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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1963
Page
2
The body of 65 year old George E Farr of Quechee was found Sunday in a slow moving millrace by Gerald Parker. Dr Charles Cunningham said the death appeared accidental and not drowning. No survivors listed.
Vermont officials claim federal highway taxes paid by motorists exceed road spending by billions nationwide. Robert E. Garside of the Vermont Petroleum Association cites Bureau of Public Roads figures showing 24.2 million of 58.6 million collected locally funded nonhighway projects from 1956 to 1962. Cleon A. Perkins, longtime chairman of the State Highway Board, is honored by the five governors at a cookout. Hoff and former governors attend, with a plaque presented.
Edward S. Alexander of Orlean s Vermont is named Vermont chairman for the National 4-H Club Foundations Service to Youth educational programs. The yearly drive raises funds from banks to support programs as Vermont joins 9 other states in the foundation's first 4-H laboratory in citizenship education conducted this summer.
Nine children from two Rochester families are hospitalized with headaches vomiting and fevers from an illness traced to water seeping from a cesspool. A three month old who died in 1962 may have died from the same illness.
North Adams First Agricultural National Bank announced contracts for razing half a block on Main Street including the North Adams Savings Bank Building and the Sibley Block to David Mc Nab Deans Construction Co of Williamstown. The savings bank now shares the latters building with an insurance agency remaining in the bank block. The Sibley Block houses Bateman's Market a hairdresser and a travel agency. In Pittsfield Yellow Coach Lines seeks Public Utilities Department approval to raise student fares from 12.5 to 17.5 cents for riders within two miles of school a move opposed by councilors and school committee members.
Gov. Philip Hoff declared a state of emergency in South Royalton to address a water shortage. He directed Civil Defense Director William H. Baumann to arrange immediate emergency piping from a reservoir affected by seepage. An 8 inch main, auxiliary pumping, and purification unit will be deployed from Camp Johnson stock to supply two reservoirs amid muddy water and dry spell conditions. The Water Resources Department announced an initial 362 700 payment for Burlington sewage and pollution control work in the east end, covering 10 percent of total costs with final payment upon project completion.
Barre officials protest the proposed D line for an Interstate route that would pass Barre after Gov. Hoff directed Commissioner Holden to back the D line. Holden expects at least six weeks for final word from the Bureau of Public Roads on the fate of the D line. The A line would route the highway from Montpelier to Northfield and Brookfield toward St. Johnsbury, bypassing Barre.
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sunday and holidays at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont. Subscriptions by mail vary by radius with 6 months 8.00 and 1 year 15.00 for Vermont. elsewhere in the U.S. 6 months 9.00 and 1 year 17.50. Special rates for servicemen.
The Employment Security Department reported 3,722 New England state jobless claims for Vermont in the week ending September 7, up 50 from the prior week. Initial claims reached 552, up 24 percent, while weeks of unemployment claimed fell to 3,170 from 3,227.
Former New Hampshire Governor Wesley Powell files a $1 million damage suit against the Herald Publishing Co. over editorials about his handling of a trooper case. The action targets the Herald and the estate of former publisher J. D. Hartford, returnable in Rockingham County Superior Court on the second Tuesday in November.
New York racegoers saw Arthur Chambers win his first race with his first mount at the Jamaica track in 1957 guiding Summer Song, a horse he had broken as a yearling.
Gov. Hoff and a 9 member planning council will meet tonight for the first time since May to review an industrial outlook report by Hollister Kent and Morris Budin from Syracuse. The report covers all aspects of industry including agriculture. A related note says demolition of the 97 year old Central Vermont Railway shed will begin next week.
A New England study links road salt from winter pavements to premature leaf color change and die back in maples and other evergreens along highways. Researchers from University of New Hampshire and Connecticut Experiment Station warn salts, especially sodium chloride, harm roots and limbs, with maples showing brown leaf edges and die off, prompting calls for safer de-icers.
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