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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1964
Page
2
Gov. Hoff praised the House Highways and Bridges Committee for refining his highway reform bill which would change the status of underused roads. He criticized early drafting but credited the committee with removing deficiencies and showing strong legislative responsibility. Rep. Frank W. Guild Jr. chaired the committee.
Gabriel Faures Requiem will be sung at St. Michael College Sunday at 8 p.m. in memory of President John F. Kennedy. The program in the playhouse is free. William Tortolano directs the College Choir and Green Mountain Colleges Glee Club.
Adams-Noyes of North Bennington Vermont and Thomas Condron of Pittsfield Massachusetts were appointed by the school committee to Adams schools. Noyes will teach English at the high school, Condron will be guidance director at C. T. Plunkett Junior High. Noyes has substituted for two months. Condron currently teaches social studies at Crosby Junior High in Pittsfield.
In North Adams planners revise the general neighborhood renewal plan for 150 acres on South Main Street. The resubmission to the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency is due by March 15 after HHFA requested changes to the original plan submitted last summer. In Williamsville, 37 Greylock Hall sophomores will move in March to allow demolition of the Greylock Hotel annex and start construction of four Greylock houses and dining facilities at the Greylocs corner near Routes 2 and 7.
Hollywood reports the 36th Academy Awards nominations led by Tom Jones with ten nods. Cleopatra follows with nine as Albert Finney faces stiff competition from Rex Harrison Sidney Poitier Paul Newman and Richard Harris for acting honors.
Two Boston doctors report an Ecuadorian sailor moved fingers and his hand immediately after a hand transplant from a deceased donor. The Feb 13 procedure in Guayaquil was performed with post operative consultation by Drs. Richard E. Wilson and Robert M. Goldwyn of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Harold E. Stassen, campaigning in New Hampshire for the Republican nomination, urges a four point modernization of the United Nations. He calls for a general council with weighted voting, a mediators board, an arms inspection agency, and an arbitration panel to resolve disputes and curb war risks. He cites the Eisenhower middle way as the basis for his program.
An FAA and Air Force program in Oklahoma City uses sonic booms from F104 jets to measure public response over 26 weeks. Residents report disrupted routines and earlier telephones calls decrease as the test proceeds. Four homes monitor booms with devices. one woman notes improved TV reception after a station upgrade.
A routine VA inquiry by a veteran in White River Junction revealed he had forgotten to name his wife as beneficiary, risking payment to his sister. The article urges veterans to keep beneficiary listings current due to common life changes like marriage and divorce and explains VA assistance to reconstruct old listings and provide new designation forms.
NASA Administrator James Webb urges a major electronics research center in the Boston area citing MIT and Harvard as core institutions. He notes a dense network of public and private labs fueling a regional boom in semiconductors, electronics, and related fields. The House Space Committee backed the plan 18 to 13. Senate approval pending.
AP reports a leading anti Castro group claims new Soviet military bases are being built in Cuba's eastern Oriente Province as of Monday.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York begins his Vermont bid with a Thursday talk before a University of Vermont student group in Burlington. He will later meet Mrs. Warren Austin, attend a hotel coffee hour, then speak in Barre and dine at his Montpelier headquarters before departing for Keene, New Hampshire.
The Bennington Banner lists its phone numbers for business news and advertising and provides delivery options. It notes daily publication except Sundays and legal holidays, and offers subscription prices for Vermont and U S destinations.
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