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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1964
Page
2
In Waterbury Vermont residents rescinded a 625000 school bond by a 463 353 vote at a town meeting. The motion to cancel the bond approved January 28 followed rejection of a committee to pursue alternate school plans.
In Barnet Vermont James Ritchie was re-elected to his 38th straight term as town clerk and treasurer at the annual town meeting. The Vermont Extension Service reports 45,000 calls and 21,000 farm visits in 1963, with 110,000 youths attending Extension meetings and 290,000 bulletins distributed statewide across 35 focus areas.
Vermont's first lady Joan Hoff suffered a shoulder injury after a fall while skiing at the Glen Ellen area in Fayston. Gov. Philip Hoff was present at the scene and the governor's office says the injury is not serious.
Tinmouth residents attend a town meeting amid a measles outbreak with only 29 of 103 registered voters present. The gathering reflects health concerns reducing participation in local civic events.
Albany Medical College receives grants exceeding 250000 dollars from three federal agencies and over a dozen pharmaceutical firms to fund the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Toxicology. Dr. Frederick Coulston is appointed director of the new drug safety research unit.
William S. Burke, president of the Cohoes Board of Education, will start proceedings to exercise an option on 48 acres of the Game Estate off Columbia Street for a new secondary school. Land cost 67700 dollars with 7700 paid. five building complex priced over 1600000 dollars to educate 800 senior high students. The Sousie Fund Committee has collected 625 dollars in two days after the fire that killed eight Sousie children and a granddaughter, with a mass funeral held in St Patrick's Church.
Adams voters rejected the town manager plan for a second time 2 252 to 1 759 with a third vote possible in 1965. Fred Dabrowski upset former selectman A Edward Godek 2 759 to 2 251 in the largest turnout in 13 years.
Mrs Christine Sherman Busby age 52 of State Street North Adams died at North Adams Hospital after sustaining burns to 60 percent of her body when a gown she wore brushed an electric space heater and caught fire.
A Tuesday blaze at the Harley Phelps farm near Ashford-A wiped out a large barn and its contents with about 100000 dollars in damage. Much of the hay supply was consumed, and the fire's cause remains undetermined.
Igor Stravinsky plans a choral work in memory of John F Kennedy with text by poet W H Auden. Harold Wilson, likely British prime minister, praises U S leaders after a four day US visit. Eugene McDonald III and Virginia Baker wed in Las Vegas amid Zenith Radio fortune ties. Vickie Wray, three, faces removal of an eye due to cancer, drawing national sympathy.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller shifted to economic issues in Concord arguing Johnson's administration weakened security and free enterprise. He outlined policy ideas including closer Western ties, U.S. leadership with De Gaulle, halting aid to aggressors, and creating millions of jobs within five years.
The Bennington Banner lists contact numbers for business news and advertising and notes daily publication except Sundays and holidays. It gives office address at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont and announces AP news rights for local and dispatch content with subscription pricing for Vermont and U.S. regions.
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