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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1963
Page
1
The Vermont Fish and Game Board reopens hunting season per chairman George Plumb. Partridge season runs through Nov 9 with deer season from opening through Nov 24. Archers begin bow season Nov 30 to Dec 15.
Peking radio says a Red Chinese air force unit shot down a Nationalist Chinese U2 over Hua Tung near Shanghai on Friday. Taipei says one Nationalist plane failed to return from a recon mission. it did not confirm if the aircraft was American.
Havana Radio announces a government ban on daytime beer sales during work days. The Interior Ministry sets 6 30 p m as the start time for purchases, aiming to limit consumption by workers and curb access for vagrants and parasites.
More than 200 area Republicans plus some Democrats and independents gathered Friday at Mt Anthony Country Club to honor James B. Dash Gibney for long service to the party, following his retirement as Bennington Town Republican Chairman.
In Washington the minority leader Charles A. Halleck faces discontent from a large block of House Republicans over his role in drafting a civil rights bill. A hastily organized meeting drew 69 GOP members, about 40 percent of the conference, signaling a potential conservative revolt. A second meeting is being planned.
The Senate approved an interstate district combining the Hanover New Hampshire junior high with Norwich Vermont high schools across the Connecticut River. GOP leaders including Rep. Robert Stafford and Lt. Gov. Ralph Foote attended. Missing due to weather were Sen. Winston Prouty and Mrs. Keyser Jr. The event featured tributes to Gibney and remarks by local officials, with a charity dinner concluding the gathering.
At the Indianapolis Coliseum an explosion from a gas leak killed 62 and injured 385 during a Halloween Holiday on Ice show. Experts probe whether a cooking gas cylinder or valve caused the blast as investigators assess permits and structural damage.
In Moscow Premier Khrushchev commented he would favor joint space cooperation with the United States if tensions ease. He noted interest in Kennedy proposals for a manned flight to the moon and suggested a Russian man and an American woman as a partner.
Three German miners Emil Pohler Fritz Leder and Gerhard Hanusch were rescued after eight days trapped 259 feet underground in a flooded iron mine. They were in good condition with reunions with anxious relatives as 40 miners were reported dead and 86 escaped. Contact was reestablished via a narrow shaft.
Democratic Gov. Philip Hoff of Vermont will join Alabama Gov. George Wallace on television this Sunday night in a live half hour program titled In Search of a Solution. The WNAC-TV broadcast at 10 p.m. EST will feature Hoff discussing state rights alongside Wallace, with producer Robert Ferrante noting Wallace had not yet been informed of Hoff’s acceptance.
Derick V. Webb was elected Republican State Chairman by the new Vermont GOP committee in Woodstock. Webb was heavily favored for the post and succeeds Theodore Corsones of Mendon who did not seek a full term. Rep. Roger L. MacBride of Halifax praised the election as a great step forward for the Republican Party.
South Viet Nam reports say President Ngo Dinh Diem and brother Ngo Dinh Nhu surrendered unconditionally after a 14 hour revolt led by Gen. Duong Van Minh. Rebels claimed steady support as battles raged near the Gia Long palace in Saigon.
Five integration leaders including three white men and two Black men plus a 14 year old girl were released on bond after a federal court injunction struck down Georgia insurrection and unlawful assembly laws. Four others remain under prosecution while two additional prisoners were freed on $500 bonds.
Gov. Hoff indicated his current plan to appoint Justice James S. Holden as chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. He also considered promoting Chief Superior Judge Harold C. Sylvester to the high court, creating a vacancy on the Superior Court. Holden is a Republican from Bennington, and Hulburd’s resignation due to ill health prompted the openings.
Page three correspondent recalls Halloween in the old country raised in Germany. Page five features the Dorset House story from the Shelburne Museum. Page ten notes three area high schools close out the 1963 football season this afternoon.
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