Fourth Union High School Vote Set for Feb. 2
Mt Anthony Union School Board sets February 2 as the earliest date for a bond vote on a proposed union high school in Bennington area. If approved construction could start by June 1965 with occupancy by September 1966, pending preliminary plan reviews and funding. Clergy members attend to show support for the project.
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Bennington
Mt. Anthony Union School
North Bennington
Thomas Greene
Architects Collaborative
Cambridge
Mass
Russell Holden
Ivor Pelsue
Holden
Highway Department
Viet Nam Operation Seen Dismal Failure
In the last 24 hours Communist guerrillas shot down three military aircraft, killing four and possibly six men. A U.S. helicopter crew was partly saved, with four crewmen uninjured in a later recovery. A U.S. Army observation plane was also downed after takeoff, with the pilot suffering a minor injury and returning to duty. American advisers blamed the failed heliborne operation on planned actions approved with cautions.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
U.S. Army
Tan Hiep
IRS reports erratic cigarette sales after surgeon general link
The IRS said September cigarette shipments reached 43.3 billion, down from August but up from September 1963. For the first three quarters, 369 billion cigarettes left factories, 16 billion fewer than the prior year. The surgeon general's report was issued in January.
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Washington
UPS
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Surgeon General
Hoff Meets On J and L Strike In Boston
Vermont Governor Hoff and troubleshooter Cree plan a meeting with Jones and Lamson officials Waterbury Farrel and Local 218 bargainers to settle a 50 day strike by 640 machinists. Wages divide the sides as the walkout hamstrings Springfield area economy and risks moving jobs out of Vermont.
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Boston
UPI
Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Jones and Lamson Precision Machine Co
Springfield
Hoff
Albert A. Cree
Jones and Lamson
Waterbury - Farrel
United Electrical, Radio and Machinists Workers of America
Hoff and Cree
Green Mountain State
Negro Leaders Protest Hoover FBI Attack on King
Negro leaders reacted strongly to FBI Director J Edger Hoover's verbal attack on Martin Luther King Jr A group of Negroes pressed President Johnson in a White House meeting Thursday to complain that FBI agents were politically biased and overstepping authority in the King case.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Martin Luther King Jr
Johnson
White House
Goldwater wins Mississippi with 85.2 percent
Barry Goldwater captured about 85.2 percent of Mississippi’s vote in the November 3 election, with 356,525 votes to 52,618 for Johnson among 409,146 total ballots. The secretary of state called the 1964 tally a record, noting 297,000 votes in 1960. The piece also covers NAACP reactions and civil rights clashes tied to FBI actions and statements by King and Hoover.
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Jackson
Miss
UPI
Mississippi
Barry Goldwater
Secretary of State’s
Goldwater
Johnson
McNamara Rejects Pressure to Undo Base Closures
Defense Secretary McNamara announced 80 of 95 bases would be closed or cut back, eliminating about 63,400 jobs. He vowed to resist political pressure while noting overseas bases would be named later. key closures include Brooklyn Navy Yard and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He cited waste reduction and expected $477 million in savings, with SAC bases among those affected.
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Washington
UPI
Robert S. McNamara
Johnson
McNamara
Brooklyn
N. Y. Navy Yard
Portsmouth
N. H., Naval Shipyard
Springfield, Mass
Strategic Air Command
California
Kennedy
Texas
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Russell
Department of Defense
Air Force
Brooklyn Navy Yard
SAC
Dow Air Base
Maine
Glasgow Air Base
Mont
Amarillo Air Base
Tex
Larson Air Base
Wash
Schilling Air Base
Kaw
Lincoln Air Base
Neb
Kennedy Memorial Pictures By Mark Shaw To Be Published
A double page pictorial memorial of the late President John F Kennedy and his family will appear in The Banner on Saturday. The photographs are by Mark Shaw, a friend of the Kennedy family.
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John F. Kennedy
Mark Shaw
Kennedy
Arlington Eagle Inside New Towns and Bank Plans
Inside Arlington Eagle reports on Manchester highway proposals and a new bank approval. Sam Ogden suggests a Lake Champlain excursion steamer in a column, exploring regional transportation ideas.
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Sam Ogden
Lake Champlain
Thant mulls Communist observers at United Nations
Secretary General Thant proposed granting observer status to non mem ber Communist states at the UN, possibly including Red China. He argued exposure to UN deliberations could outweigh political objections, noting several nations already hold observer status and that U.S. immigration rules would govern any accreditation.
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United Nations, N.Y
UPI
Thant
Red China
United Nations
General Assembly
Congo
Cyprus
West Germany
Vatican
South Korea
Monaco
Switzerland
South Viet Nam
East Germany
North Korea
North Viet Nam
China
Peking
New York
World Organization
Assembly
U.N
United States
Soviets Bid For U S Trade Expansion Through Lend Lease Plan
In Moscow a Soviet offer to make a token payment on Russia's 10 billion lend-lease debt appears tied to a push for greater trade with the United States. Premier Kosygin says a small payment could be justified to the Soviet people as U S firms need credits. The talks follow U S hints to settle lend-lease debts, with a top Soviet offer of 300 million and no provision for the more than 100 ships already supplied.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
United States
U.S
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kosygin
Pope Won't Intervene in Liberty Vote at Vatican Council
The Vatican halted a bid to postpone religious liberty voting as the Ecumenical Council closed its third session. Conservatives won a major victory by overrules an American protest and postponing religious liberty to a future session. Other crucial documents were approved, including a section clearing Jews of deicide and a broad ecumenism measure.
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Vatican City
UPD
Pius VI
Ecumenical Council
Council
Jesus Christ
Pope Paul
Johnson urges hard reforms to fund Great Society
President Johnson called for hard hitting reforms across all government departments to finance the Great Society programs. He told cabinet members to seek eliminations of outdated measures and urged bold, imaginative changes while aiming to keep next year's federal budget under 100 billion dollars and total spending around 97.2 billion.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Great Society
Tive
Committee For Economic Development
CED
Vermont Missile Sites to be Closed in 1965
Plattsburgh Air Force Base officials say the Atlas F missile squadron will deactivate ten sites in New York and two in Vermont, at Swanton and Alburg. The Vermont bases will close by July 1965 under the defense economy drive. The two sites are manned 24 hours a day by combat crews from Plattsburgh, each crew of five. Loss of two Vermont jobs is reported.
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Plattsburgh, N.Y
UPI
Plattsburgh Air Force Base
New York
Vermont
Swanton
Alburg
Defense Department
Plattsburgh
Air Force Base
Lake Champlain
United Press International
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William Abernethy
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Melvin R. McGaughey
Walter Miller
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J&l
Hoover
Barry
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
King
Albany
Bahamas
South
Russell Committee
Pentagon
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Walter F. Carey
Baloney
Robert F. Kennedy
Portsmouth, N.H. Naval Shipyard
Kennedy Memorial Library
Eunice Shriver
Arlington Eagle
Manchester
New Bank For Manchester
Organization
Soviets
LBJ
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