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Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

May 12, 1962

Page

9

Senate probes Estes affair to start hearings within month

Senate investigators expect public hearings on Texas financier Billie Sol Estes and his dealings with government officials to begin within a month. The inquiry, led by John L. McClellan, spans grain storage, cotton acreage, fertilizer sales, and other program manipulations amid multiple grand juries and congressional investigations.

Washington Senate Texas Billie Sol Estes Senate Investigations Subcommittee Estes Congress Agriculture and Labor Departments House Subcommittee On McClellan

Wind-Fueled New England Brush Fires Strain Responding Crews

Gusty northwest winds and low humidity sparked a rash of brush and woods fires across Massachusetts with 66 fires totaling 350 acres. Large blazes burned about 150 acres in Lancaster, Clinton, and Bolton. other sizable fires affected Mendon, Maynard, Ipswich, and Holden. Rhode Island reported two fires over 140 acres in Warwick and Scituate. Maine had three small fires amid about 600 acres burned the day before.

Massachusetts Maine Rhode Island Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources Lancaster Clinton Bolton Mendon Maynard Ipswich Holden Warwick Scituate Wells Buxton Appleton

Jefferson County police on party line radio network

Jefferson County police in Louisville face a party line radio network with a frequency too low. County Judge Marlow Cook says moving to a higher frequency could fix the problem. In the meantime officers hear their own dispatcher occasionally along with foreign police radio programs from Toronto New York Waco and Latin American broadcasts.

Louisville, Ky Jefferson County Marlow Cook Toronto New York Waco Tex Mexico Cuba Puerto Rico

Ban Tightened On Cuban Imports Across Borders

The Treasury tightened curbs on Cuban goods, banning traveling Americans from buying such items abroad and bringing them home in luggage, as part of ongoing embargo enforcement. A separate Vermont notice calls for sealed bids by June 1 1962 for the Stamford Readsboro Road project in Stamford Vermont, detailing grading drainage and bridge work with prequalification and wage rules.

Washington The Treasury Department OF Highways Montpelier Vermont State Administration Stamford Readsboro Massachusetts I. S. Pelsue Bennington Department Russell A. Holden

Evening TV Schedule Highlights for Sunday

WTEN airs The Defenders at 8 30. WRGB presents Flying Fisherman at 9 and Cain's Hundred at 9 30. Catholic Hour reviews America and Communism at 10 Sunday morning. Evening features City Under the Ice and Disney Falcon training at 6 and 7 30. Sports and later movies round out the slate with Mets Philadelphia, All Star Golf and The Tall Man.

WTEN the Defenders Harry Simms WRGB Cain’s Hundred Quick Brown Fox

Crossword Puzzle Answers Set One

Pale is clue four and the indefinite article is five. Step six and vat seven. Opposed eight and tableland nine. Yesterday ten. Animal s stomach twelve. Outwork of a fortress twenty one. Rubber tree twenty two. Large weight twenty four. Weather conditions with the feet twenty six. Praise thirty five. Likewise thirty six. Pronoun thirty eight. Peer Gynt s mother thirty nine. Shout forty. Turmeric forty one. High rail way abbr forty five.

Peer Gynt’s

Real estate listings highlight rural camps and family homes

Solution appears in next issue of the Banner Brokers real estate page. A meadow camp near a brook on 7 acres offers privacy and view, fully furnished for $5500 through Herbert Douglas Arlington DA 5 2215.

Herbert Douglas Arlington

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