West Berlin calls wall offer political
West Germany rejected East German proposals to reopen the Berlin wall for Easter and Whitsun visits, accusing the Communists of using the issue for political gain to keep Germany divided. The joint West German–West Berlin statement condemned the political misuse of the Christmas passes and rejected three-Germanys theory.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Berlin Wall
West Berlin
West
East Berlin
Berlin
Senate of Berlin
East Germany
Preserving Flowers Featured By Plain Dirt Gardeners
Mrs. Robert Stout led a program on preserving flowers and dried arrangements at the February Plain Dirt Gardeners meeting. Egyptian Pharaohs traced the craft, with Mrs. L Alden Graves supplying dried specimens. Prizes went to Mrs. H J Wallace Mrs Breard Hawks and Mrs S Whitney Dickey. President Philip Giddings outlined plans for a May garden show at Mt Anthony Country Club for the Flowers and Services Fund at White River Junction Veterans Hospital.
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Robert Stout
Egypt
L. Alden Graves
Stout
Valentine
H. J. Wallace
Breard Hawks
S. Whitney Dickey
Philip Giddings
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Veterans’ Hospital
White River Junction
Bennington Briefs
The Bennington Fire Department answered a false alarm Friday night from a box at Beech and Branch Streets. The Bible lesson at Christian Science services Sunday discusses Isaac and Rebekah and cites a passage from Science and Health. A gray and white male cat with seven toes on the front paws is missing from 209 Washington Ave. Reward offered. call 442-6419.
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Bennington
Beech and
Branch Streets
Christian Science
Isaac
Rebekah
Mary Baker Eddy
Washington Ave
Museum Expansion Aims for Third Phase and New Exhibits
The Bennington Museum plans a second expansion with eastward wings adding classrooms a lecture hall and more gallery space with an auditorium in the final phase. Benefactor Mrs. George A. Ellis donated three acres to support the project amid growing display space and popular programs including Norman Rockwell and Grandma Moses exhibits. Museum director Barret notes the World’s Fair potential impact on tourism and questions what key attraction will drive the 1965 season. The museum remains private and non profit with no tax funding and reports emphasize donor funded growth. In Texas A&M researchers report that gonadotropic hormone injections in ewes increase twin and triplet births by stimulating ovarian egg production.
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Barret
George A. Ellis
Old Bennington
Vermont
New England
Grandma Moses
Norman Rockwell
U.S
Bennington Museum
Rotarians
Old Bennington Zoning Vote Set For Feb 24
The village of Old Bennington schedules a special meeting for February 24 at 8 p.m. in the Old Bennington Schoolhouse to vote on a revised zoning ordinance. Voters will decide whether to adopt or reject the new code after earlier errors prompted a repeat adoption process under updated state requirements.
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Old Bennington
Bennington
Autos Collide At Searey Lane
A 20 year old North Bennington resident Alice M Hewson suffered facial cuts and bruises when her car collided at Searey Lane and Vermont 67A. She was taken to Putnam Memorial Hospital in good condition. The other driver Lillian S Lancour of North Bennington had minor bruises.
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North Bennington
Searey Lane
Vermont
Alice M. Hewson
Bennington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Lillian S. Lancour
Donald Shea
Hewson
Brooklyn
N.Y
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Carlton Mullins Jr
North Bennington Road
Red Cross names new county drive chairmen
Joel T. Whittemore announces additional fund campaign leaders for county areas for the 1964 Red Cross drive. Local chairmen include Mrs. Blodgett in Dorset and East Dorset, Mrs. Riggins in Landgrove, Mrs. Wires in Peru, Henry W. Bassen in South Pownal, plus readsboro Rupert Shaftsbury Winhall and Woodford appointees. James B. Campbell will lead advanced gifts in Manchester Center. Mrs. Fleming to run house to house drive. Fred P. Heinel in charge of the business district. County quota is 19 600 with part kept locally for Red Cross services including armed forces families and first aid and water safety programs.
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Joel T. Whittemore
Bennington
Red Cross
Peter Blodgett
Harold B. Glans
Dorset
East Dorset
W. A. Riggins
Landgrove
Alden Wires
Peru
Henry W. Bassen
South Pownal
Gene Franzinelli
Readsboro
C. V. Roberts
Rupert
Gerald Nelson
Shaftsbury
Richard Fredette
Winhall
John Cleary
Woodford
James B. Campbell
Manchester Center
Manchester
Donald Fleming
Fred P. Heinel
Thomas D. Cook Jr
Bennington Shaftsbury Sisters Meet To Review Appraisals
A Bennington delegation and Shaftsbury officials reviewed property appraisal procedures and the records system amid Shaftsbury's study of a full reassessment. The session compared listers versus professional appraisers, noting potential cost savings and cooperative input from the Bennington sisters.
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Bennington
Shaftsbury
Bennington Board
Shaftsbury Listers
Listers
Bennington Sisters
Howard Stevens
Merton Snow
Cyprus Crisis Raises Cyprus Security Council Appeal
Unofficial reports say Turkish forces near Cyprus raise alarms as Ismet Inonu demands urgent steps. Spyros Kyprianou set to address the Security Council in New York amid Western efforts to keep Soviet involvement at bay. Cyprus, a British territory with 600000 residents, faces growing peril.
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Ismet Inonu
U.S
Spyros Kyprianou
New York
Security Council
Cyprus
Connecticut
Pittsburgh
Bennington Banner Publication Details and Rates
The Bennington Banner announces its daily publication schedule and contact numbers. It lists office address in Bennington Vermont and AP affiliation. Subscription rates are shown for local Vermont and U.S. mail with various 3 month, 6 month, and annual options.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
AP News
Vermont
U.S
Ranger Moon Probe Postponed Indefinitely
Washington AP The National Aeronautics and Space Administration postponed indefinitely Friday the launch of Ranger 7. The delay follows the failure of Ranger 6 to send television pictures of the lunar surface before landing. A new launch date depends on further study and no assured timetable exists for late March or the latter part of this month.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Soviet Economic Growth Outlook and Policy Proposals
Russians estimate a slower Soviet growth rate citing CIA findings that capitalists fear Russia's fragile expansion. Proposals include a pension fund drawn from farm wages for elderly workers and incapacitated laborers, creation of a westward trend analysis agency, and a denouncement of Chinese leaders as Trotskyite dissenters amid fears of communist splits.
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CIA
Russia
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Bennington, Vt
Bennington Briefs
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Walker’sroop
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