Island Paradise Faces 30 Year End as Nauruans Seek New Home
Nationwide appeal from Nauru natives for a new home as phosphate reserves near exhaustion in 30 years. Island once rich in living standards due to mining, education, and welfare systems now contemplates relocation to avoid loss of identity. Australia offered settlement, but resistance centers on preserving culture.
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Island Paradise
Washington
South Sea Island
Nauru
Pacific Island
United Nations Trust Territories
Gilbert Islands
National Geographic Society
Hammer de Roburt
Liest
Atoll
Australia
Pleasant Island
Germany
League of Nations
U.N
Trial Balloons For Drinkers In West Germany
West German bar keepers began selling color changing balloons that indicate blood alcohol by breath color. The inventor sold 1.6 million units in a week, sold in stores and bars after tougher drunken driving laws. Police have used balloons for six years though they lack court evidence value, they aid blood test decisions.
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Bonn
UPI
Bennington town meeting warns residents on March 1 1965
Notice to qualified voters of Bennington and North Bennington to meet March 1 1965 at 8 PM at the Elementary School for floor actions and March 2 1965 for ballot voting. Topics include officer compensation, highway aid, library appropriations, government unification study, tax exemptions for rescue squad and livestock, and major projects like a $40 000 sewer plant garage, a $50 000 airport upgrade, with millage approvals and ballot questions. Polls open 10 AM to 7 PM both locations.
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Bennington
North Bennington
McCullough Fire House
Said Elementary
School Street
McCullough
Old Bennington
Prudential Committee
Bennington Rescue Squad, Inc
Safford Street
Town of Bennington Rescue Squad, Inc
Lois H. Banulis
Husband
Vermont
Richard S. van Santvoord
Bennington Graded School District, Inc
Stark Street
Board of Trustees of
Dewey Trust Estates
Robert Hayes
Franklin A. Riley
Ronald R. Knapp
Anthony J, Pelle
James S. Shea I
Pelsue
Richard A
Sleeman
John P
Riddle Board of Trustees
Television Schedule Highlights and Local Programming Notes
The listing outlines a dense daily TV and radio schedule from 5:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. with shows spanning News Dateline Boston Walter Cronkite News and Weather segments, entertainment like Ozzie and Harriet, Rawhide, The Addams Family, and Perry Mason, plus children’s fare and local programming. It also includes Monday to Friday station segments such as Sign On, News and Weather, Morning Almanac, and a long slate of community and educational broadcasts from Vermont stations WETN and VT Extension Service.
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Boston
Ron Cochran
Walter Cronkite
Neil MacNeil
Congress
Pete Williams
Rawhide
Flintstones
New Orleans Jazz
the Barn
Compleat Gardener
Farmer's Daugh
John Page
Bulletin Board
Marion Harris
Faith Pryor
Maggie Maurice
Nat’l Guard
Civil
Navy
NATO Tues
Campus
Wed
UVM Thur
UVM
WETN
Sophia Loren and Ponti Marriage Declared Void
Rome civil court rules Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti are not validly married in Mexico noting Ponti’s prior 1946 marriage to Giuliana Fiastri. The decision opens bigamy charges and leaves them seeking a valid union in France where they reside.
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Rome
UPI
Sophia Loren
Carlo Ponti
Ponti
Giuliana Fiastri
Miss Loren
Mexico
France
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JCC
Rock OF Ages Granite
Barre Guild
D.E. Carver
Washington Avenue
Bennington Lanes
Pownal
Peru
Bennington County Humane Society
MGB
Vic & Paul’s Motor Sales & Service
State Road
North Adams
Mass
Joseph FE
Higgins Louis F. Lausville
Town of
Star Trim Studio
Bennington Bookshop, Inc
Main St
Aia Oe
Carton
Pepsi-Cola
Main Street
Steak Sale
U.S. Choice Beef
Seda
Howard Johnson
Howard Johnsons
Benninc
Pn and
UNIO
Grand Union
Grand Union Empire
Robt. Greene’s Mobil
Robert Greene
County ST
Ter
Bob Hope Theater
Perry Mason
Guy DeMaupassant
Addams Family
Richard Diamond
Gomer Pyle
Jack Benny
Elliott Norton
Les Crane
Megraw
Wally Gator
Fireball XL
Annie Oakley
Mighty Mouse
Linus
Dennis the Menace
Casper
the Jetsons
Hoppity Hopper
My Friend
Flicka
Volkswagen
Sed., R&h
Liggett
Sales & Service
North Bennington Road
Bennington, VI
B.C
By Charles M. Schulz
Blondie
Johnny Hart
Steve Canyon
Shaky Blopp
Heart of
Juliet Jones
Ervatson
Eve
Devon
Charles Vanilla
Miss Corbs
By Chie Young
Milton Caniff
Poteet
River Road
Che
Col. Canyon
By Stan Drake
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