Vermont Ski Burbs Boom Transforming Woodlands Into Playlands
The Vermont ski boom turns forests into year round recreation hubs as developers add lifts trails and lodges. Resorts like Magic Mountain Hogback Mt Mt Snow Stratton expand facilities driving a possible 1964 record leap in the industry. Skiburbias rise around Haystack Mountain while four season attractions and luxury homes reshape resort areas.
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Vermont
Ree Sort
Magic Mountain
Londonderry
Hogback Mountain
Marlboro
Mt. Snow
West Dover
Stratton Mountain
Haystack Mountain
Wilmington
Labor Dept Signals Reversal of Jobless Trend in 1964
The Labor Department reports July nonfarm employment at 59 million, down 200,000 from June yet 1.5 million above July 1963. Analyst Robert Stein says 1964 averages about 1.6 million above 1963 levels, with construction at a record 3.5 million and sectors like trade and services contributing to the rise.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Department
Robert Stein
Stein
Mississippi Desegregation Quiet Start In Biloxi First Graders
Seventeen Negro first graders registered at previously white Biloxi schools with calm reception and no incidents. Classes start Aug 31 as federal court orders push desegregation in Mississippi. few police present aside from traffic volunteers. Nearby coverage notes segregationist Lester Maddox turning away from restaurants to sell ax handles as a protest symbol.
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Biloxi
Miss
UPI
Mississippi
University of Mississippi
Jackson
Leake County
Lopez
Gulf Coast
Atlanta
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Pickrick
Free Enterprise System
Rare Fire Apparatus To Appear In Vermont Parade
A horse drawn Steiner fire engine from the mid 1800s will roll down Main Street in the Vermont State Firefighters Association parade. Owned by Mrs. Walter Berry of Old Bennington it is believed to be the oldest firefighting piece in the area and will be loaned to the Bennington Fire Department for the event. The engine came from a Saratoga, New York estate and was once kept by Old Benningtonians with Berry family crews. it served when the old Jennings mansion burned near the Four Chimneys Restaurant.
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Main Street
Vermont State Firefighters’ Association
Walter Berry
Old Bennington
Bennington
Saratoga
N.Y
Berry
Jennings
Four Chimneys
Goldwater Clarifies Nuclear Weapons Remark Effect on Defense Policy
In Hershey, Goldwater says he did not mean to claim Johnson ordered nuclear use in Southeast Asia. U.S. forces were ordered to use conventional weapons only against North Vietnamese torpedo boats, with no nuclear attack allowed, per Pacific commands and Washington, clarifying White House rebuttals.
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Washington
UPI
Barry M. Goldwater
Johnson
U.S
Goldwater
Hershey
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
White House
McNamara
Pacific
U S Forces Complete Congo Airlift Support for Tshombe
The United States completed an airlift of 106 American troops three helicopters and four transport planes to Congo to bolster Premier Moise Tshombe. The move includes 42 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne and military aid valued at up to 6.6 million dollars. G. Mennen Williams and Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley met Tshombe as consultations continued.
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The
Congo
UPI
United States
Moise Tshombe
Thein-Main
Frankfurt
Germany
82Nd Airborne Division
Washington
Congress
Tshombe
U. S. Signal Corps
U. S. Air Force
U. S
U. S.S
LBJ Keeps Hands Off Kennedy New York Senate Bid
White House said President Johnson has not intervened in Attorney General Kennedy's consideration of seeking the Democratic nomination for U S Senate from New York. Press secretary George E. Reedy stressed no intervention and noted Johnson sees this as a matter for Kennedy and New York voters to decide.
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LBJ
Kennedy Senate
Washington
UPI
White House
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
George E. Reedy
Kennedy
U. S
Reedy
Kennnedy
Attorney General
Robert Wagner
New York Times
Wagner
Senate
Italian President Segni Near Death After Stroke Relapse
President Antonio Segni lay near death in the Quirinale Palace after a relapse in his cerebral stroke battle. Senate President Cesare Merzini, sworn in to assume interim duties, was summoned as doctors managed a new circulatory disturbance raising his fever to 103. The president’s wife Donna Laura four sons a priest and close friends kept vigil during the crisis.
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UPI
Antonio Segni
Donna Laura
Preist
Quirinale
Senate
Cesare Merzagora
Segni
Guiseppe Giunchi
Giunchi
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Christina Hart
Donna Delude
Maxim
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
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