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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1963
Page
2
Montpelier and surrounding towns race ahead with major construction. Projects include Christ Church steeple reconstruction, a new 1.6 million post office, a parking lot on State Street, a Bailey Mill site shopping center, and demolitions for a tavern parking lot and an office building.
A $400000 ultra modern JCC is proposed for Troy on 12 acres in the Syeaway hillside site spanning 30 000 square feet. Louis Rubin says four years of planning culminate in the announcement by the board of trustees chair. Waterford District Attorney James A O Connor to present first degree manslaughter case of Waterford couple Gerald F Bull and Ella Mae Bull in county grand jury session following infant death at Leonard Hospital.
The Empire Building at 49 61 Main St North Adams sold for 180000 to Whitney Realty Co from the Florence Sullivan estate. Whitney Realty plans extensive renovations and improvements to the two story buff brick building. The sale follows months of negotiations that began in mid March.
A Montpelier public hearing on the bill to create a new mental health department drew support from Lt. Gov. Ralph Foote and others, but warnings from local mental health figures. Opposed by Gov. Hoff, the measure faces questions on cost and structure with calls for closer study before a department is formed.
Elias M. Loew treasurer of Foxboro harness track testifies before a House committee that former Massachusetts Racing Commission chairmen Allen McLeod and Morris Leff acted as stooges for Suffolk Downs Loew says they consistently favored the rival track and pressured Foxboro with biased decisions Leff later replaces McLeod and Loew claims he continued facing similar pro Suffolk Downs bias
Vermont Rep. Daul ton Mann of Peru presided briefly over the House as Speaker Franklin S. Billings left to discuss the equalization bill. Mann noted the challenge of guiding 245 members from the platform and admitted he enjoyed his brief reign of power despite the strain.
Montpelier Vermont Republican national committeeman Sen Edward G Janeway comments on Democrat predictions of a bloodbath in next year s GOP gubernatorial primary He cites Gov Hoff aide John M Spencer who says four men may run and that the feud could hurt Republicans in November Spencer calls Hoff s program disappointing to many Democrats and independents alike
The Navy court of inquiry investigating the loss of the submarine Thresher returns to open session to hear testimony from the new chief of the Navy Bureau of Ships and his predecessor, after two weeks of closed sessions due to classified testimony.
Boating administrators federal officials and others opened a two day conference in Burlington to review last year s boating developments changes in laws and regulations and navigation aids from the Coast Guard Weather Bureau and state governments State Director Wilton Waugh of Massachusetts and Harold E Dean of Vermont are among participating boating directors
A Vermont study favors bypasses for Bennington and surrounding towns along U.S. 7 to ease congestion and road conditions. Priority routes include Bennington to South Shaftsbury and sections near Emerald Lake North Dorset and Readsboro, with Arlington and Manchester also targeted for future bypass work.
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