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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1966
Page
2
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co will install 300000 dollars of new equipment at its Windsor Vermont plant. Plant manager W. L. Hall said the firm also plans a new facility in Madisonville Kentucky. Windsor employs about 750 workers.
Dr. A E Janowicz of the state Department of Agriculture warns all dogs in Vermont must be revaccinated for rabies by April 1. Dogs vaccinated before Oct 1 1963 must have shots before the licensing deadline. Also, Vermont’s unemployment claims for the week ending last Saturday fell by 72 from the prior week, while the insured unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent from 6.6 percent a year earlier.
The University of Vermont launched Departure a literary magazine featuring poetry prose and one act plays. The first 55 page issue is student heavy with Henry Wellman Brattleboro as editor in chief and James Howe as faculty advisor. 1200 copies were printed free. Two issues yearly planned.
Burlington The Financial Aid Office at the University of Vermont invites state firms to list summer job openings with UVM. Aid Director Allen Walker says the office already has a wide range of positions and urges students to register to connect with employers. The goal is to help both students and employers.
A fox on the Ernest Macie farm near Irasburg bit a dog. The fox was killed and Normand Moreau, a Fish and Game Warden, submitted the specimen to the state health laboratory, where the fluorescent antibody test confirmed rabies.
Julius Hegyi, former Chattanooga Symphony conductor and current Berkshire Symphony leader, is appointed conductor and music director of the Albany Symphony Orchestra for next season starting June 1. He will keep his other posts and reside in Williamstown with his wife and daughter, previously on staff at the 20th Bennington Composers Conference.
Pittsfield receives a federal grant of 50 962 dollars for the Head Start program starting February 28. Twenty one week course will serve 81 children. An additional grant funds a regional education office in the city. Williamstown gains new Sterling and Franklin Clark Art Institute president Talcott M Banks, Boston attorney and Williams College alumnus. Banks is a former Williamstown resident and a trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He aims to strengthen Williams Institute ties. In Stockbridge, Rev Clyde J Sorrell 30 of West Stockbridge dies in a Route 183 crash with a platform truck. Sorrell led Word of Life regional efforts. Pittsfield Knesseth Israel Cong approved Colt Road site for a new synagogue budgeted at 250000.
Vermont Senate poised to pass Gov Hoff’s plan creating a non profit utility to import 2.1 million kW from Quebec Hydro. Debate centered on a breach of promise charge against a Rutland lobbyist and an amendment limiting the nonprofit’s utility status. Supporters say consumer costs could drop up to 25 percent. savings projected at least $100 million over 25 years.
The winter Bach concert series concludes with Orrea Pernel Leon Tina Calabro and Reinhoud van der Linde lauded by critics. Pernel Showed remarkable violin skill in solo sonatas and suites while van der Linde’s organ and trio sonata performances received high praise. Calabro delivered two arias with growing control and conviction, notably in Zum reinen Wasser where violin and organ blend.
The Bennington Banner, published daily except Sundays and holidays at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont, lists contact lines for telephones advertising and viewsroom. It outlines subscription rates for local Vermont and U.S. destinations, with carrier delivery and second class postage information.
The 99 foot research vessel Linda Walker from Pascagoula Mississippi is aground on a reef near Cozumel island about five miles north. The Western Geophysical Co. owned ship carried four crew, sent Mayday, and was reported by a tourist plane to be stuck on rocks with heavy seas. U.S. Coast Guard planes and two Mexican naval vessels searched, a rescue ship was being sent, and danger of sinking was not seen though reaching the vessel is difficult after dark.
Richard S. Salant is restored to his former role as president of CBS News. He had been serving on an acting basis after Fred W. Friendly resigned in protest over CBS’s choice to air reruns instead of live coverage of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Vietnam.
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