Bennington District seeks relief as Grand List falls
The Bennington School District board held an emergency meeting with state legislators to discuss a reduced Grand List drop from the initial 17.5 million to 15.921 million in taxable property. Supt. Kelley warned a $60,000 shortfall remains even with anticipated state aid, possibly prompting a town vote on revenue or operating deficit funding in 1967.
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Bennington
George van Santvoord
Joseph Caracciola
Howard F. Kelley
Board of Civil Authority
Michael J. Hogan Jr
Glum
Supt
Kelley
State Department of Education
Board of
Civ
Il Authority
van Santvoord
Caracciola
Greek Ferry Sinks With 281 Aboard in Gale
Aegean Sea disaster reports the Heraklion sinking off Milos with 281 aboard. Rescue units found 49 survivors and two bodies. fear grows casualty toll to 232. Riots erupt in Piraeus as crowds lash out at Typaldos offices amid grief. Royal Greek air force planes and a U S ambassador assist search.
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Aegean
Typaldos Steamship Office
Piraeus
Crete
Milos
Scotland
Lloyds Register of Shipping
Aegean Steam Navigation Co
Gulf of
Candia
Saigon Mayor Arrested After Night of Gunfire
Saigon mayor Col. Van Van Cua, a Ky ally, was seized by U.S. military police after firing a Thompson submachine gun across a river in a drunken spree. He was released after identity checks. Vietnamese officials protested. officers noted liquor on his breath. No injuries were reported.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Col
van van Cua
Nguyen Cao Ky
Dua
Nguyen Ngoc Loan
Vietnamese National Police
Military Security Service
Cua
Pope Urges Extended Christmas Viet Nam Ceasefire
Pope Paul VI urged the United States and North Vietnam to extend the 48 hour Christmas ceasefire into a continuous year end truce. He called both sides to revise plans for twin holiday pauses and create an extended period to allow new peace efforts and time for constructive talks.
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UPI
Paul VI
United States
Viet Nam
St. Peter’s Basilica
Saigon
Paul
Legislative Council approves centralization of welfare
Vermont's Legislative Council votes 10-1 to back a plan to centralize all welfare under the state Department of Social Welfare, aiming to cut paperwork and reduce duplication while expanding federal aid and raising welfare dollars to about 3 million with 68 percent federal support.
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Legislative Council
Vermont
W. Clark Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Preservation plan urges Lindenwald as historic site
KINDERHOOK NY A 24 page National Park Service report urges acquiring Lindenwald Martin Van Buren home for preservation and public interpretation. Public comments are sought before a final report to Secretary of the Interior and Congress on management and interpretation of the site. Van Buren born December 5 1782 in Kinderhook. died July 24 1862 at Lindenwald.
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Kinderhook
N.Y
National Park Service
Lindenwald
Martin van Buren
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
van Buren
Syria Seizes Oil Pipeline Amid Mounting Middle East Tensions
Damascus radio said Syria impounded the Iraqi Petroleum Co. holdings in Syria seizing a major oil pipeline carrying Iraqi crude to the Mediterranean. IPC owners include British Petroleum Shell Esso Mobil and Compagnie Francaise des Petroles with 23.75 percent each. The move followed IPC royalty disputes as Arab League talks in Cairo pressed for Palestinian troops in Jordan and Israel nuclear concerns were raised by Gen. Ali Amer.
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Lebanon
UPI
Syria
Cairo
Arab League Defense Council
Palestine Liberation Army
Jordan
Iraqi Petroleum Company
Iraq
Mediterranean
Damascus Radio
Ahmad Shukeiry
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Hussein
Egypt
Russia
Red
China
Morocco
Kuwait
Sudan
Shukeiry
Ali Amer
Arab League
Israel
Damascus
Radio
Iraqi Petroleum Co
IPC
British Petroleum
Shell
Esso- Mobil
Compagnie Francaise Des Petroles
Fire destroys Turkish army barracks killing scores
In Istanbul a gas stove sparked a flash fire that collapsed a roof and trapped troops. Army officials report 65 soldiers dead and more than 100 wounded with the toll expected to rise as many critical cases are treated at a field hospital. A separate note mentions pipeline royalty demands and Syria's control of IPC facilities.
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Istanbul
Turkey
UPI
Army Field Hospital
Date Set For School Bond Vote
Bennington School District board set February 14 1967 as the date to vote on a 645308 bond for a new elementary school on Stark Street. The move aims to relieve 20 classroom overcrowding by 1968 and avoid vacation conflicts. Directors may name the school Educators Memorial Elementary School to prevent confusion with Stark Street School.
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Bennington
Stark Street
Citizens’ Committee
Memorial Elementary School
Molly Stark
Britain asks U.N. for Rhodesia oil embargo plan
Britain faces a tough fight in the Security Council to impose targeted sanctions on Rhodesia including an oil embargo. Foreign Secretary George Brown seeks an effective mandatory boycott of Rhodesian exports to choke its hard currency, while Afro-Asian nations urge total sanctions and possible intervention. The United States backs excluding oil, warning a petroleum ban could hurt Britain, and Rhodesia argues sanctions infringe on its internal affairs.
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United Nations, N.Y
UPI
Britain
Rhodesia
George Brown
Security Council
Africa
Harold Wilson
United States
Commonwealth
United Na
U.N
South Africa
United Nations
U Thant
World Organization
Inside the Bennington Catholic educators future debated
An editorial reflects on the fate of Catholic teachers in Bennington, weighing how future schooling and church involvement may unfold, with local context and concerns highlighted by the newspaper voice.
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Bennington
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