Seaman Ratelle Joins USS Canberra Crew
Seaman Jean Ratelle son of Mr and Mrs Donat Ratelle of 236 Bradford Street has reported aboard the cruiser USS Canberra to train as a commissaryman. He enlisted last August through Whiry E R Talbert and attended Great Lakes before signing a release. Ratelle is a Bennington Catholic High School alumnus class of 1962 and worked with his father in the Knotty Pine Restaurant. The USS Canberra, once in Cuban blockade service, now lies in Norfolk Virginia where Ratelle reports after leave.
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Jean Ratelle
Donat Ratelle
Bradford St
Canberra
Ratelles
Ratelle
Navy
E. R. Talbert
Benhi Students View Cyrano on TV Special
Benhi students in French and English watched Cyrano de Bergerac on television starring Christopher Plummer and Hope Lang. Teachers led discussions on comedy, costumes, casting, set, and music while students who had read the play and seen a film strip joined in.
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Benhi
Christopher Plummer
Hope Lang
Jose Ferrer
Martha Wallace
Charles Comstock
Steve Noyes
Miss Bonham
Cyrano
Hallmark
George Bernardo Shaw
Julie Harris
State drops perjury charge against Guerard
Judge Morrison approved the not for perjury charges against Douglas L. Guerard of Bennington after the jury was sworn. The move came from State's Attorney R. Marshall Witten following a chambers discussion. The case concerned an alleged attempt to defraud an insurance company after a December 1960 fire at the Guerard residence.
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Leonard W. Morrison
Bennington
Atty
R. Marshall Witten
Douglas L. Guerard
Morrison
Atty. Witten
John B. Harte
Guerard
John C. Burgess
Births Reported at Local Hospitals
Birth notices from Dorset Manchester Paddock Place North Bennington Manchester West Main Street and South Branch Street list a series of newborn sons and daughters on dates from December 7 to December 9. James Charles Rivers is born at North Adams Hospital to Norman Rivers and Patricia Cook Rivers, who have two other children.
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Floyd Tobin
Dorset
Joseph Markey
Manchester
Frederick Carey
Paddock Place
James Brillon Jr
North Bennington
Charles Crawford
Robert Provensal
South Branch Street
James Charles
North Adams Hospital
Norman Rivers
Gage St
Rivers
Patricia Cook
Bennington
Joseph
Susan
AEC Plans New Peace Bomb In New Mexico
On the first anniversary of the three kiloton peace blast in Gnome salt bed New Mexico the Atomic Energy Commission previews a larger detonation dubbed Project Coach A public briefing outlines aims to study neutron capture and search new isotopes possibly beyond element 103 The program emphasizes peaceful uses for nuclear explosives and notes no damage to nearby mines or Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
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Carlsbad
N.M
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
New Mexico
Project Gnome
U.S
Project Coach
Gnome
Coach
John S. Kelly
Washington
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Talent Locked Behind Rules at Washington University
Tennis coach Rich Meckfessel has two top U S players on the Washington University campus but they are ineligible for varsity competition because they are women. Justina Bricka ranked fifth and Carol Hanks ranked eleventh in the United States hope to play at Wimbledon next year if invited.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Rich Meckfessel
Washington University
Justina Bricka
U. S
Carol Hanks
Chamber of Commerce President Sees 62 Good but Not Satisfactory
Washington AP Ladd Plumley head of the U S Chamber says 1962 was a good business year but not good enough. He urges early tax cuts to boost growth and favors cutting personal income tax and corporate rates to spur the economy.
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Chamber of Commerc
Washington
Ladd Plumley
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Plumley
Chamber
Business Outlook
Congress
Ustinov Sees Benefit in Acting and Directing Roles
New York AP reports Peter Ustinov says balancing acting and directing improves cast morale and fosters democracy on set. He has finished directing and acting in Billy Budd and plans a similar tandem on Broadway next season.
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New York
Peter Ustinov
Ustinov
Billy Budd
Military Budget Focuses on Conventional Arms for 1964
The Defense Department plans to stress non atomic weapons in the fiscal 1964 budget while Army divisions equipment funding remains for existing units. An overall rise of about two billion dollars over 1963 is projected, with possible shifts in missile programs including Skybolt. McNamara’s return from abroad will influence final decisions.
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Washington
Army
Defense Department
Robert S. McNamara
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Paris
Thailand
South Viet Nam
Air Force
McNamara
Washington University keeps classes on Columbus Day birthday
George Washington University called Christopher Columbus Birthday a holiday but new chancellor Thomas H. Eliot said classes will be held on February 22, the first president's birthday. Eliot suggested the decision was not his fault and noted the calendar committee debated at great length before ruling the 1963 schedule could not suspend classes.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Washington University
George Washington
Christopher Columbus
New University
Thomas H. Eliot
Eliot
St Michael's College Reports Dropout Decline
Winooksi Park Vermont St Michael's College reports a decline in dropouts amid the St Michael's Plan for liberal arts. President Very Rev Gerald E Dupont notes the college is in the black and outlines a 10 year solid development study. Enrollment held near 1074 in 1964, faculty around 62 with growth by 1970.
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St. Michael’s College
St. Michael’s
Gerald E. Dupont
Father Dupont
Father du
Pont
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