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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1967
Page
5
Secretary of State Harry Cooley said his office has seen strong cooperation as 178 of 216 illegal signs were removed since enforcement began in October. Notices for 24 more removals will be sent, mostly on state primary roads through city limits.
Rep. Robert Stafford said the Army Corps of Engineers found the Tweed and White Rivers flood control recreation project economically feasible and could be considered for preconstruction planning funding. He warned Vietnam War delays may affect timing and will review economic feasibility studies before approval.
The second in a series of seminars will be today and Wednesday at the National Guard armory in Winooski. Atty. Gen. James Oakes says the program, on Felony Investigation Techniques, features lectures and films on homicide cases evidence collection preservation identification of narcotics and the police officer as a witness. The first session was in Rutland last week. The FBI Vermont State Police Vermont Sheriffs' Association and Vermont Chiefs of Police Association cooperate.
MONTPELIER UPI The Fish and Game Department expects this year’s deer kill to be about 10 percent lower than last year as officials tally results. Commissioner Edward F. Kehoe said unofficial figures show 12,026 deer taken during the 16 day season, with earlier predictions up to 18,000. Poor weather is blamed for the lower figure as the season closed Sunday. The department predicts about 5,000 deer will be taken in the antlerless season starting Thursday.
New York State Police at Brunswick stopped five men on the Troy Bennington road Sunday and charged them with illegal possession of a firearm. Arrested were Harry E. Martin of Blackwood New Jersey Merlin B Yarnell of White Salmon Washington George B Sammond of Colonia New Jersey Kenneth A Kulmane and Dennis Lane of Garwood New Jersey One man had a loaded rifle in the car while others were found with loaded revolvers. The New York deer season closes on December 5.
Prof Robert Rienow led a protest against Niagara Mohawk Power Corp plans to string a new 230000 volt line across the Hudson half a mile south of the Port of Albany. Officials warned costs could rise eightfold if built under the river and the line would draw power from the Easton atomic plant in the 1970s. Blood collections in northeastern New York fell sharply last week, forcing a 251 pint borrowings from other areas. Red Cross says weekly need is 700 pints, with 800 pints to meet yearly quota.
In Pittsfield Berkshire, directors of Pittsfield General Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital voted in separate annual meetings to merge into a new Berkshire Medical Center. Boards will retain current officers until state and legal approvals are secured, with Peter Van S. Rice continuing as president pro-tem of PGH and Luke S. Hayden for St. Luke's.
North Adams leaders debate firefighters hours after Florini proposes cutting the work week from 56 to 42. Norcross and taxpayers associations urge changes citing fringe benefit costs. Lanesboro set Dec 11 town meeting to consider a $1.9 million Greylock Regional School addition bond. Williamstown voters also on Dec 11.
Four Railroad Avenue residents asked the Great Barrington Selectmen on Monday to install a street light near their home following a late Saturday night attack in which Mrs. Julia Ligoski was beaten and robbed. The board said they would pursue the installation.
Corrections Commissioner Charles G. Adams seeks Emergency Board approval to apply for Turrell Fund grant to create a special treatment center at Weeks School in Vergennes. Adams announced the plan during a briefing with Corrections officials.
Swanton Memorial Methodist Church voted unanimously to sever all ties with the Vermont Council of Churches over recent council activities. The decision follows a Rutland meeting where Vietnam war stands were reaffirmed and support given to executive minister Roger L. Albright.
Susan Campbell, a 5 year old girl from Brattleboro, is improving at a Burlington hospital in a battle with a rare brain disease diagnosed as encephalitis. A Mary Fletcher Unit spokesman said she was moved from intensive care to pediatrics, responding to parents, taking liquids, and slowly emerging from a coma since arriving November 19. Doctors are unsure if the illness stems from a vaccine, a virus, or an allergic reaction to a prior smallpox shot on November 1.
Boston UPI report quotes Florida Governor Claude Kirk criticizing George Wallace for aiding Lyndon Johnson. Kirk told Dartmouth students Wallace taps discontent to draw voters to the past, potentially hurting any GOP candidate. He named Nixon Dirksen Ford Reagan Romney Rockefeller Finch as capable nominees and mused Humphrey might step aside for Gavin as Democratic VP pick.
The Justice Department urged quick approval of the Penn Central rail merger to aid the bankrupt New Haven Railroad. It said its earlier objections were satisfied by adding three lines to the Norfolk & Western system and pressed dismissal of remaining challenges as baseless. If approved, the merger would proceed with ICC terms including a possible 25 million dollar loan to New Haven. only Scranton opposed.
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