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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1977
Page
9
Ice skating at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Skating Rink returns with public sessions listed for each day of the week. Weekly schedule includes extended hours Friday and Saturday with multiple skating events and youth hockey groups noted by name and time.
Rockport Maine report notes Smoke and Andre the seals wed last June and may be expecting a pup. Smoke was sent to Boston for winter care while Andre stays near Rockport. trainer Harry A Goodridge says Andre paces, hoping Smoke is pregnant and plans to reunite next summer.
Local social notes record visits and gatherings in Walloomsac Troy and Bennington including Bertha Hoag and others hosting bridge parties and family visits. The Troy area reports on the American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout plans with school distribution of I wont smoke forms on the week of Oct 31 for November 17 moratorium day.
Vermont officials confirm a new non fatal Legionnaires case raising the statewide total to 24 with 13 deaths. CDC notes four more highly probable cases including one death, and confirms 13 fatalities since July. General Electric plant tests show no greater risk for hospital workers than outside staff. Vermont invited by CDC to send a Health Department doctor to Atlanta for training.
The Snelling administration announced a new training program for state employees to improve job skills and aid in qualification for promotions and managerial positions. Administration Secretary Ralph Peters and Personnel Commissioner Jacques-Anne Couinard said the plan was unveiled Wednesday and will take some time to implement.
UPI reports Secretary Bergland says the government is studying higher reimbursements to dairy farmers for cattle killed due to brucellosis. Brucellosis outbreaks have led to 26 quarantined herds in Vermont, with two slaughtered. current payments are 50 to 100 dollars per cow. Galbraith opens Vermont visit at University of Vermont as new seminar program starts focusing on U.S. power, the Third World and black culture.
Albany report states 37 year old Patricia Harris is held on second degree murder charges in the April 3 death of laborer Isaac Paul Williams, allegedly killed by a lit match or cigarette dropped on a bed after a dispute over an unidentified bottle. Harris has prior arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. A separate item notes SUNY trustees offering Clifton M. Wharton the chancellor post, making him the first black leader of SUNY.
Otis selectmen won a $200,000 HUD block grant after spending $8,000 on consultants. Funds will buy a solid waste compactor and about 200 acres for a site to include a ball field and public park. Bid the compactor, then negotiate with waste-removal firms after HUD release. In Lenox, 68-year-old Leeman found dead in woods off Housatonic Street. Alfred A. Viale of Whiteholm Road in Lee died of natural causes per autopsy.
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