Bennington High Adopts Eight Period Day To Ease Crowding
Extreme overcrowding at Bennington High School forces a shift from seven to an eight period day starting next year. Most students will attend seven of eight periods with 42 minute classes and a noon lunch. Some students may start and end at different periods. new courses and more classrooms become available. The district also discusses five upcoming vacancies including a new high school principal to succeed Kirsch.
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Bennington High School
Paul E. Kirsch
Geoffrey Graham
Kirsch
Bennington
Ronald R. Knapp
Bendi
Allan J. Heath
James Conklin
Lucille Weichert
California Republican primary to feature Goldwater Rockefeller
California's June 2 primary pits Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller as the two major candidates. Lodge’s New Hampshire win closes the field to write-ins, making the contest a clear liberal versus conservative showdown with 86 California votes at stake. Rockefeller arrived in Sacramento and Goldwater planned a California swing after campaigning in Phoenix.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
New Hampshire
Barry Goldwater
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Goldwater
Phoenix
Ariz
Rockefeller
New England
Hoffa Sentenced to Eight Years and Fines in Jury Tampering Case
Teamsters President James R. Hoffa received eight years in prison and a $10,000 fine for attempting to tamper with a federal court jury. Three co defendants drew three year terms. all face appeals. Hoffa vowed to appeal and maintained his innocence while the judge condemned the tampering as corruption of justice.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
U.S
Hoffa
Wilson
International (Teamsters) Union
Bartimo Hopes Track Is Here To Stay
POWNAL AP General Manager Vincent Bartimo of Green Mountain Park says the race track will prove pari mutuel racing is here to stay in Vermont. Gov Hoff signed a relief bill lowering the state's take and raising the track share, aiming to boost a 1.1 million net contribution from 1963 and increase it in 1964.
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Bartimo
Hoff Names Shea To Welfare Board
George E. Shea of Shaftsbury was named to the Social Welfare Board replacing Chester Martell of South Hero who resigned. Shea chairs Governor Hoff's committee on Employment of the Handicapped and is the first Bennington County resident named to the board.
Inside the German exchange student contrasts Germany and the United States
A student in the Inside section compares his homeland with the USA as Shaftsbury church women discuss topics. Page 7 notes. Bennington College holds its first spring concert as Lisa Tate reviews it on Page 8. Harlow Shapley, renowned astronomer, is named second Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College on Page 9.
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U.S.A
Shaftsbury
Bennington College
Lisa Tate
Harlow Shapley
Rudyard Kipling
Marlboro College
Floods Sweep Through Mid-West
Louisville braces behind floodwall as Ohio River swells after heavy rains. Red Cross reports about 110000 people displaced across five states with steady crests predicted in Cincinnati and Louisville. Seven deaths in Ohio, one in Kentucky, damage in the millions, and Red Cross shelters housing over 12000 victims.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Red Cross
Cincinnati
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Indiana
Lewisville
Shepherdsville
National Guardsmen
10Th Street
Republicans Debate Lodge Return Or Exit Campaign
Capitol Hill Republicans urged Henry Cabot Lodge to return home and campaign or withdraw from the GOP presidential race after Lodge won New Hampshire’s write in primary while serving in South Vietnam. Senator Barry Goldwater and Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who campaigned there, finished second and third.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
New Hampshire
South Viet Nam
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Johnson
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Goldwater
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Smith
Leverett Saltonstall
Rmass
Saigon
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Senate Republican Policy Committee
U N Peace Force Near Goal as funding hits halfway mark
United Nations Secretary General Thant reached the halfway funding target for a Cyprus peace force. Britain and the United States pledged half the needed six million dollars for three months, with Britain warning it cannot bear the burden alone.
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United Nations, N. Y
U.N
Cyprus
U Thant
Britain
Mediterranean
United States
Nicosia
State Department
Agency For International Development
U.S
Security Council
West Germany
Thant
Austria
Brazil
Canada
Finland
Ireland
Sweden
Bonaventure
Halifax
Vermont Legislature OKs Education Aid Bill for $1.6 Million Rise
The Vermont Legislature sent the education aid bill to Governor Hoff for signature after a special session. It adds $1.6 million this year and adopts a new distribution formula to equalize funding among 246 towns while allowing towns cut off from aid 60 days to appeal. Senate vote 22 to 3 with some Democrats absent. House approval near unanimous.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Gov. Hoff
House
Senate
State Board of Education
George W. F. Cook
Rutland Ctr
Ellery Purdy
Rmendon
Burlington
Airmen Alive in Downed Soviet Border Mission
Three U S fliers shot down over East Germany are reported alive in a hospital in East Germany. The United States denies Soviet spying charges and says the RB66B bomber was on a routine training flight. Capt. David I. Holland Capt. Melvin J. Kessler and 1st Lt. Harold W. Welch are named.
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Frankfurt
Germany
East Germany
United States
Garedelegen
Soviet Union
David I. Holland
Holland, Minn
Melvin J. Kessler
Philadelphia
Harold W. Welch
Detroit
East Ger
U.S
Walter G. Stoessel
Moscow
North American Treaty Organization
Senate Finance Committee Votes Tax Windfall For Education Bill
The Senate Finance Committee approved applying a $1.6 million windfall from tax collections to the state aid to education bill. Gov. Hoff warned of a veto. the 5-1 vote included Sen. Hector T. Marcoux opposing. The move could delay adjournment of the current special session.
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Gov. Hoff
Franklin S. Billings Jr
Hector T. Marcoux
D - Chittenden
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Hoff
Shea
Welfare Board
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Defense
Robert McNamara
Commonwealth
Durcan Sandys
House of Commons
Sandys
Truman
Athens
Harry S. Truman
Thissian Temple
Acropolis
Paul
Greece
Lyndon Johnson
Henry Robinson
American Classical School
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