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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1962
Page
8
Ben Mont union Local 534 faces scant support as funds are insufficient for strike benefits. Vermont officials say unemployment aid is unlikely, with few exceptions for specific categories while some neighboring locals pledge help to the strikers.
The town's 1961 examination reveals minimal variances in special accounts and services with only minor shifts. Major changes include a tax increase to 141,500 and election budget tweaks for 1962, plus adjustments in interest and sewer project allocations.
Norwich University basketball coach Greg McCanna resigns effective after the Cadets final game against St. Michael's. In his fourth year, his 6-13 team faced an "impossible situation" at Norwich. McCanna, Rutgers 1947 graduate, previously coached Windsor high school.
Bennington candidate Daigneault, a Bennington native and Prudential agent, plans to back completing Clark's Woods sewer interceptor with a $15,000 town meeting appropriation. He supports a tax exemption for Paran Recreations Inc and urges a centralized town recreation program amid growing facilities.
Earl Hicks returns home after a hospital stay at Mary Fletcher in Burlington. Ricky Leonard, son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Leonard, will perform two solo tap routines at a benefit show in North Adams Massachusetts for the March of Dimes. The Tri-C Group of the Bennington Baptist Church was hosted by Mrs Ida Saunders on South Street. Mrs Lee Hammond led a missionary program with letters from six workers abroad. A $100 donation to the Educational Planning Fund in memory of Rev H Glenn Payne’s father was approved. Rosamond Praeger and Mrs Victor Harrison will attend the Smith College Club alumnae council in Northampton Massachusetts as delegates. Dr Thomas Corwin Mendenhall will give the final Smith address. Seventeen Vermont undergraduates will be hosted at an informal tea by state delegates including Misses Alice Dodge Jessica Lea Ehrich Juliet Frey Kathleen Gillespie and Penelope Lee.
Fleming reports strike will limit unloading of incoming shipments. Two IBM equipped trucks arrived but left loaded after recognizing the strike. Repairmen crossing line as outside help, union officers organize six crews of 36 with six on each team. Women members also work on picket in off hours. Local 534 of the International Printing Pressmen union coordinates the effort with support from area unions and lodges. Peter Tufo of the parent union expected in Benn ington.
An air attack on Saigon targeted Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime with three pilots. One American, Sidney Ambrose of Portland, died after falling from his apartment roof while watching the action. The assault appeared isolated with no broader rebellion or ground movement reported. Diem claimed loyal forces controlled the national territory.
Fleming and a union member charged management sped up machinery during negotiations, creating a hostile climate. They claimed hourly rates in these cases could be a dollar lower than similar jobs elsewhere. Flint Ink Corp of Vermont, with eight hourly workers under the same union, has reportedly followed Ben-Mont’s negotiations since leasing the facilities five years ago.
Mrs Eva Lind Hunter longtime teacher in the Benn ington public schools died Friday at Putnam Memorial Hospital Her funeral at Hanson Walbridge covered by Rev Stephen C Greene with many floral tributes Former colleagues pupils and district officials attended The body entombed at Park Lawn vault with spring burial planned Attendees came from Albany Catskill Manhasset Melrose and nearby areas.
Keyser reports continued welfare accounts under state control and a program of education for state employees including courses in public administration and accounting. He backs the legislature's highway funding approach, praising a bonded indebtness limit of 6.2 million and a final small tax revenue increase to complete the plan.
At a joint session of Congress Glenn speaks from the podium with children on laps around him. He humbly credits the milestone as probing the surface of mankind’s greatest advancement in understanding our surroundings.
WOODFORD Prospect Ski Area and Ski School sponsor a slalom and giant slalom race for area school children this Saturday March 3. The event starts at 10 30 a m with registration at 10 a m and a nominal entry fee.
Thomas Francis Powers 84 a native of Ireland and long time Fillmore Farms employee died at Warner Nursing Home after retirement in 1945 He lived in North Bennington worked for H C White Co Bottom and Torrance and McCullough Farms later became a milk delivery routeman and barn maintenance man He retired April 1945 moved to the village His wife Cora Bruce died in 1943 Survived by daughter Dorothy Ritchie brother Edward Powers sisters Nora Powers Bridget Fitzgerald three grandchildren Call at Hanson Walbridge Funeral Home Rosary Wednesday Requiem Mass Thursday 9 am at St Francis de Sales Church Also notice Earl P Robinson 79 longtime extension service leader in New Hampshire died Feb 22 He served Michigan Wisconsin and New Hampshire and retired 1952 Survived by wife daughter and son Francis executive secretary of the New Hampshire Association of Savings Banks
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Mc Clellan Funeral Home in Salem for Philip Bentley 75 who died Friday at the home of his daughter in Greenwich. Born in Sandgate Vermont August 28 1886 he was the son of Wilson and Susan Bentley. Survived by two sisters a brother two other daughters a son and several grandchildren. Burial in Evergreen Salem next spring. Rev Roger Secord Greenwich officiated. Pallbearers named Miles Smith Edward Smith John West Casper Bentley Robert Thompson.
In Montpelier Vermont the Fish and Game Department reported that violators paid more than $15,000 in fines and costs during 1961.
Alfred L. Meyer, a longtime journalist and former Daily Hampshire Gazette news editor, died unexpectedly at his Easthampton home. He had worked in Europe and the Orient including Shanghai, Peking, Manila, and Germany, and served as managing editor of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury.
Mrs Maude Bates Hawkes 73 of 908 Sweetbriar Street Charlotte died February 22 at home. Funeral services February 24 at Hovis Memorial Chapel with Rev B Frank Yon dile officiating. Interment Sharon Memorial Park Charlotte. Born July 1 1888 in Shaftsbury daughter of Albert and Flora Bates. Survived by daughter Mrs Leo Strand Charlotte son Randolph Hawkes Miami sister Gertarde Bates East Arlington and several grandchildren.
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