Petition Drives New Vote On Town Unification
A petition from the Bennington League of Women Voters seeks a new vote on municipal consolidation within 60 days, despite selectmen and the Unification Study Committee favoring delay. About 450 signers claim 5 percent of the town checklist. validity checks will precede any date setting. A April 26 vote to reject a town charter left consolidation unresolved, with officials noting other priorities such as a water supply bond issue for Woodford.
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Bennington
League
Clarence E. Howard
Frances Shoemaker
Unification Study Committee
Carmel Babcock
Woodford
Richard van Santvoord
Joseph Higgins
Babcock
Girl Unharmed After Farm Boy Fends Off Kidnapper
Peggy Ann Brodnick 17, rescued unharmed after seven days in captivity by William D Hollenbaugh 44. A 15-year-old neighbor, Larry Rubeck, shot the kidnapper through a window, killing him. Deputy sheriff Francis Sharpe wounded. FBI agent Anderson killed amid the pursuit. Peggy Ann then freed. the large manhunt in Pennsylvania ends.
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Shade Gap
UPI
Peggy Ann Brodnick
Larry Rubeck
Fort Littleton
William D. Hollenbaurgh
Hollenbaugh
Peggy Ann
FBI
Francis Sharpe
Rubeck
Two Reporters Beaten In New Watts Violence
In Watts Los Angeles two Newsweek reporters Karl Fleming and David Moberg were attacked by about 20 youths during looting after an orderly march of 500 people to a police station. Fleming suffered a fractured jaw and scalp injuries, Moberg a black eye. both received treatment and were released. Police said the looting was not linked to the earlier march. a third reporter was also involved in prior encounter.
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Los Angeles
UPI
News
Watts
Karl Fleming
Newsweek
David Moberg
Fleming
Oak Park Hospital
James Freeman Hospital
Inglewood
Moberg
77Th Street Division
Inside Manchester motel operators protest highway plans
Editorial notes lower power rates and columnist Elizabeth Dwyer argues why kids scorn the good old days, reflecting page 3 and page 4 content in a local newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Elizabeth Dwyer
Johnson urges unity over Viet calls at Chicago rally
President Johnson warned that failing to stop communist aggression in Vietnam could trigger a broader Asian war. He attacked his critics as nervous Nellies who would cut and run under fire, urging 7,000 Democrats in Chicago to put aside divisive talk and stand together for the nation's greatness.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Viet Nam
Chicago
Houston
Anti Government Troops Down American Plane at Da Nang
Anti government troops at the Tien Hoa Buddhist pagoda machine gunned an American observation plane tonight and cheered as it fell, with both the U S Army pilot and Marine observer rescued by helicopter and minor injuries reported. The Old Birddog craft crash landed on a dirt road near the beach across the Da Nang river. Vietnamese planes operated nearby as the incident unfolded amid press coverage of Johnsons Chicago speech urging unity on Viet Nam policy. The president cited 1,705 U.S. deaths this year and urged Americans to unite above politics to defend policy and resist aggression.
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DA Nang
API
Tien Hoa
New York Sets Hearings On Mediaid Law
Albany N Y Protests across the state prompt lawmakers and the State Board of Social Welfare to convene joint public hearings on the medical aid law that took effect April 30. The program targets needy persons of all ages with low income and could reach up to eight million eligible individuals. Associated Industries of New York State urges lawmakers to review and revise the program.
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Albany
N.Y
State Board of Social Welfare
Associated Industries
New York State
Court Orders Sanity Trial For Ruby
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied a bid to retry Jack Ruby over Judge Joe Brown's alleged bias. It ordered District Judge Louis Holland to conduct a sanity hearing to decide if Ruby is sane since his conviction for the Oswald murder.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jack Ruby
Joe B. Brown
Dist
Louis Holland
Dallas
Brown
Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Court of Appeals
Agena Failure Blamed on Booster Engine in Gemini 9 Flight
Officials investigate the Atlas booster malfunction that caused Gemini 9 to be scrubbed. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan return to training as a replacement ATDA target is prepared. The probe to determine the cause could take weeks and delay the next space rendezvous.
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Agena
Cape Kennedy
UPI
Thomas Stafford
Eugene Cernan
Stafford
Cernan
Gemini Flight Safety Review Board
Atlas
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
Earth
Space Agency
Gemini
ATDA
Manned Spaceflight Center
Houston
Agonizing Reappraisal For U S Gemini Space Program
The Gemini program faces a costly setback after an Atlas-Agena failure sinks a $13 million booster and delays Gemini 9. With two Agena losses and a stranded ATDA stock, NASA may push the project into 1967. Stafford and Cernan brace for renewed testing and planning amid mounting schedule pressure.
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New York City
Arthur D. Taylor
Bernard Malamud
Bennington College
Buckler
McConnellsburg
Russell McLucas
Fulton County
Sharpe
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Tuscarora Range
Agent Anderson
New
Gem Liquor
San Pedro St
LBJ
U.S
Asia
Bruce Fuller
Ned Quist
Rutland
Steven Rice
New York
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