PSB Recommends Suspension of Rutland Taxes
The Public Service Board urged suspending $46,000 in Rutland Railway taxes while strike actions continue. Governor Keyser will review, with ICC abandonment decisions pivotal. If denied, funds from suspensions may restore operations. if granted, liens become due. Rutland President William Ginsburg argued tax payment could jeopardize restart.
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Montpelier
Public Service Board
Rutland Railway
Public Service
John D. Paterson
Keyser
PSB
Paterson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rutland
ICC
William Ginsburg
Bennington Graded School Board approves three contracts
Bennington Graded School District trustees re elected John P. Riddle as president and named Ronald R. Knapp secretary. The board set committees and awarded bids for three facility upgrades including showers by Winslow Plumbing and Heating Co for 2863, tile work by Bennington Tile Co for 880 and 108, and lockers and racks by Evans News and Office Equip.
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Bennington Graded
John P. Riddle
South St
Allan J. Heath
Ronald R. Knapp
Burgess Road
Reba J. Moninger
Elm St
Ivor S. Pelsue
E. Main St
J. Goodall Hutton
Knapp
Franklin A. Riley
Grandview St
Charles Sleeman
Hutton, Sleeman
Girls’ Physical Education
Winslow Plumbing and Heating Co
Bennington
George D. Pierce
Richard Fonteneau
Bennington Tile Co
Bennington High School
Evans News and Office
Leap Through Fire Hay Barn Explodes Near Bennington
Five men leaped from a burning hay barn one mile south of Bennington village last night to save seven calves and 3,000 bales of hay. Floyd Rice and four neighbors tried to load the last hay when an explosion started the blaze. Five men escaped. barn razed. insurance partial. Fire crews from Bennington Rural and Pownal battled the flames, but the structure was fully engulfed.
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Fie
Bennington Vilage
Floyd Rice
Ben
Nington Rural Fire Department
Pownal
Rice
U.S
Rayloft
Bennington
Herbert Post
U.S. 7
Ronnie Saunders
Douglas Saunders
Arnold Clayton
Ronald Rice
Byrd and Williams Besiege Tax Cut Plan in Senate Row
Senate Finance Committee chair Harry Byrd denounced the U S Chamber of Commerce call for a substantial income tax cut predicting a 15 billion dollar deficit. Sen John Williams argued that the move would spark long term inflation and harm Americans amid rising government spending.
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Washington
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Byrd
John J. Williams
Chamber
Williams
Senate
United States Chamber of Commerce
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Governors Confront Medicare and Civil Rights Split at Conference
At Hershey Pennsylvania the nation’s governors face aging care needs while a deep rift on civil rights and a no compromise stance on trimming National Guard units tests unity. McNamara’s closed session failed to sway governors who demand local control and federal aid, amid disputes over prayer in public schools and a potential broad pro Social Security financing stance.
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Robert S. McNamara
Kennedy
National Guard and Reserve
McNamara
Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
New York
Farris Bryant
Florida
John H. Ree
Maine
Congress
Philadelphia
Clark resigns as judge to seek state senate seat
Bennett County figure Clark announces plans to resign as Bennington Municipal Judge on August 15 to pursue one of two Republican nominations for state senator. He will file petitions by August 1 and will not campaign until he steps down. Born in Cleveland, he is a Harvard Law graduate and Navy veteran. He and his wife Elisabeth Kimball of Belmont, Mass. reside on Crescent Boulevard with two sons.
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Atty
Eugene V. Cark
Bennington
Bennington County
Clark
Cleveland
Ohio
Clarke
Shaker Heights, (Ohio
Harvard University
Cornel University
Elisabeth Kimball
Belmont
Mass
Crescent Boulevard
Senator Prouty Weds Washington Aide in Georgetown Church
U S Senator Winston L Prouty of Vermont married Jeanette H Hall of Washington and East Liverpool Ohio Mrs Hall previously served as chief administrative aide to Representative Robert E Cook of Ohio The 55 year old senator was formerly married to the late Frances Hearle of Newport Rhode Island The ceremony occurred at the Georgetown Presbyterian Church chapel
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Washington
U. S
Winston L. Prouty
Jeanette H. Hall
East Liverpool
Ohio
Hall
Robert E. Cook
Prouty
Frances Hearle
Newport
Georgetown
450-Pound Twist Champion Visited Cape Cod
Hyannis Mass AP Willie Graham 450 pound Crenshaw County twist champion Luverne Alabama arrived on Cape Cod as a well heeled visitor. He came with a round trip bus ticket and funds supplied by Luverne segregationists. Graham is a shoe shiner and local notable who plans a brief stay then a trip to New York.
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Hyannis
Mass
Crenshaw County
Willie Graham
Luverne
Ala
Graham
Cape Cod
Wilie
Willie
Laverne
F.A. Sikes
Big Nick
New York
Alabama
J.C. Jones
Little Rock
Ark
Jones
Cape
Camp Edwards
National Guard
Objector Narrowly Comments on Barney Brook Diversion Plan
Selectmen revived interest in a long dormant project to divert Barney Brook into the Walloomsac River and end its flow through the village toward the South Stream near Beech Street. The once industrially used stream by Rockwood and H. E. Bradford Mills now serves no purpose, with only a single objector recorded.
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Barney Brook
Walloomsac River
Beech Street
Rockwood
H. E. Bradford Mills
Walloomsac
Branch Street
Bennington to Install 20000 Lumen Street Lights by August
Bennington Public Service officials say most major village streets will gain 20000 lumen mercury vapor ornamental lights by early August. Officials hope brighter lighting will draw new businesses and encourage storefront improvements along Bennington streets. The town has pursued street illumination upgrades for nearly eight years, with Dewey Street County Street and Ben Mont Ave among top future targets.
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Bennington
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Dewey Street
County Street
Ben Mont Avene
Algeria Declares Independence Amid Ahmed Ben Bella Threats
Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule as De Gaulle recognizes the move. 4,500 nationalist guerrillas mass near Algiers while Premier Youssef Ben Khedda returns from exile to lead the provisional government and quell the revolt.
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Dent Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
Africa
Algiers
Youssef Ben Khedda
de Gaulle
France
Christian Fouchet
Abderrahmane Fares
Provisional Executive
Ben Khedda
Tunis
Boston Police Search for Strangler of Three Women
Boston police launched an intensive coordinated hunt for a killer linked to three similar strangulation deaths in three weeks. The slayings occurred in Boston and Lynn with victims Helen Blake Nina Nichols and Anna Slesers. Authorities doubled homicide team coverage under Commissioner McNamara and Deputy Cadigan to pursue the case.
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Lynn
Mass
Boston
Edmund McNamara
Arthur C. Cadigan Jr
Homicide Bureau
Helen E. Blake
Nina G. Nichols
Brighton
Anna E. Slesers
Back Bay
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Lion
Rips Governors
ADA Appeal
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Hershey, Pa
Tion
Tem
SNAFU
Robert E. Smylie
Idaho
Smylie
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Faubus
Eugene V. Clark
Bradford
Selectmen’s
Alma Langlois
Franklin P. Jones
New Lyons Bridge
Lyons District
Furnace Brook
Presi
Ahmed Ben Bella
Evian
French Republic
George E. Bierwirth
Southern Division
Donald C. Hicks
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