Merrill Seeks One Million For Outdoor Projects
Merrill outlines plans for 1 million dollars in Vermont Forests and Parks outdoor recreation projects to be presented to the Inter Agency Committee on Natural Resources. A separate request seeks 50 thousand for stream development by Fish and Game. Also, Emergency Board members criticize public release of figures and table three positions funded by development bonds, noting temporary law limits.
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Montpelier
UPD
Perry Merrill
Forests and Parks Department
Inter-agency Committee On Natural Resources
Fish and Game Department
Macomber
Vermont
Richard Mallary
Emergency Board
Mallory
Inter-Agency
Administration Department
Mallary
Byron Hathorn
Hartford
Cuban Refugees Reach Key West In Large Arrival
The Coast Guard cutter McCullough brought nearly 300 Cuban refugees to Key West, the largest group yet in 31 days of freedom flights. Six boats with crews braved 8 foot seas and 25 knot winds, one survivor recounting a 20 hour nightmare aboard a 30 foot craft named Picnic.
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Key West
Fla
UPI
Coast Guard
McCulloch
Cuba
Florida Straits
Coast Guard Sea Force
Boston
Camarioca
James Swint
Reliance
Corpus Christi
Texas
Afro-Asian summit postponed amid Chinese opposition
The Afro-Asian conference was indefinitely delayed after Communist Chinese opposition thwarted plans to open Friday. Foreign ministers from 45 nations announced the postponement after three days of behind the scenes talks, with a resolution saying the summit should be held later in Algiers. A 15 nation standing committee was revived to prepare if it ever takes place.
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Algiers
API
Salvador P. Lopez
Jakarta
Early Snow Signals An Unseasonably Early Winter Arrival
Two inches of white fluffy snow lay on the ground this morning as area residents noted winter arrived early this year. The sight contrasts with last year when the first snowfall did not occur in Burlington until December 3, about a month later.
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Beech Street
Bennington
Hagerman
2.5 Million Votes Forecast In Vote for N.Y.C. Mayor
New York City voters go to the polls to choose a mayor in a close race between Democratic Controller Abraham Beame and Republican Liberal John Lindsay. A heavy turnout around 2.5 million is anticipated, with Buckley as a potential swing factor.
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N.Y.C
New York
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York City
Abraham D. Beame
Rep
John V. Lindsay
William F. Buckley
LaGuardia
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
U.S
Kennth B. Keating
Owen McGivern
New Jersey
Richard J. Hughes
Wayne Dumont Jr
Virginia
Mills E. Goodwin
Harry F. Byrd
A. Linwood Holton Jr
Earliest first snow in 13 years noted in Bennington
U S Weather Observer Paul Bohne reports last night's snow as the earliest in 13 years. Previous early snows in the area fell on Nov 7 1953 and other November dates. Local observers in downtown Bennington cite Oct 24 1962 as the previous record. Fred Grant and Charles Sausville maintain the first snowfall record begun in 1930 by William Puffer.
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U.S
Paul W. Bohne
Harwood Hill
Bennington Village
Fred Grant
Charles Sausville
Adams Hardware Co
William Puffer
Close Fighting Marks Bitter Viet Battle
U S Army 1st Cavalry Division troops killed an estimated 137 Communists in two close battles near Plei Me and northwest of the outpost. Major combat involved hand to hand fighting with North Vietnamese Army units, as 80 bodies were later counted and 57 believed survived.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S. Army
Airmobile
1St Cavalry Division
Plei Me
U.S
1St Cavalry
Pan
North Viet Nam
Klan Members Testify On Booby Trap Tactics
Witnesses William Anderson and William Crowe from Decatur Ga testified at the House Un-American Activities hearings on the Ku Klux Klan. Both refused to answer questions about the bedsheet band, invoking the Fifth Amendment repeatedly. An investigator described them as instructors at a Klan underground school on Klansman's Hill near Macon Ga in October 1961.
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Washington
UPD
Edwin E. Willis
D-La
William Anderson
Decatur
House Committee On UN- American Activites
Anderson
William Crowe
Crowe
Macon, Ga
Death Valley Truck Passing Lane Planned on U S 7
Arlington officials heard from Richard J. Nicholls and Ivor Pelsue that a truck passing lane will be built on U S 7 in Death Valley this spring. A third travel lane will be added to the southbound side for a six tenths of a mile stretch at an estimated cost of 65 thousand dollars. The name Death Valley reflects years of fatal and nonfatal crashes prompting safety spending based on accident tallies over a five year period.
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Arlington
Richard J. Nicholls
State Highway Department
Ivor (Tink) Pelsue
Arlington Planning Commission
U.S. 7
Death Valley
Nicholls
Vergennes Couple Killed in Crash
A Vergennes man and wife, Benjamin H. Curler 74 and Marion Curler 60, were killed when their car collided with a trailer truck on Route 7 south of Middlebury. Police reported the names and ages of the deceased.
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Middlebury
UPI
Here
Benjamin H. Curler
Marion
Vergennes
Inside Page Blizzards and Eagles Across City Pages
In his final column Charles John Stevenson recalls the blizzard of 1888 on page 4. 4-H Club agent Jim Edgerton outlines a hunter countdown on page 5. A Sunderland boy earns an Eagle on page 6. Cambridge launches an improved street lighting program on page 6.
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Charles John Stevenson
Jim Edgerton
Cambridge
Administration Officials Discuss Disposal of Aluminum Stockpile
Washington officials meet to chart disposal of 1.4 million tons of aluminum stockpiled by the government. McNamara and other cabinet members discuss methods with industry reps, amid price moves and efforts to curb foreign outflow. About 500,000 tons could be sold by presidential order. 840,000 tons require congressional authorization.
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Administration
Washington
APS
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Commerce
John T. Connor
Johnson
Texas White House
New York Stock Exchange
White House
Joseph Califano
U.S
United States
Office of Emergency Planning
OEP
Congress
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Merrill
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Richard H. Macomber
Florida
Fidel Castro
Glooscap
Molly Stark
Corinne Hayden
Jamie Severy
Elvy Leake
Sandra Richard
Susan Long
Prandini
Bohne
U.S. Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Guam
Boi Loi Woods
North China Sea
Hanoi
Norman P. Huggins
Mullins
S.C
South Viet Nam
Klan
Sunderland
U.S. First Infantry Division
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