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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1970
Page
2
In Boston UPI reports pollster Louis Harris warned that Americans divide themselves by labels rather than addressing shared problems. He said the nation is in deep trouble as people attack others by group labels instead of confronting common issues.
Vermont candidates from both parties addressed senior citizens clubs in Montpelier. Governor Deane Davis and Senator Winston Prouty touted tax relief and Social Security gains while Hoff urged Medicare funding, Older Americans Act support, and a federal housing subsidy. Harris spoke on national political divisions and minority majorities at the New England Bank Management Conference.
Two Mt Anthony Union High School seniors Karen L Pratt and Edward H Paquin received Letters of Commendation for scoring in the top 2 percent of the 1970 National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They join 35,000 nationwide with high marks. 14,750 were semifinalists announced earlier.
The United States ordered two Cuban diplomats at the United Nations in New York expelled within 48 hours on charges they used a female embassy employee in Washington for espionage. Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez 28 and Orlando Prendes Gutierrez 29 were named as the Cuban envoy officials. Thant was informed of the expulsion notice.
Federal spokesman said no comment on reports of negotiations with Cross kidnappers. Barbara Cross, wife of the diplomat, reportedly stayed calm as gunmen woke him Monday. Ransom demanded gold, freeing 23 prisoners, an airliner to Cuba or Algeria, and TV coverage. A Cuban intelligence recruitment connected to a private Cuba visit was noted. FBI reportedly uncovered the activities. the woman left Washington and returned home.
Dr. Oakley Frost will miss Oct. 12 to Oct. 16 to attend the 56th annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. Election day polling runs 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in November. Town and village offices close on Columbus Day. Green Mountain Homemakers Extension Group meets at Mrs. Marjorie Jones's Shaftsbury home with Mrs. Peggy Browe as co host to discuss iron deficiency.
North Adams Massachusetts report urges political union of Adams North Adams and Clarksburg into a single municipality. Study notes geographic economic and cultural unity but political divisions hinder approval. Key recommendations include a master plan for 2000 and unification of the three communities plus potential amusement park development.
Boston police testified at a bail hearing about a plan to move stolen firearms from Vermont to Boston area groups. Four men and a woman were indicted for receiving stolen goods and narcotics violations. Bail for three Vermont suspects was set at 5,000, with others released on lower sums.
Vice President Spiro Agnew labeled Americans for Democratic Action a nest of radical liberals close to Oklahoma Senator Fred R. Harris. He spoke at a $100-a-plate luncheon for Gov. Dewey Bartlett, lambasting ADA and Harris while recalling Kent State and Jackson State police actions.
The state witness Virginia Graham testified that Susan Atkins stabbed Sharon Tate and boasted of the act saying I killed her. The testimony described Atkins reacting with excitement during a November 1969 jail interview and included graphic quotes about Tate begging for mercy and Atkins declaring she killed Tate. In Rutland Vermont, Donald G Greenslet was elected president of the Vermont Police Association at its annual meeting. The installation also named Colchester Chief Ronald A Smith first vice president and other officers including Erwin C Bugbee and Donald H Savard.
The Bennington County Registered Nurses Association held its first dinner meeting of the year on Sept. 28 at the Colonial Inn in Arlington. Guest speaker Jack Darton, supervisor of the Planned Parenthood Association for Southwestern Vermont, spoke on preventing unwanted children and access for all regardless of ability to pay. A Rutland clinic recently opened, Bennington has an office on Main Street, and another Bennington area clinic is planned soon. The next county nurses meeting will be in November.
Vermont Tax Department reports current fiscal year revenues exceed last year by over 2 million. Sales tax leads gains with 3.1 million in first two months, and sales and use tax nearly 1 million ahead by late August. All brackets rise except the telephone tax. Since July 1 total revenue just over 17 million.
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