Union School resolves bus costs for district bond plan
Union district board ended a two week impasse on transportation cost estimates for a bond issue. Two resolutions set using previous studies to estimate costs and barred soliciting bids before the vote. A detailed figure will be developed by transportation and finance committees after the bond decision.
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Fast Road
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Park and
County Streets
Bennington
Russell A. Holden
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Holden
See Union School
Two 12 Year Olds Admit North Bennington Vandalism
Two 12 year olds from North Bennington and Rutland confessed to police that they damaged two houses, started a fire in a 18 Main St residence, slashed a car roof, and broke windows at a new North Bennington School athletic building. The fire gutted the kitchen and damaged furnishings. Police expect juvenile court action.
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Henry
Patricia Brant
Main St
Brant
Bennington College
Martin W. Percey Jr
Chester Platt
Brian Murphy
Murphy
Williams College
Lake Paran
Robert Richardson
State Fire Marshal’s
Kearns Aims to Abolish Vermont Old Age Tax
Vermont State Administration Commissioner William F. Kearns announced the Hoff Administration will seek to end the old age assistance tax. The tax raises about 800000 annually, levied by towns with fifty cents of a five dollar per person charge going to town treasuries. Kearns proposes a state level capital gains levy similar to the federal tax to cover shortfalls, with 500000 to 600000 expected yearly from gains and the rest made up in the budget message due in mid January.
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Kearns
Chiang Kai-shek vows to halt Communist nuclear program
Chiang Kai-shek in a New Year message says Communist China's nuclear installations must be destroyed before it develops delivery systems. He pledges Nationalist resolve to block atomic power, cites October test as a danger signal, and notes China’s UN membership not feared.
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Taipei
Formosa
UPI
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Chiang
United Nations
Costliest Battle in Viet Nam Ends in Government Victory
The four day battle at Binh Gia Town ends with a government victory as Viet Cong forces withdraw. Eleven U S advisors wounded six missing. four believed dead and two captured. Helicopters bombed the area with four choppers downed. December becomes the deadliest month for Americans in South Viet Nam since 1961.
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UPI
U.S
Binh Gia
U. S
Bing Gia
South Viet Nam
School Districts Warned on Civil Rights Pledges
The U S Office of Education requires every federal aid receiving district to sign pledges agreeing to Civil Rights Act compliance. HEW and other agencies circulate notices of intent to comply, with potential loss of funds for noncompliance, especially in Southern states.
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UPI
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Health, Education and Welfare Department
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General Services Administration
Housing and Home Finance Agency
National Science Foundation
South
Ford and Halleck Confident in House GOP Leader Battle
UPI reports backing for Rep. Gerald Ford and Rep. Charles Halleck in the bid to become House GOP leader. Ford supporters claim 81 of 140 Republicans favor or lean to Ford while Halleck backers report 85 in his favor or leaning. Voting is at a closed caucus Monday, with both camps citing internal tallies and keeping names off public lists.
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Washington
UPI
Gerald R. Ford
Charles A. Halleck
Ford
Halleck
Michigan
House Republicans
Ford Organization
Survivors Describe U S Victim Death in Congo Rebellion
Survivors say William McChesney, last American held by Congo rebels, was trampled to death and his eyes gouged before his body was cast into the Wamba River. The killings, part of a broader massacre, raised the white deaths to about 206 since mid November, including six Americans.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
UPI
William McChesney
Congo
Wamba
Mungbere
Wamba River
McChesney
Washington, Pa
U.S. Delays Resumption of Talks With Russia on Germany
Officials say Washington will slow any renewal of talks with Moscow on the German issue. No early four foreign ministers meeting is planned as Western allies await Russian willingness to engage. U.S. officials cite lack of new ideas, British lukewarm support, and German political motives as reasons for the delay.
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UPI
United States
Russia
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
West Germany
U.S
Ding
Rusk
NATO
Paris
New York
France
Inside The Banner 1964 Bennington necrology roundup
The issue outlines annual Bennington area obituaries for 1964 on page 3. It notes an editorial wishing readers a Happy New Year on page 4. It mentions international students at Vermont hospitality in Manchester and Dorset on page 5. A year in North Bennington roundup appears on page 5. BCHS Sabers beat Belows Falls Terriers 58 to 41 on page 6.
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Dorset
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