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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1966
Page
2
The Power Study Committee in Montpelier plans to present Governor Philip Hoff with a list of questions about his low cost Canadian power proposal. The panel works toward a June 1 deadline, with former FPC Chairman Joseph Swidle compiling the inquiry. Hoff will respond at an executive session on June 1.
Governor Philip Hoff planned a meeting in Montpelier with 30 Vermont dairy industry representatives to discuss milk marketing. Harold Carson, chair of the Committee for the Alliance of Northeastern Dairymen, said members will join Hoff and dairy coop leaders to explore forming a collective bargaining unit to secure higher prices. Hoff supports dairymen banding together to bargain for better milk prices.
Dr Duane E Graveline a Newport native and former NASA space program physician has become chronic illness control division director at the state health department succeeding Dr David H Gray who moved to oversee licensing certification and regulations for hospitals and nursing homes Graveline trained at University of Vermont Walter Reed Johns Hopkins and served as an Air Force flight surgeon and NASA scientist astronaut
Gov Hoff approved Charles T. Morrissey of Bethesda Md as the Vermont Historical Society director. Morrissey, 32, leads the Kennedy Library Oral History Project in Washington and will replace Dr Richard Wood who retired after 16 years. He is a Dartmouth graduate and UC Berkeley doctoral candidate.
Mrs. Charles Guggenheimer founder of Lewisohn Stadium concerts and longtime summer series organizer died Monday at age 83. She shaped the concerts for 44 years and became a familiar presence to audiences beside famous musicians, once recalling a planned Ezio Pinza appearance.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a $955,000 appropriation within a $982 million military construction bill to expand research and test facilities at Watervliet Arsenal. Funds will modify and rehabilitate Buildings 120 and 124 as requested by the arsenal, with full congressional action and presidential approval pending.
Judge John T. Casey in Rensselaer County Court granted a mistrial Monday in the resisting arrest case of William J. Ellis 26 of Hoosick. The defense succeeded after the prosecution sought to admit a statement by Ellis without a pre trial voluntariness hearing. Ellis faced charges of resisting two state policemen Gerald F. Looney and G. Lawrence Kronan.
Fire Chief Edward J. Zapf of Troy will address Hoosick Falls firefighters at a Wednesday banquet in the Hoosick Falls firehouse. Toastmaster will be James M. Brahan county treasurer whose father in law long headed the local force.
In Pittsfield two teen brothers of policemen entered not guilty pleas in District Court on charges of assault and battery with intent to murder for an attack on Patrolman Thomas J. Fitzgerald. Each was held on 2000 dollars bail as judges postponed further action to Wednesday. In nearby Williamstown John M. Sundstrom, 22, a Williams College student, remains hospitalized with burns from a gunpowder accident at Adams Memorial Theater. Sundstrom is technical director and production stage manager there.
North Adams firefighters rush to a blaze in the backstage area of the abandoned Paramount Theater as four high walls hinder access. The fire, whose cause is undetermined, burns for over two hours while demolition firm North Adams Futures proceeds to clear the site for a planned shopping center. a crane later collapses the walls.
Washington reports ahead of Senate action on Great Society federalism aiming to strengthen public servants. Sen Muskie plans two measures to boost government workforce amid a projected 13 million total government employees within nine years. The subcommittee cites weak middle management at state and local levels and empire builders at federal, noting vast grant programs totaling 14.6 billion dollars in fiscal 1967.
Edith Louise Schmidt, 27, widow of Larry Lee Schmidt, told police she witnessed the murder of her husband Glenn Everett Stewart, 30, and was forced to accompany him on a terror-filled four state trip. Stewart is charged with murder. His mutilated body was found in the Marion home basement.
The New England Council said looser oil import limits cut heating costs and spirits, noting a 35 cent per barrel drop in New York prices and specific state savings of 13.6 to 14.5 cents per barrel for sites including Walpole Prison North Grafton State Hospital and the MDC Chestnut Hill Pumping Station.
Ohio police hunt motive and suspects after Loren Bollinger a 40 year old OSU rocket propulsion expert and columnist was shot to death in a dingy office building. Ballistics link suggests same gun used in earlier gas station killings. Bollinger planned to become an aerospace consultant before his death.
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