Vermont Consultant backs four percent sales tax proposal
A New Jersey consultant told the Vermont Legislative Council that a four per cent consumer sales tax is suitable to broaden the tax base and reduce property taxes. He outlined revenue projections, impacts on education funding, and potential effects on residents and visitors, including food taxability and border-hopping concerns.
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Richard Snelling
Miller
Philip Hoff
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Hoff backs Thanksgiving charity drives in Vermont
Gov. Philip H Hoff endorsed the Thanksgiving appeals of Protestant Share Our Substance Catholic Bishops Thanksgiving Clothing Collection and United Jewish Appeal. In his proclamation he said Vermonters enjoy God given rights and should share blessings with the world's hungry and needy through continued support of the season appeals.
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Hoff
The Banner Announces Thanksgiving Day Break
The Banner will not publish tomorrow as the issue takes a Thanksgiving break. Readers are advised to check the next publication for updates and continued local news, events, and notices.
North Viet Nam accuses U S of atrocities in villages
North Viet Nam protests alleged U S Army atrocities to the ICC via its state agency. The report describes civilians killed or harmed in Cam Huong Cam Hai Dien Phuoc and Dien Van villages, including old people, children, a man hanged, burning, napalm strikes, and many injuries.
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Tokyo
UPI
North Viet Nam
International Control Commission
United States Army
Cam Huong
Cam Hai
U.S
Dien Phuoc
Dien van
Shaftsbury Father and Son Die Under Wheels of VT Railway Train
State police probe a Sunderland accident that killed Robert S. Stratton 55 and his son Don H. Stratton 18 while deer hunting along the railroad right of way. Engineer Chester Marsh warned a hunter on tracks. rifles missing. bodies removed. See ACCIDENT Page 16, Col. 3.
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Shaftsbury
Sunderland
Vermont
Robert S. Stratton
Don H. Stratton
Robert Stratton Jr
Robert Jr
Pete Barton
Lonnie Hastings
Charlestown
N.H
Evelyn Wilkinson
Steven Clifford
Chester Marsh
Rutland
Bennington
Marsh
Clifford B. Harwood
Manchester
Harwood
Richard Woodruff
Donald H. Stratton
Robert
Robert Stratton
John Poljacik
Ringheiser
Arlington Votes Down School Expansion Plan
Arlington residents rejected a 340000 bond issue by 316 to 242, ending hopes to expand the two local schools. The school board chair expressed disappointment but signaled possible reintroduction with minor changes. A separate measure to authorize state building aid failed 279 to 271 with seven blanks, as board action was not imminent due to a director’s family emergency.
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Arlington
Walter Corey
State Board of Education
Corey
Charles Canfield
William Towne
Arlington Memorial High School
Fisher Elementary
Fisher School
Sandgate
Domestics And Wild Turkeys Reflect An All American Tale
A column ponders Thanksgiving as an American symbol, contrasting domestic turkeys with wild birds. It notes turkey breeding, modern production, and the learning process for poults, while recounting Vermont efforts to introduce wild turkeys and Twain's purported hunter tricks. The piece observes changes in turkey intelligence and flight, ending with reflections on the species' evolving role.
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Massachusetts
Virginia
Turkey
Mark Twain
Twain
Vermont
Worcester
New York Teachers Press $6,200 Starting Pay
Syracuse delegates to the State Teachers Association meeting overruled the board to seek a $6,200 starting pay for New York teachers starting in 1967. The board had proposed $6,000, noting many districts already exceed $5,200. About 1,000 teachers and administrators cheered the resolution at the conference closing.
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Syracuse
N.Y
New York
State Teachers Association
Association
Workers Battle Red Guards At Factory Entrance in Peking
In Peking a 15 hour clash erupted at a machine tool plant as Red Guard students tried to invade a workers compound. Armed workers blocked the entrance and threatened to shoot, leaving over 50 injured before officials called a truce.
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Peking
Tokyo
UPID
Red Guard
Mao Tsetung
Red
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Clifford
Hamilton
Cactus Jack
John Nance
Garner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Uvalde
Tex
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Yeh Chi-chuang
Yeh
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