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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1969
Page
5
Former Bromley Ski Club instructor objects to a Banner article about the Manchester School Board approving continued operation of the Junior Ski Program next year. She argues the piece misstates issues about equipment loans and the aim of keeping kids off the streets, urging the board to preserve the program for the children.
A letter to the editor argues that U S leadership uses escalation and broken agreements to justify Vietnam War actions. The writer accuses Washington of pressuring Paris talks, notes rising U S casualties, and claims the public is misled by Saigon briefings while the war drags on since 1954. SAM LLOYD Weston.
Dr. Irv ing Lyon prompts action on nuclear risk with a letter to Sen. Aiken urging a drastic cutback in the 1970 AEC budget and warning of unsafe fast breeders. The piece cites sites at Easton New York Laguna Beach Michigan and notes public petitions and reader letters from Dorset England and Winchester.
In Montpelier Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp president Albert A Cree asks the Public Service Board for permission to issue 20 million in short term notes to fund Vernon plant construction and equipment in 1969 He cites revolving credit with major banks and possible long term or private sponsor financing while noting litigation blocks long term debt and rising costs could halt work if not approved.
Vermont legislators hear that state welfare food allotments for a mother and two children run about 100 dollars a month, below USDA cost plans. Rep. Steven Martin notes figures from University of Vermont researchers as a 1966 cost of living survey was only partial evidence.
United Press International reports campus disorders erupt near North Carolina A and T University with gunfire and tear gas as police battle snipers. Chicago City College sees campus protests force class cancellations and leadership changes. Wisconsin court orders show cause to reinstate suspended students. Sit ins spread from Stony Brook to Briarcliff and Sarah Lawrence.
FBI arrested Carleton Frederickson 21 of Pembroke in Milton Vermont on March 5 for allegedly assaulting John F. O’Brien an undercover BNDD agent. Bail set at 10000 dollars. he appeared in Burlington VT before U.S. Commissioner Lynch. Eleven others are named in the case. Frederickson’s address is 200 High St Pembroke.
Employment Security Commissioner Stella Hackel told a Plainfield conference that women are still paid far less than men for the same work. Governor Deane Davis cited Nationwide figures, noting National Life Insurance Co. in Montpelier employs many women and once allowed married women to stay on the job. He also said three women were appointed to fill three male legislative vacancies in the 1969 legislature.
President Nixon named Herbert F. Travers Jr. to be U.S. attorney for Massachusetts and George W. F. Cook to the same post for Vermont. Travers, Holden, Mass., assistant attorney general since 1962, led the Criminal Division 1965 to 1967 and prosecuted the small loans case. Cook, Rutland, Vt., former state senator and former State president pro tem.
In Albany, Troy Assemblyman Neil W. Kelleher proposed a measure to bar anyone convicted of draft card burning or flag desecration from holding public office. New York City Democrats attacked the bill as punitive and too harsh, while Jerome Kretchmer argued that some campus unrest is legitimate and a lifetime ban is excessive for some youths involved in draft card burning.
Joan Parker, 17, Westmere student and Rotary Exchange participant, returned to her Bolivian home in Cochabamba on Thursday after a five week disappearance. Confirming she is well, she apologized for the trouble caused by the search conducted by family Rotarians State Department officials and ham radio operators across two continents. She did not disclose her exact whereabouts during the absence but said she has money and plans to stay three more months.
Delegates at the Citizens' Convention in Schenectady selected Rev. Eugene Dix as the preferred school board candidate for the May election, winning 28 of 35 neighborhood group votes. He defeated Barbara Rotundo, a SUNY Albany English professor, and attorney Romani Versaci.
Democrats in the New York legislature roll out a budget plan to replace Governor Rockefeller's proposed sales tax increase. The plan calls for tax reform, higher revenue estimates, and higher rates on business and high earners, aiming to fund education welfare and City University without the 5 percent across the board cuts Rockefeller sought.
In Williamstown the recount for a three year selectman term on March 3 produced a one vote victory for William LePage over Walter E. Schroeder after the original tally had Schroeder ahead by two. The Pittsfield Plaza Shopping Center, known as the Big N, was sold for 1.3 million dollars to a group of buyers headed by Anthony F. Early Max L. Kahn Edward N. Ney and Franklyn Thomas. Hopkins Memorial Forest reverting to Williams College from the U S Department of Agriculture may be developed with plans to study best uses for the 1625 acre site. Immigration agents arrested 10 aliens in North Adams mostly from Colombia and British Honduras most held on 1500 bonds for hearings in Boston. eight are in Norfolk County Jail.
North Adams State College dormitory residents may hang framed reproductions from the NASC library collection eight works donated by NASC Friends of Art. The artists include Homer Gauguin Toulouse-Lautrec and others.
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