St Francis Plans to Close Grades 7 8 at Academy
The parish school may end junior high grades by June 1971 with 65 to 70 students in grades 7 and 8 and 45 in grade 6. Letters ask parents if their children will enter Grade 7 next fall and note transfer plans to Mt. Anthony Union Junior High if needed. No decision yet on Sacred Heart School.
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St. Francis de Sales Academy
Mt. Anthony Union Junior High School
St. Francis Academy
Sacred Heart School
Bennington
Czechs Question Secrecy of Kiev Soviet Talks
Prague reacts to weekend Czechoslovak Soviet talks kept from public view. Journalists and unions fear leaders discussed decisions behind closed doors and demanded transparency. The Kiev discussions involved Dubcek Brezhnev with Cernik Svoboda Kosygin Podgorny as Moscow signs pointed to tighter economic ties and possible loans.
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Prague
UPI
Kiev
Dubcek
Brezhnev
First Party
Alexander Dubcek
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Oldrich Cernik
Ludvik Svoboda
Czechoslovakia
Alexie N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
CTK
Moscow
Edward J. Shields
Indians Plan Big Powwow Next Summer
Leon Shenandoah new Iroquois Confederacy chief says a conference of all North American tribes will be held next summer. He leads 16 000 Iroquois on reservations in New York and Canada and succeeds George Thomas who died Oct. 22. The six nations include Onondaga Mohawk Seneca Cayuga Tuscarora Oneida.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Leon Shenandoah
North America
Shenandoah
Onondaga
Leon Tatootaha
New York State
Canada
George Thomas
U.S
Inside Columnist Sees Snow as Warm Blessing
Gerald Raftery declares snow to be a warm blessing in disguise in his Inside column on page four. Related notes mention a Northeast Dairy Seminar airing a regional research project on page six and Stamford enacting interim zoning on page six.
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Gerald Raftery
Page
Northeast Dairy Seminar
Hoff urges capital gains tax to fund open spaces plan
Gov. Philip H Hoff proposes a special capital gains tax on land sales profits excluding buildings to fund land use planning and conservation. He also favors land tax deferrals to preserve open spaces, exemptions for farmers and foresters, and relief for livestock and farm buildings with town reimbursement.
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Randolph
UPI
Philip H. Hoff
Hoff
Vermont League of Women
Vermont Land and the
Vermont Technical College
Vermont
Charles Ross
Burlington
Federal Power Commission
Ross
New Hampshire
Albert Conklin
Woodstock
Conklin
Viet Cong Plans To Set Up Puppet Saigon Government
The Viet Cong announced it would form a puppet Saigon government without waiting for Paris talks, urging a “peace cabinet” to negotiate with the National Liberation Front. Saigon officials call this a guerrilla tactic amid stalled negotiations and military, political, economic, and social strains.
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Viet Cong
Saigon
Paris
UPI
Hanoi
National Liberation Front
South Vietnam
United States
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Nguyen Cao
Bennington selectmen protest handling of audit report
The Bennington Vermont Board of Selectmen met with their auditors Roland E Scott and attorney Robert Cummings Jr to challenge a Banner article on the 1967 town audit. The panel, joined by former treasurer Michael Hogan, debated whether criticisms targeted Hogan or other officials and agreed the full audit report should be published in context.
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Bennington
WBTN
The
Banner
Cummings
Hogan
J. Duncan Campbell
Scott
Tyler Resch
Elizabeth Dwyer
David Scribner
Scott Firm
Vermont Bank & Trust Company
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Searsburg
Krawczyk
Montreal
Jean Guy David
Jocelyn
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Searsburg Mountain
St. Francis
Tass
Soviet Communist Party
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Soviet Union
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Kremlin
Stamford
Gov
W. Averell Harriman
Orly
Pham Dang Lam
Lam
Fone
Johnson
Washington
W, Averell Harriman
Nguyen Cao Ky
Harriman
Bui Diem
Nguyen Ngoc Linh
the Town Audit Report
Roland E, Scott &Co
Accountants and Auditors
Oomttaaannr
Owvans Bellows Falls
Board of Selectmen
Town of
General Fund
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