McNamara Eyes Long War Testimony on Weapons
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor ended two days of talks in Saigon with warnings that the anti Communist effort in South Vietnam may last five to ten years. They prepared to testify in Washington on airpower and equipment issues as U.S. pilots face questions over obsolete aircraft.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
UPD
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Maxwell D.taylor
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Honolulu
U.S
United States
Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Air Force
Eugene M. Zuckert
South
Viet Nam
Zuckert
Defense
Carl Vinson
D Ga
House
Armed Services Committee
House Armed Services
GOP
Leslie Arends
Ill
Charles E. Chamberlain
R-Mich
Ed Foreman
Rtex
John Tower
R-Tex
Race Track protests tax assessment of Green Mountain Park
Taconic Racing and Breeding Association Inc objects to the proposed $700,000 assessment on Green Mountain Park racetrack. Attorney Black and clerk Margaret Lillie filed the written objection during Grie-vance Day. The board of listers will prepare a corrected abstract before possible appeals to the town Board of Civil Authority.
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Pownal
Taconic Racing and Breeding Association Inc
Green Mountain Park Racetrack
Atty
Henry F. Black
Board of
Listers
Joseph J. Tornabene
Town Board of Civil Authority
Tornaebene
Board of Civil Authority
Black
Tornadene
Green Mountain Park
Tax Objections Highlight Highland Town Grievance Day
Local listers faced general objections to assessed values with Black noting the Green Mountain Park listing seems high. Grievance Day was quiet with about 10 to 15 property owners appearing. The racetrack taxes plus daily racing fees totaled half of town revenues, and adding track holdings lowered the tax rate by about $10 per $1,000 of value.
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Green Mountain Park
Black
Tornabene
Tangle Over Junkyard License In Bennington
Bennington selectmen and junkyard operator Fred Olin clashed over issuing his town junkyard license. Inspectors Joseph Higgins and Louis Sausville found fencing and material storage inadequate and urged compliance within hours. Olin accused officials of discrimination and claimed peers had already received licenses. April 1 remains the official licensing date.
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Lausville
Olin
Junkyards slated for state inspection amid license disputes
A list of junkyards to be checked and turned over to state police for inspection was discussed. Board Chairman Richard Van Santvoord said operators had altered practices to meet the law, while Selectmen's Agent Alma Langlois reported state police found Olin not entitled to a license on two occasions. Olin threatened to haul junk to the town landfill during a heated exchange. SELECTMEN Page 16, Col 6.
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Richard van Santvoord
Selectemen
Alma Langlois
Olin
Selectman
Joseph
Selectmen
Vermont official urges broad restructuring of state government
Atty. Robert E. Cummings Jr. told the Bennington Lions Club that Vermont needs major reforms in government. He cited 246 towns and cities plus 14 counties and 500 local units serving small populations, 33 state departments and 276 legislators, plus a payroll over 3,800 in the executive branch. He urged reapportionment, shorter sessions, interstate cooperation, and a four year governor term, calling for new boundaries of thought and attitudes.
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Vermont
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Bennington Lions Club
Cummings
Goldwater Urges GOP Unity Amid Madison Square Garden Rally
In a 45 minute address at Madison Square Garden, Barry Goldwater urged party unity and assailed the Johnson administration. He spoke before 18,000 supporters, with Javits and Keating absent and Rockefeller praised as delivering a moral West Virginia win. Rockefeller led WV primary with about 70 percent. Goldwater carried Nebraska’s presidential preference while Nixon ran a write-in, hailed as a Nixon surge by campaign managers.
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New York
UPD
Barry M. Goldwater
Johnson
Madison Square Garden
Jacob Javits
Kenneth Keating
Goldwater
White House
Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
West Virginia
Nebraska
Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nixon
Fred Seaton
Inside Out Town Meeting Winds Down
Editorial notes town meetings receding as a governing form. Reports on the Bennington Post Office project progress surface, signaling renewed activity and scrutiny of local infrastructure. A retrospective look at Maxfield Parrish art at the college frames a nostalgic exhibit. Hoosick Falls encounters cleanups as authorities investigate dead dogs mice and eye sores in the area.
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Maxfield Parrish
Republicans use Alabama land visit to challenge anti-poverty bill
Two Republican House members visited tenant farmers on Mrs. Johnson’s 2860 acre Alabama property near Billingsley to gather material for a critique of President Johnson’s 962 million anti-poverty program. The trip, tied to a newsmagazine story, involved photographs and interviews aimed at showing poor housing and income among tenants.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
White House
GOP
House Education and Labor Committee
Johnson
Alabama
Dave Martin
R-Neb
M.G. Snyder
House
Republican Congressional
Education and Labor Committee
Mrs
Brosio Elected NATO Secretary General As Talks Stall
The NATO Council elected Italian Ambassador Manlio Brosio as secretary general, succeeding Dirk Stikker who retires Aug. 1. U.S. and Britain failed to win France over to a nuclear weapons ban, with Paris insisting on maintaining its independent atomic force after last summer’s test ban treaty rejection.
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UPI
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Paris
Manlio Brosio
Alliance
Brosio
Dirk A. Stikker
Netherlands
United States
Britain
France
Dean Rusk
R. A. Butler
Maurice Couve de Murville
Couve de Murville
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Pentagon
Maryland National Guard
Cambridge
Pine Street
George C. Wallace
Bennington
Joseph Higgins
Louis Sausville
Polaris
Nathanael Greene
Piscataqua River
Portsmouth
N.H
Philip H. Hoff
Shaftsbury
Arlington
Manchester
Bennington County
Montpelier
Kingdom
Anthony Lee Cummings
W. Virginia
Bennington Post Office
Hoosick Falls
Lbj
Snyder
Martin
Billingsley
Ala
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