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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1963
Page
2
Vermont state officials announced a 0.1 percentage point increase to the unemployment tax, boosting employer contributions to the unemployment compensation fund. Automatic rate changes depend on year end fund results versus an 8 percent norm.
A one and a half story farmhouse owned by Mrs Edith Cook on Wagar Pond Road in New York was destroyed with all its contents on Thursday. The owner was away visiting a friend when flames were spotted by a nearby woodcutter. No loss estimate or cause has been determined.
Safe burglars spent long hours Wednesday night at the W. T. Grant Store in Troy and started fires. They attempted to heat the safe but were thwarted. evidence of heat damage appeared on the door and desk while an arriving engineer tending boilers at 6 am appears to have driven them off.
Berkshire Telecable Corp. won a franchise to wire Adams Williamstown and North Adams for television service at about $350,000 in the current year. Local schools will offer cable service free when available. SAVOY voters approve a 10 percent pay raise for elected officers and invite town workers to petition for higher wages. About a third of 180 voters backed the $93,000 budget, up $9,000 from 1962.
Town Manager J Maynard Austin said an official from the State Division of Waterways will soon send an engineer to study the Green River stream improvement project. A proposed channeling revision downstream from the Wally Bridge on Main St would move the channel westward to use the two waterways under the bridge. Currently water flows under one span.
Boston marks 200 years since James Otis moderated the first public meeting at Faneuil Hall, a building born as Boston's central market. The hall, designed by John Smibert and expanded by Charles Bulfinch, houses exhibits from the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and remains a public meeting place known as The Cradle of Liberty.
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sundays and holidays. Rates are listed for home delivery by carrier and mail within 50 mile radius, Vermont, and elsewhere in the U.S. with prices for 3 months, 6 months, and one year. Special rates for servicemen are noted.
IRS officials told New England senators the planned transfer of data processing staff from Maine Vermont New Hampshire and Rhode Island has been canceled The plan announced March 6 would move 125 receivers and processors but the IRS says these workers will not be affected while the review continues About 110 employees remain in district offices who would have been impacted The proposal would shift supervisory functions from Augusta Portsmouth Burlington and Providence to Boston and Hartford The New England delegation warned the move could cost jobs and harm service Senator Margaret Chase Smith said 74 of 110 workers could be reassigned within districts. 36 could transfer or retire Rep Carleton King criticized a broader push to centralize operations in Massachusetts.
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