Bennington candidates announce bids for state and county posts
Raymond B. Bowen of Bennington announces a bid for the Republican nomination for one of two state Senate seats from Bennington County, seeking the seat vacated by Eugene V. Clark. Joseph J. Caracciola seeks a second term in the Vermont House, stressing opposition to a sales tax and noting reappraisal issues. Howard C. Estes announces candidacy for Republican side judge on the Bennington County Court, joining Floyd Holliday as GOP contenders. two Democratic incumbents face re-election.
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Raymond B. Bowen
Woodford Road
Senate
Bennington County
Bowen
Atty
Eugene V. Clark
Reid Lefevre
Manchester
Lefevre
Bennington County Industrial Corp
BCIC
Globe Union Inc
Milwaukee
Wis
Minneapo
Joseph J. Caracciola
Bennington
Vermont
House of Representatives
Caracciola
Massachusetts
New York
Howard C. Estes
Silver St
Estes
Floyd Holliday
Shaftsbury
See Estes
New Union School Board Reorganizes For 1964 65
The Mt. Anthony Union School Board begins its first meeting of the 1964 65 year at 7 30 pm at Bennington Elementary School. Directors plan to organize vote on officers and discuss building a union high school to serve grades 9 12 while converting Bennington High for grades 7 8. Overcrowding pressures prompt districts to seek new facilities. a joint North Bennington Shaftsbury study explores independent or joint building options. The board includes Jenks as interim chair with Williams stepping down due to ill health.
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Mt. Anthony Union School
Bennington
North Bennington
Shaftsbury
New Union Board
Barton L. Jenks
Jenks
John H. Williams II
Bennington Graded
John P. Morrissey
Marian Cummings
Williams
Greater Bennington
Norman Stratton
Marian Taylor
Jane McCullough
Edma A
Brad) Riley
Inside Nelson Blount’s railroad to daily excursion plan
The note outlines a Bellows Falls to Chester daily excursion by Nelson Blount’s railroad with a focus on a practical schedule. It mentions a photo layout and sectional pages covering upcoming local events and community projects.
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Nelson Blount’s Railroad
Bellows Falls
Chester
Congress Approves Civil Rights Bill
The House passed and sent to the White House a broad civil rights bill after more than a year of debate. It bans discrimination in public accommodations and employment, with federal aid penalties for violators, and sets up a community relations service to aid desegregation efforts nationwide.
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Washington
Sen
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Senate
Goldwater
House
Progress Hinted In Mississippi Civil Rights Worker Case
State investigators voiced optimism after 10 days of a large search by state troopers FBI agents and 400 sailors for three civil rights workers. Michael Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James Chaney disappeared after visiting Philadelphia to inspect a burned church.
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Philadelphia, Miss
UPI
Highway Patrol
FBI
Mississippi Project
Lawrence Rainey
Rainey
Michael Schwerner
Brooklyn
N.Y
Andrew Goodman
New York City
James Chaney
Meridian
Miss
Philadelphia
Chitto Swamp
Virginia Education Board Funds Prince Edward County Schools
The Virginia Education Board approved 225000 for children in private and segregated schools in Prince Edward County defying a federal court. Negro lawyers plan to challenge the county and state appropriations, arguing the county public schools remain closed and the grants violate a three year court order.
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Richmond
UPI
Virginia Education Board
Prince Edward County
Alexandria
State Board of Education
Henry L. Marsh III
Police drag pond for missing New York youth
State police resumed dawn search at Little Rocky Pond in Wallingford for 17 year old Melvin Moore of New York City who disappeared after a hike with a Protestant youth group along Vermont’s Long Trail. Witnesses reported the drowning but could not save him.
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Wallingford
UPI
New York City
Little Rocky Pond
Melvin Moore
Vermont
Long Trail
Peru
Cuttingsville
Moore
NLRB Rules Bias Barred in Union Labor Case
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that a union practicing racial discrimination violated the National Labor Relations Act and revoked its certification. The decision centered on Hughes Tool Company’s Houston plant with Locals 1 and 2 of the Independent Metal Workers Union, which denied a Black worker Ivory Davis access to grievance processing and apprenticeship opportunities for white workers.
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Washington
UPI
National Labor Relations Board
Hughes Tool Company
Houston
Tex
Independent Metal Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Davis
NLRB
Hughes
Flanders asks billboard curb in Vermont campaigns
Former U S Senator Ralph E Flanders asked Vermont candidates for governor and lieutenant governor to refrain from billboard advertising He sent letters to Governor Hoff and GOP hopefuls urging cooperation to curb roadside advertising for long term economic benefit and effective control in the state He is president of the Vermont Roadside Council and advocates roadside ad limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
UPI
U.S
Ralph E. Flanders
Vermont
Ike Scranton and GOP Rumors Create Convention Confusion
Conflicting NBC and CBS reports spur confusion over whether Dwight D. Eisenhower agreed to nominate Gov. William Scranton at the San Francisco convention. Scranton and aides deny, Miltion Eisenhower hints at interest, Goldwater leads with 695 delegates, Scranton 137 in UPI tally.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
William W. Scranton
Eisenhower
Scranton
Eugene
Ore
Gettysburg
National Broadcasting Co
NBC
Pennsylvania
San Francisco
United Press International
Goldwater
UPI
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Joseph Caracciola
New Union School Board
Ron Raynolds
Viereck Family
North Shire
Norshaft Lions
Lake Paran
Williamstown Theatre
Congress
Johnson
Bill
Mississippi
Viet Nam
Henry Cabot Lodge
National Press Club
Lodge
Birch E. Bayh
D-Ind
Marvella
FEPC
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Local 1
Ivory Davis
All Negro Local 2
Flanders
Billboard
Ike
GOP
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Gen
Robert Shultz
Shultz
Gen. Eisenhower
Milton
Baltimore
Milton Eisenhower
Johns Hopkins University
Maryland
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