Snelling Rapped By Caracciola Over Vermont Highway Plan
Rep. Joseph Caracciola of Bennington county denounces GOP gubernatorial candidate Dick Snelling for calling the Bennington County four lane highway bond bill hastily planned. Caracciola defends years of pressure behind the project, notes traffic estimates and the need to balance paths with local impacts on villages and businesses.
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Joseph Caracciola
Bernington
House Highway Committee
Vermont
Richard 4
Snelling
Manchester
Bennington County
Caracciola
Bennington
Dick Snelling
King Urges Nonviolence Amid Philadelphia Clash
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pleaded for nonviolence as gunfire echoed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Negroes and whites clashed and a white man was wounded. He warned militants and said a news conference would decide if he and other leaders would return for further march actions.
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Yazoo City
Miss
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
Mississippi
King
Philadelphia
Freedom Democratic Party
Stanley Stewart
Ralph Featherstone
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
Featherstone
Unification defeated by decisive margin in Bennington vote
North Bennington voters rejected a proposed new town charter by a two to one margin 387 to 16 in the village, while other town voters shifted to defeat the charter 1,249 to 768. Absentee ballots favored yes by 51 to 67, producing about a 33 turnout on the question.
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North Bennington
North Village
Bennington League of Women Voters
Bennington
Punished Pilots Threatened in Hanoi Broadcast
North Viet Nam broadcasts claim captured American pilots were taken before angry mobs and threatened with punishment for war crimes. Radio Hanoi cites the North Vietnamese news agency, noting Catholic groups also appeal for punishment. The reports mark multiple days of appeals amid ongoing concerns over captured airmen.
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North
Viet Nam
Cuban athletes seek asylum after mass escape in Puerto Rico
A bus driver reports at least seven Cuban athletes jumped from his vehicle during a drive from a training camp to the docks in San Juan and asked a police officer for help seeking political asylum in the United States. The driver identified as Reinaldo Felicia- continues the account.
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U.S
San Juan
P.R
UPI
Reinaldo Felicia
Isla Grande
Feliciano
Olympic Village
Marina Samuels
Hector Rodriguez Cardoso
Francisco Marti Gonzalez
Juan P. Vega
Cerro Pelado
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Welfare centralization proposed by Vermont committee
The Legislative Council Social Welfare Study Committee voted to centralize all welfare services at the state level, eliminating town departments. They urged adding 24 social workers in 12 districts, funded by a forecasted rise of federal funds, with local town approval for a new town service officer. If approved, the plan could reach the 1967 Vermont legislature.
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Board of Selectment
Vermont
Legislative Council
New York Sets Doctors Fees For Medicaid
Albany announces a uniform statewide fee schedule for Medicaid care using the Relative Value Scale, agreed with the New York State Medical Society. The move may shift decisions to county societies and physicians on full participation, likely prompting protests from doctors.
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Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
New York State Medical Society
Council of the State Medical Society
New York
Poverty Group Votes Two New Programs in Bennington Rutland
The Bennington Rutland Opportunity Council voted to sponsor a Neighborhood Youth Corps for out of school youths in the Bennington Rutland area and to pursue federal funds. A pilot Foster Grandparents Plan will be launched at Brandon State Training School with federal and state support. The two programs total about 91 thousand dollars with most funded by the federal government. the Youth Corps will employ 24 youths earning 1.25 dollars per hour.
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Manchester
Bennington - Rutland
Opportunity Council
Bennington-Rutland
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Bennington
John S. Coombs
Labor Department
Council
Vermont Department of Employment Security
Coombs
Vermont
Brandon
Administration On the
Washington
Philip H. Hoff
James Finneran
Council On the
Hoff
Burlington
Inside Manchester Select Men Tighten the Purse Strings
Hoosick Falls students win awards and a post mortem on Unification feature in page 4 with editorial insights.
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Manchester
Hoosick Falls
Bennington Voters Extend Tax Bills Date to Sep 1
A small group of Bennington voters approved extending the tax bill mailing date from Aug 1 to Sep 1 at a special meeting, while tabling another article. The Oct 31 payment deadline remained without penalty. The extension supports the Grievance Day timetable linked to 1966 property reappraisals.
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Bennington
Norton Barber
Barber
De Gaulle seeks Soviet support for joint Viet peace effort
In Moscow De Gaulle meets Premier Kosygin and Brezhnev seeking Soviet backing for a future Vietnam peace conference. The French leader, with Mauvaise de Murville and aides, notes no immediate conference but urges no preconditions while warning Vietnam could risk wider war. Talks center on expanding Soviet French relations and reducing U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
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de Gaulle
Moscow
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Maurice Couve de Murville
Alexei Kosygin
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
St. Catherine’s
Kremlin
U.S.S.R
France
Viet Nam
Moscow University
Lenin Hills
Russia
United States
Southeast Asia
Peking
Hanoi
Alexei N. Kosygin
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