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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1963
Page
2
Airman third class John Quaranta Jr. wrote to his parents in Montpelier, wishing they were there as he had just visited the Viant Dam in Italy. The dam disaster struck a week earlier with a massive flood devastating several mountain villages after a landslide.
ST. JOHNSBURY AP. Auto theft charges have been dismissed against three Vermont youths arrested last week. The boys Robert Walker 18 Mark Laurenceele 16 both of St Johnsbury and Duane Ainsworth 17 of Passumpsic were cleared yesterday. Walker's father said the car belonged to him.
Governor Hoff told the Burlington Lions Club he will seek pay for committee members conducting hearings for a split session in January. He noted aides are studying ways to raise an additional three million dollars for the next biennium.
The Saratoga County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to join the Capital District planning board with Albany, Schenectady and Rensselaer Counties. Three supervisors will represent the county on the board.
An architect informs the board of education that a natural bowl in the ravine west of the recreation field could host Mechville High School football, noting the ravine floor is level for a field and the steep sides offer natural grandstand foundations.
Michael Cavotta a 19 year old freshman at LeMoyne University Syracuse regained consciousness Monday after three days in a coma from a practice injury. He had been hospitalized at St Josephs Hospital in Syracuse.
Wyandotte Worsted Chain confirms Pittsfield plant will shut Oct 26 after long decline from 500 workers in 1931 to under 100 today. Manager cites foreign competition as key factor while administration ends a regional textile era in Berkshire.
Queen Elizabeth returns to London with two black Labradors aboard and three Corgis joining the royal procession then ride to the palace. An illness forces understudy Jan Moody to substitute during a St. Louis run while Grayson rests and returns for Cincinnati opening next Monday.
Pope Paul VI held a private audience with a Jewish delegation led by Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman and Joseph Meyerhoff to discuss shared roots and a common Bible. The group from New York City and Baltimore is reviewing the United Jewish Appeal aid program. Former King Umberto II arrives for a cross country tour after expressing long hoped visit to America. Kathryn Grayson takes a week off from the Camelot road company due to ill health and fatigue.
Dorothy Lamour testified before the Baltimore City Council and was confirmed to the Baltimore Civic Center Commission. She noted two counts against her as a woman and as a show business performer, but council members rejected the notion and approved her appointment to the commission.
Actress Mamie Van Doren says her on again off romance with Bo Belinsky has ended after a quarrel last Friday night. She had a blood test and bought a wedding dress for a Las Vegas elopement planned this Sunday, but the affair was called off for good Tuesday.
Gov Endicott Peabody ordered fire chiefs to halt all open burning permits as warm dry weather continues. Massachusetts follows New Hampshire and Vermont in woodland closures amid 111 small fires reported statewide. The Weather Bureau predicts unseasonably warm temps up to 80 degrees in southern New England.
Gov. and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller plan a political and football trip through northern New England. He will meet Young Republicans at the University of New Hampshire Friday, attend the Dartmouth Holy Cross game in Hanover Saturday, stay in Woodstock with his brother Laurence, and confer with Vermont Republicans Sunday morning.
President Kennedy plans an overnight stop in Boston on Saturday for a Democratic fundraiser and a brief visit to Maine. He will address a convocation at the University of Maine in Orono and inspect a proposed tidal power project at Passamaquoddy Bay during the Bangor to Boston flight.
Albany Georgia voters choose among three candidates to succeed Mayor Asa D Kelley Jr. James V Davis Edward V Jones and Slater King the first Black candidate for Albany mayor. Kings victory chances rely on white turnout and runoff rules amid civil rights tensions in the 1960s era.
Mrs John F Kennedy will continue her vacation in Morocco despite nearby border fighting. U S Ambassador Ferguson says she is not alarmed and will likely depart for Washington later this week ending her Mediterranean holiday.
Paul R. Lussier 30 of Winchendon resigned as Palmer High School assistant principal after allegedly admitting museum thefts totaling about 20000. He was indicted with Clark University student Robert W. Cook 18 of Leominster for thefts from historic sites and museums from Virginia to Vermont. Loot recovered at Lussier’s home.
Sam Miller of Weston and partner in Miller & Company public relations was named a director of Northeast Public Relations Inc at its Boston annual meeting. The agency group serves New England and New York with over 2 million in annual billings. Miller, 32, recently formed Montpelier firm with brother Peter Miller. Through the group they offer regional national and international services.
In Galway Ireland the Sub Aqua Club orders members to wear bright colored headgear when swimming in Galway Bay to deter seal hunters from firing. Two club members recently escaped farmers who mistook them for seals and fired at them while at sea.
Boston AP report notes Charles D. Thompson, son of a lawyer who worked on Sacco-Vanzetti appeals, recalling details from the Broadway drama The Advocate. He cites scenes mirroring real events, including Vanzetti’s judge speech and Governor Fuller ending, observed with his father in Dedham Jail and at the State House.
The Bennington Banner is a daily newspaper serving Bennington Vermont excluding Sundays and holidays. It operates from 425 Main St and is published by Banner Publishing Corporation with Associated Press rights for local news and AP dispatches.
The bathyscaphe Trieste departs Boston for its home port San Diego Calif after aiding the Thresher submarine search. It was loaded aboard the Francis X McGraw and is expected to reach San Diego around Oct 30. The vessel made several dives at 8,400 feet and photographed debris Navy identified as from the missing submarine.
Kingman Brewster Jr. moves from 55 Hillhouse Ave to 43 Hillhouse Ave as he becomes Yale University’s 17th president. The Yale graduate and former provost has been acting president since the death of A. Whitney Griswold on April 19, and is described with strong credentials and a tall, polished appearance.
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