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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1968
Page
5
In Swanton Vermont voters decide on a 397000 bond to fund a three high school complex plus a parochial school under one roof, after earlier costs exceeded estimates and a larger 475000 request failed. An ecumenical center funded privately will also be built nearby for religious courses.
President Lyndon Johnson moves to limit nonquota dairy product imports prompting praise from Sen. George D. Aiken R Vermont who cites rising cheese imports this year from Italy and Western Europe as undercutting raw milk prices. He says emergency limits were urged since May to shield the dairy sector.
Police in Albany charged Raymond Williams and Wilson Scipio, both 34, with first degree robbery in the Sept 8 beating and theft of William Constable and the injury death of Terrance S. Potter. Constable, 33, of Menands, said the pair jumped them on Madison Avenue, striking Potter and stealing $45 before Potter died later that day. They are jailed pending court.
In 1969 Polaroid Corp will install an instant licenses camera in the North Adams Registry of Motor Vehicles. Drivers will carry color photos on driving permits issued after January 1. Registrar Richard E. McLaughlin says the machine issued license will be nearly impossible to alter or counterfeit.
At the GE Pittsfield plant a straw vote of about 5 percent of employees favored George C. Wallace with roughly 80 percent of ballots. Wallace polled four times more than his two rivals combined according to The General Electric News which warned the result is not a real election sample. In Williamstown a public hearing on the red schoolhouse near Steele's Corners is set for Thursday at 7 30 p.m. The building last served as a public school in 1962 and sits on 2 3 acres zoned rural residential.
Marine Cpl Paul Olimpieri, 21, who had been AWOL from Quonset Point NAS Rhode Island since Aug 30, escaped sanctuary with his wife at Harvard Divinity School chapel. He shaved his beard, wore a Marine uniform with two Purple Hearts, and faced possible confinement under a less than 30 day penalty. He said he was used for political goals and asked servicemen to pursue proper channels.
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