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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1966
Page
2
Eighteen Middlebury College professors sign a petition calling for reconsideration of the new selective service college qualification test arguing it amounts to an intelligence test. They say the sole basis for deferments should be academic commitment, not native intelligence.
Daniel J. O'Brien asks the Vermont Federation of Democratic Women to take responsibility for registering voters in the fall. Richard Young says the campaign will resemble 1962 more than 1964 and warns against assuming a lopsided Democratic vote, urging active work.
David Lee Gibson, 16, of Swanton is slated for trial in Franklin County Court on a man slaughter charge in the death of his father, Herman Gibson, 36, in their Swanton home. The April 10 shooting followed a dispute with another son, John, 14. A petit jury will hear the case before Chief Superior Judge Rudolph Daley.
Dr Edward S Mann president of Eastern Nazarene College told UVM graduates that times demand renewed personal integrity. He warned that attitudes are frightening and standards degenerating. Mann was among five honorary degree recipients. Trustees approve University of Vermont budget totaling 16.76 million dollars for next year, up about one million from this year.
A three car crash on Route 5 in Westminster left two young men from Walpole New Hampshire dead. Ronald Rogers 20 died at Claremont hospital after the collision and Harlan St Pierre 20 died shortly after.
The Washington County Firemen’s Association will hold its annual convention and parade in Cambridge on June 11 with a mammoth parade featuring marching firemen, apparatus, auxiliaries, bands, drum and bugle corps, floats and other features. A reviewing stand will host judges to award prizes in various categories. The Washington County Fire Police Association meets Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Cambridge Municipal Building to plan police coverage for the parade with Fire Chief Henry Bates Jr. and Police Chief Philip J. Sica among guests.
Williams College professor George G. Connelly says he will pursue court action against Trooper R. E. Donahue over an April 24 Taconic parkway stop that allegedly involved gunpoint confrontation and physical mistreatment of Connelly and two students, Jack E. Urquhart and Michael West. We may appeal Urquhart’s speeding and evading an officer conviction.
Pittsfield's 1966 tax rate could drop to $40 or less as real estate revaluation has just been completed and sales tax effects take hold, said John J. O'Connor, assessors chairman.
Maria Judith Remenyi, 21, a California woman who fled Hungary in 1956, won the Miss USA crown before 60 foreign entrants. The UC Berkeley junior in physics earned 5000 cash and a similar value appearance contract, heads to New York and Brazil then to Miss Universe contention.
The Bennington Banner lists newsroom and advertising phone numbers, office address at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont, and UPI affiliation. It details home delivery costs 10 cents per day and subscription rates within Vermont and nationwide for three, six, and twelve month terms.
In Bakersfield California a crowd of more than 200 Negro youths attacked police with bricks rocks and bottles after a routine auto accident inquiry Two officers were hurt eighteen juveniles were held on curfew charges and two men were booked on arson The melee began after a 7 pm incident near Calif ornia Park where a previous gathering had discussed city council dissatisfaction A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a fire station but caused no damage
In Saigon a soldier Pvt. Adam R. Weber Jr. faced court martial for refusal to bear arms in Viet Nam. His father defended his son’s stance citing the Ten Commandments. The trial was postponed indefinitely at the Defense Department request. Weber had requested service only in the Medical Corps but was assigned to infantry. The defense team planned strategy in New York. Also noted is Mrs. Thomas J. Soisson's hole in one after 26 years of golfing, a rarity following 108 strokes on the remaining holes.
Boston dispatch reports Teamster President James R. Hoffa addressing 2,500 members at Charlestown Armory predicts a shortened workweek for workers. He urges political action to protect gains, urging Labor to vote for labor friends and remove anti labor foes from office. In Parkstone England a divorced club offers cut rate gasoline to members, noting it pays to be divorced.
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