22 May 1965
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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1965
Page
1
The Maine Senate moved toward a state sweepstakes bill to fund education, adopting the Taxation Committee minority report and giving the bill a first reading. A second reading was set for Monday, with a commission to run up to two sweepstakes races yearly and tickets sold at race tracks and liquor stores.
Mrs. Josephine Van Gleson Walker leaves a substantial bequest to Bennington Free Library from her estate. The gift funds a new book fund and supports ongoing library programs in the town. Public notice emphasizes community access and preservation of local literary resources.
Granai labels censure motion a dirty shame while defending a tomato joke about Gov Hoff. He urged residents to bombard Hoff with tomatoes when he visits Barre next week, prompting applause from lawmakers and a postponed vote.
In a High Noon style confrontation before Sen. Thomas J. Dodd’s juvenile delinquency subcommittee, NRA vice president Franklin L. Orth challenged the proposed interstate mail order gun ban and juvenile sales curbs as premature. Atty. Gen. Katzenbach and Sen. Robert Kennedy testified in support, while Orth warned the bill could open Pandora’s box.
The copy highlights a Bennington Rotary feature on governors office insights, a Page 2 note by Jean Wassick on outdoor cooking, Ron Cohen’s Page 4 column analyzing two Vermont conservative strains, a Page 5 photo report on a whiter water race at Jamaica, and a Page 8 notice about Vermont Catholic women planning their biennial convention.
The University of Vermont announced a full scale Lake Champlain study to determine if ancient sea water lies dormant below the surface and to inventory marine life. The project also examines potential lake purity impacts from a proposed wide barge canal linking the St Lawrence and Hudson rivers turning the lake into a seaway.
Washington reports the Senate moves to invoke cloture on the voting rights bill after a month of delay. The measure would curb debate and allow a final vote possibly next week with one hour per senator, and could reach a final Senate decision by Thursday or Friday. It targets literacy tests in five Southern states and parts of two others and would authorize federal examiners to assist Black citizens registering and voting if discrimination occurs.
Washington based UPI reports an advisory committee to Postmaster General John A. Gromouski urged across the board postal rate hikes. It called for eliminating special low rates that cost about 300 million annually and recommended abolishing air mail with priority first class mail, setting a higher rate for expedited service without a precise stamp amount.
St Michael's College selects seven students for a low key civil rights project in Elizabeth City North Carolina this summer under Rev Moses B Anderson theology department member. Students will tutor promising young Negro students to aid college entry or scholarship pursuit. About $2000 funds raised by hootenanny student and faculty contributions and aid from off campus groups.
U S Marines and Army paratroopers secure and enlarge port and air base sites in South Viet Nam to serve as beachheads and staging areas for potential large scale combat. More than 45 000 U S military personnel are there, including about 18 000 combat troops.
Washington physicist Ralph E. Lapp said China may be testing fission triggers for H bombs after the May 14 device. He predicts 2 or 3 more tests in coming months and a possible H bomb by 1966 67, noting Lan dao plants could produce U 235 for one trigger per month.
South Viet Nam’s government says it crushed a coup aided by the Communists, arresting over 30 officers and civilians. Viet Cong snipers hit Ambassador Maxwell Taylor’s plane but caused no injuries, while a US Marine patrol was ambushed injuring a lieutenant. 83 strikes by US and Vietnamese planes hit targets in North Viet Nam.
The FTC ruled 4 to 1 that Topps Chewing Gum Inc did not monopolize the market for baseball star picture cards. The decision found no proof that exclusive contracts were essential to gum sales and noted other card flavors like football Beatle and spook theater cards also promote gum.
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