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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1969
Page
5
Douglas Cairns of Burlington is named to the University of Vermont Board of Trustees by Gov. Deane C. Davis. He heads the state Nixon campaign and will replace Bartholomew F. Garrity. Cairns is among 35 appointments to 21 state agencies and boards, most going to Davis supporters.
Dr Rufus C Morrow of Shelburne has been named chief medical officer aboard the hospital ship Hope. He will base in Washington DC and plans to fly to Tunisia where the Hope will be next in port. Morrow is a professor and former division chairman at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He and his wife, also a doctor, volunteered aboard the ship in 1961.
Kenneth Parker a junior at the University of Vermont and a resident of White River Junction aims to win election to the school’s board of trustees as the legislature convenes. If elected he would be the first student chosen by lawmakers to sit on a university board in the nation. The eight candidate race seeks three vacant seats with six legislators among the contenders.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development approved a $2 million college housing loan to the University of Vermont on Wednesday. The funds will back a $4.5 million dormitory complex and dining facility construction.
The Office of Education approved a $200,000 grant to Lyndon State College in Lyndonville Vermont for a new academic building. The facility will include a multipurpose auditorium laboratories and a gymnasium.
A Mohawk prop-jet with 47 aboard skidded off a snowy runway during landing, stopping feet from a highway. The Fairchild FH227 carried 44 passengers and 3 crew. braking problem suspected but full cause to be investigated. In Albany, Gov Rockefeller proposed a $100 million program to fund community mental health facilities via loans and designs for nonprofit operations.
Lola Johnson told a Human Rights Commission hearing that Philip Schuyler High School officials never discussed the charges leading to her 1966 dismissal. Direct examination resumed after a two week recess. Johnson, a Negro, accuses Albany School System of denying tenure for race and civil rights activities and says Becker did not discuss 1965-66 complaints or object to her out of school activities.
Mr and Mrs Charles H Norcross of the Taxpayers Voice handed Gov Francis W Sargent the second installment of petitions totaling 20000 signatures urging efficiency and economy in state affairs Norcross promised a third batch soon and asked the governor to back a bill capping local property tax rates at 2 percent of 100 percent valuation
In Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday the fourth appeal by former Hancock Raceways Inc officials to access a $100,000 bond impounded since 1964 was dismissed. The ruling clears the path for final disposition of the bond and the tangled Berkshire Downs financial matter.
Lt. (j.g.) Francis E. Horahan aged 25, former Drury High athlete and honor student, among five Navy fliers killed when their submarine hunter plane crashed on a mountain at the west end of Santa Catalina Island, California. He is survived by his parents, maternal and paternal grandmothers, two brothers.
Vincent J. Bartimo, vice president and general manager, defends Green Mountain Race Track business terms and 1967 70 split with the state. He cites 10.368 million in direct revenue, six and a half percent state take, 170 racing days, and no stockholder dividends, asserting the track never broke its word and calling for restraint from Sunday racing changes. Patricia Kellogg urges parental responsibility and community action to enforce film ratings and public notice for children.
Beatrice J. Brown reflects on John G Fuller’s The Gentlemen Conspirators and a Washington AP release about Vermont Yankee monopoly claims. The piece cites Kennedy’s warning and recalls 1967 antitrust probes into utilities, noting dangers to democracy and free enterprise from consolidated control.
A year and three days after a man handed Rev. Edward D. Whitley $9,570 at St. Ann's rectory on Huntington Avenue the funds were turned over to the pastor. Whitley said the money would aid the poor, fund church repairs, and help cover the church’s $80,000-a-year maintenance cost. The donor’s identity was not disclosed.
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