31 Mar 1967
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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1967
Page
1
In Montpelier the House approved a welfare bill 112 to 32 to bring all welfare activity under state government control. The action follows an anticipated vote after preliminary discussions and public debate.
In Montpelier the Senate Public Health Committee backed amendments to liberalize Sunday drinking rules, moving the cutoff to 1 a.m. Sunday and transferring control from the legislature to the Liquor Control Board alongside existing noon to 9 p.m. hours with meals. The House passed the measure by a wide margin, and nearby Bennington officials largely supported it, while several Bennington County reps opposed it. A separate welfare proposal to use a public referendum failed on a strong voice vote. The bill advanced to final reading with a large 115 to 31 roll call.
Vermont Governor Philip Hoff told a Model Congress audience that society must adapt its social fabric to rapid technological progress. He cited computers raising human resource issues and urged public policy to address social impacts while praising private sector gains.
An editorial rails against parking congestion in Bennington's business district as columnist Sam Ogden lambasts reapportionment on Page 4. Spring beauty at Manchester dump on Page 6. Arlington High School faces a team evaluation due Monday on Page 6.
Governor Lurleen B Wallace defies a federal desegregation order urging the Alabama Legislature to consider transferring school control and police powers to thwart integration plans. She asked for authority to mobilize state troopers and for testimony from educators and parents in a committee of the whole. The federal courts had ordered full desegregation in Alabama by fall.
In New York City talks continued as five major dailies and 10 unions faced expired contracts at midnight. Some unions prepared to strike, potentially marking a fourth major NY newspaper walkout in five years, while a printers’ chapel meeting disrupted type-setting for Sunday ads.
NASA rocket fired from Wallops Island Virginia released barium gas at altitudes of 142 and 200 miles to study winds, creating reports of flying saucers along the Eastern seaboard. A Nike Apache TEB rocket produced blue and white clouds, with a second barium launch planned for Saturday dusk and prior TEB and weather delays due to weather.
Government mediators averted a threatened rail strike by voluntary no strike agreements with the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen affecting 70 railroads nationwide except the South. If talks fail, the National Railway Labor Act allows a four month postponement. six shopcraft unions threaten a larger walkout April 12.
Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky died in Moscow at age 69 after a yearlong battle with cancer. He had been hospitalized since November and his duties were handled by Deputy Marshal Andrei Grechko, who is now the leading candidate to succeed him. Malinovsky rose from a grade school dropout to World War II hero and top Soviet military leader, but his death is not expected to alter Soviet policy.
U S jets led by a World War II ace destroyed the blast furnace of the Thai Nguyen steel plant near Hanoi in a low level attack. Navy planes hit a North Vietnamese airfield at Baithoung. a major ground battle near the Cambodian border involved about 800 U S soldiers.
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