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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1963
Page
2
Gov Hoff told a Loyalty Day audience that loyalty to the U.S. is essential while urging citizens to stay informed, join politics, and run for office. He praised students at St Francis Xavier School for essay winners and presented $25 bonds.
Fulton reports new Republican state chairman Fred A. Young will focus on strengthening upstate organization. He noted upstate counties cast the party’s largest vote but declined by 1.2 percent in 1962, while NYC metro counties rose. Troy voters head to polls on budgets and school-board races with Seymour vs Flynn contest and Lansingburg-Brunswick-Schaughti coke district budget of 1.463 million on the ballot.
Berkshire region notes report that W. B. Plunkett Memorial Hospital passed a surprise inspection with minor improvement recommendations. In North Adams Francis Hayden confirms he will not seek re election as Chamber president noting two term limit views and preparations for May 13 board voting and June annual meeting. Mayor Florini voices concern over gypsy moth spraying with a $100000 county program that excludes Berkshire County. Berkshire officials oppose a proposed 3 percent hotel motel tax citing harm to tourism and urge letters to legislators and Gov Peabody.
Governor Philip Hoff pledges to oppose the omnibus appropriations bill reported to the House floor, saying it oversteps his recommended $70.4 million budget by about $3 million. He criticizes the bill as haphazard and warns it could hinder Vermont’s future growth.
Attorney General says Rep Laine C Vance declined to detail his account of a bribery attempt in the State House tied to a 30 cent admission tax bill for Green Mountain Park Raceway. Vance asserted statehouse immunity but will be probed on subsequent statements to reporters.
Gov. Hoff appoints Paul H. Guare of Montpelier as director of the Democratic administration's year long study on state government problems and relations with municipalities. Guare, 41, will start June 1 and will oversee progress for Hoff's planning council focusing on education highways welfare taxation and health reforms. He is a former Montpelier Argus reporter and St. Michael's College graduate.
In Boston AP reports the Massachusetts House defeated abolition 124 to 108 keeping first degree murder punishable by the electric chair. Gov Endicott Peabody and Democratic leaders face renewed abolition efforts next year as retentionists celebrate.
Senator Winston Prouty of Vermont introduces a bill to grant a tax deduction for students paying college costs. Deduction caps are 1200 dollars for undergraduates and 1500 dollars for graduates, covering tuition and supplies but not board. He cites money shortages as a major dropout factor and notes a student earning two thousand dollars yearly could owe no tax under the plan.
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