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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1963
Page
2
Vermont personal income totaled 68.8 million dollars in June up 3.1 percent from June 1962 but below May's 67.4 million. First half of 1963 shows 400.3 million, up about 14 million from 1962.
National Guard units join 600 volunteers in a wide Island search for Linda Ann Septer 4 who wandered from a Nassau picnic Monday. Gov Rockefeller ordered troops to Staats Island as officials say she vanished with no trace or trail.
In Pittsfield and Adams actions filed yesterday, Rusty Oliver sues Greylock Broadcasting Co. for libel over a Berkshire Downs ride. A North Adams plaintiff, through Bruce R. Cheesbro, sues Dr. Alex Friedman of Fall River for alleged birth negligence causing the mother’s death. Also in Adams, Donald R. Sommer becomes the first re-elected commander of the Adams American Legion Post in its 45-year history after modernizing the Plunkett mansion and boosting a veterans memorial drive. County commissioners approve a Cleveland Dam spillway plan to replace flashboards to prevent potential 10 feet of flood damage.
The five day outlook from the U S Weather Bureau covers Maine New Hampshire Vermont Rhode Island and Massachusetts with temperatures averaging 3 to 5 degrees below normal. Expect cool Thursday and Friday then a slight warm up over the weekend. Precipitation totals around four to eight tenths of an inch with rain Thursday night and Friday and a few showers possible late Sunday.
Shelburne chairman Derick V. Webb says Sen. Everett M. Dirksen will headline the October 3 statewide Republican fundraising dinner in Montpelier. Other speakers include Lt. Gov. Ralph Foote Consuelo Bailey Theodore Corsones and Franklin Billings with 1 100 seats sold at 25 a plate.
William O. Nash son of Loyal and Mrs Nash of Old Bennington will start a 39 week Navy electronics course in San Francisco in February 1964 after Navy boat training at Great Lakes. He will serve on the U S S Hooper out of San Diego until school begins. Nash joined the Navy in June under the electronics field seaman recruit program and was one of eight local high school students in the Vermont Shipmate Company.
Vermont may receive extra money under the Manpower Training program if southern states practicing segregation are cut off from full allocations. Vermont’s 1964 allocation is $200,000, double 1963, with six approved courses from auto mechanics to psychiatric aides in the program.
Jimmy Stout once the state’s most popular jockey remains active as a patrol judge at New Jersey Thoroughbred tracks in Atlantic City.
The Bennington Banner, published daily except Sundays and holidays, lists contact numbers for newsroom and display advertising and provides subscription rates for 50 mile radius Vermont and nationwide mail orders. Rates include 6 months and 1 year options with servicemen discounts.
Vermont officials say they will not join talks on merging three natural resource agencies but seek greater coordination among Forests and Parks Fish and Game and Water Resources. Gov Hoff era study point to overlapping duties and varied board powers under consideration. A separate plan would merge Health Social Welfare and Institutions.
In Oakland California 130 teenage boys participate in the 10th annual Workreation program. Each works three weeks for city departments four hours daily and receives four hours of instruction. They earn one dollar per hour and gain career counseling nature lore and lectures by civic leaders.
Massachusetts officials labeled U S Rep Paul Fino's claim that illegal gambling is a 3 billion dollar business in the state as exaggerated noting only 1 4 billion from off track betting figures as a fraction of total illegal gambling Fino argues the stake is high and cites a national lottery proposal to raise 10 billion in revenue while critics call his figures unreliable
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