Daily B52 Raids On Reds Foreseen
SAIGON United States military sources indicate B52 bombers of the Strategic Air Command may attack Communist targets in South Viet Nam daily. Five raids had occurred in six days, with two American planes lost. An F105 Thunderchief and a reconnaissance aircraft were shot down or killed, while ground fighting near Saigon and Da Nang saw Viet Cong outposts overrun and Marines push into a Vietnamese village.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Strategic Air Command
South Viet Nam
17Th Parallel
North Viet Nam
Air Force
da Nang
Quant Tin Province
Zone D
UPI
Nguyen van Thieu
Hue
Nguyen Hua Co
Marble Mountain
Third RFK child hurt in shipboard mishap in Hyannis Port
A 12 year old Joseph Kennedy was struck by a boom on the yawl Neris off Sag Harbor en route to Hyannis Port. Kathleen Kennedy 14 was injured in a horse spill and hospitalized with possible surgery. The Kennedy party aboard included Robert Kennedy and six of nine children. Separately, UPI reports describe intensified B52 Viet Nam raids and Da Nang student protests as U.S. and Viet Cong actions escalate.
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Hyannisport
Mass
UPD
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Kathleen
Kennedy Compound
Joseph Kennedy
Sag Harbor
N.Y
Hyannis Port
Kennedy
Gemini 5 astronauts begin 10 days of postflight tests
After a record eight days in orbit Cooper and Conrad return aboard the Lake Champlain. They face 11 days of medical tests and interviews at Cape Kennedy and Houston as part of the first postflight debriefing in the Gemini program. President Johnson called to congratulate them.
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Lake Champlain AT
UPS
Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Earth
Cape Kennedy
Cooper
Conrad
Reville
America
Lake Champlain
Federal Space Agency
Howard K. Minners
Atlantic Ocean
Minners
Space Agency
Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
President Johnson
Texas
Atlantic
Snow Dusts Mt Mansfield Atop Vermont Peak
Frost touched Vermont valleys overnight but Mount Mansfield drew crowds as tourists enjoyed a dusting of the first snow of the year. Autumn temperatures dipped below freezing in parts of the state, signaling a potentially rugged winter ahead for the Green Mountains and cheering skiers and area operators after two lean seasons.
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Stowe
Ups
Vermont
Mount Mansfield
Stone
New England
Court Schedules Oct. 8 Hearing on Apportionment Injunction
Burlington reports a hearing set for October 8 in Chittenden County Court on a petition for an injunction against this fall's special legislative elections. Former Rep. W. Clark Hutchinson of Rochester seeks to block the reapportionment plan arguing it violates the Vermont constitution and the U.S. Constitution. Hutchinson notes two year terms and the Supreme Court order shifting legislative terms. Separately, Judge Sterry Waterman will decide soon on an intervention petition in the Vermont reapportionment suit filed by Barre attorney Donald Milne seeking terms through January 1967.
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Burlington
UPD
Chittenden County
W. Clark Hutchinson
Rochester
House
Senate
Hutchinson
U.S. Supreme Court
Vermont
U.S
Sterry Waterman
Peetition
Versmont
Barre Atttorney
Donald Milne
Johnson summons steel negotiators to White House
President Johnson called the steel union and management leaders to the White House to avert a possible midnight strike after mediators reported the talks were stalemated. Sen. Wayne Morse and Leroy Collins joined the breakfast briefing, with labor secretary Wirtz and Commerce secretary Connor present as plans to bring both sides to Washington were announced.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Steel Union
White House
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Leroy Collins
Pittsburgh
Morse
Collins
Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Commerce
John T. Connor
Bill D. Moyers
Texas
Moyers
Morse, Collins
Wil
Lesson of Gemini 5 shows man outlasting machine
SPACE CENTER Houston reports Gemini 5 proves human resilience surpasses equipment limits. After 190 hours 56 minutes in orbit, astronauts Cooper and Conrad remained healthy while the capsule showed wear. Doctors foresee lunar flight by 1968 or 1969, contingent on perfecting machines, with men as a reliable factor.
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Cooper
Conrad
Charles Berry
Prouty Calls for Fair Deal in Rural Poverty Aid
Senator Winson L Prouty pledges to resist changes in the Economic Opportunity Amendments that would dilute rural access to War on Poverty benefits. He urges equal opportunity for farm towns and cities, citing urban bias in program support and urging conference defense of the rural amendment offered by Senator George McGovern.
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Washington
Winston L. Prouty
Senate
Sargent Shriver
Sen. Prouty
House
George McGovern
D-S.d
Sen. McGovern
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Vermont
Casey Stengel to Retire as Mets Manager
New York UPI reports Casey Stengel, 75, will retire as manager of the New York Mets and stay with the club in an executive role. West Westrum, interim manager, will continue leading the team for the rest of the season after Stengel spoke at a midtown hotel during his hip fracture convalescence.
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NEW York
UPI
Casey Stengel
New York Mets
Stengel
Mets
West Westrum
Ex JFK Aide Named Postmaster General
Washington expected to see Lawrence F. O'Brien, a Kennedy era ally, named postmaster general by President Johnson. Johnson also nominated John A. Gronouski to be ambassador to Poland, citing a pledge to bridge East Europe divisions. Gronouski, a former Wisconsin tax official and economics professor, would leave the cabinet after serving as postmaster general since 1963.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Lawrence F. O’brien
John F. Kennedy
Johnson
John A. Gronouski
U.S
Poland
John Moors Cabot
O’brien
Gronouski
Warsaw Post
Gulf
Europe
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
National Party
Springfield
Mass
Kennedy
Alfred Arnold Declares Run for Vermont House Subdistrict 1
Alfred E. Arnold of North Branch Street Extension announced his candidacy for one of two Vermont House seats from Subdistrict 1 north in the Bennington Woodford district. He is the first Democrat to enter Subdistrict 1, joining Republicans David J. Allen and Jo seph J. Caracciola’s consideration, with Atty. Reuben Levin’s party still unclear. Arnold, a Broadbrook Press manager since 1962, has sought state office four times. he notes his employer will release him during legislative service.
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Alfred E. Arnold
North Branch Street
Bennington-Woodford
Arnold
David J. Allen
Airport Road
Bennington Town
Joseph J. Caracciola
Atty
Reuben Levin
Anthony Drive
Town Selectman
Broadbrook Press
Stuart E. Murphy
Bennington- Woodford
Subdistrict 3
Lucia B. Howard
H. James Wallace
George van Santvoord
Woodford
Daisy L. Myers
Thomas R. Haley
South Hero Youth Fatality Raises Vermont Toll to 95
A 19 year old from South Hero died in a head on crash with a truck in Mallets Bay. Ronald Raymond was driving north on Prim road when his car collided with Herbert Chamberlain's truck from Colchester. Vermont reported 95 highway deaths for the year, compared with 86 at the same point last year.
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Colchester
UPI
Ronald Raymond
Prim Road
Mallets Bay
Herbert Chamberlain
Vermont
Rockefeller may bow out of politics says columnist
Columnist Kirtland I. King reports that Governor Rockefeller may withdraw from politics, weighing a possible exit and leaving uncertain implications for state leadership and party dynamics as observers assess his next moves.
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Gov. Rockefeller
Kirtland I. King
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