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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1962
Page
2
Plainfield Goddard College may face uniform fitting problems as it fields its first women players on a nine person baseball squad. Captain Joe McEntyre says he secured 11 male worn uniforms from Morris High School, Bronx.
Bernard Goldfine's Northfield Mills remains under receivership in U S District Court with William Creaser as receiver. Creaser reported chaotic office conditions and that Mildred Paperman, Goldfines secretary, had usurped management functions.
Senator Albert Berkowitz praises Assemblyman Douglas Hudson for pushing a New York park at Grafton and extending the Taconic Parkway to the Berkshire Spur of the New York Thruway. No site yet chosen for the Grafton park.
Brattleboro resident John P. Goss was nominated for Vermont Education Association president as 136 delegates from 46 local associations gathered for the VEA spring assembly. Other nominations included Robert M. Irvine for vice president and Everett Dimick for treasurer, with reports, a budget, and 1962 63 dues set.
Cpl. Patrick A. Schiemenz of Spring Street serves on a recovery team at NASA Wallops Island Virginia. HR2S helicopters from the Marine Corps Coast Guard and Navy retrieved two nose cones from the Atlantic within minutes of impact, one from a five stage rocket test and the other from an Aerobee sounding rocket. Retrievals occurred hours after liftoff and support the Langley and Lewis centers in cryogenic fuel and fuel systems studies.
The Rhode Island Baptist State Convention says it is unalterably opposed to using state funds to buy textbooks for Catholic parochial schools. A Providence Diocese request prompted a state hearing at the State House tomorrow. The stance follows earlier disapproval from the Rhode Island State Council of Churches.
In Boston the polling site used by President Kennedy and his wife in 1960 has been sold to the New England Conference of the Methodist Church. The 1808 building, once the Old West Church and later a public library, may reopen as a church for merged Methodist congregations.
Washington AP reports poet Robert Frost in an expansive mood on his 88th birthday praised leaders across the spectrum. He called Khrushchev “a terror” but said admiration comes with magnanimity and named Eisenhower a fine old man while noting Kennedy’s Irish arts affinity. He spoke at a news conference, toured the Library of Congress, and will receive a White House medal.
Berkshire Lanesboro selectmen granted a permit for a new South Main Street golf course clubhouse with an estimated cost of 30000 dollars. In North Adams, Faculty Wives of North Adams State College plan to attend a Boston hearing on a Senate bill to raise their husbands' pay by as much as 2652 dollars.
Selectmen debated dog restraint rules with little action, noting long running inertia since a protesting owner claimed his dog Sam could not be restrained. The order prohibits dogs from April through October. Armand Pandell, a Clarksburg volunteer firefighter, rushed from a town blaze to North Adams where an explosion shattered bank windows and Ig ignited drapes before local fire crews arrived.
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