Village Trustees Approve Five Man Planning Commission
Bennington village trustees approved a five member Planning Commission to advise on long range plans and zoning. President Hicks said the group would propose parking, building code improvements, and could hire a private firm for regional land use study with voter approval. A public hearing on Playotis restaurant zoning is set for Dec 27.
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Village of
Bennington
Donald C. Hicks
Hicks
North Bennington
Old Bennington
Atty
Francis E. Morrissey
James Playotis
West Main Street
Playotis
Morrissey
Benni
William Meyers
Meyers
State drops arson charge against Connecticut man
A second degree arson charge against Ernest Cassidento of New Haven was dismissed at the opening of the December term in County Court. The action followed a recommendation from the State Fire Marshal's office in Montpelier. A chancery hearing is set for True Value Stores versus Cassidento and Vic tor Agostini. Frank Mylott Jr faces a new resisting arrest charge after a prior incident. Jurors were ordered to report for three criminal cases next week as pre trial conferences proceed.
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Ernest Cassidento
New Haven
Conn
F. Ray Keyser
BenMont Avenue
John A. Burgess
Montpelier
Cassidento and
Vic
Tor Agostini
Waldo Holden
O’neil, Delany and Valente
Rutland
Frank Mylott Jr
Manchester
William G. Themelis
Imperial Ave
Howard G. Marsden
New York Firm to Survey Rutland Railway Value
A New York firm begins a four to six week $10,000 survey of the strikebound Rutland Railway to assess operational and scrap value and feasibility of revival. Gov Keyser and Public Service Commissioner Paterson said the study will backstop state objections to abandonment and aid price negotiations.
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Rutland, Vt
New York
Rutland
Gov
Keyser
Public Service
John Paterson
Coverdale and Colpitts Co
Sidney R. Rodgers
William S. Ginsburg
Rutland Railway Corp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Thomas W. Lynch
Washington
Ski Tow Hearing Planned Tonight in Montpelier
Sixty winter resort proprietors are expected at the Statehouse for a hearing on a proposed safety code for ski lifts and tows drafted by the Passenger Tramway Board. Chairman Raymond Daniels said the code was tentatively approved last month and amendments will be considered after today’s hearing.
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Montpelier
Statehouse
Passenger Tramway Board
Raymond Daniels
Bennington Bypass Committee to Hear State Report in January
The Bennington Bypass Committee plans a January meeting with State Highway Department officials to review the 1960 traffic survey of the area and discuss alternate bypass routes. Chairman Richard Van Santvoord announced the anticipated presentation of the completed analysis and subsequent route discussions.
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Bennington
State Highway Department
Richard van Santvoord
van Santvoord
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Soviets Plan Defense Fund Jump in 62
Moscow AP The Soviet government unveiled a record 1962 budget with defense spending rising nearly 50 percent from 1961. Total budget 81.9 billion rubles with military outlay at 13.4 billion rubles.
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Moscow
Vasily Garbuzov
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
Grand Kremlin
Garbuzov
United States
UN Chief Thant Moves Katanga Crisis Toward War footing
U Thant prepares a full Security Council report on fighting between U.N. and Katangan forces in Katanga. He orders jet and troop reinforcements, with U.S. support enabling Globemaster planes to ferry troops to Elisabethville as the Congo crisis deepens.
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United Nations
N.Y
Security Council
Katanga
U.N
U Thant
Congo
Council
Dag Hammarsk
U.S
Leopoldville
Elisabethville
State Department
Washington
United States
U.N. Command
Jadotville
Stockholm
Dublin
Albert Nyembo
Lido
U.N. Security Council
Pittsfield Youth Sentenced in Gun Death Case
James A. Roy Wallace, 17, of Pittsfield, was sentenced to six to ten years in Walpole State Prison after a Berkshire Superior Court jury found him guilty of manslaughter in the fatal November 1960 shooting of James Pringle, 73, a Miss Hall’s School night watchman. The defense plans an appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
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Pittsfield
Mass
James A. Roy Wallace
Berkshire
Walpole
John M. Noonan
Paul A. Tamburello
Ferris
Young Wallace
Tamburello
Wallace
Pringle
Flaming Tank Truck Crash Kills Vermont Driver
In Cambridge Vermont a gasoline tanker driven by William R. Aldrich of Shelburne, 46, burned to death after the vehicle flipped on Route 15 and exploded. Authorities identified him using Burling ton Esso records but his body was burned beyond recognition as two road workers failed to reach him.
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Cambridge
William R. Aldrich
Shelburne
Burlington
Esso Oil Co
Chittenden
Adlai to Stay In U N Post Amid Kennedy Support
Adlai E Stevenson will remain as the United Nations chief U S delegate and decline a U S Senate bid for Illinois. Kennedy approved the move and promised greater influence on foreign policy, with Stevenson expected to be consulted more often.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N.Y
Kennedy
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
U.S. Senate
Stevenson
Everett Dirksen
Senate
Richard J. Daley
Chicago
Powell Declines Nominating Self for Bridges Seat
Governor Wesley Powell says he will not appoint himself to fill the late Senator Styles Bridges seat and will not run in the September 1962 Republican primary. He adds the selection will be free for the appointee to pursue the nomination, with further plans to be announced later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
N.H
Wesley Powell
Styles Bridges
Powell
Kennedy urges Atlantic trade program to lower tariffs
President Kennedy calls for a bold tariff cutting plan to spur Western trade with the European Common Market. He says reciprocal tariff cuts would boost U.S. exports, strengthen allies, and views a new authority to negotiate as essential, while denying plans to join the Common Market or abandon MFN policy.
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U.S
New York
Kennedy
West
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Canada
Japan
Free World
Bult
National Association of Manufacturers Congress of American Industry
Atlantic
United States
Great Britain
Congress
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
France
Italy
West Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Mortars Blast Rebel Troops Near Capital
Cannons roared around Elisabethville as UN and Katangan air forces fought near the secessionist capital. Katanga bombed Elisabethville airport while UN jets attacked Katanga airfields at Kolwezi and Jadotville. Casualties tallied above forty with ongoing shelling across the region.
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Katanga
Elisabethville
U.N
K. A. S. Raja
Kolwezi
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Connecticut
Leon R. Eldred
Gerald E. Morrissey
Maguire and Associates
Boston
Joel Whittemore
Norton Barber
Whittemore
Mohawk Valley Aviation Co
North Adams
U.S. Post
Treasury
White House
James A. Reed
Longmeadow
Berlin
Khrushchev
U.N. Council
Adlai
U.N. Post
Heinrich Heine Strasse
West Berlin
Sen. Bridges
the Congo
Tshombe
Paris
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