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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1965
Page
2
Norwich University will sponsor a Summer Camp for Boys open to ages 11 to 15. Two four week sessions run June 26 to July 22 and July 24 to August 19. Camp includes physical training tutoring and meals served in the Norwich dining hall.
State Public Safety Commissioner A E Alexander says Vermont’s rising highway death rate will cost residents money. He calls for more troopers to patrol roads, noting 22 applications are pending but predicting only about 10 may turn into good recruits.
Burlington audiences will see the new style satire Stop the World I Want to Get Off Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium. Written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, the show follows Littlechap from birth to marriage and wealth to Parliament. Jackie Warner stars as Littlechap in this London and New York hit with the song What Kind of Fool Am I.
Vermont faces a looming deadline to receive 250000 more in federal money for outdoor recreation projects. Richard H. Macomber of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation warns that without advance plans, the Inter-agency Committee on Natural Resources may delay approvals. Over fifty projects await the committee, and the cutoff is about a month away.
Dr Robert V Daniels, history chair at University of Vermont, leads the free public conference on Religion in the Communist Bloc at St Michael's College, Nov 8 9. He opens with Religion and Communism Parallel or Antithesis at 7:30 p.m. in St Michael's Playhouse.
Paul Walizer, president of Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative Association, will urge a four point program with special premiums to producers to ward off economic collapse from rising indebtedness among dairy farmers. The recommendations, disclosed yesterday, appear in Walker's message to delegates from Eastern's 170 locals at their fall meeting today. Delegates represent 10,000 dairymen across New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
The New York Joint Legislative Committee on Matrimonial and Family Laws heard that the state's one ground divorce law is unrealistic prejudiced and outdated. A witness said the law mainly penalizes those who fail to make a marriage succeed.
A General Electric spokesman in Schenectady rejected three union settlement proposals for the Small AC Generator and Motor Department saying they miss the core issue. GE accuses the employer of an illegal work slowdown in the unit.
Mt Greylock Tramway Authority reports its Adams A research instrument damaged by winter winds will now give accurate readings. Executive director Joseph R Dragone said the thermometer will be relocated to the engineer’s station by TV Channel 19’s mountaintop antenna in a permanent position.
Mrs. Raymond Dunham received a souvenir doll from her husband, an Army engineer, after hearing reports that Viet Cong rigged dolls in Viet Nam with explosives. An Army demolition expert inspected the doll Wednesday in Pittsfield but found no explosive device.
Williamstown resident Albert Bachand of The Spruces offers 100 dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals who damaged Halloween displays at the mobile home park Saturday night.
Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra will give a free concert at Plumley Armory in Norwich to mark Norwich University's inauguration of its 20th president. The program begins Friday at 8 30 p m and is open to the public.
Burlington hosts the 46th annual Vermont Children's Aid Society meeting at Marble Island Club Colchester with a 10 30 a m business session. Robert Rosema will discuss group foster homes and their development. Mrs Arnold Brown will speak briefly. Officers for next year to be elected.
The home of Mrs Virginia O Hanlon Douglas in North Chatham New York was wrecked by fire on Wednesday night. No one in the family was injured but one firefighter was slightly hurt. Mrs Douglas who retired in 1959 after 48 years teaching in New York City schools moved to Chatham to live with her daughter. The article also notes her famous 1897 letter to the New York Sun about Santa Claus and its editor Francis Church reply. The piece ends with mentions of inauguration plans at Plumley Armory and related events involving Dartmouth College and state officials.
Vermont officials closed three scenic mountain routes for winter due to snow and ice. Smuggler's Notch Highway from Jeffersonville to Stowe Hazen's Notch between Montgomery Center and Lowell and Lincoln Gap between Warren and Lincoln were shut for the season for safety concerns.
In New York City Abraham Beame attacks Rep. John Lindsay. Beame accuses Lindsay of gutter politics while Lindsay leads in polls, widening his edge in some papers as Beame fights in the final election stretch.
MOUNDRIDGE Kan. Kindergarten teacher Mrs Paul Regier in 23 years had one twin pair in classes until this year Now she has three sets of identical twin boys all born in 1960 within a three month span Regier notes the odd coincidence as the students share birth timing and gender across the classroom milestone
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