Vermont Marble strike stalls over union shop dispute
Negotiations between the United States union and Allied Products Workers Union and the Vermont Marble Co. remain deadlocked on the union shop issue after federal mediator John J. O'Reilly met with both sides for two hours and 20 minutes without a settlement. Union spokesman Ralph E. Williams says several alternate union shop proposals were rejected by the company. A court injunction was obtained to bar pickets from interfering with Delaware & Hudson Railroad trains entering the plant yards.
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Union
Delaware & Hudson Railroad
Boy Found Alive After Abandoned-Barn Search
A six year old Boston boy unable to speak wandered from a forest campsite near Shrewsbury Vermont and was found alive in an abandoned barn hours later. State police bloodhounds guided Rutland men to the area after a wide search near Clement Lodge on the Long Trail. The child was located some distance from the campsite and was unharmed.
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Shrewsbury
UPS
Boston
Rutland
Thomas Skiffington
Clement Lodge
Long Trail
Vermont
Vermont board approves three high schools in Addison County
The Vermont Education Board approved a plan to build three separate high schools in Addison County instead of a single union high school. Approval was conditional on Starkboro joining the union before any state school construction aid is granted. The board rejected Dr. Richard Gibboney's proposal for New Haven to join Middlebury Union High School.
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New Haven
UPS
Vermont Education Board
Addison County
Starkboro
Richard Gibboney
Middlebury Union High School
Aiken Secures $150,000 Farm Aid for Village Watershed
Senator George D. Aiken announced in Washington that Farmers Home Administration has approved a $150,000 loan to fund Ludlow's share of the Aiken Hope small watershed project already approved and underway.
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Ludlow
George D. Aiken
Washington
Farmers Home Administration
Aiken Hope
Green Mountain College to hold 129th commencement
Dr William Pearson Tolley president of Syracuse University will speak at Green Mountain College commencement Saturday Associate in Arts degrees awarded to 259 seniors at the exercises
Albany NAACP plans march after Meredith shooting
The Albany NAACP chapter will hold a 2 PM Sunday protest starting at Clinton Avenue and Ten Broeck Street, proceeding to the Capitol steps. Joseph L. Cohen said the march follows a telegram from Roy Wilkins urging demonstrators to protest government inaction and push for the civil rights bill.
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Albany
NAACP
James H. Meredith
Mississippi
Clinton Avenue
Ten Broeck Street
Capitol Steps
Joseph L. Cohen
Cohen
Roy Wilkins
Wilkins
Selkirk Mother Leads School Prayer Amendment Letter Drive
Selkirk mother of three and three friends plan to collect thousands of letters in support of a constitutional amendment to allow voluntary school prayer. She said patriotic songs may be banned and criticized the 1963 Supreme Court decision. She will deliver the letters to Senator Everett Dirksen, sponsor of the amendment.
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Selkirk
Albany
Donald Hotaling
America
Supreme Court
Berkshire GE plant walkout over new pay system
Between 900 and 1500 workers staged a walkout Thursday at the General Electric Co. plant in Pittsfield to protest a new piece rate incentive system for about 20 women workers. The union says the system would cut the women's weekly pay by 12 to 20 percent. The walkout marked the seventh at the plant this year.
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Pittsfield
General Electric Co
Federal grant boosts anti poverty program in North Adams
The grant of 18921 dollars announced by U S Representative Silvio Conte supports assessing local needs and building a workable poverty alleviation plan. In Pittsfield, an elementary art supervisor seeks a policy banning public school classes from entering art and poster contests to avoid appearing uncooperative with community groups.
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North Adams
U.S
Silvio O. Conte
Pittsfield
Winifred B. Bell
Childen
Freedom Marchers Move Toward Voter Registration Drive
Meredith marchers enter Ku Klux Klan territory to spur rural Negro voter registration. Group of 300 plans to camp along Mississippi roadsides and patrol villages toward Jackson, with talks each afternoon led by Rev. Ralph Abernathy in King’s absence after his Chicago trip.
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Miss
UPI
Meredith ‘‘Freedom
Ku Klux Klan
Mississippi
Jackson
Memphis
Tenn
Martin Luther King
James Meredith
King
Chicago
Ralph Abernathy
Freedom
Coldwater River Bridge
Rhode Island Graduate Dianne Hurley Honored at Elmhurst
Miss Dianne Dolores Hurley daughter of Mr and Mrs William A Hurley of 211 Washington Ave Portsmouth Rhode Island graduated June 3 from Elmhurst Convent of the Sacred Heart Solemn Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament was bestowed upon the girls His Excellency Most Rev Bernard M Kelly D D J C D gave diplomas and addressed the graduates Miss Hurley plans to study at Georgian Court College Lakewood New Jersey in September.
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Portsmouth
R.I
Dianne Dolores Hurley
William A. Hurley
Washington Ave
Elmhurst
Air Force tapes reveal collision of XB70 and F104
Edwards AFB Calif UPI investigators heard dramatic radio tapes detailing the fatal mid air crash of the XB70 research bomber and F104 chase plane. Veteran test pilot Joe Walker and Major Carl Cross died as the six jet bomber spun toward the Mojave desert. The tapes include Col Joe Cotton aboard a T38 giving instructions after the impact and noting one capsule may have ejected. Bodies found near Fort Irwin about 45 miles east of Edwards. Collision occurred during a tight formation flight for in flight pictures by a GE photographer in a civilian jet.
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Edwards Afb
Calif
UPI
Air Force Investigation Board
Joe Walker
Walker
Air Force
Carl Cross
Mojave Desert
Barstow
Joe Cotton
Cotton
al White
Cross
Ft. Irwin
Edwards
General Electric
States To Increase War On Cigarette Smuggling
States will boost tax enforcement against cigarette bootlegging with undercover work and expanded efforts. Northeastern agents will aid North Carolina on Tobacco Road along U S route 301 to curb a $100 million annual revenue loss. Making cigarette smuggling a federal crime could bring FBI involvement and deter future smugglers.
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Harwich Port
Mass
UPI
Tobacco Road
North Carolina
Federal Bureau
FBI
Albert Baytel
New Jersey
Tax Department
National Tobacco Tax Association
Charles Conlon
Susan Throckmorton Joins Peace Corps India
Susan Lee Throckmorton daughter of Mr and Mrs John Throckmorton of Bennington has become a Peace Corps Volunteer after 12 weeks training at the University of Pennsylvania and will leave for India June 1 to work in health and nutrition programs in Madras. The group will teach teachers, administer the CARE mid day meal program, start school gardens and poultry projects while joining about 700 Peace Corps volunteers in India.
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Washington, D.C
Susan Lee Throckmorton
John
Throckmorton
R.D. No. 1
Walloomsac Road
Bennington
Peace Corps
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
India
Madras
Pennsylvania
United States
British bus maker Leyland aims for Soviet deal
Moscow-bound Leyland Motors export sales manager Louis Portman travels to the Soviet Union after Premier Kosygin requested designs and bids for selling buses to Russia. Leyland plans to send a complete bus to Moscow and pursue a factory sale if negotiations proceed.
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UPD
Britain
Leyland Motors
Leyland
Louis Portman
Alexei Kosygin
Russia
Cuba
Portman
Moscow
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