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Tax Receipts Jump MONTPEUER (AP) Tax receipts for the first third of fiscal 1960-ttl shown'ed an increase of nearly $840,000 over.the corresponding period last year, the Tax Dept. reported today." Receipts for withholding taxes'reflected the larg- est'gain. Revenues from cigarette inheritance and meals and rooms taxes also increased. I Bennington Evenm FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. PRICE SEVEN CENTS BENNINGTON, VERMOOTVMONDAY, DECEMBER Castleton Accredited At Long Last CASTLETON Not since the fire of 1923 lins Ihcrc been as much excitement at Caslleton Teachers College as there was Friday, whet the school won its long straggle to liccoine an accredited institution The news was transmitted Irani Montpcller at noon by a jubllnir Dr.

Richard J. Dundas, prcsidenl of Vermont's oldest chattered in stitulion, to his equally happy ane excited students. Officially, Castleton became a member of the New Englani Assn. of Colleges and Secondary Sch'ools at Uie association's annua meeting in Boston Friday. It took a long lime com i The school was founded in 1731 An "evaluation committee" spcr three days''in October at studying the school ant chocking its accord with the i quiremenls.

The information for.varded with a rocommendr tioii to the organization's slanc Inp. committee on membership. Members of Ihe commit which surveyed the college's it cully, plant and curriculum wei Chairman Samuel N. Bogoroc University of Vermont Englis professor; Elizabeth Kelly, dea of women at Middlebury Collcgi and Dr. Hilton Hurley, presidei of Southern Connecticut State Co lege in New Although the association mittee knew Castlcton was accer ted Nov.

15, the fact was a clos ly-guarded secret until the ass elation meeting Friday in Bosto Official speculation gave the cc lege a better than 50 50 chance success prior to the announ ment. Dr. A. John Holden Ve mont commissioner of educatio was the first to be notified, immediately notified Dr. Dunda who was in Kontpelic'r at tl lime.

Dundas, in turn, called li secretary with the good news. At Sunday'Meeting iOP Retains Adams As Permanent MONTPELIER The Republi- Slate Conmiiltec Sunday voted i continue the Montpelier office the Vermont Republican Party a permanent basis. In taking lis step the committee voted to etain Executive Secretary Car oll P. Adams with a permanent greement. Carroll Adams in Bennington arly this morning said he and Irs.

Adams would move to Moni- jclier on Jan. 15. The Adams' kid lived in darks' Woods here ince coming to Bennington in '55. Adams said the campaign defi- il tor I960 was less than 58,000. all, over $75,000 was spent on lie campaign this year.

Adnms pointed out the mont Republican Party doesn' have much trouble raising money, the 15 months the office has jeen in operation over has been raised $41,000 of this amount was sent direct to the Be xiblican National Finance com party members at a year. mittee. A permanent finance committee The State Committee a composed National Committee adopted a resolution calling for man Ed Janeway, Mrs. Gertnu he establishment of a monthly Mallary of Bradford and Socraie 30P organ, "The Vermont Repub- Zolotas of Burlington was appoir lican," which will be to ed to supervise financial plans. Cow Wins Sunday r3out With Auto A strong willed cow and a 1960 edan with a weak front end col- ded early Sunday morning on Ue.

9 in Bennington, with the se- an coming out a poor second in he encounter. Karl B. Lockrow, 33, ol Hoosick 'alls, N.Y., told state police he was blinded by the lights of an ncoming car and pulled to the right, striking a cow owned by 'airdale Farms, Inc. Police said the sedan was a loss. The ow walked away unhurt, but 'as probably having a horse augh on Detroit.

In another accident early Sunday morning, 31-yearold Nikila L. totast, of Williamstown, ost control of his 3958 sedan on 7 in.Pownal, skidded across a lawn and slammed into a tree. Rotast escaped unhurt. Police estimated $350 damage to WiUiamstown- man's vehicle. Weather Variable cloudineu a warmer tonight.

Tuesday clcw- wanner. Svnut 4:15 p. Sunrlw 7:11 a.m. Department Of Defense Reorganization Begins Ethan Allen Air Base Sale Held Up COLCHESTER (AP) sale of; Ethan Allen Air Force Base has been postponed pending a review of the Vermont Nationa Guard's need for some of the Air Force's facilities there, J. Warren McClure, chairman the Governor's Ethan Allen Base Study Committee, said Sen.

George D. Aiken, told him In Hoosick Falls Police Are Seeking Hit Run Death Driver June July 1961 wouM be the Hoosick Falls. HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. Police here are continuing investigation today of the hit and run death of 76 year old Arthur Hurley of At Least 10 Years Away Reunion Of American Protestartts Gains Favor Of Leading Churchmen earliest possible date for final disposition of the base. The Air Force's 14th Figh Group left the base last summer after trassfering.its.

defense assignment to the Vermont Air National Guard. Aiken told McClure disposal of the base has been referred to the adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard by the Nat i a 1 Guard Bureau and a decision on tiie Guard's requirements is' expected this month, Hurley, who was found dead in street near the. railroad freight station.here shortly after noon on Friday, was found to have several severe injuries after an autopsy was performed at Samaritan Hospital in-Troy, N.Y. Hoosick Falls police are preparing a list of all private' vehicle owners, truck firm owners ant truck drivers in the village anc ing a favi for can Boycott Weakens NEW ORLEANS (AP)--The boycott of an integrated elementary school weakened a bit more today with 15 to 17 white turning out for classes. They showed up at the William Franlz School where one Negro girl is enrolled in the first grade.

The previous high white attendance, since the school was integrated by federal court order, was the 10 who went to classes Friday. There are 500 enrolled, Jeers and taunts from women demonstrators greeted the white children and the Negro girl met a chorus of boos when she arrived. "You're as black as they are," snouted "one woman at the while children. "Nigger lover," yelled another. At McDonogh No.

other school integrated on Nov. 14, only the three Negro girls in Ihe first grade entered Ihe building today. Its enrollment was 500. However, police patrols at the school were enlarged amid reports that white pupils would break the McDonogh boycott today. The I.egis!ature gave (prick approval Sunday to a bill providing state aid for pupils wlw prefer to attend private schools.

The legislature, despite a federal court order not to interfere with the operation of New' Orleans schools, is bent on preserving Kgregation. Moving quickly to meet the expected a for schools, workmen rushed repairs Sunday on a build- Ing in suburban Arab! to be used for some of Ihe while students boycotting the two schools. C. E. Vet tor, businessman, said to many workers showed up at the building tliat some liad to be turned away.

Registration at the to start Wednesday. In addition to providing an alternate scliool system the Icgis- privale scliool was scheduled to- fey and Tuesday. Classrs were hhire approved resolutions de- dgned to prevent banks from handing over school funds to the New Odeans School Board. The Swmakers earlier tried lo tv.ist the hoard but U.S. Dist.

i SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- Lead; churchmen today registered somewhat bedazzled but firmly reaction to 'a proposal a wide reunion among Ameri- i Protestants. Hie plan, said Methodist Bishop in Wesley Loid, ol Boston, Students i lassrooms idge J. Skelly Wright overturned lat action and numerous segre dlion measures. Wright set a hearing for today the banks to show'cause wnj icy should not be enjoined fo efusing to honor school boan liecks, One of the latest legislativ esolutions sets up a new schoo toard with authority to he annual $12 million needed ach year until scliool tax mone ecomcs available. Gov.

Jimmi I. Davis signed the resolutio alurday. Two immec lely oblained a restraining orde illeging the new attempt to ous he school board is unconsti- ulional. is shocking as it is Christian." "It overcomes with stark slm- icity many of the problems that vwe perplexed the separate com- luniohs over the years;" The plan, at the outset, would mbracc the -Episcopal Presbyterian, M-e i t' and nited Church of Christ with other enominations subsequently invited to join. The provocatice was Sunday by a.

top-ranking Presbyterian, 'the Key. Dr. Euene Carson Blake, of Philadel- hia, shortly before the. start od triennial General Assembly of the National Council pf Churches. More than 3,000 representatives of 33 Protestant and Orthodox dpnominatioris 40 million members joined Sunday riighl ir the stirring opening services.

Although not formally a part of heir program, the proposal gen crated keen interest among dele gates. "It is the opening of a very significant move," said the Rev. Arthur C. lichtenberger, New York, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. "Out of this might come a plan that would be acceptable to a the people involved," he adde "It is a good approach.

I hope will lead to a. reunion of the church." Altogether, the combined hoc wild have more than 20 million nembers. Other churches accept- a the Dr. Blake said, ould also be invited to join, with ie ultimate aim of reuniting the whole of Christ's church." He estimated it would take at fr east 10 years' to" effect the initial inion, if the designated denomina- ions act oh it favorably. He 'suggested as a possible name: "The eformed and Catholic Church in (he United States of America." The plan is patterned on the precedent-shattering establishment of the United Church of South India irf 1M7, uniting Pres- yterians, Methodists, Episcopalians and Congregationalists.

No Injuries As Two Cars Collide Village police reported consider able damage to the front ends and eft sides of two vehicles which collided on Branch and County streets early this morning. Police said Smith Stratton of Bennington was driving east on County St. in a 1951 sedan when a 1959 sedan operated by Murray L. Cutler of turned west into County street from North Branch street, and collided with the Stratton vehicle. No injuries were reported.

Funeral Services Planned Tuesday For Mrs. Prouty NEWPORT (AP) a 1 services will be held Tuesday for Mrs. Winston L. Prouty, 53 year old wife of. Vermont's junior sen ator, who died Saturday in Albany, N.Y.

Senator, and Mrs, Prouty had stopped 'at an Albany motel en route from Washington to i Newport told police he was unable to waken his wife Saturday morning. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Mrs. Prouty, the former Frances Hearle, was born in Stanstead, Que. She and the Senator vere married in 1939.

Mrs. Prouty had three daughters by a prev ous marriage. Whites Suffer In Congo As Reds Rage tEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP)--Henchmen of Patrice Lumumba damped a Communist- styte dictatorship on the city ol surrounding area. Bennington will included in the search arid po- ice did not rule out investiga- jon in Massachusetts if it proves necessary. The department, in collaboration with the New York State police, is trying to locate a possible witness to the accident and has requested anyone having informa tion about the case to contact them.

Hurley's funeral will be held today at 9:30 a.m. from the Hausler Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. from the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Hoosick Falls where a Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung. Interment will be-in St. Mary's Cemetery here.

Expect Udall As Secretary Of Interior PALM BEACH, Flu. (AP) President-elect John F. Kennedy deals today with Defense Department reorganization. And he reportedly has decided on his man for secretary of the interior Stewart L. Udall, D-Ariz.

Kennedy arranged to Ily back to Washington during the afternoon, after a session on revamping the Pentagon, for a busy week of gearing up his new administration: president-elect took one. step i that direction Sunday creating an 11-meniber night Stanleyville today. Angered at the capture the deposed premier )iiey kt loose committee to map what he termed a desperately needed program of federal-aid for areas of chronic unemployment. The committee headed by Sen. Paul Douglas, plans its first meeting in a few The president-elect scheduled a mid-morning conference with Sen.

Stuart Symington, who leads a committee Kennedy set up to map streamlining of the na- ion's vast military, establishment. Sources who asked not to be HAVANA (AP) Relations be- named said Kennedy has decided Catholic Church Denies Castro Bribery Charge tween'the Roman Catholic Church and Prime Minister Fidel Castro today were at the most critical level yet after the church angrily their lury oh whites trapped in bis northeastern stronghold as a reprisal. Whites were barred from entering or leaving Oriental Province. U. N.

reports said numerous white residents of Stanleyville were being mistreated by Ihe military police under control of the local government headed by Antoine Gizenga, vice premier in to name Udall, .10, to the S25.000- a-year interior post in the Cabinet. These sources the presi- denied Castro's charge that dent-elect's present plan is to an- Missile Ruins Are Studied By Air Force VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP)--The Air Force today studied the shattered ruins of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, trying to learn why i exploded shortly after fueling. Damage from the blast Saturday night was estimated at between S4 million and $6 million," 1 Air Force spokesman said. missile is destined for a major role as an ocean-spanning nuclear weapon.

The Air Force was unable to estimate hew long the Titan pror gram will be delayed by the explosion. This was the first explosion of a Titan at this base, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Similar explosions have occurred at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Air Force said the 97-foot long Titan was being lowered into its underground concrete silo aft-1 er fueling-when it exploded with a roar that shook windows 25 miles away. There were no injuries--crews were in an underground building several hundred yards away.

Europeans Lashed By LONDON (AP)-Northern Europe today began cleaning up after a violent weekend of raging storms and floods which sprea liimumba's defunct Cabinet arid a strong leftist. Diplomats in Leopoldville were convinced that if Lumumba had succeeded in reaching Stanleyville ie would have split the Congo in such a way that a Korea-type war pricsts took bribes to preac against his revolution. Adding to the increased tension among Catholics were persistent but unconfirmed, reports that Archbishop Enrique Perez Serantes of Santiago was detained briefly by authorities in Camaguey Saturday and told to leave Cuba. The 77-year-old archbishop was returning from a meeting of Catholic prelates in The re- wrts said he replied firmly that ie would stay in Cuba and take he consequences. Archbishop Perez Serantes, who once saved Castro from a Batista Kennedy will meet for the firsj would have followed with the Communists on Lumumba's outspoken critic in Cuba, said by dent Eisenhower.

They will dis- Lumumba, dismissed by President Joseph Kasavubu Sept. 5, es- caped from his guarded residence in LeopoMville a week ago anc headed for Stanleyville. Caught 500 miles east of Leopoldville by Congolese army com mander Co). Joseph Mobutu's troops, Ite has been brought bad to. face trial on charges of incit ing the army to mutiny during nounce selection.of Udall, a mem her of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, while in New York Udall, it is understood, has been asked to be on hand for the announce menl.

Over the weekend, Kennedy picked the second member of his Cabinet--North Carolina Gov. Luther Hodges lo be secretary of commerce. The president-elect earlier had named Gov. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut as secretary of health, education and Welfare. At the House Tuesday firing but now is his most telephone from Santiago: "I am an old man and suffer from loss of memory.

I do not recall any such thing happening to me." Camaguey military officials said they had not detained the archbishop. lime since lu's election with Presr In an open letter to Castro read United Nations. cuss the problems of transfer from a Republican adminislralioi to a Democratic regime. 'A Kennedy aide said the president-elect liad made no decision regarding his choice for secretary of slate or ambassador lo the the chaotic days after indepen- Western diplomats said they had definite information that the Soviet Moc and several Asian-af- frican nations were planning to recognize a Lumumba administration in Stanleyville, as the Congo's rightful government had he got away out of reach of Mobutu's troops. Sunday in Santiago's calhedral, nine Catholic bishops, including Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, asserl- ed that the government's revolutionary indoctrination program preaches communism.

also denied Castro's charge that "henchmen in cas socks" accepted bribes from sugar industry interests to preach against tlie revolution. There has been no official reaction fo the letter, which was read in Catholic churches without incident. Bronx Tragedy Curiosity, Flashlight Cause Death Of Boy HAL MCCLURE NEW YORK (AP) 'A little boy's curiosity, a flashlight, a vacant apartment. This' was 5IEW AMBULANCE FOR POWNAL CENTER FIRE DEPT. Shown hi front of fire house, all Uteat enwff ncy equipment, including two beds modern oxygen gw.

death and destruction. Britain bore the brunt of the storm, which sent rivers crashinj out of their banks and floodct dozens of villages and miles farmland. Property damage was heavy in At least twc deaths were reported. Four deaths were counted in Holland. France, Germany, Den mark and badly hit.

Belgium also wer anatomy ol a neighborhood tragedy in the Bronx Sunday night. Not Jong ago Robert Ingraham 8, the sbr. of a building superintendent; received a handsome from 'a family moving from he neighborhood. The present--a shiny flashlight --became a near-obsession with the boy. For hours, as boys will ic explored the dark places in the neighborhood murky basements, glodmy stairwells, store rooms and odd comers.

Friends accused him ot talcing the light to bed with him. Durin. most'of his waking hours he kept the flashlight fastened to a string tied around his waist. For three days Robert hit everj urijt rook and cranny in toeareo. When Robert Didn't come 1-ome unday night, his frantic father.

ohn Ingraham, called police and widespread search began. For nearly four hours searchers -ombed the neighborhood, talked the lad's friends and looked in most places a 60-pound could hide, It wasn' until detective Chris topher Kelly learned the boy's ascinntion with the flashlight that police came up with a clue. Kelly went to the basement apartment recently vacated by the neighbors who had given Robert the flashlight and began a thor ough His fears were realized when he finally opened the door of a refrigerator, Robert's slight body was up inside. The boy still grasped his precious flashlight. Btrt the battery had bur nod 'out.

The committee will concenlrale on the situation in West Virginia. But Kennedy said the group's recommendations will be the basis for an aid program for other areas with the same problem. He said these include Southern Illinois, Eastern Kentucky, Southern Indiana, Pennsylvania coal and itcel areas, ami the Minnesota ron range country. Stevenson Seen As Ambassador To United Nations NEW YORK (AP; President elect John F. Kennedy is prepared to offer Adlai E.

Stevenson the post of ambassador to the United Nations, press reports sairt loday. The reports were carried in the laily News and the New York "imes. The News, in a dispatch from 'ashington, said "This would be The had died with. him. line with previous reports imir Bating that Kennedy had firmly ocided that someone other ie two-time presidential nomiricr would be picked for secretary of late.

"Kennedy, it was understood. vis expressed an inclination to name Sen. J. William Fulbright, for the Cabinet post, but has made no decision, "If Fulbright is not named, It was understood that the choice vould be between Dean Rusk, president ol the Rockefeller Founda- ion and a former assistant secre- of slate, and David Bruce, onetime ambassador to West Germany. "Still reported in the running, but only as a long- shot, is Rep Chester Bowles, who wa Kennedy's chief foreign affairs a4 viser miring the campaign.".