Main Street Renewal Plan Is Unveiled
A preliminary program for reviving the downtown business district was unveiled Thursday at a Bennington Regional Planning Commission meeting. John C. Burdis, planning consultant, outlined ideas to revitalize the downtown shopping area as the next step in the town’s comprehensive plan, including a one way traffic loop around the core bordered by Washington Avenue, Valentine Street, and Plea.
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Bennington
Burdis
Main Street
Italian Premier Resigns Over Nursery School Aid Split
Rome reports Premier Aldo Moro resigned after a split in his Christian Democratic party and Socialist coalition over state funds for public nursery schools. Saragat asked him to stay on as caretaker while parties consult, as internal party rifts and regional tensions delay any new government formation.
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Rome
UPI
Aldo Moro
Giuseppe Saragat
Moro
Christian Democratic Party
Socialist Coalition
The
Christian Democrats
Amintore Fanfani
Saragat
Rusk vows to press peace in Southeast Asia amid Vietnam war
Secretary of State Dean Rusk declared the United States will continue its peace effort in Southeast Asia while ready to act if aggression intensifies. He noted no encouraging response from Hanoi and said the Christmas bombing pause followed urging by other governments. He stressed that South Vietnam’s future government should be decided by its people and not imposed from abroad.
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UPI
Dean Rusk
United States
Southeast Asia
Rusk
U.S
Viet Nam
Johnson
Independence
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Rusky
Hanoi
U.N
Thant
Viet Cong
N Y High Court upholds liquor price fixing ruling
New York Court of Appeals in a 4 3 decision refused to remove retail liquor price statements from state fair trade protections. The ruling leaves in place a 1964 law allowing manufacturers to set minimum retail prices while a U S Supreme Court challenge continues. Justice Van Voorhis dissented, arguing the stay protects distillers from public policy.
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Albany
N.Y
Court of Appeals
New York State
Nelson Rockefeller
U.S. Supreme Court
Charles S. Desmond
John van Voorhis
Kenneth B. Keating
Francis Bergan
Truce Violated As Reds Attack Korean Force In Vietnam
A force of 400 Viet Cong attacked a South Korean marine platoon near Tuy Hoa 240 miles northeast of Saigon breaking the lunar New Year cease-fire. The Koreans counterattacked for two hours, killing 46 Communists, as clashes with American and allied troops continued. The Viet Cong ignored the truce and pressed multiple assaults, while the Koreans held defensive positions and did not fire unless fired upon.
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Ups
Blue Dragon
Korean Marine Brigade
Tuy Hoa
Year of the Horse ushers in lunar new year in Saigon
Peace appeared to settle but celebrations woke cities at ~6:00 am with firecrackers and laughter from shoe shine boys. Vietnamese troops fired at Pleiku at midnight as part of Lunar New Year custom. Explosions, small arms fire, and fireworks marked the start of the Year of the Horse amid wishes for peace.
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Saigon
UPI
Pleiku
Viet Nam
Legislative Pay Bill Advanced in Montpelier
The House advanced a legislative pay bill to its third reading and defeated two amendments. Rep Alan Chalmers proposed delaying pay retroactivity to Jan 4 1967 but failed 121-26. The bill sets pay at 30 dollars per day with a 1200 dollar ceiling for the special session.
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Dwight Pickard
Cavendish
Three Senators Defend State Reapportionment
Three Democratic senators led a news conference to defend the Supreme Court ruling on state legislative apportionment. They argued many states followed the one person one vote standard and cautioned that a constitutional amendment by Dirksen could alter the balance. Dirksen seeks a biannual state voter option on one house's nonpopulated basis. past effort fell short of a two-thirds Senate vote.
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Everett M. Dirksen
Paul H. Douglas
Srr
William Proxmire
Wis
Joseph D. Tydings
High Court
Dirksen
Congress
Queen Grants Reprieve To Rhodesian Prisoner
London reports Queen Elizabeth granted a reprieve to an African prisoner named Lazarus in Rhodesia who was under death sentence for attempting arson. The move bypassed Salisbury justice officials and creates a legal dilemma for Ian Smith's government as Rhodesia contemplates the potential impact on British authority.
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London
UPD
Elizabeth
Rhodesia
Salisbury
Ian Smith
Humphrey Gibbs
Britain
Lazarus
Yugoslavia to buy more U.S. wheat agreement
Belgrade signed a pact to raise wheat imports from the United States from 700000 metric tons at 45 million dollars to 1350000 metric tons at 86 million dollars.
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U.S
Belgrade
UPI
Yugoslavia
Russia Proposes Communist Summit Over Viet Nam
London reports say the Kremlin seeks a summit of Communist party and government officials to back anti-U S efforts in Viet Nam and align with its Sino-Soviet feud. China rejects a summit. Albania denounces the plan. Hanoi stance unclear amid cautious talks with Moscow.
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UPI
Russia
Kremlin
U.S
Viet
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Moscow
Ho Chi Minh
Peking
Plan for Mount Saint Anthony High School bleachers
Park Street office quarters host plans from a Maine concern for Mount Saint Anthony High School gym bleachers. A school board member exclaimed We have made it. Canonization prompted the remark amid the display of blueprints.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
Park Street
Maine
Mount Saint Anthony High School
Editorial Calls for Town Farm Recreation Area Plan
On the Inside an editorial urges developing a well planned recreation area at the Town Farm. The note appears on page 4 with emphasis on community space and local planning.
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