Bennington Area School Directors Favor Merger Plan
After eight months of study Bennington Village and Rural school boards vote to recommend merging the two districts elementary schools. They will seek ratification from their boards and may face a June vote if a state merger act passes this spring.
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Bennington Village
Franklin A. Riley
Riley
Efort
Stewart E. Allen
Rural School
William F. D. Smith
Bennington
Harriet M. Davis
Greater Bennington
Smith
Allen
Eugene V. Clark
Benenington Town
George van Santvoord
Senate Approves Track Split in Vermont Budget Move
The Vermont Senate voted 20 to 9 to extend temporary financial aid to Green Mountain Park Race Track in Pownal. The plan involves a more liberal sharing of the total betting, though the opening day details remain unannounced.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont Senate
Green Mountain Park
Pownal
Burlington
Vermont
Ranger 9 Eyed for Moon Photos in Alpha Crater Approach
NASA announced Ranger 9 executed a mid course burn to alter its trajectory toward the Alphonsus crater for TV close-up lunar photographs. The burn occurred at 7:03 a.m. EST after a 5:54 a.m. command, with distance from Earth about 175,416 miles. If successful, the snaps could indicate feasibility of a later manned moon landing.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
America
Earth
Moon
Ranger
Ranger 9
Gemini 3 makes historic in-flight orbit shifts
United Press International reports astronauts Grissom and Young completed three orbits aboard the Molly Brown, performing a historic maneuver to shift their spacecraft's orbit in flight. The 7,000-pound Gemini 3 landed safely near the USS Intrepid after a near perfect mission, with NASA officials thrilled by the maneuver and mission control noting no major issues.
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United Press International
Cape Kennedy
Grissom
Young
Intrepid
Mission Control
Virgil S. Grissom
John W. Young
Earth
U.S
Moon
America
Schedle
Texas
Space Twins
Indian Ocean
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Molly Brown
Civil rights marchers continue third day toward Montgomery
About 300 demonstrators cloaked in ponchos trudge through rain on the third day of their Selma to Montgomery march. King leaves briefly for Cleveland and plans to rejoin, as the group travels 11 miles toward a farm near Birmingham while federal court orders require the five day event to end by Thursday.
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Selma
Montgomery
Ala
UPI
U.S. 80
U.S
Martin Luther King Jr. King
U.S. Highway 80
Cleveland
Ohio
Rosie Steele
Lowndesboro
Alabama
Brown
Chapel Ame
King
A.G. Gaston
Birmingham
George Wallace
Wallace
State Senate
Capitol
Inside Vermont Day Observed at Washington Cathedral
An Inside Vermont Day feature notes observance at the Washington Cathedral. Page 3 coverage highlights church activities and regional events shaping state culture and heritage.
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Vermont
Washington Cathedral
Space Kids Count As Dads Liftoff
In Seabrook Texas young Scott and Mark Grissom joined in the countdown as Virgil Gus Grissom and John Young launched aboard a Titan rocket from Cape Kennedy. The families watched on TV with Betty Grissom and Barbara Young displaying restrained joy while neighbors and fellow astronauts wives looked on.
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Molly Stark
John W. Young
Virgil I. Grissom
Buckler
Seabrook
Tex
Young Scott
Mark Grissom
Virgil
Gus) Grissom
John Young
Betty Grissom
Barbara Young
Mark
Cape Kennedy
Sandy
John
Vermon t schools to get 2.28 million from education bill
Federal funds totaling 2.28 million would flow to Vermont elementary and secondary schools if Congress passes the 1.5 billion education aid bill. Debate in the House is set for Wednesday as the Johnson Administration bill moves forward, with Chittenden County slated to receive about 210,000 for disadvantaged children and roughly 7,700 Vermont students classified as such.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
Congress
House
Chittenden
Regional school aid bill seeks 30 percent boost for regionalization
Senate introduces Hoff sponsored regionalization plan offering towns joining together up to a 30 percent increase in state education aid while non joining districts could lose some fixed aid. The bill creates a 13 member governor appointed advisory commission with $40,000 funding, and allows a comprehensive aid bill if a participating district majority approves.
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Robert Wilson
Bennington County
Harold Raynolds
Windsor County
Hoff
Fish and Game Board
Vermont
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Bennington South Supervisory Union
Leon E. Wagner
The
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Ranger Moon Trip
Clement Sharrow
Franklin
Sharrow
St. Albans
Highway Department
South Hero
Colchester
Rutland Railway
Parks and Forests
Berkshire
Brodie Mountain
Williamstown
Mass
Jim Kelly
Bermuda
Johnson
White House
Hubert H. Humphrey
Cape
Paul Haney
Cambridge Central School
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