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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1965
Page
2
The Vermont congressional delegation announced a $9,000 grant to the Vermont Civil Defense Department to buy two portable electric water pumps for emergency shortages. Public Safety Commissioner William Baumann will supervise the equipment.
Services for David Smith a celebrated metal sculptor were held at a lakeside park in Bolton Landing after a fatal car crash in Shaftsbury Vermont. James Farmer of CORE spoke in Albany about civil rights outreach with planned programs in Albany Syracuse and Binghamton. Albany Medical Center reported record costs and patient care in 1964 while planning an $6.825 million expansion and a $2 million private fundraising campaign.
Dr Woodrow Wilson Sayre grandson of the late president and a Williams College graduate has signed to teach at Springfield College for the 1965 66 academic year a college spokesman said Wednesday He won national recognition in 1961 for a Mt McKinley climb and in 1962 for an Everest attempt He holds a Harvard master's and doctorate degrees.
North Adams Charles Foehl Williams College treasurer told selectmen the college recommends extending two weeks the option on the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house the town planned to buy but which citizens rejected. A special town meeting June 7 will consider the proposal if the trustees accept the college’s recommendation. In Pittsfield a Jubilee urban renewal hearing is set for June 14 at North Junior High with city council backing due June 22 for about 738000 in city funds. The Housing Authority must secure plan approval by July 1.
New York UPI reports stock prices opened lighter in a quiet session. The market showed a softer tone with modest declines across several leading issues as investors weighed early moves and awaited further cues.
Cambridge police patrolman John Daley was beaten by a gang of about a dozen youths while around 100 bystanders watched and offered no help until passerby John Mello, 45, intervened. Daley fought on until officers arrived. three girls were among the assailants, no arrests reported. In Boston, German playwright Rolf Hochhuth received the Frederick B. Melcher award from the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly for The Deputy amid debates over ecumenism and a banquet speaker, Cardinal Richard Cushing.
Funeral services will be held at St. John's Church in Beverly for Joseph Clark Grew former ambassador to Japan who warned of the Pearl Harbor attack 11 months before it happened. A Boston native and longtime diplomat he died at his Manchester summer home aged nearly 85. Survived by three daughters, Levitt English and Lyon.
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