New Drive Begun for Planning by Town and Villages
Town and village officials formed a citizens committee to coordinate with the Greater Bennington Association on long-range planning. The group will support a March resubmission to voters seeking formation of a regional planning commission and will provide information for a comprehensive plan.
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Greater Bennington Association
Regional Planning Commission
Information Committee
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Bennington
Vermont
GBA
Shaftsbury
Pownal
Cooperative Commission
Legislature Recesses For Governor Race Recount
In Montpelier the state house paused three days after convening as a 56 member canvassing board conducts the recount of over 121000 votes from the Nov 6 Keyser Hoff gubernatorial race in the reception room.
Father locks five children as home burns in California
Police say William Carrell set the house afire after locking his wife and five children in their rooms to gain the impression she neglected them. The 30 year old was arraigned on arson and attempted murder charges. None of the children aged 1½ to 9 were harmed in the blaze that destroyed the Carrell home.
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West Covina
Calif
William Carrell
Lois
Carrell
Tornado Strikes Spring Hill Tennessee Wrecks Town
A tornado ripped into Spring Hill's business district shortly after midnight causing heavy damage. At least eight buildings were wrecked and half of Spring Hill High School demolished. National Guard units were deployed to guard against looting as rescue operations began. The Tennessee Orphanage home near town reported no injuries among its 180 children.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Spring Hill
Tennessee National Guard
Jesse Eastep
National Guard
Eastep
Church of Christ
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Inside Sherman Adams criticizes U S foreign aid support
Former Eisenhower aide Sherman Adams tells a Middlebury College audience that American enthusiasm for foreign aid is waning. The note appears in Page 2 coverage listing Kennedy background briefings, NCAA probe calls, and other items from Page 3 to Page 10.
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Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Middlebury College
U.S
Kennedy
Katanga Crisis Shifts Toward UN Dominance in Congo
U.S. and U.N. policy makers see Katanga's independence fading as Central Congo authorities move to reintegrate Katanga. Tshombe's position weakens while former backers switch to support Adoula and a cautious UN push toward Kolwezi gains momentum. British officials shift to favor UN action.
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Kolwezi
Leopoldville
Elizabethville
Katanga
Congo
Tshombe
U.S
U.N. Congo
U.N
Cyrille Adoula
Kennedy calls for independent U S leadership in world affairs
President Kennedy signals a tougher stance in global policy, risking friction with allies. He argued the United States should pursue independent action rather than seek broad approval, citing Congo UN support and differing from Britain as examples. The Palm Beach remarks, meant for background, now stand as a strong assertion of U S autonomy.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S
Europe
Palm Beach
White House
Congo
United States
Great Britain
United Nations
Captain Killed In Bomber Crash Near Wichita
A B47 bomber from Lincoln Air Force Base crashed in flames near Wichita. Captain L Pudwill 29 from Detroit Lakes Minn died in the fire after the others parachuted to safety. First Lt F T Medrick 26 from Hastings NY and Capt H T Jones 34 from Oakland Calif survived with mild shock.
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Wichita
Kan
L. Pudwill
Detroit Lakes
Minn
F. T. Medrick
H. T. Jones
Medrick
Hastings
N.Y
Jones
Oakland
Calif
Lincoln
Neb.) Air Force Base
McConnell Afb
Prideaux Claims Keyser Offered Bennington Land for Gas Plant
Vermont Gas Corp vice president Frank Prideaux says Gov. Keyser offered land in Bennington for a gas cracking plant, bypassing village trustees who banned the operation. Prideaux detto the Dec 10 Montpelier luncheon discussed the governor’s intervention to counter trustees and aid state industry efforts.
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Prideaux
Keyser
VGC
Vermont Gas Corp
Frank Prideaux
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Bennington
Bennington Village
Lincoln Street
Montpelier
Virgil Stark
Vermont
Tshombe Under Watch After Peace Tour in Katanga
Katanga President Moise Tshombe remains under surveillance at Elisabethville palace after a peace tour to the Rhodesian border. He cooperates with the UN while curfew and other limits stay in place. Kolwezi remains a UN concern amid threats to mining and power installations.
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Tshombe
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Mokambo
U.N
Elisabethville
Congo
the Congo
Kolwezi
Kitwe
Rhodesia
Godefroid Munongo
U Thant
Johannesburg
South Africa
South African Press Association
United Nations
Elizabethville
Union Miniere du Haut
U S and Soviets Weigh New Test Ban Approaches
The Washington Post reports the United States and the Soviet Union privately explore fresh paths to a nuclear test ban. Soviet deputy foreign minister Kuznetsov meets U S officials in Washington while Tsarapkin arrives in New York to discuss a possible new approach to inspection deadlock.
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Ed States
Soviet Union
Washington Post
United States
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Washington
U.S
President Kennedy
Kuznetsov
New York
The
Post
Murray Marder
Howard Simmons
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Geneva
Tsarapkin
Planes Lead in Saigon Air Push for Mekong Delta Op
U S planes assigned to a new ground operation in the Mekong Delta support ground forces and hunt for a missing American Mohawk aircraft. A two engine reconnaissance plane is believed crashed about 250 miles northeast of Saigon. Commanders describe war tensions with Vietnam as a family quarrel as Adm Felt heads to Bangkok.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
South
Mikong
Qui Nhon
Mekong Delta
D Zone
Here
Adm
Harry D. Felt
U.S
Pacific
Bangkok
Soviet MIG21 fighters fly from Russia to India
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in New Delhi said several Soviet MIG21 jets are en route to India from Russia. He refused to disclose the count, the route, or the arrival timing and emphasized the planes are not being flown in.
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New Delhi
India
Russia
Foreign Ministry
NASA Eyes Centaur Rocket Tests This Year
Dr Abe Silverstein of NASA says top priority is the Centaur rocket with flight tests possible by mid year. The booster will not be ready for actual missions until 1965 according to the official.
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Los Angeles
Abe Silverstein
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Silverstein
Navy P2V patrol plane crashes near Kodiak runway
A twin engine Navy P2V patrol plane carrying 12 crew members crashed while approaching the Kodiak Naval Air Station runway. Five survivors were hospitalized in serious condition after the aircraft struck Womens Mountain about 1000 feet from the end of the strip.
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Kodiak, Alaska
Kodiak Naval Air Station
Womens Mountain
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Philip H. Hoff
Robert W. Larrow
Burlington
Charles J. Adams
Ralph A. Foote
Frederick Delaney Jr
Scattering
George H. Amidon
Peter J. Hincks
Howard E. Armstrong
Madeline S. Davidson
Auditor of Accounts
David V. Anderson
Charles E. Gibson
Gibson
Adams
Spring Hill, Tenn
Amateur Athletic Union
Congressional
NCAA
Cuba
Wall Street Journal
Congo Unity
West
By John M. Hightower
Washington Avenue
Hagerman
Northern Rhodesia
Sakania
Elisabethvile
McNamara
Centaur Rocket
Alaska
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