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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1964
Page
2
Vermont shows all time high employment and unemployment at 3.9 percent, the lowest in 59 months, with over the year gains near two thousand and a drop from 4.4 to 3.9 percent. Fire ruin in Middlesex prompts investigation into cause and residents escape unharmed.
Harvard professor Dr William B Castle renowned for anemia research will accept Albany Medical College Union University award November 13. He will speak on mechanisms in vitamin B12 deficiency anemias at Huyck Auditorium to physicians and related scientists. Burnt Hills bombings echo 1963 incidents as sheriff probes injuries to teachers homes. Local political notes report Mrs Rose Kennedy promoting Bobby Kennedy and planning retirement from campaigns while Jean Kennedy Smith visits Troy.
Tonight at 7 30 in Adams Memorial High School auditorium the town will consider 13 articles including a 17 000 appropriation for the Welfare Department medical aid for the aged a storm sewer on Brown Street and its reconstruction and a regional school district planning committee with three members one from the school committee and funding for the committee. Also Williamstown reports the sale of Swiss Meadows in South Williamstown to Randolph P. Trabold Francis E. Hayden and Ronald M Hayden for resort use noting its Comstock farm history and past ownership by Cornelia Stratton Parker Carleton Parker and Joseph Agnelli.
New York stock prices opened steady in moderate trading. Kennecott Copper rose to 93.34, Sunray DX Oil fell to 343, North American Aviation up to 52, American Broadcasting down to 51.14, Pacific Tin to 13, Cerro to 67, Boeing at 63, Republic at 48, and Jones & Laughlin up to 83.14. General Motors slipped to 102, Chrysler up to 62, Ford at 61. IBM rose to 42.2, Eastman Kodak 133, and many others quoted. The Bennington Banner lists extensive price changes and company abbreviations across many sectors.
Herbert Ovitt, 29, convicted rapist, captured at his East Charleston home two days after the Vermont Supreme Court denied his appeal to overturn the rape conviction. He escaped July 15 from Essex County Jail with accomplice Joseph Gobeil, who was later arrested in Albuquerque. Ovitt faced a 5 to 10 year term.
On Oct. 5 the Shaftsbury Baptist Association met at East Poultney Baptist Church with Moderator Bernard Dow presiding. The program featured devotions, an annual sermon, laymen and women sessions, supper, an evening worship service, and a Japan slide presentation by Rev. Theodore Livingstone. Officers elected for the coming year include Ehrmann Bennett, John C. Hatch, Lois Squires, and others, with a 1965 nominating committee named.
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