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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1977
Page
1
East Main Street’s aging box factory is torn down by Burgess Brothers after a low bid won by the firm. Traims Luksus opposed the roof breach. The scene features Clyde Burgess Jr. and a crane as walls show rot while protests cite preservation.
President Carter, awaiting May talks in Geneva, regards the Soviet rejection of his radical plan to curb strategic arms with cautious optimism while keeping options open for deploying more weapons if good faith is lacking. He maintains strong support for human rights and highlights new working groups on demilitarization, arms limits, and testing safeguards.
Washington and Moscow said new arms control talks will be held in Geneva in May with high level discussions including the Middle East. The communique noted bilateral talks would continue on strategic arms and other disarmament questions while an exchange of views on the Middle East and a possible resumption of the Geneva conference took place.
John Philip Hall a longtime Bennington businessman and former Evans News owner died in Sarasota Florida at 67 after a heart attack while on vacation. He leaves widow Helen MacKinnon two daughters Phyllis Rick and Carolyn Hammond three grandchildren and two brothers. Funeral Saturday at 4 pm Second Congregational Church with Rev Thomas Steffen. Memorials to American Heart Association. Burial Park Lawn Cemetery.
In Montpelier Vermont the House approved the fiscal 1978 Appropriations Act after amending state aid distribution to local schools. Appropriations Chairman John Boylan said the Senate committee would finish review of the $182 million proposal by next week as the logjam in the General Assembly eases. The Senate also expected to finalize a bill banning Lee in a related action.
Vermont House backed Rep. Thomas H. Foster’s scenic roads bill on a 112 to 29 vote moving it to final approval. The measure would let town selectmen designate certain roads as scenic and eligible for state aid without full state-standard requirements, with the Scenery Preservation Council setting standards in earlier versions, opposed by the Transportation Committee.
In the nation section the House votes to continue the assassination probe while Mansfield is named ambassador to Japan. Local notes include Jeffords pushing a bottle deposit law and oil costs rising nearly 30 percent in New England this winter.
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