Bennington Reopens Main Street After Flood Damage
State Treasurer George Amidon led a ribbon cutting at Putnam Square marking the grand re opening of Bennington’s rebuilt Main Street district. State Sen. Hazel M. Wills Town Rep. Alexander B R. Drysdale and GBA officials attended with the Greater Bennington Association noting recovery and progress.
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George C. Amidon
Putnam Square
Bennington
Main Street
Donald C. Hicks
GBA
Town
Clayton Daigneault
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
Woodford
Daisy Myers
George Amidon
Alexander N. Dragon
Bounce Back
James B. Gibney
Edmunds
Greater Bennington Association
New
WBTN
Amidon
Hazel M. Wills
Paradise
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Deer Park
Bennington Catholic High School
Judge Orders Striking Electricians Back to Work at Redstone Arsenal
Federal Judge Clarence W. Allgood ordered electricians at Redstone Arsenal Space Research Center to resume work, saying seconds matter in the nuclear age. The NLRB monitored compliance as construction on space projects including the C5 Saturn booster had been idled for nine days. About 70 percent of contractors returned to work, while picketing had aimed at non union hires by Baroco Electrical. Local 558 AFL CIO comments were limited.
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Huntsville
Ala
Redstone Arsenal
Space Research Center
National Labor Relations Board
United States
U.S
Allgood
Jules Serot
Marshall Space Flight Center
Baroco Electrical Construction Co
Condemned U S Flier Freed By Indonesia
Allan Lawrence Pope a 33 year old American pilot was secretly released from an Indonesian prison where he faced a death sentence. He arrived in the United States a six weeks reunion with his wife Yvonne and two sons in Akron Ohio. Pope had been convicted in 1960 by an Indonesian military court of killing 17 soldiers and accused of supporting rebel forces in 1958. He claimed he flew one mission for the rebels but denied most charges and said he joined to fight communism without pay.
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Akron, Ohio
Allan Lawrence Pope
United States
Pope
New York
Yvonne
Akron
Indonesia
Com
Senate Eyes Prompt Passage of New Drug Control Law
The Senate moves toward final passage of a drug bill urged by President Kennedy as part of five priority measures. Kefauver’s amendments push for compulsory patent licensing after three years with 8 percent royalties and animal testing requirements. Dodd plans strict controls on sale and distribution of sleeping and pep pills.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kefauver
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
New York Woman Has a Bad Day
Ruth E. Daniels of Bayside New York had two minor accidents within an hour and a half on South Street while parking near the Sno Shop in Bennington Village. At 9 a.m. she struck Reuben Levin’s parked car and at 10:20 a.m. she hit George G. McGregor’s car in the same spot.
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Bennington Village
New York
South Street
Ruth E. Daniels
Bayside
N.Y
Reuben Levin
Soviet and U S tests on reorganizational move in Berlin
At Checkpoint Charlie three Soviet armored vehicles were detained by the U S for over an hour while American Army vehicles tested movements between West and East Berlin. The incident followed Moscow’s transfer of city command to Gen Ivan Yakovbskiy as Western powers warned the move would not erode Western occupation rights in the city.
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East Berlin
Moscow
U.S
West Berlin
Berlin Wall
Ivan Yakubovsky
East Germany
Potsdam
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Charlie
Soviet War Memorial
De Gaulle escapes Paris ambush by Secret Army killers
Paris police hunted for members of the Secret Army after gunmen fired 120 to 150 bullets at President de Gaulle’s motorcade in Clamart. He and his wife were unharmed, a civilian was lightly wounded, and two tires and the rear window were damaged. Police blamed the attack on the Algerian independence move’s underground group with leaders suspected abroad.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Clamart
Roger Frey
Frey
Col
Alain de Boissieu
Colombey-Les Deux-Eglises
Secret Army
Indep
Dence
Algeria
Georges Bidault
Belgium
Austria
Switzerland
Soblen lawyers seek Brooke testimony in extradition dispute
In London, Dr. Robert A. Soblen’s lawyers ask High Court to compel Home Secretary Henry Brooke to produce U S British exchanges on the fugitive spy. They seek a subpoena as Soblen fights deportation to face a life sentence for wartime secrets given to the Soviet Union.
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London
Robert A. Soblen
High Court
Henry Brooke
U.S
Brooke
John Stephenson
Heaings
Soblen
County Dems Back Meyer Amid Vermont Primary Feud
Bennington County Democratic chairman Spencer Haynes said an omission in last week's Meyer support ad occurred because a town chairman is in Italy. Windham County also pledged support for Meyer over W Johnson, intensifying tensions with Jack Spencer and the state party.
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William Meyer
U.S
Jack Spencer
Bennington County
Spencer A. Haynes
Meyer
Italy
Spencer
Windham County
W. Robert Johnson
Windham
Johnson
Haynes
Vermont
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Bob Harrington
Harrington
Stern
Air Force
Korea
U.N
Sen. Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
Judiciary
Soviet
Reds
Alued Checkpoint
Montecalvo Irpino
Naples
F. Elwyn Jones
Home Secretary
Bill Meyer
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