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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1964
Page
2
Burlington reports Democratic State Chairman Daniel J. O'Brien urging party members aiming to be convention delegates to notify state headquarters by Thursday. Vermont will have 12 national convention votes with 18 delegates and 10 alternates chosen at Saturday's state convention.
Francis W. Myers, long time Columbia Corporation official, becomes overall manager of the Chatham Walloomsac Specialties and Fleet Divisions on April 8. He joined Columbia in 1946 and held multiple leadership roles at the Chatham mill. In Rensselaer, Franciscan Mission House reports over 3 million dialed messages for inspiration through Today's Message, powered by six answering sets in the basement.
Robert S. Christensen, 48, received a 10 to 20 year term in Clinton Prison for first degree manslaughter in the shotgun death of Edwin Redden Sr., 53, as Redden drove Christensen’s estranged wife home. The sentence followed a guilty plea at Rensselaer County Court during jury selection for second degree murder. A May 27 public hearing in Albany will discuss convention hall recommendations and financing by the temporary state commission.
Selectmen endorsed a plan drafted by an 11 member business group to regulate signs in New Ashford Cold Springs and Simonds Roads. Final authority remains with the state Outdoor Advertising Authority though annual permits are issued July 1. The rules bar out of town ads and limit signs to six square feet for transient businesses with broad eliminations planned for Steele's Corners signage.
Town counsel finds the original operator-owner Albert Bachand license invalid for Spruces Park in Williamstown. The 1956 park now has 123 occupied trailers, but no valid permit or public hearing was held. Selectmen will notify Bachand and urge proper information with any future expansion permit application.
Gino Rosa, president of the Pittsfield Restaurant Owners Association, leads a drive to collect 2,500 signatures to repeal the half hour North Street parking limit. He says the rule has had a devastating economic effect on North Street businesses and the city.
New York shares opened firm amid moderate trading as Reynolds Metals rose 5 percent to 40 1/4, Polaroid dipped 1 4 to 15 1/2, Xerox gained 1 to 102 3/4, U S Steel up 4 to 55, Chrysler up 1/2 to 50, GM up 1 to 88 1/2, Ford steady at 55 1/4, Du Pont up 1 4 to 264, Kodak up 1 4 to 129, and Texas Gulf Sulphur down 1/2 to 55.
A Navy ceremony at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard featured the commissioning of USS John Adams and launching of USS Nathanael Greene along with keel laying for USS Grayling. An electrical accident killed Samuel A. Falcone, 43, of York Harbor, Maine, as four others escaped injury. The event underscored the yard’s role in building nuclear submarines and the threat of potential closure and manpower cuts.
Bennington Banner lists contact numbers for Telephone Newsroom and Advertising and gives home delivery pricing and mail subscription rates within Vermont and nationwide. The notice states rates for 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year, with special servicemen rates.
A U S Air Force jet crash at Clark Air Base Philippines killed 76 of 83 aboard during a landing in a tropical rain squall. Survivors include Capt. Eugene Dolan and Maj. Raymond Harper Jr. The same day a Navy P2V ditched near Oki Island with all 10 rescued. Other crashes near Rota Spain killed 10 and a field crash in Alabama injured 12 paratroopers. Three New Englanders listed as missing.
Dwight E. Sargent editor of the New York Herald Tribune editorial page will become Nieman Fellows curator at Harvard, succeeding Louis M. Lyons on July 1. Sargent, 47, formerly led the Portland Press Herald and Sunday Telegram, studied as a Nieman fellow in 1950 51, and has served on the Nieman fellows selecting committee.
UPI report says House Public Works Republicans rally behind Rep. James C. Cleveland against Chairman Charles A. Buckley. Cleveland accuses Buckley of payroll padding with nine Bronx aides earning $62 000 annually who rarely work. Rep. Fred Schwengel launched a push to curb the committee budget next time.
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