Unification Trustees Oppose Immediate New Vote in Bennington
Bennington Village trustees urged against a new ballot on unification before next year’s village elections. dissenting were Joseph A. Pelle Jr and Frederick Tifft. They also opposed the proposed bypass route crossing East Main Street and the clover leaf exchange near Moose Club, urging eastward relocation. Pelle faulted the voice vote as premature and warned of delaying to March would waste time. The group cited last week’s $600 special meeting cost as a reason to oppose new balloting, while many trustees favored a fresh study of city government and left open the Unification Committee to decide Thursday night.
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Bennington Village
Joseph A. Pelle Jr
Frederick Tifft
Highway Department
Bennington
East Main Street
Moose Club
Pello
Unification Committee
N Y C Seeks Off Track Betting Referendum
Albany New York City again urged the Legislature to authorize off track betting on horse races and to place the issue on the November ballot. The Lindsay administration said legalized betting would raise money to meet urgent city fiscal needs. Legislators doubted passage this year given a statewide lottery referendum already pending.
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Albany
N.Y
New York City
Lindsay
Search Party Hunts For Missing Man
A state rescue party including auxiliary police Bennington Rescue Squad and Pownal firemen searched an area off the old Pownal Stamford county road for Edward T. Brownell 45 of Pownal missing since April 17 from Waterbury State Hospital. Brownell lived with a legal guardian before disappearing and was described as despondent and armed. Police believe he may have had an accident. his abandoned car was found near Ned Towslee property two miles from the Stamford Pownal Road.
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Pownal
Bennington
Stamford
Waterbury State Hospital
Powenal
Edward T. Brownell
Brownell
Ned Towslee
Stamford - Pownal
Mrs Wallace Wins Big in Alabama Democratic Primary
Mrs Wallace, 39, swept to a landslide in Alabama's Democratic gubernatorial primary, defeating Richmond Flowers and nine opponents with more than 333,000 votes to 101,000. The win positions Gov George Wallace to influence 1968 race and possibly a state-wide Wallace regime, while black voters broke color barriers in local nominations.
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Birmingham
Ala
George Wallace
Lurleen Wallace
Wallace
South
Wallace Dup
James D. Martin
Lurleen
Alabama
Alabama House of Representatives
Albert Brewer
Richmond Flowers
Wade Wins In Election For Lister
Wade is elected lister in Shaftsbury by a 25 vote margin at a special town meeting. Alfred Wade receives 140 votes to 115 for incumbent Jason Daniels, with GOP candidate David Mattison getting 91 and William Stufflebeam three write ins. Total turnout 349. The vacancy arose after Arthur Carman’s resignation and Daniels’ prior nomination to fill the post.
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Shaftsbury
Board of Listers
Alfred Wade
Lister
Jason Daniels
GOP
David Mattison
William Stufflebeam
Wade
Board of Selectmen
Daniels
Arthur Carman
March
John Murphy
Merton Snow
Roy G. Whitman
Edma
Brad) Riley
Pawlet plans new elementary school floor plan
Inside The Banner outlines a proposed $280,000 elementary school floor plan for Pawlet. Elizabeth Dwyer argues no union can match benefits for mothers. Top athletics awards are announced on Page 8.
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Pawlet
Elizabeth Dwyer
Red China Calls Soviet Leader a Liar Over Aid to Vietnam
In Tokyo a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman denounced Soviet Defense Minister Malinovsky as a liar and accused Moscow of using aid to North Viet Nam as a sham. Peking blasted U S policy and Dean Rusk while asserting China never hampered Soviet shipments to Vietnam and noting Soviet arms shipments to Cuba despite no common border with Cuba.
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Tokyo
UPI
Red China
Viet Nam
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
China
New China News Agency
Foreign Ministry
U.S
Dean Rusk
Community of Nations
Chen Yi
Peking
Hong Kong
Macao
Malinovsky
Hungary
Soviet Union
Democratic Republic of
Russia
Cuba
Hoff Snelling Trade Blows In Round One
Gov Philip Hoff faced Republican challenger Richard Snelling at a news conference with Snelling accusing Hoff of waging war on towns by withholding state town cooperation. Snelling, 39, urged a GOP policy of state leadership in planning and incentives to boost roads law enforcement town management water and welfare programs. Hoff dismissed Snelling as aiming for the GOP nomination and offered no comment.
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Snelling
Vermont
GOP
Philip Hoff
The
Republican
Hoff
American airmen killed on Laos missions
The Pentagon reports 11 U.S. airmen killed on Laotian reconnaissance missions over the past two years and lists fewer than 20 missing or captured. The shift in operations follows intensified attacks on men and supplies moving along the Ho Chi Minh trail into South Vietnam.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
U.S
Viet Nam
Plain of Jars
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
South Viet Nam
Katzenbach Urges Civil Rights Bill Support
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach urged Congress to pass Johnson civil rights legislation. He emphasized housing dis discrimination as the most controversial item and backed reforms to jury selection, protections against violence, and expanded DOJ authority to fight school segregation. The House subcommittee opened hearings with four part bill.
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Washington
UPI
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
Congress
Johnson
Katzenbach
House
Judiciary Committee
Justice Department
Marines Rout Viet Cong Force at Xuan Ngoc Village
U S Marines stormed a hilltop village near Da Nang driving back a much larger Viet Cong force, killing nine of the enemy and routing the rest. Across the area, Marines and allies supported by air and artillery eliminated dozens more in separate clashes.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Xuan Ngoc
da Nang
Tinh Yop
Viet Nam
Guam
Can Tho
U.S. Air Force
Navy
U.S. Special Services
Green Berets
Mekong
Detta
H.M.A.S
Sydney
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Ormal Pierce
Leo Nash
George Ryan
Tifft
Sugar Shack
Wilcox County
N.Y.C
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Flowers
Carl Elliott
John Patterson
James (Kissin
Jim) Folsom
Montgomery
Maryland
Indiana
Wisconsin
Soil
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Fred Gray
Wallace Page
Mrs. Lurleen Wallace
Red
Pamela Bushee
Philip Bushee
Joseph LoPiccolo
American Association of University Women
South Street
Educators Fund
Hamilton
Henry Cabot Lodge
Emanuel Celler
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