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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1975
Page
2
Three tornadoes struck near Omaha Nebraska causing three deaths and widespread damage. Police counted 500 to 700 homes destroyed or badly damaged with looting feared in the aftermath. Governor Exon said he would seek federal disaster aid from President Ford.
A Senate judiciary subcommittee backed creating new federal district judgeships in New Hampshire while rejecting similar bids for Connecticut and other states. It urged workload benchmarks before adding posts, estimating 30 new judges would cost 4.3 million in year one and 3.9 million annually thereafter.
The Bennington Banner operates daily except Sundays and legal holidays from 25 Main St Bennington Vermont 05301. It is published by The Banner Publishing Corp and subscribes to United Press International and The New York Times News Service.
In Cambridge England a 21-year-old secretary was raped Tuesday by a man believed to have assaulted seven other women in seven months. He stabbed her and left her bound and gagged before fleeing, after following her to her apartment. She was hospitalized with stomach wounds. Police blocked nearby routes. the attacker escaped among factory workers. Bernard Hotson warned women to lock doors and not admit strangers day or night.
California hospitals curtailed routine care as 1000 physicians protested soaring malpractice premiums at the state capitol. San Diego and Los Angeles doctors joined San Francisco colleagues in a boycott. hospitals report emergency services only.
Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty, a focal point in Cold War tensions, died in Vienna after a life marked by opposition to Nazism and communism. Vatican sources expect his death to ease Hungary Vatican relations and pave a new primate appointment for Hungary. He spent 15 years in the Budapest U.S. Embassy and later moved to Austria, where he lived at Pazmaneum while remaining estranged from the Vatican.
Bangor Maine UPI reports ex soldier Michael Green will be presented to the Penobscot County Grand Jury over alleged bigamy. Vietnamese refugee Vu Thi Lan, 24, says Green married her in Da Nang in 1969 and then wed another woman in Bangor in 1970. Lan arrived with two children, Lisa 6 and David 2, while Green remains free to move about. Local aid has assisted Lan and her family as the case unfolds.
In Geneva the United Nations conference on the Law of the Sea ends after two months with little progress. Delegates from 150 nations expect only to reconvene next year with a basic text for study. Disputes split between 12 mile territorial seas and 200 mile economic zones, pitting industrialized coastal states against many developing nations.
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