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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1966
Page
2
A Vermont delegation met Tuesday with the state Highway Board in Montpelier to review possible work on U S Route 5 Country Club Hill. Chief engineer Reginald Arnold said it is too early to quote construction plans or costs as studies continue. The project is in the accelerated highway program per a special legislature.
The Vermont Department of Forests and Parks will get a 157,785 dollar Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grant for camping facilities at nine state parks as part of a 345,207 dollar total program. Phase one targets Groton Bomoseen Fort Dummer Maidstone Button Bay Thetford and Mt Mansfield parks, with North Hero and Lake Carmi added in phase two. Aiken announced the news in Washington on Tuesday.
Vermont Life Magazine announces a new 20 year index compiled and annotated by Dorothy B. Allen. The volume supersedes the first 10 year index and offers cross referenced subject listings with titles authors column and prominent person indices plus a picture essay and photo location tabulation priced at 3 postpaid and available here starting June 20.
A 24-year-old Albany County Jail inmate wearing white hospital pajamas and a green robe escaped Albany Medical Center Hospital Tuesday night after an emergency appendectomy. Leonard Plotz, held on assault and resisting arrest charges, prompted a citywide dragnet along Southern Boulevard after a sighting of a barefoot man in a bathrobe hitchhiking on Delaware Avenue.
In Berkshire, 20 women at GE Co voltage regulator plant voted to remain off their jobs indefinitely after rejecting a new piece rate incentive plan. About 180 sympathetic workers returned to work, with union talks on Tuesday yielding no progress. Also reported are Berkshire public defenders’ salary increases and a Great Barrington bookie case deliberation set in Berkshire Superior Court.
The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Charlotte Mahoney of St Albans, convicted of killing her husband Howard Mahoney in 1961, is entitled to inherit nearly $4,000 from his estate. The decision voids Franklin County Probate Court's grant to Howard's parents and may prompt 1967 legislative changes. She is serving a 12 to 15 year sentence in Rutland.
UPI reports Hurricane Alma striking Havana with 90 mph winds and moving toward Florida. Forecasts indicate the center could reach near Key West by early afternoon as Florida’s island chain from Key Largo to Everglades City is placed on emergency alert. The storm, the season’s first, is a minimal hurricane with 90 mph winds and is moving northeast at 15 mph. Havana and Isle of Pines are already bearing hurricane conditions.
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