Parsons Fights School Aid Based on Property Values
Rep Samuel A Parsons R Hubbardton protested the Simpson education aid bill arguing against basing state aid on property values. He urged using income as the true measure and warned the bill would create a monster in the Tax Department as debate opened on the measure in Montpelier.
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Parsons
Tax Department
Richard H. Schmidt
Burlington
Appropriations Committee
Schmidt
Education Committee
Hebard
Bond Election Sought for Mt Anthony Union High School
Voters in the Mt Anthony Union School District vote today from noon to 8 p.m. on a 1.65 million bond to fund a new high school for grades 9-12 serving six member districts. Polling sites include Bennington, North Bennington, Shaftsbury, Pownal, and Woodford.
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Mt. Anthony Union
Bennington
Greater Bennington
Molly Stark
North Bennington
North Bennington High School
Shaftsbury
Cole Hall
Pownal
Union District
Parents Lose Bus Protests in Missouri Legislative Battle
Parochial school parents seeking public bus service failed to move a bill in Missouri. A pro test movement leader signaled retreat as hundreds of Catholic children remain enrolled in public schools next fall. The measure to extend transport to private pupils died in a House committee.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Birmingham Jails Full and Protests Grow
In Birmingham Alabama jails are crowded with African Americans as desegregation demonstrators surge. King vows more protests. about 2,400 arrested since Thursday, 1,000 during Monday march, including Dick Gregory. Police report 1,300 prisoners in city jail and 1,150 in county jail with hundreds more at the State Fair Grounds.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King
Dick Gregory
Birmingham
James Bevel
Cleveland
Miss
Gregory
Wyatt Tee Walker
Walker
Inadequate Property Development Sparks Water Debate
Proposals for 25 to 50 homes off Rudder and Harbour Roads and 93 acres for a trailer court and homes near Hathaway Hill in Brooklyn District faced water supply concerns. Fred Harwood and Fred Baker Jr. outlined plans to extend two roads and add trailer sites, with Harwood citing up to 50 houses in a few years. Water officials questioned the system’s capacity, saying no new water has been added since 1912 except Morgan Springs for emergencies, and allowed only limited units. Water Supt Emory Wheeler noted possible minimal extensions but warned against overloading the system.
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Rudder and
Harbour Roads
Hathaway
Ford St
John Cook
Brooklyn
Baker
Morgan Springs
Water Department
Emory Wheeler
Horst
Water Board
Navy Chief George Anderson to be Replaced by McDonald
President Kennedy announced Adm. George W. Anderson will leave the post of chief of naval operations on Aug. 1 and be succeeded by Adm. David L. McDonald. The reshuffle follows Anderson’s strong opposition to the Pentagon’s TFX fighter plans and signals broader tensions over the aircraft program.
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Adm. McDonald
Washington
George W. Anderson
Pentagon
Naval Operations
Kennedy
Anderson
CNO
Adm
David L. McDonald
Haitian Crisis Shifts to Diplomatic Front
In Washington the Haiti dispute stalls with no quick moves expected from Duvalier. The State Department urges all U S citizens to leave Haiti. The UN Security Council weighs responses as the Dominican border tension rises and OAS debates urge nonuse of force.
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Ungeat
Francois Duvalier
State Department
U.S
Haiti
Roger Seydoux
France
U.N. Security Council
Dominican Republic
Gonzalo Facio
Costa Rica
Organization of American States
U.N
OAS
Facio
United Nations
Security Council
United States
Caribbean
Bennington High Meets St Josephs In Baseball At Alumni Field
Bennington High School faces St Josephs of North Adams in a baseball game at Alumni Field at 4 p.m. today marking a local sports matchup.
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Bennington High School
St. Joseph’s of
North Adams
Alumni Field
Port au Prince Under Duvalier Fear and Despair Grow
AP dispatch from Port au Prince describes a city gripped by fear under Duvalier's rule. Citizens fear torture, murder, and a brutal secret police force, while illiteracy and poverty plague Haitians as the tyrant tightens control and brutalizes opponents.
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Port AU Prince
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Tonton Macoute
Clement Barbot
Haiti
Faulkner Wins 1963 Pulitzer Fiction Award Amid Drama Jury Resignations
The Reivers by William Faulkner wins fiction prize posthumously as no drama award is given, sparking resignations by two drama jurors John Mason Brown and John Gassner who opposed withholding the honor from Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
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New York
South
William Faulkner
John Mason Brown
John Gassner
Yale University
Brown
Gassner
Edward Albee
Virginia Woolf
New England
Chicago Daily News
Telstar 2 launches as space通信 network advances
A Delta rocket launched Telstar 2 from Cape Canaveral at 6 38 am delivering the 175 pound satellite into a looping Earth orbit. Officials reported successful ignition of the second and third stages and the satellite began its four hour orbit cycle while Antigua tracking stations confirmed signals. Telstar 2 aims to extend transatlantic TV radio and data links expanding deployment toward a global space communications system. An Andover Maine experiment planned a four minute video relay to Britain France with U S and European ground stations preparing further tests. Vermont unemployment dips to 6 9 percent with 5136 claims in week ending April 27 and 557 extended benefits.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
West Indies
Antigua
Globe
United States
Europe
Japan
Andover
Maine
Britain
France
U.S
Astro
Two Soldiers Defect to Reds in East Germany
Communist East Germany says a U S Army captain and a sergeant have appealed for political asylum. The captain crossed into East Germany and the sergeant is missing from his unit. The captain, Alfred Svenson, 30, from Scranton Pennsylvania, was with a tank battalion at Giessen. Sgt Benjamin Cain, 35, of Frederica Delaware, was in West Berlin.
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Berlin
East Germany
Lithuania
United States
ADN
Alfred Swenson
Scranton
Benjamin Cain
Frederica
Del
Svenson
Giessen
West and
Cain
West Berlin
Youth Suffered Leg Wound In Accidental Shooting
A 15 year old boy named Tommy Holland, son of Mrs Gladys Holland of North Branch Street, reportedly shot his leg with a .22 caliber pistol while playing near his home. He was taken to Putnam Memorial Hospital by a nearby Town Highway Department worker. details on injuries were not available at press time.
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Tommy Holland
Gladys Holland
North Branch Street
Putnam Memorial Hospital
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