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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1973
Page
9
The League of Women Voters reminds Bennington residents that Congressman Richard W. Mallory will address issues before the 93rd Congress this Sunday October 21 at 7 30 p m at the Second Congregational Church on Hillside Street A question session will follow all are welcome.
For the fifth day 55 inmates at Vermont State Prison Windsor refuse meals work details and recreation. They protest visiting and recreation cuts due to staff and money shortages. Warden Moeykens reports fires threats and urine feces thrown at guards while earlier officials called the protest peaceful. Defender General Gregory McKenzie seeks cooling talks and state inquiry into grievances.
Sen. Robert T. Stafford warned at the Vermont Conference of Social Concerns that older Americans face inadequate income and are twice as poor as the young, urging all generations to share resources and avoid policies widening the generation gap while the conference runs through Friday.
Eugene M. Topacz Sr of Mt Anthony Union High School joins the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools evaluation group for Wahconah Regional High School in Dalton Massachusetts. He will chair the business education committee and serve as assistant chair of the special education committee and as a member of the music committee.
MONTPELIER Vermont Gov Salmon aide said the Governor's Commission on Higher Education voted 9-1 Thursday to seek a legislative resolution to form a post secondary education planning board. The panel would oversee planning and coordination of public higher education and include House and Senate education chairmen as liaisons. The group plans to present recommendations by November 1 as it weighs alternatives beyond two and four year colleges.
The October meeting of the Bennington chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution met at Mrs. Gilbert Vaughn's Arlington home with officers and committee members discussing national defense, volunteer service debates, and low quotas for the armed forces. The group approved four resolutions on youth, elderly transportation, energy, and wildlife. Officers were elected including regent Miss Anna Vaughn and vice regent Mrs. Harry Hayden, with a $200 education loan to be awarded in June 1973.
New England summers saw 367830 acres defoliated by gypsy moth caterpillars per USDA. Connecticut led losses at 333215 acres, with Massachusetts Rhode Island Maine Vermont New Hampshire earning smaller totals while Pennsylvania recorded 856710 acres. The moth arrived in 1869 for research and escaped. The caterpillar can strip a square foot of leaves daily.
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