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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1966
Page
3
MONTPELIER UPI State Highway Board member Frederick J. Fayette defies Gov Hoff executive order by stating he will not resign to serve in the Vermont Senate. Hoff says Fayette prefers resignation from the Senate to leaving the board, and he won’t remove him. The move blocks possible appointment of Robert M. Wilson to the board.
The Denver Mint will start producing the new semi silver Kennedy half dollars at 10 a.m. Thursday. The coins will honor John F. Kennedy but reduce silver content from 90 to 40 percent, with 80 percent outer layers and 21 percent inner core.
Houston space center doctors say nine to thirty day spaceflight needs more creature comforts. Gemini 7 crew Frank Borman and James Lovell valued chances to read and remove suits, with coffee and freedom to exit suits seen as key morale boosters. Dr. Charles Berry notes eight day lunar flights possible and thirty day missions in future vehicles, while stressing need for more comforts to sustain long flights.
Scout Troop 53 held its annual New Year's Day hike on a clear Saturday. Twelve scouts plus Scoutmaster Ken Adams walked from Second Congregational Church to Long Trail Road and Woodford Camp, arriving by noon. They cooked with aluminum foil demonstrations, prepared meals, then cleaned the area and cut wood before returning home.
The Bennington Area YMCA wrapped up its girls holiday program with an ice skating afternoon at Williams College rink in Williamstown Massachusetts. Participants Brenda Kennard Deborah Haynes Cathy Mack Sherry Smith Ann Rounds Beatrice Stratton Carol Mould Kathy Bushee Janice Prouty Debbie Estes Patty Carmody Pat Livingston were joined by transportation helper Mrs Russell Mack and chaperone Susan Pello. Cocoa and cookies awaited the group upon return, prepared by Ann Kuhn and Mrs Mack, with Miss Kuhn supervising the program.
Cambridge based Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory reports Earth is not a perfect sphere. Satellites reveal a 21,296 kilometer polar equator difference with slight bulges at the poles. Theorist Chi-yuen Wang suggests ice-age glacier weight may have caused the deviations.
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sunday and legal holidays at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont 05201 by the Banner Publishing Corporation. Home delivery by carrier and motor delivery 10 cents per day. Members of United Press International are entitled to republication of local news and UPI dispatches.
New York teachers union stages the nation’s first college faculty strike at St John’s University. The walkout begins this morning after a citywide transit strike delayed reopening. picket lines form as faculty protest stalled contract talks with the Roman Catholic institution.
A letter by Dr. Paul E. Kirsch, former Bennington South supervisory official, appears in Saturday Review on progress in Salamanca Seneca Indian Reservation schools. He notes New York State’s actions to end reservation school inadequacies, including a $750,000 modern elementary building and a long-term district effort aided by state legislation and cooperation among Salamanca Board, Seneca Nation, and state education departments.
Worcester man John Greene owner of G.T.S. Spinning Corp. faces 28 counts of fraudulent checks issued to employees and local businesses after starting operations in the Rockwood Mill in East Main Street. Warrant issued, picked up in Massachusetts, bail posted, surrender expected Jan. 12 for arraignment. police seek any further fraudulent checks for evidence.
Washington mourns Marguerite Higgins a Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent who died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center at 45 from complications of a tropical liver infection after returning from coverage in South Vietnam India and Pakistan. She continued to file columns for Newsday and other papers despite illness and her last column appeared Friday. Higgins began as Tokyo bureau chief during Korea and won a Pulitzer for her Vietnam war reporting.
Rutland eye doctor Ralph H. Seeley started a four month federal prison sentence in Danbury Connecticut for income tax evasion. He surrendered to U.S. marshals to serve the term ordered October 21 after pleading guilty to avoiding about $11 528 in taxes. He was fined 5000 and ordered to pay 31000 in back taxes.
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