Veterans Day Rites Honor War Dead and Veterans
Veterans Day ceremonies in Bennington marked by World War I veteran George Van Santvoord recounting armistice history and honor. wreaths laid by Gold Star Mothers, a Vermont National Guard salute, Taps, and participation by local schools, bands, and veterans groups. He noted wars follow 1918 victory and reminded that those who died never grow old.
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Bennington
George van Santvoord
Argonne Forest
Viet Nam
U.S
Woodrow Wilson
van Santvoord
86Th Eng. Co
Vermont National Guard
Bennington High School
Bennington Catholic
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Francis B. Flanagan
Bennington Catholic High School
Putnam Square
Main Street
South Street
Hagerman
Weather Delays Vietnam War Effort Amid Strikes and Floods
In Saigon a rice workers strike demanding a 40 percent wage rise disrupts the anti Communist war effort as twin typhoons and heavy monsoon rains devastate a 200 mile stretch of central South Vietnam leaving at least one million homeless. The High National Council criticizes the government while Prime Minister Tran Van Huong faces a cabinet showdown Friday.
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Saigon
UPI
Viet Nam
High National Council
South Viet Nam
Tran van Huong
Huong
Billings Again Seeks Vermont House Speakership
Vermont House Speaker candidate Franklin S. Billings Jr announces re election bid saying the next session will face historic reapportionment under Supreme Court rulings. He notes education and economic development as priorities and cites his record across legislative executive and judicial branches.
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Woodstock
Franklin S. Billings Jr
Vermont
House
Billings
U.S. Supreme Court
Senate
General Assembly
Walloomsac Pollution Protested by Biologist
Biologist J Frederick Wohnus of Bennington College urged selectmen to curb Walloomsac River pollution from Vermont Tissue Paper Co Inc He presented river samples and described visible fiber waste and sediment contamination He called for action by the Water Resources Board and consideration of filtration measures before returning process water to the stream
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Walloomsac River
Vermont Tissue Paper Co. Inc
Bennington
J. Frederick Wohnus
Bennington College
Wohnus
Selectmen
Richard van Santvoord
State Water Resources Board
WRB
van Santvoord
Philip H. Hoff
China and Soviet to Hold Sino Soviet Peace Talks in Peking
Moscow reports say Premier Chou En Lai and Leonid Brezhnev agreed to Sino Soviet peace talks in Peking early next year. The announcement followed a mood of limited progress after five days of top level talks in Moscow.
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UPI
Chou En- Lai
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Peking
Radio
Leonid Brezhnev
Chou
Mills signals early move on health care bill next year
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he is ready to bring up the administration's health care bill early in 1965 if President Johnson wants it that way. Backers hope for quick action in the 89th Congress as Johnson is believed to favor swift action. Mills has opposed a Social Security financed program, citing financial strain, but would confer with the President on timing. He spoke by telephone from Kensett, Ark., and is not expected back at the office until January.
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UPI
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
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Ways & Means Committee
Johnson
Congress
Mills
Arkansas Democrat
Kensett
Ark
Senate
J and L Hint Of Move In Vermont Strike
Springfield Vermont 42 day old strike by 640 machinists at Jones and Lamson may force a move of operations to outside plants. company president Holmes H Whitmore said backlog contracts will be made up elsewhere while urging workers to return to jobs for contract agreement.
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Jones and Lamson
Holmes H. Whitmore
Textron
United Electrical Workers Union
Whitmore
Versmont
Readsboro Lawmaker Seeks Hunter Feedback on Woods Closure
Readsboro lawmaker Rep. Kenalene J. Collins urges southern Vermont hunters to mail or telegram the governor’s office in Montpelier about closing the woods to deer hunting. Vermont deer season opens Saturday for 16 days, while woods south of U S 4 remain closed. President Hoff’s office said it would consider input. forest director Gottlieb reports heavy mail and calls from timberland owners and few from hunters.
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Readsboro
Kenalene J. Collins
Vermont
Montpelier
U.S. 4
Fair Haven
New York
White River
New Hampshire
Collins
Philip Hoff
Benjamin Collins
Albert W. Gottlieb
Rain-Makers Try Hand in Ending Persistent New England Drought
In New England a severe drought drives cities to seek rain via cloud seeding. Fitchburg hires a paid rain-maker, Dr. Wallace E. Howell, to seed clouds with silver iodide to induce rain. Massachusetts officials consider salt water desalination as drought relief while New Hampshire weighs hiring rain-makers amid scarce precipitation.
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Boston
UPI
Bone Dry
Fitchburg
Mass
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Fitchburg - Gardner-Leominster
Manchester Board pushes industrial arts programs
On the Inside feature notes the Manchester School Board’s ongoing push for industrial arts programs as a major agenda item. It also reports Mary Rogers Warren stepping down as head of the Manchester welfare agency. The pages cited include election day reflections by Elizabeth Dwyer and explanations by Guidance Director George Sleeman on the national defense student loan program, plus county agent John Page describing land posting practices.
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George Sleeman
National Defense
Mary Rogers Warren
Manchester Welfare Agency
Vandals Here Make Water Plight Worse
Alfred W. Ellett, chairman of the Bennington Water Commissioners, reports vandals have damaged two water mains amid a severe fall drought. A $500 reward offer remains, with prior vandal incidents tied to damage near Lake Hancock, the Mead Hole Bridge, and Roaring Branch.
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Alfred W. Ellett
Board of Water Commissioners
Water Department
Ellett
The
Water Board
Lake Hancock
Burgess Road
Walloomsac River
Mead Hole Bridge
Hunt Street
Roaring Branch
Safford Street
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