No Change In Ben-Mont Papers Stand
Ben-Mont officials say the company maintains its position in the strike deadlock with Local 534 of the Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union. The union rejected the proposed best and final offer, which included a three year contract with wage hikes and a lower wage scale for new workers, while Dow Chemical Co backs the stance. Supervisory staff return to work Monday after vacation as salaried status remains to be announced.
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Ben-Mont Papers
Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union
Frank A. Howlett Jr
Ben-Mont
Dow Chemical Co
Reserves to Return Home From Berlin Duty in August
The Army announced that all Reserve and National Guard units called to active duty last October will leave for home between August 1 and 11. Wisconsin's 32nd Infantry Division will lead a parade of about 110,000 men, starting from Fort Lewis on August 1 and expected to be in Wisconsin by August 5. The 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard departs Fort Polk on August 5, to be back within 24 hours.
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Washington
Army
National Guard
Berlin
Wisconsin
32Nd
Ft. Lewis
Wash
49Th Armored Division
Texas National Guard
Ft. Polk
Kennedy
Vermont Board to Resurvey Walloomsac Pollution This Summer
The Vermont Water Resources Board will survey pollution in Walloomsac tributaries this summer. Inspectors will check property owners along Jewett Brook South Stream Danville Hollow Brook Roaring Branch Dewey Brook Fairdale Brook Basin Brook Furnace Brook Paran Creek and parts of related streams in Bennington Pownal Woodford and Shaftsbury to assess sewage and waste disposal. They will inspect septic tanks and collection systems and enforce the law where needed offering technical help where pollution issues arise. The effort is a mop-up 10 years after the 1952 classification of the Walloomsac River Basin for pollution control.
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Vermont Water Resources Board
Walloomsac River
Reinhold W. Thieme
Walloomsac
Jewett Brook
South Stream
Danville Hollow Brook
Roaring Branch
Dewey Brook
Fairdale Brook
Basin Brook
Furnace Brook
Paran Creek
Bennington
Pownal
City Stream
Woodford
Shaftsbury
Thieme
Second Nuclear Test Detonation Follows First at Christmas Island
The United States fired a second nuclear detonation at Christmas Island at 6 a.m. test site time, in the intermediate yield range, part of Operation Dominic. The blast was dropped from an aircraft and produced 20,000 to 1,000,000 tons of TNT equivalent, with scientists seeking precise spectrographic data. Demonstrations occurred in Tokyo and other cities as pacifist protests accompanied the testing sessions.
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ABC News
Christmas Island
Pacific
Hiroshima
Equatorial Christmas Island
U.S
Tokyo
United States
Pompidou Wins Confidence Vote in French Assembly
Premier Georges Pompidou and his Cabinet secure a vote of confidence 259 to 128 with 119 abstentions in the National Assembly. The result confirms the new government after ten days in office, though support trails expectations and highlights discontent over De Gaulle's European policy and Parliament relations.
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Paris
Georges Pompidou
French National Assembly
Pompidou
Michel Debre
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Postponed Northbound Trip For Louisiana Negroes
New Orleans AP In a delay blamed on assembling 114 residents of Louisiana, the Citizens Councils postpone until Monday a plan to send a busload of Negroes to New York. Two last minute riders and rent concerns prompted indecision. 103 had previously gone to Chicago and one to Washington.
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New Orleans
Citizens Councils
New York
Citizens Council
Trailways Terminal
George L. Singelmann
Council
Singelmann
Louis Boyd
Chicago
Washington, D.C
Trailways
Berlin settlement talks eyed by United States and Soviet Union
Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobryn to probe Berlin settlement ideas that would allow Western troops to stay in Berlin. President Kennedy welcomed British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and pledged broad world talks. AFL-CIO urged Congress to require public review of price increases in key industries. Army official Maj Arch E Roberts ordered back to civilian life for making improper statements to the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Anatoly F. Dobryn
Berlin
Rusk
U.S
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Congress
Elvis J. Stahr Jr
Maj
Arch E. Roberts
Daughters of the American Revolution
Stahr
Roberts
Hoffa Calls NH Truckers Pact Best Ever Five-Year Deal
New Hampshire and Vermont truck drivers approved a five year contract after a five day stoppage that idled about 2000 workers. Hoffa led negotiations calling the package the best ever for New Hampshire drivers. The deal raises wages and adds benefits with two wage options and an escalator clause while acknowledging it does not match national terms.
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Manchester
N.H
New Hampshire
Vermont
National Guard
Teamster
James R. Hoffa
Ralph R. Melendy
Carriers Council of New Hampshire, Inc
Carriers Council Inc
Hoffa
Berlin views align as U S and West Germany differ on details
Bonn and Washington share no basic differences on Berlin solutions says foreign minister Gerhard Schröder. He notes disagreements exist on specifics such as placing access routes to West Berlin under an international body during exploratory talks with the Soviet Union.
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Bonn
West Germany
Gerhard Schroeder
Washington
Berlin
Schroeder
Associated Press
U.S
West Berlin
Soviet Union
United States
East Germany
East Berli
Villagers to Hear Union School Story
The Bennington-Southwest District Planning Board will present the union school story to the Bennington Graded School District at a Village Voters' School Rally at Bennington High School Wednesday at 8 p.m. Facts and figures on four major alternatives will be offered including doing nothing, building an additional elementary school, joining the union district Grades 7-12 with own elementary school, or merging with the Greater Bennington Schools District.
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Bennington - Southwest
Pownal-North Pownal
Arlington
North Bennington
All-Time April Heat Britches New England
All-time April heat records were set in southern and western New England as temperatures rose into the 90s across parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Fire crews fought wildfires in Massachusetts Rhode Island New Hampshire and Vermont amid tinder dry conditions with Maine reporting cooler spells. Governor bans smoking in New Hampshire forests while New York soldiers assist at Shirley Massachusetts fires.
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New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine
Samuel Green
Coos County
Wakefield
N.H
Milton Hills
Milton
Farmington
Union
Sanbornville
Wolfeboro
Rochester
Newfield
Department of Natural Resources
Kingston
Mendon
Blackstone
Shirley
Ft. Devens
Charles H. W. Foster
Bay State
Hadley
Mass
Standish
Poland
New Gloucester
West Rutland
John A. Notte Jr
Boston
Connecticut
Reds Urge Outlawing War Propaganda at Disarmament Talks
At the 17 nation disarmament conference in Geneva, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin urged criminalizing war propaganda in all countries. U S Ambassador Arthur H Dean opposed any move limiting press and speech rights, advocating instead more information and greater freedom. The issue was referred back to the conference.
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Geneva
United States
Valerian A. Zorin
U.S
Arthur H. Dean
Dean
Zorin
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