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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1967
Page
2
Lt. Col. Arthur Tudhope withdrew from the Vermont adjutant general race amid hospitalization in Burlington. The contest now features Wayne Page of Hyde Park and Reginald Cram, with Page a Republican appointed last December to succeed Gen. Francis Billado who died in September.
Brattleboro officials traced a major water main break on Main Street hill to a rupture around 2 a.m. The sub zero temperatures allowed several downtown basements to flood while traffic through the business district was rerouted. Town manager Colin Ewell expects 24 hours or more to restore full service.
UPI reports 1964 St Michael's College graduate Captain Donald Egan was killed last Saturday during the Lunar New Year truce in Vietnam. He was son of Mr and Mrs Donald J Egan of Troy New York and captain of the varsity baseball team at Winooski Park College. He received his commission in the Marine Corps after graduation.
UPI reports 18 year old Charles Quellett collapsed on a Norwich University basketball court in Plumley Armory. State Pathologist Dr Richard Woodruff linked the death to a heart attack caused by severe coronary disease after an autopsy showed lack of oxygen to the heart. The youth began playing, sat on a bench for several minutes, then toppled over.
Governor Philip H. Hoff leaves Montpelier for a conference in Chapel Hill North Carolina where he serves on the Research Advisory Committee. The council will discuss the future research role and the Institute of States brain child program created by former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford.
Seven New York locals will present at the 1967 Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference in Quebec. Robert Cooke will discuss water resource management approaches. Stiles and Griffiths will cover recirculation in fish culture. Debbi e will share musk rat fat disease findings. Goodman and Bromley join panels on enforcement and conservation education. Benson reports on Redhead duck wintering in New York.
The Delaware and Hudson Railroad will take a carload of rail buffs from Albany to Whitehall and back aboard The Laurentian on Saturday in an NRHS planned excursion. The Laurentian, once a luxury eastern train, now operates two coaches and a baggage car daily between Albany and Montreal as the railroad seeks abandonment. The NRHS Mohawk and Hudson Chapter opened the trip to nonmembers.
Mrs Josephine Kilgallon of 370 2nd Ave wins a $1,000 Grand Union Stake Your Claim contest prize. Grand Union officials present her prize check at the 2nd Ave supermarket where she received her winning ticket. she is mother of seven children.
A Nantucket juvenile was arraigned in District Court on narcotics possession. Judge James E. Hannon continued the case until June. Two 17 year olds, Robert Laundry of Nantucket and Christopher Thompson of Plymouth, were arrested nearby and expected in court, but their attorney obtained a continuance.
Pittsfield associate commissioner John D. Warner called Mayor Remo Del Gallo’s lakefront recreation upgrade for Onota Lake the most imaginative the Public Works Department has seen. The plan shifts Lakeway Drive, enlarges beaches, adds picnic areas and includes tennis courts. Great Barrington reports Richard Pope paid about 27000 in unpaid taxes on Monument Mills property in Housatonic, purchased two weeks earlier from Horrah Mills Inc. Pope says no immediate plans for the site.
Two major administration backed bills head for the Vermont legislature as the session reaches mid point. A sweeping welfare bill would shift welfare duties from towns to the state Department of Social Welfare and abolish town auditors in favor of local welfare officers under state pay. Gov. Hoff backs the plan saying it will expand services and cut local tax costs. Republicans oppose, citing the loss of a $4.3 million town program. The second bill seeks 10 to 15 percent pay raises for about 4,000 state workers and department heads, to cope with rising living costs and attract staff. A third tax reform package would repeal the poll tax and $5 old age assistance tax, costing nearly $3 million annually, offset by a piggyback 25 percent state income tax on federal liability, hitting higher earners more than current rules.
In Yarmouth sandpit on January 28 two Cape Cod men clashed in a pistol duel. Henry Allison, Dennisport, and Rodney Burrill, 36, of Yarmouth, fought after Allison dated Burrill’s wife. Burrill fired twice but missed, Allison fled, and Burrill pursued. Allison was convicted of breaking and entering at night and assault with a dangerous weapon. Burrill was acquitted.
The U S Army Corps of Engineers has allocated funds to study an ice jam and flood protection project on the White River, about 1.5 miles upstream from the Connecticut River confluence. The plan calls for removing rock sills in three areas, upstream of the Hartford Bridge and about 1,000 feet downstream. The study, expected to take nine months, will assess cost and economic justification. construction would depend on results.
Rutland Vermont Bank and Trust Company held its annual stockholders meeting at Hotel Bardwell with President Fred W. Yeadon Jr presiding. Proxies represented 122 998 of 142 000 outstanding shares as directors R Willard Beebe John D Clawson Alexander E Cross Henry A Dahlgren H Edward Dyer Charles Fienberg Stephen H Gilman George J Heaslip William Johnston Jr Edwin W Lawrence were reelected. Gifts were given to retiring directors Dr Joseph G Davidson and Henry Z Persons under the retirement plan.
UPI reported Senator Winsten Prouty R Vermont lambasted the Johnson administration at a Lincoln Day Dinner with a four ring circus analogy. He labeled the budget phony and criticized fiscal policy while outlining GOP paths back to power. The event drew about 450 attendees in Honolulu.
Mrs. Philip H. Hoff is named the first state fund drive chairman for Vermont Children's Aid Society. The campaign mobilizes 14 county committees and about 400 volunteers to fund services including adoption, foster care, counseling for emotionally disturbed children, and aid to unwed parents. Last year VCAS aided 433 needy youths. local offices in Burlington Rutland Springfield Hardwick and Woodstock coordinate statewide efforts.
In Montpelier an NAACP spokesman blasted Rep John Aldens anti discrimination bill saying it excludes one family dwellings and residential property from fair housing protections. The human rights section was criticized for undermining civil rights goals and leaving Vermon t housing unprotected. In Bournemouth England a local classified ad offered an electric chair for sale at 140 pounds in a sharp contrast to the Vermont debate.
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