Vermont Highway Department overhaul urged in probe report
A 17 month probe finds Vermont's Highway Department free of scandal but in need of overhaul, especially in financing planning and public relations. Recommendations cover vouchering for federal reimbursements faster, potential bond savings, and freeze of gasoline tax to fund state system. The report will be delivered to the legislature.
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Montpelier
Vermont Highway Department
Commission
Manchester Bypass Fans Hope River Unscathed
Vermont officials assured residents at a second public hearing that the U.S. 7 bypass will not disrupt fishing on the Battenkill River nor cause flooding. Highway Commissioner Russell A. Holden said plans remain flexible and will be changed as needed before construction, expected in 1966 or 1967, with property owners to be notified and given a hearing.
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Reid Lefevre
Manchester
State
Manchester High School
Lefevre
Russell A. Holden
Edmunds
Vermont
U.S. 7
Battenkill River
Highway Department
Holden
Towns Seek Court Edict On Indigent Care Payouts
Bennington County towns plan to sue next week to decide if they must cover Putnam Memorial Hospital care for the indigent. Village of Bennington vows to intervene to protect the deed of gift terms, while Atty. Henry F. Black prepares a brief and outlines proposals in a closed meeting.
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Benington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
van Santvoord
Black
Chancery Court
Bennington
Reuben Levin
Levin
Bennington County
Henry W. Putnam
Legislaure
Assembly Meets To Declare Hoff State's Governor
The Vermont Legislature meets in joint session to declare Philip H. Hoff governor after a recount of the Nov 6 ballots. Hoff, first Democrat in 109 years, beat Republican F Ray Keyser by 1282 votes. unofficial word says Hoff may widen the margin.
Boston police probe new strangler attack rise
Inside Boston, police investigate a fresh assault by the local strangler as public calls for more protection. Castro urges Latin American masses to revolt. About 150 volunteers prep an area YMCA fund drive aiming for 22.09 dollars.
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Boston
Castro
YMCA
State Urges School Plans Be Put Off
In Montpelier AP report, Dr. A John Holden Jr commissioner of education urged delaying the southwest Vermont supervisory union reorganization to July 1 1964. Arlington would join Bennington Rutland union and others move into Benn March unions amid pending bond election and district mergers.
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Bennington Southwest Supervisory Union
Arlington Town
Southwest Union
Bennington - Rutland Supervisory Union
Bennington South Supervisory Union
Bennington Graded School District
Union High School
Shaftsbury
North Bennington
Greater
To Be Flying by 1972 Panel Urges Supersonic U S Airliner
A FAA study group urged quick action on a 1 billion program to develop a supersonic passenger plane. First prototype could fly by 1972, with 200 craft at 200 million each. France England and Russia keyed in, with U S lead at stake.
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Washington
WSJ
Federal Aviation Agency
France
England
Russia
U.S
FAA
Halaby
Directors Approve Jones Lamson Sale in Principal
SPRINGFIELD AP The directors of the Jones Lamson Machine Co. approved in principal a proposal for acquisition by Pneumodynamics Corp subject to detailed negotiations and stockholder approval. Pneumodynamics, based in Cleveland, designs and manufactures systems for aerospace ordnance marine and industrial uses with emphasis on advanced research and engineering. The Jones Lamson business will stay at its current location.
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Springfield
Jones & Lamson Machine Co
Pneumodynamics Corp
Pneumodynamics Corporation
Cleveland
Jones & Lamson
Awaiting Tshombe Move as U.N. Builds Up in Katanga
U.N. officials pressed a military buildup in Katanga awaiting Moise Tshombe's move after his offer to end the secession. Indian troops near Kolwezi faced mortar fire with one wounded while U.N. forces stayed alert. Thant welcomed Tshombe's promise to cooperate and allow movement for U.N. troops.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
the Congo
U.N
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Congo
Kolwezi
U Thant
United Nations
Thant
New York
Britain to press for EEC entry despite France
London reports Britain will push ahead for admission to the European Common Market despite French hostility and gains support from West Germany Belgium and implied backing from Italy Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The Foreign Office said Cabinet approval stands while hoping France may reconsider Polaris missile rejection.
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London
Britain
West Germany
Belgium
Italy
Luxembourg
Holland
Foreign Office
Harold Macmillan
Briain
France
Charles de Gaulle
Europe
Western Alliance
de Gaulle
Nassau
Kennedy
Macmillan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Brussels
Kennedy budget fight looms in Congress
In Washington AP reports a budget clash shapes up as Kennedy plans a near 99 billion dollar budget with a deficit add of over 10 billion for the new fiscal year. The outcome may determine tax cuts welfare bills and a three year 13.5 billion reform push amid GOP and conservative Democrats resisting domestic programs.
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Kennedy
Congress
Treasury
Youth Conservation Corps
Clayton Proposes Town Lengthen Airport Runway
Kenneth R. Clayton, chairman of the airport commission, asks Bennington officials to extend the Bennington Municipal Airport runway to 4000 feet with a 3500 by 75 foot paved center. Project cost 180000 with 90000 federal and 45000 state aid. remaining 45000 plus 5000 would be covered by a 10 year bond.
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Bennington Municipal
Kenneth R. Clayton
Town Airport Commission
Clayton
Federal Aviation Administration
Norton Barber
Khrushchev Challenges Chinese Communists at East Berlin Meeting
Soviet Premier Khrushchev used a major policy speech in East Berlin to urge Chinese Communists to mend their ways and warn that communism cannot win in a nuclear war. He pressed for peace as the prime socialist task and defended Soviet actions on Berlin and Cuba while vowing German reunification under a Communist state.
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Berlin
Khrushchev
Peking
Communist Party
East Berlin
West Berlin
United Nations Nations
U.N
Germany
West Germany
U.S
Ex-Premier Grunitsky to job soldiers after coup
In Lome Togo ex Premier Nicholas Grunitzky agrees to lead a new government and must place angry soldiers who seized power and killed President Sylvanus Olympio.
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Lome
Togo
Nicholas Grunitsky
Sylvanus Olympio
Kennedy May Act in Dock Strike Settlement Push
Assistant labor secretary Reynolds says President Kennedy may intervene if the 25 day old dock strike fails to narrow issues in a final attempt at settlement in New York. The move signals possible federal action to resolve the dispute.
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New York
J. J. Reynolds
Kennedy
Cold Spell Tightens Grip Across Midsection
A prolonged bout of sub-zero cold continues in the nation s midsection with no immediate relief expected as another blast of frigid air moves through the area.
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Herbert F. Farrington
Battenkill
Hoff State
Ers
Manufactuers
Douglas Aircraft Co
McDonnel Aircraft Corp
Republic Aviation Corp
Boeing Co
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
North American Aviation, Inc
Convair
General Dynamics Corp
Jones & Lamson Sale
China
Leopoldville
Northern Rhodesia
Cyrille Adoula
Joseph Kasavubu
Central
Adoula
U.K
Thunder
Gress
Japan
Dora Keen Handy
West Hartford
Sanno Hospital
Tokyo
Honolulu
United States
Humanity
Free City of
Berlin Wall
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