Viet Nam War Boosts Vermont National Guard Applicants
Vermont Army National Guard sees high enlistment as U S involvement in Vietnam grows. Major Gen. F W Billado says active army buildup drives recruitment, with guard units expanding. The 131st and 45th Engineer companies target 294 total members under a new recruit-training approach.
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45Th Engineer
National Guard
Viet Nam
National
Adjutant General
Guard
Billado
Peace Corps Test Set For Brattleboro Nov 13
Bennington area residents are invited to take the Peace Corps placement test at 9 a m on Saturday November 13 at the Brattleboro Post Office building. The one and a half hour test screens general aptitude and language learning potential with no preparation required. The test itself is not pass/fail. the application form, obtainable at local post offices or Peace Corps headquarters, is the key factor in volunteer selections.
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Bennington
Peace Corps
Brattleboro
Washington, D.C
Protest Peace Prophet or Martyr Morrison Die-in
Norman R. Morrison, a 31 year old Baltimore Quaker, burned himself to death in front of the Pentagon in a dramatic protest against war. Friends and family view it as a witness to pacifism while a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist calls it self destructive violence contrary to Quaker teachings.
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Washington
UPI
Norman R. Morrison
Baltimore
Pentagon
Viet Nam
United States
Howard P. Rome
Mayo Clinic
Department of Psychiatry
American Psychiatric Association
Morrison
Rome
White House
Aiken questions Farm Bureau resolutions at Vermont event
Sen George Aiken R Vermont criticized several Farm Bureau resolutions at the 50th annual convention in Barre urging patience with past policies and focus on future trends He praised the U S surplus food program while many resolutions favored keep Taft Hartley rights farm labor minimum wage exemptions and local taxes and opposed Hoff proposals final day of convention
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Aiken
Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Rutland
Grand Isle County
Vermont Supreme Court to hear anti reapportionment petitions
The Vermont Supreme Court will hold a preliminary hearing next week on two petitions to halt reapportionment of the state's legislature. Former Rep. W. Clark Hutchinson and Edward F. Smith filed the appeals, represented by Roger MacBride. Appeals were denied in Chancery Court.
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Montpelier
UPD
W. Clark Hutchinson
Rochester
Edward F. Smith
Highgate
Roger MacBride
Halifax
Chancery Court
Smith
Gov. Hoff
Brattleboro
Hutchinson
Whooping Cranes Back For Winter
The Interior Department says 24 whooping cranes have reached Aransas National Wildlife Refuge for wintering, including 19 adults and five young. Some birds paused at Quivira Refuge in Kansas but disappeared before Monday’s census. The 42 birds remain the world’s last wild flock, which left Aransas last spring for nesting in Canada.
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Washington
UPI
Interior Department
Aransas
National Wildlife Refuge
Texas Gulf Coast
Quivira
Kansas
Canada
Dutch Princess To Be Married In Amsterdam
The government announced Crown Princess Beatrix will wed former German Wehrmacht soldier Claus von Amsberg in Amsterdam. The decision provokes sharp criticism from Amsterdam, once the center of Holland’s Jewish population. A municipal council majority signals possible noncooperation in wedding preparations. The date awaits approval from the lower house, which is expected to pass.
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the Hague
UPD
Beatrix
Claus von Amsberg
Amsterdam
Holland
Russia plans cosmonaut flights to planets says U.S. official
Dr. Charles S. Sheldon II of the National Space Council said Russia is planning to follow moon landings with manned flights to the planets. He noted the United States has not yet made a national decision to send men to Mars Venus or Jupiter while both nations push lunar goals this decade.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Space Authority
Charles S. Sheldon II
National Aeronautics and Space Council
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sheldon
Space Council
Johnson
U.S
United States
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
Russia
Dartmouth Team Finds Oldest Known Animal Fossils
Dartmouth College geologists led by Professor Andrew H. McNair report fossils at least 720 million years old from the Canadian Arctic. The discovery pushes back animal life by about 120 million years and may illuminate early life evolution, including brachiopods, burrowing traces, and wormlike tubes. Members include Peter McNair, Charles Thayer of Springfield Vermont, and John Van Hazeinga of Hillsboro New Hampshire.
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Hanover
N.H
UPI
Dartmouth College
Canadian Arctic
Earth
Europe
Andrew H. McNair
McNair
Peter
Fresheman
St. Lawrence University
Dartmouth
Charles W. Thayer
Springfield
John P. van Hazeinga
Hillsboro
N,h
First Children At Morr Haven In Morrisville
The first family of four children now resides at the Ellis House within the Morr Haven Children's Village in Morrisville Vermont. A Weeks House will be built as the second home for homeless children funded by donors Mr and Mrs Clarence Weeks of Lyndonville. The village will drop International SOS affiliation to emphasize an American Vermont approach and continues plans for expansion.
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Morrisville
Ellis
Morr- Haven
SOS Children’s Villages
Vermont
Woman Reporter Killed Covering Vietnam War Near Chu Lai
Dickie Chapelle, a 47 year old National Observer reporter and veteran war correspondent, was killed when she stepped on a Communist land mine while with U S Marines near Chu Lai. She had covered conflicts from Algeria Cuba Laos and Kashmir and trained with U S Army Special Forces.
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Saigon
UPS
Dickie Chapelle
U.S
Chu Lai
Miss Chapelle
The
National Observer
RKO General Broadcasting Co
New York
William Giles
Fidel Castro
Laos
Kashmir
Hungary
U.S. Army
Overseas
Bromley Names Ski School Heads
Fred Pabst Jr owner of Bromley Mountain Ski Area announces Richard Ace Manley as director of Bromley s 30 member ski school and Lee Chabot as senior instructor Manley AP member of International Professional Ski Racer Association and USEASA certified since 1959 with prior roles at Bromley Sun Valley and Glen Ellen Chabot USEASA certified 1962 with ski patrol at Alpine Meadows Sugarbush Snow Trails Davos and Bromley
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Fred Pabst, Jr
Bromley Mountain
Richard
Ace) Manley
Bromley
Lee Chabot
Ace Manley
Useasa
Sun Valley
Glen Ellen
Alpine Meadows
New York
Sugarbush Valley
Sugarbush
Snow Trails
Ohio
Davos
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First National Stores
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vt
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