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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1967
Page
5
Gov Hoff praised a 72 hour Labor Day weekend with no highway fatalities as traffic peaked. Maj Glenn Davis reported 159 accidents, 75 arrests, 367 summons, 96 warnings, and 473 defective equipment tickets. Five untimely deaths occurred and a Bartonsville man died in a house fire.
Washington District Judge John P Connarn weighed a motion to dismiss state charges of violating blue laws in a Barre woman's sale of a sweater July 23 at Charlestown Mills Store in Berlin. Norma Turgeon, store manager, challenged the law as unconstitutional arguing sweaters are a necessity. Attorney John E Bernasconi argued the case to quash on that basis. State's Atty. Joseph Palmisano cited resident complaints and police observation of the sale on July 29.
Vermont labor and industry department reports two industrial deaths in August both from electrocution. One was a Newport lineman killed April 28 but recorded last month. The second happened at Big Bromley ski area in Peru on August 7. Non fatal accidents for January to August total 10,641, with six deaths.
Three dead and three injured after a four car crash on Vermont 22 A. Victims are John McGarghan 43 of Essex Junction Earl J McGrath 53 a passenger and Oliver Charlebois 70 of Vergennes. Other drivers Dianne Torrey 26 of Bridport and William Thomas 21 of Burlington sustained minor injuries. David Gilliland 26 of Ohio treated and released after head injury.
The Vermont Liquor Control Board suspended Doria's of Middlebury second class licenses for 15 days for violation of credit regulations. The New Avenue Hotel in St. Johnsbury had its first and third class licenses suspended for two weeks for improper operation of the premises.
UPI reports a Manpower Development and Training Act center for clerk typists will open in Barre on September 25. Mrs. Stella Hackel state commissioner of employment security said the course mainly trains key punch operators and is the second state approved project. Estimated Barre program cost is 15 662 dollars.
In Albany a constitutional article passed 113 to 54 to remove sheriff deputy appointment power from sheriffs. Counties would appoint deputies via Civil Service, shifting responsibility for sheriff activities to counties. A separate article to require two legislative sessions for pay raises failed 125 to 48, with mixed views from officials and unions.
Berkshire area crews begin ground control work for photogrammetric studies to refine the proposed artery. Markers placed along the roughly described route aid aerial photographers and are not the official highway line.
Tracy Dean, three, daughter of a Pittsfield police officer, was located safe at 6 30 a m Tuesday by 16 year old Michael Layden near a beaver dam at Pittsfield State Forest after an all night search following a family picnic Monday. The girl had a little exposure but is fine, father said. In North Adams, the Chamber of Commerce urged Sen. Edward M Kennedy to support federal uniform Monday holidays.
Vermont residents told the Vermont Water Resources Board they do not oppose the proposed Vernon Vermont Yankee nuclear plant if natural resources remain unharmed. Open cycle cooling towers and potential river temperature controls were discussed with Ebasco’s George Bingham and state officials noting standards and dilution limits. The AEC hearings resume Wednesday on the plant’s temporary construction permit.
A preliminary report from the New Hampshire Aeronautics Commission cites fuel starvation as the cause of the crash that killed F Nel son Blount a 49 year old Dublin industrialist and railroad enthusiast. Blount was piloting a Maule Rocket monoplane from Steamtown USA in Bellows Falls Vermont when it went down in Dublin.
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