State Board To Meet Here In May In Bennington
Mrs. Marian C. Taylor announced a May meeting of Vermont's state board of education will be in Bennington the board will deviate from custom and visit multiple communities to better engage with the public. The May 22-23 schedule includes a tour of the new union high school and discussions with officials on redistricting, followed by an open meeting May 23 with a lunch break. No fixed gathering site has been announced.
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Marian C. Taylor
State Board of Education
Union School Board
Bennington
State Board
Board of Education
Vermont
Montpelier
Taylor
Union High School
Prospect School
BCHS
New York
Anthony
Charles W. Keir
Mt. Anthony
North Bennington High School
Keir
Convention Backs Reuther Flexible Demands From UAW Backed
DETROIT UPI The United Auto Workers convention overwhelmingly endorsed Walter P. Reuther's flexible bargaining demands for summer talks with auto companies. The union may target Chrysler or Ford, avoiding General Motors due to size and defense commitments. GM’s defense work could invite a Taft-Hartley injunction even as strikes against GM would affect the industry. The 35 hour week and early retirement resolutions were defeated. the general aims were approved with little opposition.
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Detroit
UPI
United Auto Workers Union
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
UAW
Chrysler Corp
Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
Chrysler
Taft- Hartley
Star Defense Witness Accuses State in Coppolino Trial
In Naples Florida UPI reports defense star witness Dr. Francis Foldes challenges the states toxicology basis in the Coppolino murder case. He asserts unscientific methods undercut the claim that Dr. Carl A. Coppolino caused Carmela Coppolino’s death with a drug overdose.
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Star
Carl Coppolino
Naples
Fla
UPI
Carl A. Coppolino
Francis F. Foldes
Montefiore Hospital
New York
Charles J. Umberger
New York City
Coppolino
Foldes
Carmela
Umberger
Smith
Tornadoes strike northern Illinois causing deaths and injuries
A rash of tornadoes blasted scores of northern Illinois communities Friday night. Police at Belvidere said at least nine people were killed, six of them school students trapped in a high school. Hospitals were overflowing with injured. in Harvard a bus load of children was hit, injuring nine.
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Illinois
Belvidere
Chicago
Harvard
East Moline
Mississippi River
Peotone
Weather Bureau
Frank Fiebrantz
Chrysler
Fox River Grove
Dekalb
Elburn
Cary
Wonder Lake
Wauconda
Rockford
Woodstock
Buffalo
Elgin
Hartland
Barrington
Parade Bands Line Up For Bennington Battle Day
Seven drum and bugle corps and possibly two military bands are set to march in the Bennington Battle Day parade on August 13 as part of the town's Battle Day events organized by the Bennington Fire Department. Vermont National Guard bands and several corps from Rutland Troy Schaghticoke Pittsfield and Schuylerville are listed among participants along with fire departments from Rutland Shushan West Pawlet West Swanzey Buskirk Greenwich and North Hoosick. Invitations for floats will be sent to businesses and service clubs.
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Bennington
Scarlet Knights of
Rutland
Mucha Os
St. Joseph’s
Troy
Mavericks
Schaghticoke
Berkshire
Pittsfield
N.Y
Shushan
West Pawlet
West Swanzey
N.H
Buskirk
Greenwich
North Hoosick
King Tightens Greek Control
ATHENS (UPI) King Constantine in a martial law state as Army takes power. Konstantine Kolias sworn premier, vows normalcy in 24 hours but promises to crush opposition. Spandidakis named deputy premier and defense minister as ministers, all military officers, pledge stability while curfews and arrests widen.
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Athens
UPI
Constantine
Greece
Constantine Kolias
Rome
Kolias
The
Nation
Army
Gregorios Spandidakis
Athens Radio
Nicolaus Makarezos
Interior
Police
Triganos Patakos
Georgios Papadopolos
Tanjug
Washington
State Department
Spandidakis
Benito Mussolini
U.S. Supreme Court
Belgrade
George Papandreou
Papandreou
Andreas
University of California
Berkeley
Panayiotis Canellopoulos
Canellopoulos
Stefan Stefanopoulous
Center Union Party
Greek Armed Forces
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Izmir
Turkey
Salonika
Harry S Truman
EDA
Copenhagen
Anne-Marie
Inside Column by Jean Wassick on Mothers
Roy Marsden writes about springtime fishing on page four while an editorial critiques the regional airport plan delay on page four. The column discusses other people’s mothers and reflects local interest pieces across the noted pages.
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Jean Wassick
Roy Marsden
North Viet Rejects Proposal to Expand DMZ
North Vietnam curtly rejected a U.S. plan to widen the DMZ by 10 miles on each side, calling it a trick to escalate war. Hanoi accused Washington of seeking a vast no man’s land and demanded respect for the 1954 Geneva Accords as talks for de escalation proceed.
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Tokyo
UPI
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S
No Man’s Land
Haiphong
Hanoi Foreign Ministry
Dean Rusk
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
Washington
United States
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Quang Tri Province
South Vietnam
Break Pa Nang
United Press International
William Strode
Amberger
Frank Moya
University of Miami
Moya
Miami
Bailey
John Crispin Smith
Montefiore
Carmela Coppolino
Fordes
Cappolino
New Jersey
William E. Farber
Paul Moler
North Viet
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