Unemployment Benefits Continue For Ben-Mont Workers
A Vermont official confirms 55 Ben-Mont workers laid off last December had benefits resumed for this week. Payments hinge on whether the stoppage was due to lack of work and not the Local 534 strike. Five non union workers seek claims. advisor James Gibney urges review of state rules.
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Vermont Department of Employment Security
Ben-Mont
Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union
Bennington
Milne
Vermont
Department
James B. Gibney
625
Main St
Gibney
Department of Employment Security
Ben-Mont Local Divides $10,000 Fund
Ben-Mont Local 534 trustees approve distributing about 10,000 dollars to 211 striking members of the gift-wrap industry dispute. President Lloyd Fleming says each member will receive a check as funds arrive. estimates of 32 to 47 dollars per person circulate. Contributions from related locals are pending, with one early check from Local 586 in Baltimore.
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Ben-Mont
Lloyd Fleming
Fleming
Ben-Mont Union
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America
Bennington
Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union
International Union
Baltimore
Peter Tufo
Northport
N.Y
Ben-Mont Management
U S to Join 13 Nations at Brussels Trade Fair
The United States and 13 other countries will participate in the 35th Brussels trade fair opening April 28 at Heysel Park.
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Brussels
Belgium
United States
Heysel Park
IRS raids hit gambling dens in twelve states
Federal agents from the Internal Revenue Service staged simultaneous raids on gambling establishments in at least 12 states. Special agents entered bookie joints and gaming centers at 2 30 p.m. EST. Dozens of people were arrested and charged with gambling tax violations in the seventh nationwide crackdown by IRS in two years.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Lost American airliner vanishes in western Pacific
Wide range searches fail to find any trace of a Flying Tiger Super Constellation carrying 107 people from California toward South Viet Nam. The missing plane may have gone down near Guam, with 93 Army personnel aboard plus 11 American crew and three South Vietnamese. Secretary of the Army Elvis J. Stahl Jr. said a maximum effort is under way. Names of New England servicemen aboard the missing transport include Sgt. Frank E. Pelkey of Farmington Maine Spec 4 Leonard J. Wedge of Millinocket Maine and Spec 4 Donald A. Sargent of Ossipee New Hampshire.
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Manila
Western Pacific
U.S
Pacific
California
Viet Nam
Richmond
Army
Elvis J. Stahl Jr
Washington
Guam
Philippines
U.S. Army
Titans 2 Rocket Soars on Maiden Test Flight
Cape Canaveral reports Titan 2, America’s largest war rocket, successfully flies over 5 000 miles on its first test. Powered by new liquid fuels, the 103-foot booster carries a nonnuclear nose cone with flight instruments and aims to deliver nuclear warheads worldwide, while enabling space missions including Gemini and Dyna-Soar windows.
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Cape Anaveral
Fla
America
U. S
Cape
South Atlantic Ocean
Defense Department
Hiroshima
Officials Blame Salt Poisoning
Albany AP report states six babies died at Binghamton General Hospital from salt poisoning. Health Commissioner Dr. Herman E. Hilleboe will urge the State Public Health Council to amend the sanitary code to prevent extraneous materials like salt entering nurseries. Investigators found salt in a sugar can in the infants formula room.
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Albany
N.Y
Binghamton General Hospital
Herman E. Hilleboe
State Public Health Council
Binghamton
Lane Construction Low Bidder for Vermont Route 91 Project
Lane Construction Co of Meriden Conn with a $1.2 million estimate appeared the low bidder for a Vermont Department of Highways Interstate project on Route 91 near Westminster Rockingham. The work includes building one three span and one single span composite wide flange beam bridge.
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Montpelier
Lane Construction Co
Meriden
Soviet claim of global rocket spurs Cold War wording
Washington AP reports Khrushchev claims Soviet breakthrough on a global rocket. In the same dispatch, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen orders a strike vote among major railroad workers as union leaders prepare to negotiate with management over new work rules tied to a presidential commission.
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Washington
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Brotherhood
Presidential Railroad Commission
Mrs Rockefeller’s divorce in ten minute Nevada hearing
In Reno Nevada Mrs Nel son A Rockefeller divorced from New York governor Nelson Rockefeller in a ten minute hearing on grounds of mental cruelty. She left for Philadelphia with her sons Steven and Rodman after the brief session. Witnesses noted her aging appearance during the closed hearing before District Judge Grant Bowen.
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Reno
Nev
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Philadelphia
Mary Rockefeller
Grant Bowen
Rockefeller
Steven
Rodman
Washoe County
William Woodburn
Soviet US clash over test ban at Geneva talks
The Soviet Union charged the United States with setting impossible terms for a global nuclear test ban as talks at Geneva proceed. Kennedy proposals remain on the table while the eight middle nations seek a joint appeal to defer tests during the conference. Khrushchev warned of a new global rocket to counter anti missile defenses. Canada and India push for focused talks among ministers and broad participation.
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Ion
United States
Kennedy
mid-Pacific
Khrushchev
Moscow
Soviet Union
Brazil
Burma
Ethiopia
India
Mexico
Nigeria
Sweden
United Arab Republic
V. K. Krishna Menon
Myko
Howard C. Green
Kennedy visits Banaras cremation and Ganges tour
Jacqueline Kennedy witnessed a Hindu cremation at Banaras and observed pilgrims and water buffalo bathing in the Ganges. Priests rang bells as sandalwood and flowers burned, while she rode a 40-foot launch for a six mile, 65 minute cruise. The visit capped a day of sightseeing ending in Udaipur with a large reception.
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Udaipur
India
Jacqueline Kennedy
Banaras
Ganges River
Heaven
Khrushchev Promotes Global Rocket Threat and New Sputnik
Khrushchev announced a new intercontinental rocket claimed invulnerable to antimissile defenses and able to strike the United States from any direction. He said the U S radar system across the North Pole could be bypassed and disclosed a new Sputnik unmanned satellite. He warned of more nuclear tests if Kennedy proceeds with atmospheric tests and urged Western acceptance of his disarmament stance.
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United States
North Pole
Tass
Khrushchev
Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
Kennedy
mid-Pacific
Berlin
Earth
Alexander Ushlinsky
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Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gro
Jackie
Main Street
John B. Harte
Fritz Dillmann
Manchester
Bennington Bookshop
Dragon's Shoe Store
Dragon’s Shoes
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Pleasant Street
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