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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1968
Page
5
Vermont lawmakers approve a 120 pay bonus for Vietnam Era veterans funded by 100,000 from a Tax Department mapping program and 200,000 from heightened inheritance taxes. About 2,800 veterans would receive the payment starting July 1 unless Gov Hoff vetoes it citing funding sources and tied taxes concerns.
The Vermont Fellowship of Women of the United Church of Christ announced events at a Wednesday meeting in Randolph Center. Two overnight retreats at Atkinson House Newbury led by Rev. Frank Meadows open to 30 women each, with March 29 30 and April 24 25 dates. Registration via Mrs. George Johnson Montpelier. Spring workshops follow April 30 Westminster May 1 Randolph May 2 St. Albans. Annual meeting September 24 Middlebury.
In New York retired GE engineer S Snell spends 10000 on newspaper adverts calling for ending the Vietnam war. A Times ad titled Will you help end the war in Vietnam? costs 2500 and is the first of several such notices nationwide. Snell says he is no longer backing the president’s Vietnam policy and hopes to prompt a public response.
A tractor trailer lost its cargo on North and Main Streets causing four and a half hours of disruption. The Blue Line Express unit carried a 21 ton steel box with 800 chemical bags that tore a long gauge in the pavement. In Williamstown, 86 percent of Williams College faculty signed a statement opposing the current course of the Vietnam War and sent it to Johnson, Kennedy, Brooke, and Conte. North Adams Transcript ends cooperative news with WMNB on March 30, starting its own coverage.
Powell returns to Washington to bolster his bid to reclaim Harlem’s seat after the House expelled him on March 1, 1967 for alleged misuse of funds and a defamation suit. He will meet legal counsel and may travel from Bimini, Bahamas, as he pursues a House return.
Col. E A Alexander of Vermont was elected chairman of the New England State Police Administrative Conference succeeding Col. Walter E Stone of Rhode Island. The group reviewed Civil Disturbance Schools and the New England State Police compact, with New Hampshire still pending action. Other members include Col. Joseph L. Regan and commissioners Leo Laughlin and Leo Mulcahy.
UPI reports two University of New Hampshire students stranded on a 500-foot ice ledge above Huntington Ravine on Mt. Washington were rescued and prepared for descent. Jeffrey Camp of North Conway survived. Tom Davis of Exeter was pulled down by expert climbers after being trapped by an avalanche during severe winds.
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