Struggle for Algerian Leadership Heads to Showdown
In Algiers and Rabat tensions rise as Ahmed Ben Bella and Youssef Ben Khedda factions clash over control of the new Algerian leadership. Ben Bella backs the 45,000 strong national liberation army while Ben Khedda holds influence mainly in Algiers and surrounding zones.
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Algiers
Morocco
Ahmed Ben Bella
Algeria
Ben Bella
Youssef Ben Khedda
Rabat
Ben Khedda
Rabah Bitat
Mohammed Yazid
Paris
National Liberation Army
Tlemcen
France
Tunisia
Hundreds of East Germans fortify West Berlin wall
Berlin reports 550 laboring at day and night to strengthen concrete and barbed wire barriers around West Berlin. Workers clear fields for machine gun fire, while others in plants supply blocks and materials. Deaths and desertions cited amid border tensions as anniversary threats loom.
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West Berlin
Citizens Mass For Protest On Medicare
Thousands of Saskatchewan residents gathered at the parliamentary buildings in Regina to oppose the government plan for universal medical care funded by taxes. Organizers from Keep Our Doctors projected peaceful protest with up to 30,000 participants, while officials urged calm as doctors led a strike begun July 1. Premier Lloyd would not meet the crowd but offered to hear a small delegation. Regina mayor Henry Baker urged restraint.
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Regina
Sask
Saskatchewan
Keep Our Doctors Committee
Woodrow Lloyd
Lloyd
Henry Baker
Nuclear air drop test over Pacific near Christmas Island
The United States announced a new airplane dropped nuclear test device in the Pacific. The Tuesday blast was the 26th test since last April 25 and described as intermediate range with a force of 20 000 to 1 million tons of TNT near Christmas Island.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Christmas Island
Villager Protests Polluters Amid Sewer Plant Debate
Horace Baker of 210 Grove St confronts Bennington selectmen over the Walloomsac River pollution from Vermont Tissue Paper Co. while the town builds a $142 million sewage plant. Officials note steps taken, urge state action, and propose a petition to the Water Resources Board.
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Bennington Village
Walloomsac
Horace Baker
Grove St
Vermont Tissue Paper Co., Inc
Baker
North Bennington Road
Paul A. Kelley
Kelley
State Water Resources Board
Selectman
Richard van Santvoord
Selectmen
State Board
Water Resources Board
Walloomsac River
WRB
Caracciola Seeks Bennington General Assembly Seat
Joseph J. Caracciola 46 of Hunt Street announces candidacy for town representative to the General Assembly from Bennington on the Republican ticket. He and his wife run Joe's Open Air Market, was a former produce manager, and is a World War II Navy veteran active in American Legion and Elks. He lives in Bennington since 1938 and aims to learn state government operations.
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Joseph J. Caracciola
Hunt Street
General Assembly
Bennington
Carracciola
Joe
Caracciola
Whitehall
N. Y
Atlantic
South Pacific
American Legion
The
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Bennington Club
Anna Smith
Frederick W. D. Smith
Old Bennington
Banner Venture Tri Stater launch to blanket tri state shoppers
The Banner announces a new weekly 32 page shopping guide named the Tri Stater to be distributed free across Bennington Rutland Windham counties in Vermont Rensselaer Washington counties in New York and northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts. Advertisers may place messages in both the Banner and Tri Stater with tie in options and classifieds to boost readership.
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Tri-State
Tri-States
Bennington County
Rutland
Windham Counties
Vermont
Rensselaer
Washington County
New York
Berkshire County
Massachusetts
Bennington
North Bennington
Daily Banner
Connecticut Officials Push Age 21 Alcohol Law Revisions
Connecticut officials urged New York to raise the legal drinking age to 21 at a New York committee hearing. They cited teen drinking and traffic deaths, with Connecticut arguing teens should not possess liquor, and noting 118 fatal accidents among 8000 trooper miles last year.
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Port Chester
N.Y
Connecticut
New York
Arthur M. Lewis
Leo J. Mulcahy
Connecticut State Police
Lewis
John Dempsey
Joint Legislative Committee
New York Stat
New York State
Mulcahy
Telstar physics explained by Andover telescope and giant horn
Andover Maine AP report describes Telstar tracking using a 380 ton horn antenna housed in a dome 15 stories high. Engineers adjust electronic gear to lock onto a moving satellite 5 000 miles away, with radiation confined to an 18 mile wide circle and rebuilt by the satellite itself for reception.
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Telstar
Pacific
Marter
Big Horn
Andover
Earth
County Republican Committee Chooses Clark Successor Prospect
The Bennington County Republican Committee meets tomorrow night to recommend a new municipal judge to Gov. F. Ray Keyser Jr. to replace Eugene V. Clark who resigns Aug. 15 to pursue a state senate seat. Front runners include John P. Morrissey and John A. Burgess with other possible candidates. Governor Keyser will likely endorse the committee’s pick.
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Bennington
Bennington County
Republican Committee
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Atty
Eugene V. Clark
Senate
Keyser
John P. Morrissey
John A. Burgess
Morrisssey
Burgess
Morrissey
Margaret S. Lillie
John H. Williams
Williams
Marshall Witten
Clifford B. Harwood
Manchester
Telstar Telecast Connects Atlantic Across Oceans
Telstar linked Maine and Vice President Johnson in Washington via clear telephone and relayed live TV pictures to France and Britain. The Bell-built satellite carried two way calls and news clips, proving a future global communications system.
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Atlantic
France
England
U.S
Maine
Andon B. Johnson
Washington
United States
New York
Paris
Yves Montand
Veral News of
Jacques Marette
Britain
Telstar
Iitle
Andover
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Newton Minow
Federal Communications Commission
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Business Gets Billion Dollar Tax Cut Tonight
Washington AP reports the Treasury will implement liberalized depreciation guidelines for plant and equipment, cutting the time businesses can claim tax deductions. The new rules, developed since the Eisenhower era and accelerated last year, replace 20 year old, obsolete guidelines.
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Washington
Treasury
India accuses Red China of new Galwan intrusion
New Delhi charges nearly 400 Chinese troops penetrated the Galwan Valley on the Ladakh frontier and encircled an Indian post. Prime Minister Nehru, at a Kashmir vacation spot, had the protest note delivered to the Chinese embassy, warning Beijing of full responsibility for any shooting war.
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New Delhi
India
Red China
Ladakh
Peiping
Nehru
Pahlgam
Kashmir
Galwan
China-Ladakh
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County Republican Committee
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Keyser “‘Duty Bound
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Lite
Europe
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Prudential
Robert M. Wilson
Harriet M. Davis
Stewart E. Allen
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