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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1965
Page
2
In Vermont, State Employment Security Commissioner Stella Hackel reports over 10,000 job openings in the past two years and a 3,500 drop in unemployment with manufacturing leading gains. Burlington tops in job increases and unemployment reductions, followed by Rutland and the Barre Montpelier area.
Commissioner E A Alexander said Lt Foster C Corliss moves from Troop K Barre to Montpelier HQ as training officer to assist Capt Andrew H Monti. Lt Richard C Curtiss replaces Corliss in Barre, moving from command of the Marine Division.
Albany Medical Center Hospital unveils a new eight story wing top floor rehabilitation center directed by Dr. Thomas Hale. The 21 bed unit boosts total capacity to 800, making the hospital the largest private nonprofit in upstate New York. The facility is the area’s first such unit in a general hospital.
A 200 bed disaster hospital will be set up at the Troy Armory on Tuesday and Wednesday as a training exercise to simulate an enemy attack or natural disaster in the Troy area. Teams from St. Marys and Samaritan Hospitals will establish eight hospital sections with detailed staffing and equipment to maintain operation for about ten days.
In North Adams, two firefighters descended 100 feet to reach 111-year-old Daniel Pollock trapped on Witt's Ledge while companion Wayne MacDonald, 9, climbed about 75 feet. Pollock clung to a birch tree as rescue teams lowered him to safety after 90 minutes.
Two Berkshire Community College students Susan Culverwell and William Russell Luff Jr. died in a two car crash near Berkshire Farm School in New York. Edwin Laydon of Scottsville, NY, sustained minor injuries. state police investigated. Related fire incident on Cole Avenue left Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clark dead, with survivors Louise Beattie and Deputy Fire Chief William Reddy in hospitals.
In the Chittenden Grand Isle district Democrat Hector T. Marcoux widened a razor thin lead after Burlington officials corrected a counting error. Initial counts had Republican Edward A. Keenan ahead by three votes, then St George added four for Marcoux, then a 100 vote correction shifted the result to a Marcoux victory as the new tally stood.
Residents woke to gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph as a Niagra Mohawk crew repaired outages. Affects included a line break near the Algrow plant on Main Street, fallen trees on Spring and Division streets, damaged service wires and meter boxes, with no injuries reported. The storm eased by midmorning though rain persisted and waterways rose.
In Montpelier Vermont UPI reports State Motor Vehicle Commissioner James Malloy intends to ask the legislature to make driver training a mandatory high school subject. He predicts a $2 million department surplus from gasolene taxes transfers and registrations to finance the plan as deaths rise and schools drop driver ed. A 1968 federal highway law amendment may cut 90 percent federal aid to states lacking a comprehensive highway safety program.
State Aeronautics Commissioner Knapp says the Thanksgiving Day crash near Barre Barre Montpelier Airport may never be solved though the probe continues. Four Barre residents died Lawrence La Fountain pilot 52 Hazel 45 Richard 23 Lois 19. They were returning from Hartford Conn when their plane hit a wooded area after radioed weather reports. Autopsies show multiple crash injuries and heart attack ruled out for the pilot.
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