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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1967
Page
5
Vermont House committee schedules October 31 for a public hearing on a bill to establish a minimum wage for Public Works hires. Rep. Charles Greene sponsors the measure in 1967, aiming to set a wage scale via the Department of Industry and Labor at least equal to municipal workers. The bill carries no appeal clause, a point raised by Rep. Francis Esposito.
The State Board of Health sanctioned allocations for multi year hospital work totaling over ten million dollars. Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St Johnsbury receives twenty thousand dollars in federal Hill Burton funds. Rutland Hospital gains seventy thousand dollars with plans for two new wings and remodeling exceeding five million dollars. Mary Fletcher Hospital gets sixty six thousand nine hundred toward a two hundred thirty thousand seven hundred project. Porter Hospital in Middlebury earns eighty thousand in federal nursing home funds for a three hundred seventy four thousand five hundred nursing home on site.
Vermont Governor Hoff announced Lemuel Peet of Burlington as the state’s New England River Basin Commission representative. Peet, a former conservationist from Middlebury, retired after 25 years in December. Hoff also named Gertrude Mertens of Woodstock to the Quechee River Classification Council to replace Robert Heinemann.
Special ceremonies Thursday mark completion of the River Street plant remodeling with a plaque dedication honoring founder Sanford L. Cluett. A luncheon motorcade through downtown Troy precedes the dedication and guided tours of the new facility will be open to the public in the afternoon.
The Albany convention ended after six months of deliberations. Democrats secured enough support to present the new constitution to voters in a single package, rather than as separated sections as urged by Republicans. Voters will decide on the measure in November.
In Green Island the Albany bus strike hampers strikers at Ford's Green Island plant as many fail to report for duty. Pickets say transportation issues hinder reaching the site. Dedication of RPI Student Union building set for Oct 19-21 includes Identity ’67 forum with invited university reps and Sen. Mark O. Hatfield to deliver the dedication address.
Pittsfield clerk of courts Nelson Foot Jr. said it is highly unlikely the murder trial of Bruce E. McConnell 21 of North Adams will occur this fall due to insufficient time and risks to court schedules. McConnell is accused of killing Bonnie Briggs Pearson in August. illness of his lawyer Atty. J Norman O’Connor adds delay. No decision yet. Peter G. Arles proposes a Medicaid abuse study commission after noting costs exceed 1 million dollars in state funds. Berkshire Museum reports Lois A. Novacek’s Home in Cheshire painting sold to Beverly Garland.
The New England Regional Commission reported to the Senate public works subcommittee on economic development. It highlighted pollution control and transportation weaknesses across six states and outlined plans for an ongoing regional economic plan with annual updates and investment priorities.
In Washington a 57 to 28 Senate vote rejected Sen. Winston Prouty s plan to spend 200 million dollars to subsidize private industry for job training and retraining programs. Prouty argued the investment would create about a billion dollars in training opportunities.
Spec. 4 C Glendon R Barnett of Barre was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for attempting to locate three missing members of his unit on June 14. Brig Gen Phillip A Allicon presented the medal to Barnett's mother at the Cont Tracy Army Reserve Center in Barre. Barnett, a platoon leader's radio teletype operator with the 16th Infantry First Battalion, was Barre's first Vietnam War casualty.
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