Weather outlook with clearing and mild temperatures
Partly cloudy with scattered brief showers and little temperature change today. High in the 70s. Clearing tonight with a cool low in the 50s. Tuesday remains mostly sunny and somewhat warmer.
06 Jul 1964
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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1964
Page
1
Partly cloudy with scattered brief showers and little temperature change today. High in the 70s. Clearing tonight with a cool low in the 50s. Tuesday remains mostly sunny and somewhat warmer.
Gov William Scranton announced that Dr Milton Eisenhower brother of Dwight Eisenhower will nominate him at the San Francisco convention. The bid targets Goldwater delegates in Illinois as Scranton campaigns with whistle stop tours and broad Illinois GOP hopes while Gen Eisenhower remains neutral.
Ex St. Albans Mayor James E. Malloy announced his bid for the Democratic nomination for Vermont’s lone U S House seat. He aims to bring progressive national policies to represent Vermont’s needs, challenging incumbent Republican Robert T. Stafford from Rutland.
An early morning earthquake shook at least ten states in central and western Mexico causing hotel and home evacuations. No casualties were reported though CNs and slabs fell, and street and telephone services were briefly out. Tremor times were 1:23 a.m. 1:11 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. local.
Nationally motorists set a new death record for the Independence Day weekend despite police efforts and safety warnings. Vermont reported a lone weekend fatality near Whitingham as Clifford Pierce of Greerfield Mass died after a pickup truck overturned, pinning him under the vehicle. The UPI tally showed at least 492 traffic deaths from 6 p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, with 141 drownings, 6 plane deaths and 85 miscellaneous fatalities, totaling 724.
In San Francisco the GOP Platform Committee tests civil rights as Pennsylvanian William Scranton backers push for a plank endorsing constitutional rights law enacted last week. Goldwater allies demand restraint arguing the law’s constitutional status should rest with the Supreme Court.
A UPI report notes that a party to people survey shows most Republicans favor the civil rights law. Only a small minority oppose it, with 82 percent of Senate Republicans and 78 percent of House Republicans supporting the measure. About 400000 questionnaires were sent and 40000 replies received.
Police and Vermont Railway officials probe how a boxcar broke free in North Bennington Vermont. Vandals or youths are suspected to have started the car from the yard and it rolled under a downhill slope onto a Boston and Maine track about 10 miles away in New York. State police continue the investigation. no night watchman and vandals observed near the yard.
In Vermont, 110 pari mutuel clerks at Green Mountain Park form an informal executive committee to challenge a contract their union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, signed with track management. They allege no voice in the deal, call it a sweetheart agreement, and consider pursuing a different union or renegotiation under law.
The Vermont track dispute stalls labor intervention as both state and federal avenues appear closed due to lack of interstate commerce and no formal settlement mechanism. Union organizer Margera seeks mediation. Teamsters’ Aug 18 contract with track prompts meetings and contested representation among pari mutuel clerks.
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