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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1966
Page
2
The Pittsford Zoning Board of Adjustment passed a resolution calling its trigorous opposition to the state locating a 1.3 million medium security institution at the Vermont Sanatorium. It derides Atty. Gen. Connarn's ruling that state agencies need no local zoning approval and warns the town’s rural character would be altered, increasing fear and demand for police and fire protection.
Vermont and New Hampshire blood donations last week totaled 1 261 pints across 11 draws, with a two week run of 2 349 pints the highest in a decade. Mansfield Avenue Red Cross center distributed 856 pints, 763 to 62 hospitals, 94 to other centers. IBM Essex Junction worker set weekly high with 441 pints. Newport residents contributed 195 pints and Vermont National Guard unit 74 pints in St Albans.
Burlington hosts the first in a series of voter registration workshops with candidates for the legislature from Chittenden Grand Isle Addison and Franklin counties. Mrs Joan Hoff will speak. A second workshop for Caledonia Essex Lamoille Orleans Orange and Washington counties is Oct 1 at the Pavilion Hotel in Montpelier with Windsor and Windham counties in a Oct 3 Springfield evening session. Rutland and Bennington counties conclude the series Oct 5.
A Brattleboro special town meeting was held to authorize spending an additional 225000 for a three stage sewage control system. Voters consider funding after bids were opened. Crowley Associates of Leominster submitted the low bid 24600 above the revised engineer estimate of 365000.
Vermont Attorney General John P. Connarn announced the Eastern Regional conference of attorney generals will run September 20 to 22 at Stowe. Attendees include state AGs from New England New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with Alabama AG Richmond Flowers expected as a special guest after his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Clayton Lester, former Hoosick Falls resident now in Springfield Vermont, is named superintendent of assembly and test at Bryant Chucking Grinder Corp. He is 25 years with Bryant and a Hoosick Falls High School graduate who completed ICS courses in industrial supervision and mechanical engineering. Lester has held roles from test floor assistant foreman to works manager. In Grafton a State police summons followed two crashes. Neil Daus of Troy received a summons for unsafe tires and excessive speed after a single car crash on Babcock Lake Road. Two others were hospitalized after a separate one car crash on N Y 22 in Petersburg. Gregory Noonan and Richard Barnes, both 19 and 20 respectively, were cited for speed and keeping to the right.
In North Adams 12 000 people attended the 11th Fall Foliage Festival including an air show at Harriman Airport. The back road phantom tire hunt begins today with the main event a children's parade on Tuesday. Pittsfield dedicates airport terminal and lighting Oct 1 to promote keeping small airports open overnight. Rev Burchell urges city to fund long term low interest loans to rehabilitate substandard housing for low income families.
The Vermont State Labor Council endorsed incumbent Democratic Gov. Philip Hoff and Lt. Gov. John Daley for re election at a Burlington convention. Republicans Rep. Robert Stafford and gubernatorial nominee Richard Snelling and attorney general candidate James Oakes urged council to review voting records. Daley attacked sales tax plans. Ralph Williams was re elected president, Lena Brown vice president, and Jane Noury fifth executive member. A resolution urged Sen. Prouty to vote for cloture on civil rights bill filibuster.
Middlebury College president Dr. James Armstrong says the gap between younger and older generations is smaller than many believe. He cites shared concerns and communication improvements as signs of closer alignment across age groups.
Dr Jost seeks to form Hyde Park Academy for Boys while facing false advertising charges over Hyde Park College and Hyde Park Academy for Girls. Secretary of State Cooley will not accept articles of association until investigation by Atty Gen Connarn concludes. The new private academy would enroll boys ages 13 to 19 and is to be run by Jost his wife and mother.
A giant meteor lit up skies from Ontario to Missouri on Saturday night, seen across Ontario New York New Jersey Maryland Pennsylvania West Virginia Michigan Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Tennessee Kentucky and Missouri. Witnesses compared it to an atom bomb or a big flash bulb. Michigan Governor Romney aboard a private plane said it felt like an attack. Scientists aim to recover fragments.
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