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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1964
Page
2
Bernard Desautels a 44 year old 16 year veteran of Vermont Fish and Game is pending a board decision on reinstatement after being fired Jan 15 for allegedly borrowing Dartmouth College medical library volumes. He claims his research on animal reproduction spurred the action and plans university study.
A 6 year old girl from Peru New York Lorri Madden is in critical condition after a ski tow accident at a Vermont center. Strings on her parka tangled in the rope tow causing a jerk that sent her eight feet into the air and she fell head first on a stump. She was treated at Mary Fletcher Hospital. The center's name was not released. In Montpelier Vermont Gov Philip H Hoff named J R Hurley of St Albans to the State Board of Health and as chairman succeeding John M Spencer. Hurley is VP of People's Trust Co and a Democrat.
Atty Gen Charles E Gibson Jr ruled ETC has completed its work and no longer exists. The finding relates to Charles S Lewis of Shelburne, former commission chairman and WCAX-TV PR director. The ETC report from December 1963 split on who should control the statewide net. Lewis favored state control. The other faction preferred University of Vermont control. The Vermont House also advanced a family farm study resolution amid anti farm-regulation concerns.
Reinhold W. Thieme Vermont Water Resources Commissioner will speak Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Memorial Lounge Waterman Building as part of a special series on state planning. The talks are in cooperation with the Governor's Planning Council and open to the public.
New York activists plan a March 10 march in Albany the largest assembly in the state capitol this century led by Eugene Reed of the NYS Conference NAACP Branches demanding a $1.50 minimum wage rent strike legalization literacy reform and automation worker retraining.
Herbert Mahar accuses the Adams Redevelopment Authority of political moves and cites Chapter 81 of Massachusetts General Laws to challenge the removal of former Police Chief Edward Reid as executive director. In Williamstown, the Finance Committee recommends a separate forest fire department with 7,750 dollars in funding. North Adams clears the way to borrow 250,000 for Windsor Lake land development adjoining the YMCA beach area.
Harold Stassen outlines a path to the White House by winning the California primary in June. He wants Eisenhower's support to swing the 1964 race against Lyndon B. Johnson, noting he began from the bottom of Republican hopefuls.
Three highway deaths over the weekend raise Vermont auto toll to 16 for the year. Paul E. Dickinson, 30, of Barre, died after his car left Route 302, tore down guard rail posts, and rolled over. Joseph E. Souza, 53, of Westport, Massachusetts, died when his tractor trailer crashed into an elm. Medora Gongeau, of Rutland, drowned when her car left US 4 and plunged into Furnace Brook.
Mrs. Lynn Watson Jr. ordered a hamburger in Chesnee South Carolina. The bun arrived with lettuce onions mustard and all the trimmings but no meat. The owner forgot to put the patty inside the bun.
In Massillon Ohio a city contract with a commercial tree removal service cuts discarded Christmas trees into chips. The mulch is used in city parks to control erosion and recycle festive debris into a useful landscape material.
The Bennington Banner lists its telephone numbers for business news and newsroom as well as advertising. It states publication schedule and address at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont. Subscription rates are given for Vermont and nationwide including 8 months 4.25 6 months 8 1 year 15 within a 50 mile radius.
A search began at dawn for an eight year old boy, son of a local minister, believed to have drowned after disappearing near his Epping home in New Hampshire. Police Chief Ed ward Lavoie led the operation as hopes dimmed.
New York Governor Nelson A Rockefeller schedules a Vermont visit with stops at Burlington Airport University of Vermont campus and the Vermont Shopping Center. He will meet locals at the Tavern Motor Inn Pavilion Hotel and speak at the Pavilion Hotel before overnighting in Burlington en route to New Hampshire.
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