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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1963
Page
2
The General Services Administration accepted the Greater Burlington Industrial Corp. offer to acquire 100 acres on the former Ethan Allen Air Force Base. Gov Hoff said he was advised by Sen George D Aiken of the federal agency acceptance. The GBIC is a non profit development group seeking speculative industrial land. sale price was not disclosed.
In Troy New York the common council purchased a section of the Troy Union Railroad bed for 61000 to remove a hindrance to an urban renewal project. The Thursday meeting featured heated political debate as plans moved forward.
In Pittsfield 2200 letters and petitions support Sen Saltonstall and Atty. Gen. Kennedy in appealing the NAACP Civil Rights bill debate. Adams sees Mt Greylock Tramway Authority leadership stalled as Gov Council delays William L Putnam appointment. Williamstown reports Freud family home purchase at 13 Woodlawn Drive by Dr Sigmund Freud’s son and daughter in law. freight of postwar Vienna background noted.
General Douglas MacArthur 83 is honored by a Mason group at the Waldorf Towers in New York where he recalls a planned Virginian birth and clarifies hisArkansas birthplace. Astronaut John Glenn and Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin receive Paris City medals in Paris. Jerry Lewis blasts ABC censorship while Mort Sahl’s remark on Sinatra and Giancana is cut from West coast telecast.
Rep. Paul A. Fino charges Rhode Island handles a 500 million dollar annual illegal gambling market. He cites roughly 250 million bet with bookmakers and 95 million legally at tracks, with about 10 percent going to crime syndicates. He promotes a national lottery to cut syndicate revenue.
Boston AP report says Superior Court Judge Frank E. Smith sent a petition to the Massachusetts Supreme Court asking it to compel Martin J. Hanley deputy bank commissioner to answer Crime Commission questions. Hanley refused 57 questions citing constitutional rights. The commission says only full answers can show if corruption exists in the banking division.
Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama may cancel a Harvard speaking engagement over a dispute on sharing the platform with Harvard Law School Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe. Wallace prefers not to share with a nonequal national figure, while Howe argues Wallace should not perform alone. T. Jefferson Frazier seeks a compromise with Wallace.
Sen George D Aiken doubts the Kennedy administrations 11 billion tax cut bill will be enacted this year The Vermont Republican noted the measure reached the Senate late after House passage He said the civil rights bill has a better chance if the Mrs Murphy clause is dropped and spoke at a Barre fundraising dinner with Sen Everett Dirksen as principal speaker
A 39 year old man is arraigned in Hartford Municipal Court on mail fraud charges. Calvin Van Stratum, arrested in Boston, faces Vermont case linked to ads for Vermont Land Association selling Green Mountains lots between Moretown and Northfield. He used alias Joseph C. Straten and listed White River Junction as address. Officials from Postal Inspectors and VBI assisted. State attorneys from Orange and Windsor counties bring charges.
The Bennington Banner lists contact numbers for TELEPHONES Newsroom and Display Advertising and provides postal address at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont. It details daily publication with exceptions and Associated Press rights for local and AP news dispatches. Subscription rates are given for 50 mile radius and Vermont and elsewhere in the U.S. with 3 month 6 month and 1 year options and special servicemen rates.
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