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Newspaper

Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

May 15, 1969

Page

5

Three Bay State Men Arrested For Brink's Armored Car Holdup

A mystery witness and secret indictments surround the arrest of John J. Kelley William Cresta and Charles Domenico in the December Brink's armored car robbery. The trio face charges as accessories before the fact of armed robbery with a combined haul of about 1 069 million in cash and checks.

Three Bay State Brink Boston API Suffolk County Grand Jury John J. Kelley Watertown William Cresta Medford Charles Domenico Braintree Brink’s Domenico Cresta Kelley Charles Street Red Plymouth Suffolk Reuben L. Lurie

Vermont Plans State-Owned Sign System Approved

The Travel Information Council reports federal approval to test a state owned directional sign system in southeastern Vermont. The project in Windham and part of Windsor counties awaits a signature from the federal Highway Administrator. Immediate sign removals are authorized for 200 illegal signs and 2,100 of 2,900 licensed signs must come down by January 1970 with the rest phased over two years.

Montpelier UPS Travel Information Council Federal Bureau of Public Roads Vermont Albert Purchase Bureau Frank Turner Washington Purchase Windham Windsor Richard Thomas Thomas

Demise of the Corvair Stalled by Ailing 5,999 Model

Willow Run Michigan UPI reports photographers waited as the last Chevrolet Corvair began rolling away. The 5,999th car refused to start, forcing workers to push it off the line while the 6,000th model waited ready to enter history. The final Monza coupe carried a $2,868.30 price and features such as whitewall tires and tinted windows.

Willow Run Mich UPI General Motors Corp Corvair

Dartmouth To Continue Injunction On Protest

Dartmouth College will keep a court injunction on the campus until president John Sloan Dickey is convinced disruption has ended. The May 6 order followed anti ROTC students seizing parts of an administration building. The injunction bars unauthorized seizures and contempt of court penalties.

Hanover N.H UPI Dartmouth College John Sloan Dickey anti-Reserve Officer Training Corps ROTC Dickey Dartmouth Washington Parkhurst Hall New Hampshire Circuit Court of Appeals Boston Bailey Aldrich

Kennedy Calls Oil Industry to Justify Quotas

Senator Edward M. Kennedy argues the oil import control program must be justified by the industry itself, urging the task force to start with the premise that the controls require justification. He says all stakeholders should present evidence supporting the program and notes the broader regulatory framework it supports, urging sound judgments.

Kennedy Washington UPI Edward M. Kennedy D-Mass George P. Shultz

State Ready To Negotiate For Victory Bog

Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis said the state will negotiate an option with New England Power Co. to buy 4,200 acres of Victory Bog in the Northeast Kingdom. The Fish and Game Board voted to buy for 200000, but an option was authorized to prevent a potential Army Corps of Engineers flood control dam. The Water Resources Board opposes a large dam that would flood much of the bog.

Victory U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Board

ROTC debate at Middlebury focuses on credit and voting status

A faculty-student committee at Middlebury College will draft recommendations after a Wednesday meeting with Col. Curtis F. Livingston deputy director of ROTC programs for the 1st Army Students demanded removal of academic credit for military science courses Livingston urged keeping credit and said ROTC instructors should have voting status on program matters He noted only 12 of 354 colleges with ROTC omit academic standing. In Vermont Gov Davis defended his remark about a campus conspiracy saying he over reacted and refused to name the college involved

Middlebury UPD Middlebury College Curtis F. Livingston 1St Army Livingston James I. Armstrong Army Davis Nixon Atty John Mitchell FBI J. Edgar Hoover Danville

Vergennes youth dies in accidental rifle shooting

Authorities ruled the death of 18 year old Robert Canyon Jr of Vergennes accidental after a rifle fired a single head wound in the kitchen of his parents apartment opposite City Hall. An unidentified youth was in the apartment at the time but in another room. Danyon was a student at Vergennes Union High School and son of Robert and Loretta Canyon. D

Vergennes APD Robert Canyon Jr City Hall Norman Gadue Danyon Vergennes Union High School Robert Loretta Canyon

Welfare rights sit-in ends in disorderly conduct arrests in Schenectady

Twenty welfare recipients and social workers were arrested after a NWRO sit-in at Schenectady Social Services on Nott Street. They faced disorderly conduct and unlawful trespass charges. bonds set at 200 each as the department called the matter closed. In Cohoes, three policemen and three firemen lost their jobs for civil service rule violations. Troy officials announced sanitation crews will begin refuse pickup Monday with three trucks arriving today and more over the weekend, plus a bulldozer and 32 workers already contracted.

Schenectady Social Services National Welfare Rights Organization NWRO Nott Street Social Service Commission Cohoes Cohoes Commission Troy Adrian Gonyea Paul A. Weiss Troy Sanitation Old Airport

Adams-Police summon two Berkshire juveniles over orange bottle dye plot

In Berkshire Adams police issue summonses to two local juveniles tied to a weekend break in at Orange Squeeze Bottling Co. Chief John A. Tarsa describes chemical dye on cash used as bait, bright red when skin perspiration occurs, and the stain prints on clothing. One suspect shows the stain, the other implicated by the first. They’ll face juvenile court Monday. Pittsfield, Sewer Commission approves pilot dumping test of General Electric wastes into the plant to assess bacterial breakdown over three to six months. Taconic High School appoints Paul R. Johann as principal. he previously led Glens Falls High and pursues a doctorate at SUNY Albany.

ADAMS Orange Squeeze Bottling Co John A. Tarsa Tarsa Pittsfield Paul R. Johann Albany N.Y Taconic High School Johann Glens Falls State University of New York

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