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i mi i i i i i i i i i i i i i Cool, Partly Cloudy Sunny today, cooler and partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Yesterdays high, 79; low, 40 At 7 a.m. today, 47. The planet Jupiter is in the constellation Aquarius and rises in the late evening aimer Bennington, Vermont, Tuesday, July 3, 1962 Established 1811, 59th Year, No. 17,917 Price 7 Cents Algeria, 132 Years French, ItM Proclaimed No Compromise Independent Revolt Faced By Premier Upon Return 'with considerably less authority Widely-Split Governors Tackle Medicare Alter Smacking McNamara on Guard Cut PSI? Suggests Be Suspended Rutlands Taxes MONTPELIER, Vt (AP) The Public Service Board recom mended today that the state sus pond collection of $46,000 worth of taxes owed by the strikebound Rutland Railway Public Set-vice Commissioner John Paterson said the finding will be forwarded to Gov Keyser this week The governor holds final authordy to approve the sus pensions, is expected to go along with the PSB.

Dei ision Key Paterson said a pending decis.on by the Interstate Commerce Com mission concerning the Rutlands petition for abandonment held the key to consideration of the tax suspensions If the ICC denies the petition, Paterson said the Rutland could use funds temporarily realized from the suspensions to help re store operations If the ICC grants the abandon ment petition the tax liens wood automaticaly become due, the commissioner added Rutland President William I Ginsburg who appeared bfoie the PSB last week, aigued that the p.ivment of taxes would jeo pardize the railroad's capacity to resume operations if the aban donment petition is rejected Smylie replied acidly that he had heard Faubus a segregation advocate, make some "very un tim ly objections to some very worthy resolutions which have been before this conference The betting was that despite all of tb straining there would not be much significance any civil than the clang of the Libci ty Bell, which will end this conference Wednesday with a speech by President Kennedy in Philadel phia On the medicare issue, Republicans and IX'mocrats were so divided it seems possible that the conference may go on record in favor of Social Security financing. NKARI.Y GONE Flames engulf barn owned by Floyd Rice on U.S. 7 shortly after Rice and four helpers hail leaped frond "hayloft when blaze broke out at about 8:45 last night. Billowing douds of blaek smoke attracted huge crowd and cloaked Bennington throughout the night. Two fire departments fought the blaze.

(Photo by Herbeit Post) HERSHEY, Pa (A1 tions governors come to grips to day with the overriding issues of health care for the aged and civil rights Behind them, after a stormy session with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, lay a no compromise verdict oq the Kennedy administrations effort to pare down and streamline what it thinks is an obese and outmoded National Guard and Reserve sys tern Listened Politely The governors listened politely and stingily applauded McNa maras scientifically oriented ex planation of why they should give up 295 National Guard units They were unimpressed with an hours closed meeting with the secretary As Gov Ernest Vandiver o' Georgia put it afterwards, the governors -w ere willing to sit down and reason with McNamara about the matter, but, by the Contmenta' Congress, they were not going to have the fedeial government cu any local units in their states In his prepared text put out in Washington, McNamara had said We want no paper tigers in our reserve structure But this line was deleted shortly before he made his talk to the 54th Governors Conference There was no immediate explanation for the action Want Local Control The na Fire Through pap Hay Barn Explodes Burns As 5 Men Pack Last Load Eve men leaped 23 feet'to the nmgton Rural Fire Department ce believes the fire was caus' (round through fl lines save ind three from the Pownal Fire I ed by a short circuit in the power seven calves and a ton of grain, Department rushed to the scene connecting conveyors used to rights proclamation issued by the conference but in such broad terms as to be It seemed likely to ring out meaningless Only One Objector Recorded To Barney Brook Diversion Selectmen Monday night took it tied is dry much of the vear renewed interest in a several By closing off the waterway, years dinnant municipal project proieitv owners along'its course calling for the diversion of the so could fill it in for property devel died Barney Brook into th Wal upm -nt and the town would have loomsac River and eliminating five fewir bridges to maintain, its present flow thrmgh the il these, as they de'eporated to the lage to its present emptying point point of nonuse, would be remov into the South Stream n-ar Beech ed and icplaced by filling in the Street watercourse The stream at one time was us The board indicated that with ed industrially by the Rockwood on(, exception they have obtained and former Bradford Mills agreement from all property own but currently serves no purpose, ers aong the water course to give quit claim deads to their water U1 rights The exception is owner of gilt to DOUnCC the Bradford property Select 1 mens Agent Mrs Alma Langlois Rorminrrtnn RqpL' I was mstmcled to tontact Attv IUII 1 JciLIV Franklin Jones, local agent for the property, to determ net he present owners position on cut-off of the brook The board reported that strong interest was shown in the proiect several years ago to the point where town voters aooroved an appropriation to carry out the di verson, which would take the stream due north to the Walloom-point above Branch There will soon be more light bouncing along the Bmnington streets and sidewalks, thanks to the many backers of the Ben nmgton Bounces Back promotion Cential Vermont Pub So vice Corp officials estimate that sac from a ALGIERS (APE French President Charles de Gaulle today pro claimed Algeria independent after 112 years of French rule Africas newest nation faced the threat of a new civil war from guerrilla troops seeking to put radical Vice Premier Ahmed Bern Bella into power Roaring Welcome As 4,500 mutinous nationalist guernllas massed southwest of Algiers, the capitals jubilant Moslems readied a roaring welcome for Pi em er Youssef Ben Khedda and his nationalist government The moderate leaders were flying from their Tunisian exile to try to stifle the guerrilla revolt and as sert their rule over Algeria Algerias independence became effective at 10 30 a 4 30 a.m EST as the result of a statement issued by De Gaulle following a special meeting of thef French Cabim By 1 he se'f detorminat on vote of July 1, 1962, the statement said, the Algerian people called for independence of Algeria, coop eratmg with France In consequence, the relations be'ween France and Algera be ng henceforth founded on the conditions defined by the governmental declarations of March 19, 1962 (the Evian peace agreement), the pres ident of the French republic de claves that France solemnly rec ognizs the independence of Algeria Transfers Sovereignity Frances last colonial admims trator of Algeria, High Comm's sioner Christian Fouchet, con veved De Gaulles declarat on to President Abderrahmane Fares of the Algerian Provisional Execu tive and transferred to the provi sional government the sovereignty France had held for more than a century over Algeria The Evian agreements call for the provisional executive to Algeria until a Constituent Assem bly is elected later this month and a parliamentary government takes over It was believed Ben Khedda 's Cabinet from Tunis would be merged with the provis onal executive, and Ben Khedda would be come pres dent of the new combined executive nit the bain vva ried bv re but according to Rice, the stiuc one mile south of Bennington Vil i te last rrght at 8 43 At the farm of Floyd Rice, he ind four neighbors were putt ng a list load of hav in the bam when he exoloaed btovi them 1 Four fire trucks from the Ben tuie was already enveloped in flames About 3,000 bales of hay were lost Rice was unable to est mat the loss this morning He said that there is same insurance cover age, but not enough to cover Graded School Board Awards Three Contracts Bennington Graded School Dis trict trustees last night re-elected John Riddle of 521 South St to a second term as president of the school board during the group's monthly meeting at the offices or District Supt Allan Heath Elected vice presidmt was Ron aid Knapp of Burgess Road, wth Mrs Reba Moninger of 334 Elm St named board secretary In organizing the board for the coming years work the following committees were established Building Ivor Pelsue of 924 Mam St Goodal! Hutton ol 329 Elm St and Knapp Finance Franklin A Riley of 223 Grandview St Charles Slee man of 7I41 2 Main St Knap Publieitv Hutton, Sleeman and Mis Moninger Teachers Mrs Moninger, Ril ov and Pelsue During its business meeting, the board awarded contracts to low bidders on three facility improve ment projects Will Install Shower and U.S. of Lambasted For Income Tax Cut Stand load the hay The blazing hay produced black clouds of smoke which drifted over the village The acrid odor was noticable throughout the night Dam of Bales Fifemen were hampered by the recent drought as Rices nearby water hole was dry Firefighters wre forced to dump bales of hay into a stream a quarter mile away to form a dam, backing up enough water to pump in relays to the fa-m Traffic jammed up both di rections on U.S 7, he ng brought to a standstill for nearly an hour, with a stream of eh ties extend mg for miles R'ce said some daitv qu pmen stored in the barn was also lost His GO head of cattle were in pas ture when the blaze began Grey, smoke curled abive the blackened timbers and twisted metal farm equipment this 1 ing Rice sat with neighbors star ng dazed at the ruins He said nothing 1 ke this had happened to h'm before and he hope-, never does again He posed for photographer-, near the charred rubble, remarking hat he should look for his shoe" which he lost during the hectic moments last night Friends asked how they could help, but Rice commented there nothing much to do now most major village streets 1 I 1 Street have the new 20 (MM) lumen, me v.u M(ns Bridgc curv vapor ornamental strep I lights bv earlv August I other business Village1 officials are hope fill that signed an application the new lighting system will at tract new business to the street of Bennington and, at the same me, encourage established bus' nesses to improve their store ''Tints A program to increase Benning ton street illumination, begun al most eight years ago has teady progress Dewev Street County Stre'et and Ben Mont Ave me are at the top of the slat for future illumination improv hinds for a new Lyons bridge to cross Furnace Mrs Langlois reported town rather than state the town would normally the budge entirely out roads funds which on a fifty fifty basis bv made Present case- ard lv reflecting a changed fund policy4, the contr bate the regular See SFLECTMEN WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Hairy Byrd, Va chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, todav denounced the Cham be of Commerce call for a sub stantial income tax cut $'3 Billion Defii it Byrd said the reduction would be inflationary apd would mean a $13 billion federal deficit Bvrd thus joined the commit tees senior Republican, Sen John Williams, Del in assailing, the chamber's proposal Williams told the Mon in de bv The Washington threat to the Guard was only one of the issue on which the governors said they want local control of almost e' erything that concerns the lives of their voters except, of cou-se. the fat federal aid without which the states could not operate todav There was even an argument over whether the U.S Suprimo Court could interfere in a state's eht to have a praver said in ito public schools This stemmed from the courts decson thn state dictated prayer New York was il'egal A couple of unlikely companions this adventure Govs Farr'0 Bryant, Florida Democrat, and John Re, Maine Republican gave btrth to a resolution to put the conference on record as re gretting the courts decision and urg ng Congress to amend th Constitution to "make clear and beyond challenge the nations traditional faith in God SNAFU At that point came a parha mentary snafu The conference has a rule that all resolutions must be submitted 30 days ad vance This one hadn't been and Gov Robert Smvlie, Idaho Re- publican, entered a dissent to its Selectmen for state District Brook that as a aid bridge pay for of its back are matched the state apparent state highway state will state a 1 Continued on Page 10 -V 19 Installation of new showers the girls' physical education partmc nt will be carrd out Winslow Plumbing and Heating dav at bile it may be pohti Co of Bennington who submitted cadv popular at the time, the a low bid of $2,863 Other bidders long range inflationary results for were Georg Pierce 'and Rich Americans would be disastrous ard Fonteneau I He declared that I refuse to Installation of ceramic tile floor have any part of such irresponsi ing in the girls shower rooms, at ble action as to endorse a tax cut a cost of $880. ana dewall cra in the face of our present deficit mic tiling in the $hower room of Byrd told a reporter he would the girls' physical Education dinec have a detailed statement on the tor, at a cost of $1)06, will be pier chamber's recommendation later formed bv the Bennington Tile Co Installation of 50 looker and 288 ures baskets and racks for Bennington But he said that congressional High School students will be done tax expierts already had advised by Evans News and Office Equip him that the proposal would chop See SCHOOL BOARD tax revenues by $9 5 billion a year Continued on Page 10 mtead of the maximum 7 5 bil lion estimated by chamber offi 1 cials Bvrd sad he was convinced that even ithout a tax reduction there would be a federal defu it of $6 billion in the fiscal year which began Sunday Thus, Byrd said, the chambers tax proposal would lead to a defi cit of more than $15 billion Rips Governors Wilburns aimed a-broadside at Govs Nelson a Rockefeller of New York, a Republican, and Michael Dialle of Ohio, and Edmund Brown of California, Democrats He said he had noted they had joined in the parade calling for an immediate tax re duction Significantly, at the governors onference we find that the gov ernors were calling for more and more federal aid from Washing ton Williams said AI) Appear These governors, as well as the President and the United States Chamber of Commerce, know full well that a tax cut in the face of a continuous rise in government spending would lead to a staggering deficit A dehb erately planned deficit of such proportlljM- at this 'time would be the most inflationary action this administration could take The Americans for Democratic Action today pined the tax cut demanding a sharp reduc tion in income tax rates, coneen trated in the lower brackets The ADA said a cut has be come a matter of immediate ur gency to invigorate the national economy They replied he should get sime sleep Rice hadn't been to yet He was waiting for the insurance consideration mLl? I Smylie and Gov Orval Fau neighbors help ng at the bus. Arlmnsas Democrat, ex last rveht were Ronnie Saun changed bitter unpleasantries rs, Douglas oaunders, Arnold Faubus said Smvlie had made an Clayton and Rices son Ronald untimely objection to the reso ice lution Take Good Care of Him Clark Resigns as Judge Aug.

15 To Run for State Senate Seat Boston Police; Hunt Strangler Of Three Women LYNN, Mass (AP)-An intensive cooperative effort began to 'day to find a killer believed responsible for three strikingly sirru lar strangulation s'ayings in the Boston area within three weeks In Boston, Police Commissioner Edmund McNamara detailed three picked teams, of two men each to work on the slayings under Deputy Supt Arthur Cadigan Jr The men were to re inforee the work of the homicide bureau Two of the killings occurred in Boston, the third and most re cent in Lynn The body of Helen BLake 65 year-old licensed practical nurse, was found her apartment last night She had been strangled with her brassiere and a nylon stocking Last Saturday night the body of Mrs Nina Nichols, 68, was discovered in her apartment Bostons Brighton section Sixteen nights before that, on June 14, the body of Mrs Anna Slesrs, 55, was found in her Back Bay apartment in Boston The similarities in the three slayings wrere both striking and Atty Eugene V. Cark announc ed today that effective Aug 15 he will resign his position as Ben nington Municipal Judge to seek one of the two Republican norm nations for state senator from Bennington County Clark. 42, assumed the judge ship, an appointive office, Feb 1, 1959 The 9enatorsbip will be the first state elective office he has sought He said this morning he will not actively campaign for the normna tion until his resignation takes ef rent, but wdl in the next few weeks circulate the necessary petitions which must be filed by Aug 1 Bom in Cleveland, Ohio, Clarke attended Shaker Heights. (Ohio) High School and Harvard University and obtained his law degree from Cornel University He served in the Navy in the South Pacific Theater during World War He is mamed to the former 450-Pound Tivist Champion Wcll-IIcclcd Negro Visitor HYANNIS, Mass (AP) The A telegram from the mayor of Crenshaw County twist champion Luveme, FA Sikes, asked that 450-pound WkUrp Graham of Lu veme, Ala was an apparently well heeled sightseer today in the land of the Kennedy's The 34-yearJold Graham arrived on Cape Coa yesterday, a new tvpe of Negro reverse freedom rider in this Summer resort com mumty What Rwde Wilie different aside i from hts 450 poynds, of course was his relative affluence Previoo Negro arrivals came with one way bus tickets and usually wgre pretty thin on mon ey Willie, as a temporary visitor, came with a round-trip bus ticket and with pockets evidently well 1 lined He said both the ticket an the money amount undisclosed were provided by LUverme segre gatiomsts 1 Unlike previous arrivals who had to have quarters found for them, Graham picked up a reser vation a Hyannis motel Graham called Big Nick be well received Die message said Graham is a well liked shoe shiner in his home town and, more than that, the county twist champion Graham said he would spend a few days looking over Hyannis. then visit New York on his way back to Alabama 72nd Negro Another Negro arrived yester day with only 25 cents He was Jones, 36, of Little Rock, Ark, whose oneway bva ticket and $5 were provided by a citi zens council The town welfare department found a room for him Jones made the 72nd Negro sent to Cape Cod by southern segrega tionists Of that number, 45 are still on the Cape, and 33 of these four mothers and 33 children are quartered at Camp Edwards, an inactive national guard post The others have found jobs or left the Cape Senator Prouty Wed to Ohioan In Washington WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Winston Prouty, R-Vt was rfiarned todav to Mrs Jean ette Hall of 'Washington and East Liverpool, Ohio Mrs Hall 1 chief adrrunistra five aide to Rep Robert Cook.

Ohio Prouty office said she will continue in that capacity for the time being Prouty, 55. was previously mamed to the late Frances Hearle of Newport. Vt His new wife was a widow The ceremony was performed in the chapel of the Georgetown Prebvtenan Church EUGENE V. CLARK No Ban ner Tomorrow All Offices of The Banner will be closed Hedneoday for Independence Day. EY FS TO THE NKIES Village leaders survey progress made toward bettering Bennington street Illumination.

I -eft to right are George E. ftjerwirth, sake manager for the southern division of Central Vermont Public Service Donald C. Hicks, director of the Greater Bennington Association; and Village President James B. Gibney. Village trustees Charles Bodlne of 310 Crescentt Blvd and Ormal Pierce of 918 Gage SL hre also among those who helped plan on the village lighting project.

(Photo Hagerman) Clark; who has also maintained Elisabetn Kimball of Belm t. a private lavk practice in addition Mass and the couple, who reside to his bench duties, has been an at Cresoent Boulevard has two 1 active merrfcer of civic and 'young ichureh organizations 1 a a mitiiii.