. McKenzie, a 25 year veteran of the force.
AP analysis compares Eisenhower and Kennedy in their first White House year. Eisenhower faced day to day headaches with McCarthy and Korea, while Kennedy confronted a tempered home scene but a dangerous global landscape with hydrogen bombs and Khrushchev's confidence. Kennedy centralizes foreign policy talking, with Rusk as adviser, contrasting Eisenhower's dual voices through Dulles.
Hollywood star Ginger Rogers urges resistance to the twist dance calling it vulgar and exhibitionist. She says the fad distracts from the old year and laments the public's craze as three feature films flood theaters and clubs revive with the dance. Rogers plans a soft shoe number with Dinah Shore and George Burns on NBC.
The Defense Department announced the creation of Joint Task Force 8 to plan atmospheric atomic tests if President Kennedy orders resumption. Maj. Gen. Robert H. Booth leads the task force with Army Maj. Gen. Alfred D. Starbird as field commander.
The Army issued a 12,376,800 dollar contract to Western Electric and Sylvania Products Co. for Nike Zeus missile R D work with 72 percent to be performed by Sylvania in Wal tham Massachusetts. A separate 1,112,800 dollar contract was granted to Raytheon Co. plants in Lexington and Waltham for NATO Hawk missile parts.
U S District Court Judge Robert P Anderson granted a temporary restraining order blocking Rhode Island from enforcing a law that would force the New Haven Railroad to spend 123000 dollars to renovate 30 cabooses The law set to take effect Jan 1 Trustees called the mandate unconstitutional and said it would require installing electricity and water on the cars Railroad general manager William Scheiber said changes at state borders would be impractical.
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