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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1968
Page
7
Across the nation towns face Dutch Elm Disease threatening elm boulevards. Experts cite sanitation and controlled insecticide use as cheapest options, with debates over DDT risks to wildlife. Price estimates show long term costs for towns with thousands of elms.
Baudilio Castellanos Garcia, Cuban ambassador to France, said the five Communist guerrillas traveling from Chile to Havana are high command members of Cuba's Latin American Revolutionary Forces. They were assigned to fight alongside Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia.
Washington Realtors of America announced a seven objective Make America Better program to tackle urban problems focusing on jobs education and housing. Lyn E. Davis of Dallas outlined 50 points for nationwide implementation with 1 550 boards backing the effort to improve housing for low income families while addressing social unrest. The plan calls for rehabilitation and construction, home care training, crime prevention, youth employment, better building codes, and coordinated local actions across metropolitan areas.
Washington based report notes a shift in housing from single family subdivisions to multi family designs. House and Home magazine cites higher costs and land scarcity pushing toward twinhouses high rises condominiums and apartment villages with more open space privacy and lower maintenance. The article says 40 percent of model home tours disappointed and warns builders to adapt or lose market share as single family demand declines from 93 to 65 percent over a decade.
New York January contract values for future construction projects fell for the third consecutive month, with the Dodge index at 159 and total contracts $3.714 billion. The report notes the index remains below October’s all time high, while housing shows strong year over year gains in January 1968 but signals fading momentum.
Yale University chaplain Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. and four others face a federal draft conspiracy indictment. Coffin’s attorney moved to dismiss and seek severance, arguing prejudice from joint trial. Co-defendants include Dr. Benjamin Spock Marcus Raskin and Michael Ferber. Raskin urged dismissal on constitutional grounds and requested trial in Washington. Conviction could bring up to five years’ imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
New Britain Conn Stanley Works reported 1967 sales of 230.93 million dollars, a slight rise from 1966, while net income fell to 10.646 million dollars or 3.01 per share from 11.134 million and 3.14 per share. President Donald W. Davis cited weaker domestic and international markets but noted the fourth quarter and early 1968 orders show improvement. The firm, NYSE listed, is a major tool hardware maker with 32 U.S. plants, 8 in Canada, 11 abroad, about 14,000 employees and over 18,000 stockholders.
Palermo Sicily reports rising fatalities from January quakes as rescuers recover another body in Gibellina raising the toll to 283. Authorities search remaining wreckage for survivors and assess damage across the affected region.
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