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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1970
Page
5
A planning committee meeting outlines three fall efforts by FIRST MONDAY. An October open house will occur in three stages for grades 9, 7-8, and 10-12. One project promotes a district wide monthly newsletter with faculty and administration inviting student help. the other explores small group orientation discussions to invite community participation and foster understanding.
Cairo reports two top rivals to succeed Gamal Abdel Nasser suffered heart attacks at the start of the funeral. Anwar El Sadat and Al Sabry were treated and later said to have fully recovered. Nasser died Monday at 52. the nation observed 20 000 mosques prayers as Arab leaders met to pledge support and fight Israel.
A three judge federal panel struck down New York’s 1969 anti busing statute aimed at school racial integration. The decision held the law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and ordered it not to be enforced. The state weighs an appeal to the Supreme Court amid pending busing cases.
Head Start, funded by the Bennington Rutland Opportunity Council, starts classes this month across six sites in two counties. About 100 children will attend half day sessions in Rutland, Bennington, Castleton and East Wallingford with meals and medical services provided. Volunteers and material donations are welcomed to furnish classrooms and assist transport.
An Old First Church Barn auction on October 10 will offer art and antiques from Esther Merrill Parmelee and friends to benefit YMCA landscaping. Highlights include paintings, engravings, porcelain, and clocks with many items donated by local families. inspection starts at 10 AM, auction at 11 AM, under cover with lunch. Robert Herron Auctions of Austerlitz, New York, will conduct. The piece also notes New England foliage conditions per the Automobile Association.
Dr. Hans Huessy, professor at the University of Vermont, traveled to Washington to request help for his 20-year-old son Marc Huessy who was sentenced to seven years in East Germany for spreading propaganda hostile to the state. He plans to fly to Germany Oct. 10 to seek a viewing and potential appeal after alleging the defense lawyer did not appear at trial.
Vermont Army National Guard will receive a large batch of aircraft next year under a modernization program. The Burlington unit will get twin engined turbo prop planes and three helicopter types including twin rotor transports, arriving over the next 18 months.
An Allegheny Airlines DC-9 carrying 57 passengers and four crew members touched down safely in Albany after a blowout during takeoff from Philadelphia late Thursday night. Edwin Frederick Clark of North Tarrytown, who conceived the WWII Red Ball Highway one way traffic plan for Normandy, died Thursday at 66.
The Berkshire County Council for Exceptional Children receives 4975 from the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare to establish an instructional materials center at the Free Library of North Adams State College and to run an in service training program for teachers of exceptional children.
Mystic Connecticut conservationists led by Robert F. Kunz call for a five year moratorium on new nuclear plants and a full public debate on radiation and thermal pollution hazards. They will urge hearings before the Public Utilities Commission while not intervening in the Millstone Point reactor case.
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