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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1963
Page
2
Fire Chief Sidney Lawson reports Montpelier paid 5075 on 19 fires with losses over 100 dollars in 1962, down from over 100000 in 1961. He credits public fire education, school training programs, and frequent inspections for reducing damage and notes February saw only three service calls and no fires.
Miss Marion Smith, veteran bird watcher, recorded 41 species and over 2000 birds in the National Audubon Society winter count. She noted a rare gyrfalcon and other uncommon winter visitors such as the flicker white throated sparrow grackle and cowbird and urged continued feeding until spring and to deter squirrels from feeders.
An education department audit shows 87 Vermont municipalities received incorrect December state aid. Total yearly aid reached 5 639 000 dollars with 5 636 000 paid after 1961 overpayments were adjusted. Overpayments about 10 000 dollars and underpayments nearly 9 000 dollars. Burlington had the largest overpayment at 6 497 dollars. Middlesex remains owed 1 050 dollars. Bennington area towns underpaid small amounts. Department says underpayment funds are mailed promptly.
Civil Defense director Frank J. Preble reports 7 231 shelter spaces could protect residents and an additional 12 915 spaces could be created with a 134 000 dollar improvement plan. Fifteen buildings meet federal standards for marking and stocking with supplies to support 50 persons, offering 40 times safer protection.
The Rev. Alice Watson, pastor at First Congregational Church in Burlington, becomes the town’s first woman minister. She wears robes while preaching and says women have a definite place in ministry, citing her prior work in rural Vermont parishes and on an Indian reservation. She urges parents to encourage daughters toward the ministry.
In Albany Speaker Joseph F. Carlino pressed Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to name Perry B. Duryea Jr. as party chairman, but Rockefeller favored delaying until the current legislative session ends in mid March. Senators Brydges and Becker push a joint committee to simplify New York education law, citing nearly one billion dollars spent yearly and a long lack of revision since 1947.
In North Adams strong opposition arose at a Planning Board hearing on rezoning land near Galvin Road to allow a trailer park. Petitioners Theresa Bachand and Jacob Lev urged a rural zone amendment to permit travel trailers and later industrial land rezoning for the project. The 20 bed annex at North Adams Hospital opened to relieve crowding, created from the H. W. Clark Nursing Home addition at an estimated cost of 48000 dollars.
Boston police cont in a new case of a back Bay woman report of a man in a black homburg attempting to strangle her with a bathrobe cord. Eight women have been strangled in Greater Boston over seven months and public safety officials pursue a single suspect. Legislative pressure rises as lawmakers seek more trooper patrols to aid the search.
Los Angeles AP reports David Donahue a 29 year old truck driver is charged by the District Attorney with offering University of Washington player Larry Sharp 1000 to miss baskets in the Washington vs Southern California game won by USC 64 61 Donahue admitted the allegation but said he was joking.
Eight Girl Scouts will receive The Curved Bar at the Bennington Girl Scouts annual meeting. Recipients include Lynda Riley Barbara Riley Betty Riley Meridyth Whitman Dawn Knapp Cheryl Richards and Jean Mackey. Mrs Charles Thompson Jr will present a color film This is Girl Scouting and discuss program changes for 1963 followed by a social hour.
The five day outlook covers northern New England, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and northeastern New York. Temperatures over the period Thursday through Monday will average ten degrees or more below normal with minor day to day changes.
Sen. Winston L. Prouty introduces a bill to empower the Senate Committee on Small Business to study and report on issues and craft measures. The panel would be permanent and capable of drafting and acting on legislation, acknowledging over 4.5 million small business concerns nationwide.
In Pitlochry Scotland AP reports the summer drama festival drew booming attendance in 1962 despite weaker overall Scottish tourism. Management says the dining room beside the playhouse proved particularly profitable. The 1963 festival runs two extra weeks from April 13 to October 5.
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