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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1963
Page
2
Gov Hoff and an eight member coordinating committee start a year long review aimed at restructuring government at both state and local levels. The panel plans to foster joint services to reduce duplicated welfare education and development costs. New member Robert H Slocum of Burlington, a retired Mobil Oil executive, joins the group.
Public Safety Commissioner William H. Baumann has been renamed to a third term as chairman of the international relations committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The committee fosters closer cooperation with police organizations worldwide.
A Plainfield bus carrying twelve passengers and a driver escaped injury when it hit a car backing from a driveway and then struck a parked empty vehicle on slippery U.S. 2. The driver of the backing car Beatrice K. Johnson aged 68 from Plainfield was unhurt.
In Burlington two more officials say they will not run for mayor. Joseph L. Allard deputy city assessor and former Mayor John J. Burns both bowed out two days after Mayor Robert K. Bing. No Republican candidate has announced.
AP reports hearings on Gov Hoff's proposed budget begin tomorrow in Montpelier with the education department likely first up. Senate Appropriations Chair Sen John H Boylan of Essex noted the hearing schedule and priorities.
Albany reports revenues for the current fiscal year may fall about 40 million below Governor Rockefeller's estimates. Budget director T Norman Hurd says the year will end March 31 in the black. Major tax receipts like gasoline and cigarette taxes lag behind last year. The Education Department notes tuition rises at private colleges from 1959 to 1962, while public institutions show little change. SUNY announces new tuition policy for teacher-training, two-year institutes.
Williamstown selectmen and the Prudential Committee meet at 7 30 PM to discuss a federal grant under the public works acceleration act for water system improvements. The plan includes a second well on Stetson Road a two million gallon standpipe on Stone Hill and new mains with matching town funds. North Adams polio program extended Sabin vaccine to all three months to five years who missed distribution. offices open 1 to 5 PM all week. Pittsfield jazz in the sanctuary at the Unitarian Church draws about 100 attendees with performers led by Dave Huxtable and featuring Loucks Shepard LaPlante.
Thousands of Roman Catholic nuns in Hungary, displaced when orders were dissolved by the communist regime in 1950, now work as nurses, cooks, and factory workers. Some remain in teaching or charity roles while others join Solidaritas production communes producing leather goods and clothing. many live with families or in church homes funded by the state or church parity.
NBC previews four part series explaining the Soviet Union with interviews film clips and narration by Chet Huntley. The first hour titled The Death of Stalin covers Stalin's rise and 1953 death amid power struggles and Beria's execution. Next episode The Rise of Khrushchev teased as potentially more revealing. CBS Defenders aired a murder party episode seen as a quaint period piece.
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