Bennington Votes Next Tuesday On Unified Town Charter
Citizens Group For Better Government issued two statements listing the “great benefits” of municipal unification and the tax effects. The 14 signers include George H. Plumb and Dr. John G. Irons Jr. The group urged an affirmative vote next Tuesday, noting April 26 defeat. Polls run 10 am to 7 pm at North Bennington Firehouse and Bennington Elementary School.
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Bennington
Citizens Committee For Better Government
CCFBG
North Bennington Firehouse
George H. Plumb
H. G. Remington
Burton Potter
Clement P. Gilchrist
James Conroy
Andrew Wargo
Alfred F. Tor
Pello Responds to Charges of Ineptitude at Meeting
North Bennington Village Trustee Joseph Pello rejects a claim of a long history of political ineptitude in Bennington Village. He calls the remark by Bennington College faculty member Robert Woodworth unfair and poorly chosen. Pello notes he supports a healthy democracy and criticizes only Woodworths comment.
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Joseph Pello
North Bennington
Bennington Village
Robert Woodworth
Bennington College
Pello
Disaster at New York Harbor Claims Dozens Dead
Firefighters probe the burning Alva Cape after a collision with Texaco Massachusetts in Kill Van Kull. At least 20 seamen killed, 65 injured, 12 missing. 69 survivors with 41 hospitalized. Naphtha and oil fire swelled into a harbor inferno as tug Harriet Moran rescued the Texaco Massachusetts.
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Alma Cape
Texaco Massachusetts
New York Harbor
Bayonne
New York
UPI
Coast Guard
India
Kill van Kull
Staten Island
N.J
Alva Cape
Texaco
Buddhist protests flare as Ky regime crackdown escalates in Hue
In Saigon a 19 year old girl attempted self immolation at Vien Hoa Dao pagoda to protest Ky government. Buddhist unrest spreads with rioting, tear gas, and gunfire as Hue deploys 1000 troops to quell the revolt around the ancient fortress.
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Saigon
UPI
Vien Hoa Dao
Nguyen Cao Ky
Thich Tam Chau
Buddhist Institute
Hue
Thich Tri Quang
Chau
Thich Tink Khiet
Thich Don Hau
Tam Chau
Iet Nam
U.S
Housing Authority Plans Low Income Elderly Housing Study
Bennington Regional Planning Commission met with the Bennington Housing Authority to discuss government financed housing for the elderly and low income families. The authority outlined steps including state and federal rule study, a survey of eligible residents, site selection, and architect hiring.
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Bennington Regional Planning Commission
Bennington Housing Authority
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Hamilton L. Shields
Bennington
Shields
Taylor Pleads for Calm In Unification Hassle
Arthur D. Taylor, chairman of the Unification Study Committee, urges calm amid controversy over Bennington unification. He says the study group’s work on water, sewer, services, taxes and local government should be judged on merits, not voting battles, and that differences can be resolved.
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Bennington
Arthur D. Taylor
Unification Study Committee
Taylor
State Department taunts Castro with May Day comment
The State Department issued a taunting statement saying Fidel Castro has not been in the foreground of events in Cuba since May 1 and that popular dissatisfaction is growing. It argued Castro’s removal of political control is hinted at, while the U.S. backed democratic revolution in line with the Alliance for Progress.
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Washington
UPD
State Department
Fidel Castro
Department
Cuba
Castro
United States
Alliance For Progress
Inside News Briefs Highlight Vermont Colleges and Local Education
An editorial at length discusses a proposal for two year community colleges in Vermont. The Arlington school board conducts a lengthy five hour session reviewing district matters. A separate arts note reviews Ivan Albright paintings on display in Manchester, offering critique and context.
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Vermont
Ivan Albright
Manchester
Arlington School Board
Service Observing Room Opened for News Tour
The New England Telephone Co invites Vermont reporters to inspect a locked room housing a small switchboard used by service analysts to monitor 700 to 800 long distance calls monthly and check quality of service. Public Service Board chair Ernest Gibson III and the board’s engineer joined a tour, marking an early step in a broader investigation of the practice.
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Vermont
Arthur W. Hughes
Public Service Board
Cairman
Ernest Gibson III
Hughes
Hoff
John Connarn
Connarn
PSB
William French
New England Telephone
Rutland
Montpelier
White River Junction
Rockefeller Dedicates Saratoga Arts Center in Rain
Gov Nelson Rockefeller dedicated the 4 million Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs with more than 1,000 spectators despite heavy rain. The governor noted the project as a milestone for New York culture, and his wife was unveiled as the new board chair. Open house Sunday will allow public tours of the 5,100-seat amphitheater and park grounds.
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Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Saratoga
Saratoga Spa State Park
Air Force readies Titan 3D for August multi launch
Air Force prepares another Titan 3D for a seven week launch window to duplicate an eight-in-one orbital test that placed seven relay stations and a research moonlet in 21 000 mile high orbits. The eight satellites, including a new control craft, worked well and will undergo full tests in about ten days as work begins on a second eight-in-one launch in August to add seven more satellites to the network linking Washington, Viet Nam, and global sites.
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Cape Kennedy
Aps
Air Force
Nications
New Jersey
California
Hawaii
Defense Department
Cape
Washington
Viet Nam
Titan
Canadian Rail Strike Averted
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson announced the settlement of a threatened strike by workers on Canadian railways. The agreement includes a 30 percent wage increase with 20 percent retroactive to January 1 and 10 percent to take effect next year, avoiding a shutdown of Great Lakes shipping.
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Ottawa
UPD
Lester B. Pearson
Great Lakes
Canada
Pearson
House of Commons
St. Lawrence Seaway
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers
Moon treaties clash as US and USSR back rival pacts
United States and the Soviet Union endorsed competing drafts at the United Nations to demilitarize space and guarantee freedom of exploration. Arthur Goldberg urged a July 12 meeting of the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to discuss his draft. Platon Morozov proposed a parallel treaty for the General Assembly in September. President Johnson had outlined a similar vision on May 7, with a May 30 letter from Andrei Gromyko echoing the same themes.
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United Nations
N. Y
UPI
United States
Soviet Union
U.N
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.N. Committee On the
Kurt Waildheim
Thant
General Assembly
Johnson
Andrei Gromyko
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Selectmen
N.Y. Harbor
Hugh Grennan
Harriet Moran
Port Arthur
Tex
Housing Authority
Commission
Robert Hagerman
North
Cummings
Hassle
State Dept
Burlington
UPT
The
New England Telephone Co
Rocky
Spa Performing Arts Center
Thcen
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
Philip H. Hoff
Earth
Russia
Platon D. Morozov
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