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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1965
Page
2
UPI reports Sen. Prouty announced federal approval of a 900 person Vermont youth corps. The $230,720 program mostly funded by the federal government will hire youths for neighborhood projects statewide, with $2,700 slated to be paid locally.
ESSEX JUNCTION The Champlain Valley Exposition will start as planned on August 30 despite a Sunday fire that destroyed the grandstand area. General Manager Harris Drury said temporary bleachers are being readied to house spectators for trotting and pacing races and livestock judging. Burlington reports of housing discrimination against Negroes surfaced at a Burlington Lions Club meeting led by Rev Edward Fitzsimons. He noted about 70 Negroes live in the Greater Burlington area with 45 in the local NAACP, calling bias an obstacle to social life though offering few details. Fitzsimons also serves as president of the Vermont Civil Rights Union.
The Vermont State Colleges board approves a new 12 000 square foot library at Vermont Technical College designed by Calcagni and Frazier of Burlington. It will house 30 000 volumes and include reading and lounge spaces. The board also backs a long range land use plan and Peace Corps training, uniform accounting, and extra budgetary controls for the four colleges.
In New York, a car driven by Kenneth Squadere, 26, of Troy left Burden Lake Road, struck a tree, and rolled into Burden Lake. Four passengers reached shore and were treated at Samaritan Hospital in Troy for minor injuries. Squadere received a summons for failing to keep to the right.
In Williamstown Berkshire a house that refused to join Williams after the college abolished fraternities will serve as the national headquarters and a museum for Theta Delta Chi this September. A Lee committee in Lee works to research Maj. Gen. Charles Lee's wartime record and publish the true facts, even if unflattering.
Senator George D. Aiken reported an inquiry from a Mid Atlantic state about locating an industrial plant in New England on the Champlain Waterway. He noted questions on Richelieu River drafts, Albany linkage depths, and Vermont port availability, stressing that only a 12 foot depth would attract industry and that current depth limits usage. The Champlain Waterway improvement study by the International Joint Commission is due a report next fall.
In Lyndonville Vermont authorities say police chief Alexander Fontecha was killed and buried in a Barre funeral where his flag draped coffin was carried by six state pallbearers amid somber ceremony.
Officials at Waterbury State Hospital said it will be at least two weeks before the psychiatric tests on Jean LaMarche of Montreal are completed. LaMarche is accused of slain Madeleine Guindon in West Swanton on June 24. Guindon died at St Albans Hospital after police found her bullet riddled body on the front step. Police used tear gas to flush LaMarche from the home. LaMarche was committed for mental tests by Municipal Judge Carl Gregg.
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