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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1968
Page
5
Governor Hoff, chairing the New England Governors' Conference, urged NE Telephone and IBTW to reconcile differences amid a seven week strike affecting four states. He urged a breakthrough in talks in Boston and warned he may revisit issues if no results arise. Federal mediator Sullivan said the dispute remains unsettled.
A rabid fox was killed by a horse in a South Lincoln riding ring after it invaded the circle. Mrs. Richard Davis of Bristol delivered the fox to the state health department for tests. All horses had rabies vaccinations. the fox tested positive yesterday. This marks the sixth confirmed animal rabies case in the state this year and the fourth in a new Addison County outbreak.
ST JOHNSBURY UPI The Health Education and Welfare Department approves a 55000 grant for constructing Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St Johnsbury in an announcement from Washington by Senator George D Aiken office.
In Albany and Troy reports two city incidents are noted. NAACP officials say Albany will host a summer action as a task force dramatizes local inadequacies and plans rent strikes. Mayor Corning had rejected a 67-point housing and employment demand list. In Troy a street sweeper collision killed 21 year old Vietnam veteran Michael Delaney, the seventh Troy traffic fatality this year.
Jo Ann King, 18, of 132 Commercial Street North Adams, graduated last Friday from Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown. She has been sightless since birth, served as class president both sophomore and senior years, led the Girls' Student Council, and acted in drama while cheerleading and playing softball, shuffleboard, and bowling. Also, Berkshire County will keep an Economic Redevelopment Area designation to access federal aid. Berkshire Community College will offer a six session summer workshop on community change based on the U S Riot Commission Report, in cooperation with the Berkshire Community Action Council. Williams College expects about 600 alumni for its 146th Society of Alumni reunion weekend with a Saturday parade and a 11 a.m. Saturday meeting in Chapin Hall.
The Vermont State Buildings Board is to decide whether to save or demolish the 92 year old Pavilion Hotel. William Kearns said the Legislative Council Pavilion Study Committee asked for the board position, with a June 18 meeting in Montpelier. The panel previously supported saving the hotel in 1965, but a 3-2 vote last January rejected that reaffirmation.
Social Welfare Commissioner John Wackerman urges Governor Hoff to ask the Agriculture Department and Vermont's congressional delegation for a federal Food Stamp Program review. The proposal came as Lt. Gov. John Daley and an 11 member task force began assessing ideas to improve services for low income and poor families.
William A. Hunter, Democratic state chairman, charges Republican Elbert G. Moulton with trying to market a political myth in attacking Democratic comments on a white Anglo Saxon Protestant for Daley’s running mate. The dispute centers on racial justice talk versus running mate tone as campaign strategy.
Vermont reports 11 months general fund revenues totaling 53.469 million, 4.6 million above last year. Revenue officials note a 9.4 percent jump but caution year end hinges on corporate franchise taxes and June results to meet 65 million estimate.
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