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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1969
Page
5
In Montpelier the fifth annual Vermont Jaycee Model legislature voted 52 to 19 against a mock 4 per cent sales tax plan and voiced opposition to increased taxation while backing elderly tax relief. It also defeated a gun registration bill and heard a public hearing on outlawing gasoline giveaway games with penalties up to 2000 dollars per offense.
Vermont Employment Security Commission official Stella Hackel announced that Vermont will obtain 750000 in Federal Manpower Development and Training funds for fiscal 1969. The grant follows a 1968 MDTA Act amendment guaranteeing a minimum state allocation and exceeds the 1968 original by 212000, with 55000 added for on the job training and 157000 for institutional training.
ST. ALBANS UPI former Sen Mildred Brault R St Albans died Sunday night at 74 after a lengthy illness. She served in the Vermont legislature in 1959 and was a former national director of Girls State. She is survived by her father P T Brault and one son Hebert of Plattsburgh NY. Funeral services set for Wednesday in St. Albans.
The County Highway Department clears trees along County Road 3 from Poestenkill to Berlin to widen the road. Dixon says the 19 to 20 foot roadway with 5 foot shoulders will ease traffic hazards amid prior accidents. He notes plans were shared at highway committee, Poestenhill Town Board, and with the Rensselaer Traffic Board. In Albany, over 200 attended MLK memorial services at Union Baptist Church honoring Dr. King. Clergy spoke and readings from King's works were shared. A $353.66 memorial purse will go to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
William Freud 77, Vienna born son of Sigmund Freud, died in North Adams after a life across Europe and the United States, including emigration to France and England before settling in Williamstown. In Richmond a church near the NY line burned, $250000 loss, organ destroyed, rebuilding discussed. In North Adams 24 foreign nationals faced deportation hearings over visa issues, some tied to local employers. In Pittsfield Miss Eleanor Tone 65, principal, died in a two car crash on West Street while returning from retirement party for another principal.
Vermont State Colleges faces a possible $150 annual tuition rise for residents and nonresidents if only $3.4 million in state aid is allocated for fiscal 1970. Provost Dr. Robert S. Babcock told trustees that options include higher tuition, freezing teaching salaries, or enrollment limits. He favors a tuition increase as least painful and notes capital funds and a computer program at Vermont Technical College may be delayed. The board took no action, asking for budget review to cut costs without harming operations.
Westbury, N.Y. climber Sheldon Bratman emerged from subfreezing 12 hour ordeal on Vermont’s Mt Mansfield. Lost in Ranch Valley after deep snow and wooded terrain, Bratman was found by Ski Patrol near 2:30 am Sunday, given first aid and hot drink, then released from Copley Hospital.
Local 218 of the United Electrical Workers Union will test the injunction's validity before the Vermont Supreme Court. The Springfield strike against Bryant Grinder Co. began Nov 4. Windsor Chancery Court hearings failed to resolve the challenge to the order restricting violence and setting picket-line standards. The union seeks dismissal of the restraining order while the company pursues contempt actions. Gov Davis weighs mediation under the Vermont Labor Relations Emergency Act as tensions rise.
State police say BB guns were the only weapons in a series of nighttime shootings on Grand Isle over the weekend. A service station window shattered and a rectory, a house, and a local residence were struck by BB fire. The church pastor suspects youths stirred trouble, with no firearms involved.
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