Paroled convict kills brother then dies by own hand
A Vermont man Edward F Moffitt 23 shot and killed his brother Calvin C Moffitt during a drinking dispute and then committed suicide on a staircase at his sister's 308 Silver St home after a three hour standoff with state troopers and police.
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Edward F. Moffitt
Joseph L. la Flamme
Sliver
Moffitt
Bennington Village
Calvin
Shaftsbury
Vermont
Silver St
State Police
John Poljacilk
Stuart Jenne
Silver Street
Edward Moffitt
Peru
Joseph LaFlamme
Joyce LaFlamme
Bennington Banner
Warren Buckler
One Man Dies In Peru Cabin Slaying Suspect Brother Sought
Calvin C. Moffitt 26 was found dead from a shotgun wound in a deer camp near Vermont 11. Edward F. Moffitt 23 fled as police investigated. A note claimed Edward's confession, but investigators withheld it at the scene.
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LaFlamme
Moffitt
Peru
Silver Street
Joyce LaFlamme
Harold Kinney
Londonderry
George Moffitt
Calvin C. Moffitt
Calvin
Vermont 11
Here
Glenn Davis
BCI
Atty
R. Marshall Witten
Bennington
Edward
Davis
Witten
Trustees Urge Village Stay in Union District
Trustees of the Bennington Graded School District urge voters to reject a proposal to withdraw from Union High School District No. 14. They cite economy, efficiency, and improved programs, noting 93 years of district progress, three building projects, crowded elementary spaces, and growing enrollments that strain facilities. The measure appears on the June 25 annual meeting ballot.
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Bennington Graded School
Union High School
Bennington
Cora B. Whitney
Bennington Catholic High School
Molly Stark High School
Beniiona
Second Congregational Church
St. Peter’s Church
Macmillan Faces Cabinet Strain Over Profumo Scandal
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Macmillan leads a tense Cabinet session amid near-breaking loyalty as ministers face resignations rumors. Labor attacks through Gordon Walker flag a demand for his resignation while Health Minister Enoch Powell may quit over private moral issues.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Labor Party
Patrick Gordon Walker
Moscow
John A. Profumo
Evening Standard
Powell
Whitehall
Hoff Pardons Arsonist Brown in Vermont
Gov. Philip H. Hoff grants a conditional pardon to Frank Brown of Brattleboro, reducing a life imprisonment for arson resulting in death to parole. The decision cites safeguards for civil liberties and questions raised by Vermont Supreme Court appellate procedures affecting his first appeal.
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Vermont Supreme Court
Massive Hunt Seeks Medgar Evers Murderer
Jackson Mississippi police and federal agents led a sweeping manhunt for Medgar Evers killer as tensions rose. Evers, NAACP field secretary, was gunned down in his driveway prompting calls for action and unity while Meredith and McDowell faced increased protection at Ole Miss.
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Jackson
Miss
Medgar W. Evers
M.B. Pierce
Evers
Mississippi
Oxford
University of Mississippi
James H. Meredith
Cleve McDowell
William R. Lynch
Meredith
Ole Miss
NAACP
A. Charles Jones
Campbell College
Jackson State Negro College
Cecil Hathaway
Vermont Senate Opens Debate on General Fund Budget Bill
The Vermont Senate began debating the general fund budget bill with Sen. John H. Boylan explaining cuts from the appropriations committee. The House passed a $5.1 million highway bond issue and a health department measure advanced by the Public Health Committee. Senate debates include a school construction aid bill and an employment discrimination bill, while a state labor relations act was rejected amid anti union sentiment.
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John H. Boylan
Essex
Appropriations Committee
House
Highway Department
Public Health Committee
Senate
House Education Committee
Harvard Commencement Honors Kirsch with Doctorate
Inside pages note Paul Kirsch principal of Benci receives a Doctor of Education degree at Harvard commencement. Other items discuss civil rights momentum from Evers murder, backlash by Southern senators against a civil rights bill, a Danby quarry planned as a fallout shelter for 7000 people, and Foster’s view on a Senate test ban treaty.
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Benci
Paul Kirsch
Harvard
Cleopatra Debuts With Historic Broadway Fanfare
New York AP reports the $40 million epic Cleopatra premiered at the Rivoli Theater with a celebrity charity crowd. Rex Harrison Roddy McDowall Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton drew attention as critics split on the four hour epic.
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New York
Rivoli Theater
Rex
Caesar
Harrison and
Roddy
Octavius
McDowall
Helen Hayes
Eddie
Aibert
Paul Anka
Beatrice Lillie
Red Buttons
Joan Fontaine
Bosley Crowther
The
New York Times
Wanda Hale
New York Daily News
Joseph Mankiewicz
Judith Crist
New York Herald Tribune
Distressed Area Aid Still Urged
President Kennedy urged Congress to reconsider a $450 million distressed areas appropriation after the House rejected the legislation 209 to 204. He called the vote tragic and said hard‑hit communities in seven states Pennsylvania Michigan West Virginia eastern Kentucky upstate New York upstate Minnesota and Southern Illinois rely on the grant program. The measure would have authorized additional grants to aid jobless workers and depressed communities.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
Pennsylvania
Michigan
West Virginia
Kentucky
New York
Minnesota
Illinois
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Harold —. Barber
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Kenneth Fletcher
Bellows Falls
Calvin Chester Moffitt
George Edmunds
Edward F
Union
Tories
Macmillan
Profumo
Anthony Eden
Keith Joseph
Henry Brooke
Edward Boyle
Hoff
Brown
Alabama
Vivian Malone
University of Alabama At
Montpelier, Vt
Vermont Senate
Olin D. Gay
R - Windsor
George C. Morse
Caledonia
Sen
Charles L. Delaney
D - Chittenden
Mammouth Imperial
Danby
U.S. Disarmament
Foster
Cleopatra
Elizabeth Taylor
Cleo
Richard Burton
Antony
Ballyhoo
Justin Gilbert
New York Mirror
Miss Taylor
Rose Pelwick
New York Journal - American
William Glover
Associated Press
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