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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1970
Page
2
The UPI report says unemployment rose to 3.9 percent in December, the highest since November 1967, with adult men at 2.5 percent amid production cutbacks. The December rate was 3.5 percent after a revision. The rise reflects a slowdown as average hours and overtime fell.
John Meerwarth, manager of Bennington Airport, was elected president of the Vermont Aviation Trades Association at its first annual meeting at Post Mills Airport. Officers included Alphonse Quesnel, vice president, and Mrs Edmando Roberts, secretary treasurer, with attorney Robert Rachlin continuing as counsel. The group promotes aviation in Vermont, plans to boost education, facility development, and youth careers, and may study general aviation's role under a state transportation cabinet.
Washington report notes Labor Department proposal to empower the White House to settle national emergency labor disputes by selecting between the last best offers of unions and management. Assistant Labor Secretary indicates the move aims to end work stoppages and stabilize operations.
Mt Anthony Union High School student Mary Elizabeth Rice earned the 1970 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow honor based on a December exam taken by a record 646,041 senior girls in 15,040 high schools. She will receive a silver charm from General Mills and is eligible for state and national honors. Separately, William J. Usery Jr outlined a last best offer approach for rapid settlement of labor disputes that could trigger national emergencies, with a president choosing between sealed offers if talks fail.
Danby letters dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries have been presented to the local historical society. The collection's donation was announced by museum staff, who noted the documents' value for regional heritage and research.
Hoosick Falls Central School hosts the film King of Hearts as the festival's second feature. French satire on collective behavior, lightly entertaining yet thought provoking, moderated by Prof. Merritt Abrash of RPI. Screen at 7:30 p.m. with coffee and doughnuts after in the cafeteria. Free admission. open to the public.
Mrs. Mattison and trainee instructors describe EPDA as practical hands on training that deepens student contact. Trainees gain daily classroom experience, with seminars linking theory to practice and master teachers guiding field trips and projects. The program aims to enhance teaching methods and student achievement.
Montpelier Vermont Historical Society receives twenty four letters from 1856 to 1873 written to Joseph Kelley and his wife Julia Kelley. The letters describe small town life in Pawlet Tinmouth and Danby including counterfeit money aid to a soldier’s family and a March 8 1857 Otter Creek ice jam flood with a man barefoot in the rising water.
Community notices cover a Sunday start for a Focus on Hope series at John XXIII Institute, SAC low altitude flights over Vermont Feb 10 11 with no sonic booms expected, Social Security earnings filing guidance for 1969, Lina S Wilson named to Lesley College dean’s list, Iron Kettle Weekend Special menu, and a brief reminiscence about letters received by Joseph Kelley the 94 year old Manchester Iowa obituary in 1921 context.
Attorney Peter Diamondstone, fired from Vermont Legal Aid, reviews administrative avenues for appeal. Thomas French plans to exhaust remedies before court challenge to a decision upholding Diamondstone’s ouster last summer. King fired Diamondstone for keeping his office open on a holiday honoring the Apollo 10 moon walk.
Bennington village police logged two crashes on Friday evening. At 6:30 a 1964 Dodge driven by Jane C. Graham and a 1969 Rambler driven by Priscilla W. Byers collided at Gage and Park Street causing moderate damage with no injuries. At 7:30 a 1964 Chevrolet driven by Paul Gosselin and a 1963 Ford driven by Lucy J. Carnavan collided at the North Street Depot Street entrance, resulting in moderate damage.
The Senate voted 43 to 32 to add more than $200 million a year for public housing to the four year, 35 billion school aid measure. The move drew opposition from President Nixon who had labeled the provision inflationary and wasteful. Dominick's amendment to strike the public housing clause failed, with 7 Republicans joining 36 Democrats against it. The bill could push total impacted aid above $1.1 billion annually and expands eligibility to districts serving federally funded housing residents Cuban refugee families and migrant farm children.
President Nixon vowed a total mobilization against pollution with a $10 billion five year program to clean water and expand sewage disposal, outlining measures to curb polluters, fund parks, and back local bond financing. He spoke at Chicago’s Field Museum after inspecting a model plant and a smoggy Chicago, then met Illinois Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin governors before flying home. Separately, James E Ward of 1001 County St. was laid to rest with military honors at Park Lawn Cemetery after a funeral at Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home.
Former ambassador George Kennan told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States ABM program risks sabotaging arms talks with the Soviet Union. He said we have exaggerated differences, warned of vested interests growing, and urged a U.S. Soviet exchange program while at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies.
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