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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1967
Page
2
The FTC reports costly advertising by 19 major oil firms fuels higher pump prices. It urges close scrutiny of pricing practices and mergers, warns price wars could drive independent refiners out of business, and lists 19 firms comprising about 75 percent of U.S. gasoline sales.
New Orleans news brief reports actress Jayne Mansfield age 34 died in a car crash with her lawyer Sam Brody and chauffeur Ronnie Harrison. Mickey Hargitay, her ex husband, plans private funeral services with Mansfield’s parents and third husband Matt Cimber. Funeral locations listed in Silverman Funeral Home Los Angeles and Gulfport Mississippi.
Boston UPI reports police planned stringent Fourth of July traffic enforcement as thousands travel to sun spots. State and local agencies canceled days off and leaves to boost patrols on New England highways amid holiday travel.
New Haven Railroad withdraws a request to cut trains seeking assurances from the Post Office that mails will stay on the bankrupt line. Post Office will temporarily route mail on the New Haven while it studies needs, trustees had planned to reduce service on the Springfield line by 25 percent and the New York Boston shore line by 40 percent.
In Buffalo, three nights of racial violence continued with sniper fire, rock throwing, and looting. At least seven people were wounded, including 15-year-old Timothy Neal who said a pair of white men in a passing wagon shot him in the back. Police logged additional reports of white troublemakers in the east side Negro ghetto.
Congress ends six month session amid partisan charges and mixed progress. Powell ousted and Dodd censured mark the period. draft law extended. college deferments kept. wartime veterans benefits approved. debt limit raised to 365 billion. Violence erupts in New York area with 130 arrested and dozens injured.
Dr. Norman Burns, former director of the U.S. AID agency in Jordan, warned at a meeting of the Arab Emergency Relief Committee that if the refugee problem is not solved in the next few months there will be no peace in the Middle East in our lifetime. He called the refugee solution an urgent prerequisite for Near East stability.
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin left Havana after four day talks with Fidel Castro in a secrecy tied visit. He was to fly to New York for a refueling stop en route to Paris to meet Charles de Gaulle. The talks were described as non-official with no final communique likely.
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