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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1963
Page
11
The AP reports rising inequality in Indonesia under President Sukarno as lavish monuments and new government buildings rise while rice deficits leave millions near starvation. The Malaysia crisis fuels nationalist fervor, complicating aid and deepening economic trouble without a clear political settlement.
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan reports from Tokyo that Asians fear Red China as a growing force despite Soviet pressure. They acknowledge China’s resilience after 1958 losses, see it as a potential threat to regional stability, and note Beijing’s aim to expel Western influence while courting influence over nearby governments.
In Atlanta, Abu B. Magba Kamara of Freetown Sierra Leone, with three companions, was refused service at a restaurant. Dr R C Bell a Black dentist of Atlanta telegraphed Secretary of State Dean Rusk demanding an apology, prompting a State Department protest.
Leonard L. Schwartzman sues a Minneapolis restaurant and the installer for 25000 dollars after a loudspeaker toppled from a ceiling and struck him, injuring him and prompting a civil action.
Four month old James Michael Henderson died after an 80 pound Alaskan malemute dragged him from a car in Woodstock Illinois. The dog had been bought a month earlier by the infant’s father James E Henderson who trained dogs. The parents returned to the car and found the baby in the driveway with the dog’s attack.
The five day forecast shows temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above normal from Thursday through Monday. A warming trend gives way to cooler weather by Sunday. Precipitation totals exceed half an inch in northern New England and 0.3 to 0.6 inches in Massachusetts and Rhode Island with rain expected late Thursday night and again Saturday night or Sunday.
In Wilmington a federal suit challenges compulsory Bible reading and prayer in public schools. Plaintiffs, Garry De Young and wife from Middletown, and Harry Johns and wife from Dover, seek a ruling that such exercises are unconstitutional. Johns, a Protestant, criticizes automatic prayer recitation. Mrs De Young, a teacher, invokes religious freedom concerns while describing her family as agnostic.
Alabama faces a heavy liquor buying binge with projections of 50 million dollars in annual booze spending, up from 33 million last year. Officials abroad at a convention in Honolulu defend a lack of official comment as a 3 percent tax on liquor and wine firms nears January 1 and some firms threaten to exit Alabama. Nottingham Arts Council in England donates 100 dollars to New Dramatists Committee, aiding young playwrights in practical stage work.
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