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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1967
Page
2
About 200 youths, most of them Black, clashed at Playland Amusement Park by the Pacific Ocean. A fist contest at a beachside roller skating rink sparked the brawl, as youths smashed windows, injured workers, and stole cash from booths.
President Johnson meets the six New England governors to discuss regional problems with transportation at the top of the agenda during a brief Bradley International visit. He may urge a swift ICC decision on the Penn Central merger while other topics include pollution and federal subsidies. In Connecticut a New Haven Railroad rescue may be pressed.
Senator Javits urged a conference of GOP senators to seek consensus on Vietnam. He said he had asked Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Maine, to chair the effort to heal party cracks and present a united policy.
A 1961 letter Lee Harvey Oswald wrote to his mother stating he did not renounce his U S citizenship was to go on display in Boston. A rare book dealer bought the three page blue ink document at an New York auction and sold it to Maury A Bromsen Associates Inc on April 6.
Temperature outlook for Tuesday through Saturday shows daytime highs in the low 60s with some 50s in northern Maine and Cape Cod. Overnight lows range from the mid 30s in the north to lower 40s in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Cool conditions persist all week with 1 to 2 inches of rain likely by midweek and again Friday.
Washington reports say organized crime is increasingly sophisticated and depends on corrupt public officials. The President's Crime Commission notes that a few officials can be bought to empower syndicates like Cosa Nostra, including judges, mayors, and prosecutors. Academics warn crime leaders seek business skills and drive legitimate players out, with infiltration across lending, trash, construction, and labor sectors.
Three brothers missing since last Wednesday near Hannibal Missouri face dwindling hopes as cave searches wrap up leads. Authorities extend efforts through the newly found system of caves along Missouri Route 79 while railroad records and vanishing clues are checked. The parents appeal on television to hear their pleas as the search team, exhausted, contemplates ending the organized effort after exhausting viable leads.
Former Alabama governor George Wallace told a Boston television audience he could win a national election and would run if major parties fail to offer a real choice. He urged limited federal power, opposed Johnson, and called for strong police support while criticizing Supreme Court rulings on police powers and segregation.
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