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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1962
Page
2
Ellsworth Bunker of Putney former U S ambassador to India will give Lyndon College commencement address on June 10. Fifty five students will receive BS degrees in education at the exercises.
Sen George D Aiken says U S Canadian talks in Ottawa on a Lake Champlain Waterway study are making encouraging progress Officials from both sides are drafting a joint request for the study to be done by the International Joint Commission and the language must satisfy both nations.
Governor Keyser testifies before a House Armed Services subcommittee on proposed reductions in Vermont National Guard strength. Rep. Robert Stafford voices opposition, arguing new crises in Laos, West Nam, and Thailand may require Guards to be increased rather than reduced.
Eleven year old Johnny Northcutt made another unauthorized train trip to Vermont and was found in a Winooski gas station back of a truck. His father flew to Vermont to retrieve him and bring him home to Queens, New York. Northcutt Sr. said the boy violated the honor system after his prior Vermont visit.
Vermont declared the weeklong high level unemployment period over as idle workers stayed below seven percent of the insured workforce. The emergency provisions offered a 13 week extension for exhausted claimants, following a second straight year of sustained joblessness.
Mrs Frank Stopielo 75 was robbed of more than 3000 dollars on the front steps of her home as she returned from a hospital. An unidentified youth about 16 or 17 snatched a white pocketbook and fled. Police launched an intensive investigation as the elderly woman pursued the thief.
Forty Mt Greylock Regional School students collected about 640 dollars Sunday for the Williamstown Community Association scholarship drive. Lanesboro also contributed a similar amount. the effort supports annual scholarship totals around 1,500 to 2,000 dollars.
Vermont Life Goes boating heavy with ferries, white water, and Champlain shipyards. Simmonds Precision Products feature and Hill Farm color piece lead a wide array of articles with photo spreads by Kalisher Sanborn and others.
Dr. Harold J. Ockenga evangelistic pastor of Park Street Church Boston will deliver Norwich University Baccalaureate sermon June 10 at the Norwich Armory. He will receive a Doctor of Literature honorary degree at 1:45 p.m. during the commencement.
Thirty eight Molly Stark third and fourth graders visited New York City for a day of sightseeing. They toured the United Nations Rockefeller Center Central Park Zoo and saw the Statue of Liberty and a Fifth Avenue Armed Forces Day parade. Travel was by bus to Albany and train from there under French teacher Mario Paris with numerous chaperones and accompanying adults.
A Bulgarian government official announced that Communist Bulgaria has ended an 18 year ban on importing Western newspapers and magazines, marking a significant shift in media access.
A Thrift Shop sale features a nearly new tan rubber-soled shoes, a metal flower basket, a tire jack, quart and pint fruit jars, a men’s pin-checked suit, and an electric heater. Requests noted for hats, dishes, jewelry and books. Workers listed include Mrs Charles P. Hayward, Mrs Bradford Smith, Mrs Clifton S. Phillips, Miss Maud Edson, and Mrs Edna Sweet.
Sacramento Superior Court jurors find Assemblyman Charles E. Chapel guilty after a five day trial. The 57 year old Republican from Palos Verdes Estates sought leniency, arguing his nitroglycerine remark about an airliner was a joke, with sentencing pending a probation report.
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