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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1968
Page
5
Democratic candidate John J. Daley called for expanding the Vermont Home Mortgage Credit Agency to fund rental housing by direct loans to non profit or limited dividend groups. He also urged state lending if banks balk, while the agency currently covers top 20 percent of mortgages up to 20 000 dollars for home buying.
Two Vermonters and a Massachusetts resident died in separate weekend crashes. Stanley W. Currier, 34, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was thrown from his car when it left Vermont Route 103 in Shrewsbury early Sunday. Earlier, on Route 17 in Addison Saturday night, George Fengler, 24, of Jeffersonville, and Francis A. Rheaume, 28, of Vergennes, were killed when their car went off the road and struck a tree while heading toward the Lake Champlain Bridge.
Funeral services were held for Jay S. Kershner 58 former district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service who died Friday at a local hospital. Kershner retired in 1965 after 37 years with the agency including more than three years with the Border Patrol. He served as district director in St. Albans and was a Burlington native graduate of Burlington High School and Western Reserve University. He leaves his widow and three children.
State police identified Paul T. Hurst, 54, of Williston, who died of a heart seizure during a family hike on Camels Hump in Duxbury. He was with his son, daughter, and daughter's fiancé when the incident occurred Sunday afternoon on the 4,083 foot peak.
In Troy, Peace and Freedom party candidate and Ramparts editor Eldridge Cleaver will address RPI Thursday night. A spokesman says the event aims to expose students to current political ideologies while Cleaver discusses Soul on Ice and Black Panther information duties.
Williamstown officials and state DPW review alternate easterly and westerly routes to bypass Field Park intersection on Route 7. A December public hearing is planned. The Airport Commission seeks funds for a 5000 foot runway costing about 1.11 million, with Pittsfield paying 110,000.
Pvt. Raymond Kroll, 19, AWOL from Ft Benning, took sanctuary at Boston University's Marsh Chapel during antiwar protests. He was moved from the chapel by federal agents and police and confined at the Fort Devens stockade as court martial proceedings loom.
Georgetown University Jesuits from the faculty administration and student body voiced support for more than 40 priests disciplined by Cardinal Patrick O Boyle for dissenting from the papal encyclical banning artificial birth control. They said the dissenters are grounded in Vatican II teaching and tradition and noted other bishops have taken different interpretations, while Washington’s has a single sanctioned reading.
Morris B. Abram, Brandeis University’s new president, cautioned that political dissent within a university threatens its core mission. He urged that the institution protect free debate while resisting disruptive protests and cautioned against axiomatic dogma, noting dangers seen in both external and internal pressures.
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