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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1963
Page
2
Vermont labor data show July factory payroll changes nearly offsetting removals with hires and recalls at 34 per thousand and separations at 33 per thousand, well below June. Despite improvement, year over year comparisons stay unfavorable amid lingering payroll volatility.
Gov Hoff's office announced an $88 075 loan from the Area Redevelopment Administration to Newport Plastics Corp to finance new factory space and equipment. Expansion will add 17 jobs, with the plant employing 33, private funding nearly 350 000. In Georgia, dairy farmer Paul Martin, 57, died when a tractor rolled over on Georgia Mountain while he worked alone.
Six hundred men and women with police and hounds scoured Staats Island and a 200 acre corn field for missing Ann Septer from Nassau. Dogs planes brush cutters diggers and divers found no clue to her whereabouts amid the fruitless search.
Berkshire Downs rodeo drew 9 000 spectators over the weekend and raised about 2000 for Exchange Club youth activities. Williamstown traffic swelled as golf tennis and Clark Museum crowds filled Field Park forcing one way traffic. In North Adams two Berkshire Farm escapees aged 14 and 15 were seen and an alarm notified authorities.
A Pittsfield School Board sub committee plans a weekly meeting to stop a planned fare increase for school children within a two mile radius. The move aims to shield families from higher costs as the school system reviews transportation charges.
Mrs. Helen Dusshane of Ticonderoga N Y and two children were injured when a stock car rammed through a fence during an Rutland Fair race. Helen Dusshane 37 suffered a severe leg injury and possible internal injuries while her daughter Helen 14 broke a leg. Allan Montbr iand 7 received facial cuts. Driver Robert Devine of Danbury Conn was uninjured. Police noted the husband moved the family to safety before the crash as about 5000 spectators watched at the 118th Rutland Fair.
New York Governor Nelson A Rockefeller dismissed Hollywood astrologer A N Ziegler’s claim that neither he nor Sen Barry Goldwater will win the Republican presidential nomination next year Their comments came after the astrologer’s forecast in a news story and Rockefeller joked that if astrologers knew all the answers politics would vanish
The National Grange and Sears Roebuck Foundation announce a new Community Progress Program to boost rural communities through local self help projects. Awards total 70000, replacing the 16 year Community Service Contest, to be run on a two year cycle for long term impact with 7000 rural Granges invited to participate.
President Kennedy and his wife stay aboard the Honey Fitz while Caroline and John Jr join five friends ashore on Nantucket after a Labor Day cruise from Hyannis Port. The party toured the harbor from a Coast Guard lookout tower, marking a family holiday outing.
Charlayne Hunter, the first Black student at the University of Georgia, disclosed she secretly married white student Walter Stovall of Douglas, Georgia. The couple announced their marriage after Stovall arrived in New York and said they are expecting a December child. Stovall’s father, George, a chicken feed manufacturer, reacted with alarm. Walter Stovall recently worked as a summer reporter for the Atlanta Journal.
A Chicago researcher reports mice show critical vulnerability periods during simulated space flights up to 90 days, notably around days four, fourteen, thirty, and possibly sixty, with infection risks on board and upon return. A NASA-like study suggests stresses influence immune resistance, while Moyer notes limited microbe exchange among astronauts.
Telephones Business Newsroom and display advertising. The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sunday and holidays at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont by Banner Publishing Corporation. AP news is exclusive for local and AP dispatch republishing. Home delivery by carrier and motor delivery available. Subscription rates via mail for 50 mile radius and Vermont range from 4.25 for 6 months to 15.00 for 12 months. Elsewhere in the U S rates are 4.25 for 3 months to 17.50 for 12 months. Special rates for servicemen.
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