Pilgrimage for Youth marks 15th anniversary at State House
Vermont events outline U.N. Pilgrimage for Youth 15th anniversary with Gov. Hoff at the State House 10 45 a.m. Wednesday, welcoming Odd Fellows Rebekahs and New Hampshire students from 1963. Since 1950 about 8727 high school students have visited U.N. headquarters for one week funded by the lodge group. Vermont delegates for next summer will be chosen from sophomores and juniors statewide.
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Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Vermont
U.S
City Council split threatens Citizens Party rule in Cohoes
In Cohoes three Citizens and three Democrats sit on the Common Council with the mayor’s tie vote deciding measures. If a Citizen is absent the council could flip to 3-2 with the mayor silent, delaying ordinance passage or defeat.
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Cohoes
Citizens Party
Common Council
Berkshire Officials Sworn In Amid Ceremony
Pittsfield mayor Robert B. Dillon and new council and school board members were sworn in this morning. Stockbridge bus crash injures seven, one seriously, on the Massachusetts Turnpike. 38 passengers on board from Albany to Boston. injured treated at St. Luke's Hospital in Pittsfield.
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Pittsfield
Robert B. Dillon
Stockbridge
Greyhound
Massachusetts Turnpike
Albany
Boston
St. Luke’s Hospital
Vermont Railway to resume service on Rutland line
Vermont Railway Corp expected to restart most of the Rutland line after the state purchased the section for 1.85 million dollars. Jay Wulfson leases Burlington to White Creek tracks with three locomotives and 25 employees, while Ernest Gibson III forecasts freight trains today and sets a minimum weekly schedule. The state may lease Bellows Falls to Ludlow to excursion operator F Nelson Blount, creator of Steamtown U S A.
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Burlington
New Vermont Railway Corp
Rutland Railway
Rutland
Jay Wulfson
Vermont Railway
White Creek
N.Y
Public Service Board
Montpelier
Wulfson
State
Gibson
Bennington
Burlington and
Middletown
N.J
F. Nelson Blount
Bellows Falls
Ludlow
Goldwater Arrives in Concord to Kick Off New Hampshire Campaign
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater arrives in Concord to launch his New Hampshire bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller plans a third campaign visit as ex governor Lane Dwinell endorses Goldwater, citing conservatism and foreign policy views.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Granite State
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Goldwater
Lane Dwinell
Lebanon
Dwinell
Eisenhower
Robert Upton
Robert O. Blood
Highway
Nashua
Milford
Amherst
Manchester
St. Anselm’s College
Portsmouth
Seacoast
Pease Air Force Base
Washington
Rockefeller
Fewer Unskilled Jobs Seen in New England Face Tech Shift
Edward T. O'Donnell, head of the U S Bureau of Labor Statistics in Boston, argues in The New Englander that rapid technological change will push New England workers toward higher education and greater occupational flexibility. He notes a textile decline of 171000 jobs over 16 years, with durable and nondurable goods gains totaling 163000, and forecasts rising nonmanufacturing employment in services, government, trade, finance, and real estate.
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Boston
New England
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Edward T. O’donnell
New Englander
New England Council
Nem
O’donnell
Department of Labor
Bennington Banner Contact and Subscription Details
Bennington Banner address and phone numbers listed. Publisher details include AP membership and republication rights. Delivery and subscription rates shown for local Vermont regions and nationwide, with special serviceman rates.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
Banner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
AP News
Vermont
U.S
Teachers Salaries Rise in NEA 1963 64 Education Survey
The NEA reports public school teacher salaries across 50 states and DC average $5963 for 1963 64, up $231 from 1962 63, a 4 percent gain. Far West leads in average pay with Alaska at $8150, California $7375, New York $7200, Connecticut $6775, and Illinois $6645.
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Washington, D.C
District of Columbia
National Education Association
NEA
Alaska
California
New York
Connecticut
Mlinois
Far West
Mideastern
Great Lakes
New England
Rocky Mountain
Southwest
Plains
Southeast States
Russian student granted asylum in United States
Yuri A. Asseyev, a 35 year old Russian exchange student from Leningrad studying at Harvard, was granted political asylum in the United States after a fall from a third floor apartment. He remains on the danger list with injuries but will be allowed to stay permanently, with permission to keep in contact with his wife and child in Leningrad. Russian diplomats visited him in the hospital and said he made the decision to stay without outside encouragement.
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Burlington
Philip H. Hoff
University of Vermont
Waterman
Hoff
Johnson
Zanzibar
Paul Guare
William F. Kearns
Charles T. Shea
Troy
7Th Avenue
Sandra Burke
Samaritan Hospital
Mechanicville
Albany Medical Center
Cynthia Hale
George Vlahides
Schenectady
Cambridge, Mass
Leningrad
United States
Yuri A. Asseyev
University of Leningrad
Asseyev
Harvard
U.S. State Department
Robert Owen
State Department
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