Costs Rising Relief Expenses in 1961 In Bennington
Town records show welfare costs totaling 47,416.87 in 1961, up about 7,000 from 1960 and expected to rise similarly in 1962. Major factor is hospital care, with 1961 bills topping 19,800 after state reimbursements, plus a new Vermont program increasing town share for OAA patients.
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Putnam Memorial Hospital
Vermont Department of Social Welfare
VDSW
OAA
PMH
Bennington
Selectmen’s
Alma Langlois
WDSW
Selectmen
Turkey Praises Premier Who Defied Mutiny
In Ankara Ismet Inonu received a standing ovation from Parliament after an armed forces uprising collapsed. The 78 year old premier stood as 400 deputies cheered him for over three minutes, lauded for refusing to resign and yield to military demands. The high command acted quickly to heal rifts within the armed forces.
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Ankara
Turkey
Ismet Inonu
Ben Mont Union Set to Strike Monday at BenMont Papers
The BenMont Papers Corp union spokesman said no change in stance as a 7 a.m. Monday walkout approaches. 208 BenMont hourly workers and eight from Flint Ink face action over wage increases a union shop and vacation policy. The union, Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union Local 534, previously voted 152-53 to strike after an impasse, with arbitration offered but rejected by management.
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Ben Mont Papers Corp
Lloyd Fleming
Flint Ink Corporation
Vermont
Flint Company
BenMont
Peter Tufo
The
Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union
Local 534
International Printing Pressman and Assistants Union of North America
Afl-Cio
Army triples STRAC force adding III Corps at Fort Hood
The Army will expand its STRAC to eight divisions by creating a second STRAC corps, III Corps, headquartered at Fort Hood Texas. It will include the 49th Armored and 32nd Infantry from the National Guard and later two regular divisions. about 75 000 soldiers move into STRAC while total manpower remains unchanged.
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Washington
Strategic Army Corps
STRAC
III Corps
Ft. Hood
Tex
National Guard
Partia
49Th Amored
32Nd Infantry
Air Force
Military Air Transport
Plane Crash Near Cambridge Reported In New York
State police said a plane possibly a small jet trainer crashed about three miles west of Cambridge on Cambridge Center Road. It was reported to have landed near Robert Wright's home. Initial word mentioned a large ground hole. Officers had just arrived. casualty details were unavailable.
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Cambridge
N.Y
Cambridge Center Road
Robert Wright
Court Upholds Bennington Road District Consolidation
The Vermont Supreme Court affirmed the consolidation of two Bennington road districts and ruled former Road Commissioner Franklin Becker was not a duly elected town official. The decision, based on a 1902 statute, confirmed a March 1961 vote and a subsequent special election naming James Cross as road commissioner. Becker’s appeal was rejected.
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Becker
James Cross
Bennington County Court
Cross
Supreme Court
Where's Castro missing for 13 days in Havana
The AP reports Fidel Castro has not been seen in public for 13 days. Officials avoid questions and rumors of asylum at the Mexican Embassy are denied by Mexico's ambassador and the Foreign Ministry. The U.N. Cuban delegate calls the rumors phony.
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Fidel Castro
Havana
Associated Press
Castro
Mexico City
Foreign Ministry
Universal Grafico
Mexico
Miami
Fla
U.S
United Nations
Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui
Cuba
Glenn Remains Calm After Flaming Rocket Parts Zoom Past Window
Cape Canaveral AP Colonel John H Glenn Jr reports space flight “very pleasant” with one moment of doubt. He described seeing flaming rocket fragments zip by the window during re entry and noted the heat shield remained intact. He also spoke of four sunsets in one day, eating in space, and the weightless environment with no ill effects.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
John H. Glenn Jr
Glenn
Government Won’t Verify New Report On Soviet Space Program
Washington AP The 160 page intelligence report claims the USSR used two manned rocket planes as first stage in some launches and possibly recovered third stage vessels. It notes skip glide reentry and staged booster concepts with potential military significance. The Commerce Department distributes the study for 3 dollars a copy.
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Washington
Som
Soviet Union
Space
Earth
U.S
Pacific
Commerce Department
Office of Technical Services
Kennedy Brothers Tour Berlin Reaffirms U S Air Support
Attorney General Robert F Kennedy on a second day in West and East Berlin pledged that the United States will fly planes to Berlin despite Soviet opposition. He spoke on a TV panel and laid a wreath at the Wall as crowds cheered and some East Berliners waved from windows. Edward Kennedy toured East Berlin describing its life under communism. Ethel Kennedy toured West Berlin with Willy Brandt's wife and revealed a family detail to students.
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Kennedy
Edward Kennedy
East Berlin
Wall
East
West
Robert
Ethel
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Communist Wall
Kennedy tours East Berlin finds sterility of Communist life
Edward M Kennedy visited East Berlin from West Berlin on a two hour tour with Claude Hooten. He spoke with students, police and shoppers, noting despair in faces and saying the city showed the sterility of Communist society. He crossed with ease by displaying his passport at Friedrich Strasse station.
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Kennedy
East Berlin
Friedrichstrasse
Vermont Bar Association to Discuss Uniform Commercial Code
A two part seminar during Vermont State Bar Association’s mid winter meeting in Montpelier will cover the proposed uniform commercial code. The panel includes Harvard Prof Robert Braucher and Boston attorney Atty Robert Haydock Jr along with Judge Sterry Waterman and local lawyers John Downs and John Carbine. The association rejected a $5 700 printing bill from the General Assembly and officials doubt reconsideration today.
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Montpelier
Vermont
State Bar Association
Massachusetts
Robert Braucher
Harvard Law School
Atty Robert Haydock Jr
Boston
Sterry Waterman
St. Johnsbury
John Downs
St Johnsbury
John Carbine
Rutland
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Waldoboro Press
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Kennedy Brothers
Berlin
Teddy
Ted’ Kennedy
Vt. Bar Assn
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