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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1965
Page
2
Vermont and the Internal Revenue Service reached a cooperative information exchange agreement for tax administration. Gov Hoff and IRS district director Fulton Fields in Burlington noted data on audit adjustments, non-filers, and delinquent taxpayers will be shared. Vermont becomes the 38th state to join.
The Essex Junction Trustees will continue contesting Police Chief Dewey Perry's suspension, hiring Charles Adams as a third lawyer. Perry, 67, was suspended May 18 for alleged dereliction of duty, and an eight charge complaint in Chittenden Municipal Court was dismissed. He returned to desk July 1 but remains off payroll.
Vermont Technical College at Randolph Center received a 3369 dollar grant from the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity to expand the on campus work program for the fall semester. The funds will pay financially strapped students for on campus work, boosting the program by seventy five percent and cover about ninety percent of the rise in the program.
Barre officials report 21 applicants for the Granite City manager job to replace Robert Palmer who died in May. Three of the applicants are Vermont residents. City leaders hope to pick Palmer's successor by September 1, with Acting City Manager Harland Rowell among the applicants.
The Austine School for the Deaf headmaster Jay Farman has resigned to lead the New York State School for the Deaf in Rome New York. Farman will start August 10 after serving Austine since 1958 and previously leading the Michigan School for the Deaf. A replacement at Austine has not been named.
Urban Renewal Director Arthur Hogan Jr. says demolition of buildings in the 27 acre Champlain Street renewal area will start in April and wrap by July 1. The agency has acquired 18 of 100 properties in the redevelopment zone.
The U S Forest Service will lease 50 acres from the University of Vermont to establish a permanent national maple production research center near Burlington. Senator George D. Aiken announced the signing of a 50 year lease and said Congress appropriated $90,000 to expand the Burlington maple research project, increasing staff from 13 to 21 and bringing total 1966 funding to $244,000.
A nine county weather research program will open Monday at the Albany County Court House. Delegations from Albany Rensselaer Schenectady Saratoga Columbia Greene Washington Fulton and Montgomery Counties are invited. Raymond Falconer of Albany State University outlines cloud seeding with silver iodide and widespread instrumentation to assess rainfall outcomes.
Albany Gov Nelson Rockefeller signed a bill banning glue sniffing effective September 1. The measure targets inhalation of glue liquid cement and other adhesives to create an intoxication-like high.
Pittsfield could see new air service as Statewide Airlines petitions the Civil Aeronautics Board for a certificate to operate flights with stops including Pittsfield and several other New England cities. The carrier cites existing routes from New York to Nashua and Laconia and notes Pittsfield currently has Yankee Airlines service with two daily flights to New York City.
Adams North Adams Cheshire and Williamstown officials urge plans for a highway along the Route 8 corridor through Pittsfield Cheshire Adams and North Adams. They say Route 7 would simply speed traffic toward Vermont and provide little local benefit.
New York stocks opened mixed in dull trading. Steels were firm, motors churned, oils eased, electronics weaker, metals mixed, airlines firm, chemicals higher. Industrial names moved with Republic Steel easing to 40 while Armco rose, GM fell, Chrysler edged down, Ford rose, Du Pont up, Eastman Kodak up, Union Carbide up, nickel and Alcoa mixed, IBM higher amid scattered moves.
In New York, Gar Eth Martinis, son of acting Supreme Court Justice Joseph A. Martinis, saw his vehicular homicide trial end in a hung jury after two days of deliberation. Jurors reported a deadlock on eight for acquittal and four for conviction as Assistant DA Andrew C. McCarthy asked for a Sept. 13 retrial.
At Otis Air Force Base Massachusetts an interfaith memorial was held for 16 men killed when a radar picket plane crashed in the North Atlantic. Five planes will fly a missing airman formation overhead as two hundred base airmen attend. Nine bodies recovered seven missing, Coast Guard search ends. heavy fog hampered recovery.
The Civil Aeronautics Board reviewed Statewide Airlines request to operate a New England regional air taxi network from New York Newark to Boston and 30 plus New England cities. The Brooklyn company said it has four twin engine planes and would buy modern short haul airliners if granted. States to be served include Connecticut New Haven Hartford and Groton Massachusetts Bedford Taunton Fall River Norwood Orange Portland Belfast Bangor Vermont Newport Springfield and more. In other news President Johnson nominated Maj. Gen. John A. Heintges for promotion to lieutenant general to command I Corps in Korea succeeding Lt. Gen. Edgar C. Coleman who becomes deputy commander in chief and chief of staff of the U S Army Pacific.
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