Bennington Votes Down Runway Extension and Funds Planning Unit
Bennington voters rejected a 185000 proposal to extend the airport runway by 1500 feet, denying a town share loan. They approved regional planning with the three villages, while nixing 500 for initial regional clerical costs. Budget measures for libraries and highway reserve funds passed, and a sewer-unification article was approved. Republicans swept town offices with multiple incumbents re elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Regional Commission
Bennington Free
North Bennington
Floyd M. Harmon
Lawrence F. Powers
Peter A. Donavan Jr
Eugene C. Burt
Joseph Carroll
Ellis Winslow
Alden Harbour
Thomas F. Maloney
Richard van Santvoord
James H. Cross
Norton Barber
Mary Hodeck
Michael J. Hogan Jr
Raymond P. Betit
Julia K. Nash
Armand Lampron
Shaftsbury Voters Defeat Town Manager Measure by Two Votes
Shaftsbury electors rejected a plan to empower a town manager by 285 to 283 with 52 abstentions as 620 of 1150 eligible voters cast ballots. Officials shuffled include Smith Beebe Snow Hoyt and Knapp re elected. residents rejected cemetery building funding and extra two year selectmen terms.
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Shaftsbury
Pauline Knapp
Bradford Smith
Bernard McCarthy
Roy Whitman
Earl Cross
Merton Snow Sr
George Shea
Frank Hoyt
Walter Ready
Wesley Bump
George Manuel
Winston Beebe
Richard Henderson
Merton Snow Jr
Arthur Jones
J. Edward White
Spencer Haynes
Floyd Holliday
John Millington Sr
Rudolph Elwell Jr
Arthur Carmen
Albert Mattison
Jean Henry
Leo Harrington
East Side
Paul Jepson
William Barber
Wesley Green
John Wood
Shaftsbury Health Service
Fire Department
Shaftsbury Kills
Inside the Vermont meeting probes progressive stance
Editorial questions what happened to progressive Vermont at last nights town meetings and warns backers of the union school proposal. Manchester rejects kindergarten plans, names Dr Clifford Harwood as school director and a county wide town meeting summary appears on pages 4 and 6.
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Woodford
Woodford Hollow
Resch
Vermont
Manchester
Planning Commission
Clifford Harwood
Floods Ease in Some Areas But New Disasters Threaten
Floods across Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania Indiana eased in spots but danger rises in others as rivers threaten new crests. Evacuations reached about 1 000 families in West Virginia Ohio and Pennsylvania with Athens Ohio cut off and Cincinnati near flood stage. Drying conditions offered slight relief amid continuing road closures and emergency aid from National Guard and Red Cross units.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
McMinville
Tennessee
National Guard
Red Cross
Alabama
Georgia
Birmingham
Ala
Bessemer
Cave Springs
Pennsylvania
Athens
Ohio University
Baltimore & Ohio
Warren County
Ohio River
Wheeling
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Huntington
W. Va
Ashland
Maysville
Kennedy Links Tax Cuts to Major Reforms
President Kennedy reaffirmed that tax reductions should accompany tax revisions and that Congress is expected to pass a bill combining both. He indicated he might accept a cut without offsets if necessary to secure a bill this year while stressing his preferred plan remains the one submitted to Congress. He urged action on youth opportunities mental health and medical profession staffing bills and noted four Cuban Bay of Pigs pilots died in service, flying in a voluntary capacity with details limited.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
A Sym
American Bankers Association
House
Central Intelligence Agency
Britons Question Bidault Entry and Exit in Britain
London reports show opposition Labour and some papers faulting the Conservative government and security services for letting former French premier Georges Bidault enter and depart Britain. Bidault appeared on BBC taped programs while authorities say he left the country. Labor plans a special meeting to seek a government account on how he slipped in found and left, amid wider criticism of security services tied to recent spy cases.
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London
Labor Party
Security Services
Georges Bidault
England
Bidault
France
BBC
Britain
Scotland Yard
Billy Graham Told To Take It Easy
In Honolulu AP reports evangelist Billy Graham was ordered by doctors to rest for a few weeks after hospitalization for an intestinal inflammation. Dr Richard K C Chang said he is not suffering from cancer and the condition entero colitis is responding to treatment.
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Honolulu
Billy Graham
Richard K. C. Chang
Graham
Defying De Gaulle France's Coal Miners Continue Their Strike
AP reports on day six of France's coal strike as 200,000 miners press for higher wages and a 40 hour week. Government offers 5.77 percent over a year while miners seek 11 percent. production halt spreads from Lorraine to northern mines near Belgium.
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France
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Gaullist
la Nation
Lorraine
Forbach
Gilbert Grandval
Powell Faces Budget Cut Test In House Vote
In Washington Rep. Adam Clayton Powell faces a tough House vote as critics attack his travel on official business and the costs of his Education and Labor Committee. A House Administration subcommittee cut the committee’s budget from 697000 to 200000 for 1963, rejecting Powell’s requested 202000 for an investigative task force. Rep. Phil Landrum called Powell’s request a patronage grab and said the budget was outrageously high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
House
New York Democrat
Education and Labor Committee
Powell
Phil Landrum
D-Ga
Landrum
Bennington Sewer Unification Faces Legal and Practical Hurdles
Bennington Village trustees resist ceding control as town voters approve unification with Old Bennington and North Bennington. Village counsel warns the ballot language is legally flawed and that conveyance to the town requires charter revision by the Vermont Legislature. Trustees insist they will shape terms and retain some equipment and oversight of maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Joseph A. Pello Jr
Bennington Village
Old Bennington
North Bennington
Pello
Levin
Village of Bennington
Vermont
Hilda Hurley
George Ryan
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Franklin Frantz
Searsburg
Charles Dearcopp
George Briggs
Frank Brown
Dearcopp
Associated Press
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