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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1962
Page
7
Saratoga Springs announces a minimum $364 000 in purses for 84 early closing harness races at Saratoga Raceway headline a 75 night summer meeting opening Thursday and ending Sept 1 Grand Circuit Week runs June 25 to 30 with about $100 000 in purses.
Eighteen yearlings purchased at the Harrisburg Standardbred Sale enter the 1962 Saratoga Raceway season, with nine Hambletonian and nine Little Brown Jug eligibles. Buyers include George Chretien, Al LaBarge, Henry Sokol, Aubrey Rodney, George Cook, R. George Wiswall, and Glen Song Stable among others.
A federal judge ruled ex soldier George John Gessner mentally ill and unfit for trial on charges of passing nuclear secrets to the Russians. Gessner, 25, was sent to the U S Medical Center at Springfield Missouri for treatment after deserting Ft Bliss Texas in 1960. He was to face charges connected to Soviet Embassy officials in Mexico City detailing firing systems for two gun type nuclear weapons.
Dr William Beebe renowned naturalist author and explorer dies at 84 at the tropical research station he founded in Port of Spain Trinidad He had led ocean descents in a bathysphere including a 3028 foot Bermuda dive in 1934 and published nearly 100 named animals and 22 books with a vast scientific output Funeral arrangements were not yet set.
J Scott Butterworth MD of New York City will present a paper on cardiovascular diagnosis at the Vermont Heart Association annual meeting in Montpelier June 21. The session will be a combined meeting with several medical societies and will feature a luncheon and a demonstration of the Heartmobile diagnostic device.
The Thrift Shop reports requests for children’s shorts and a variety of dishes. There is one ironing board on hand, with a request for another. The Bible awaits the requester. On hand are two dining room chairs and quart and pint canning jars. Workers Friday included Mrs. Carl Adams, Miss Wilhelmina Hicks, Mrs. P. A. Daley, Amuel Baker, and Mrs. Katherine Edison.
About a thousand students defied martial law to march on the U S Embassy in Seoul over the beating of a Korean by two American lieutenants Davis Swanson and Thomas Wilde. Police arrested over 100 demonstrators with no violence reported.
A Boston AP report notes a panel led by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on Prospects of Mankind proposed day nurseries and retraining programs for women as ways to increase female participation in the workforce. Officials including Arthur Goldberg and Thomas Mendenhall supported the ideas, with Kennedy urging equal pay and status.
In Atlanta a lawsuit accuses Air France of willful misconduct and gross negligence in the plane crash that killed 130 people in France. The suit seeks 250 000 dollars and was filed in U S District Court by Atlanta dentists Dr Hope Harvey Payne Jr and Dr Robert Payne, sons of victim Annette Snelson Payne.
Vermont's Supreme Court will hear two reapportionment motions concerning the State Senate. One seeks an immediate appeal on an injunction that blocked senatorial elections in two counties. The other asks to stay the injunction until the 1964 elections to ensure ballot access for Rutland and Chittenden counties this year.
Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth described today’s Naval Academy graduates as men with unlimited knowledge, imagination and patriotism. He cited honor, integrity, idealism and self sacrifice as core success ingredients at the 112th graduation exercise with officials from Navy, Marines, Army and Air Force present to swear in new officers.
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