Unclear status of village fire police authority discussed
Bennington Village Trustees heard that the fire police have no specific authority as regular police. A traffic-clarifying amendment was recommended to define limits, with officers urged to wear identifying badges and warrants needed for arrests.
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Bennington
Richard Hollister
Williams
Pierce
Tri-Mont Texaco
South Street
Miriam Murphy
Leo Nash
Gibney
Police
New Prince Edward County Schools Open Without Textbooks
In Farmville Virginia the Prince Edward Free School Association opens privately financed gradeless schools for 1,501 students. Superintendent Dr. Neil V. Sullivan notes no textbooks on arrival and praises teachers from across the United States. Four white students enroll. many children have never before known formal schooling as they adjust to classroom life while bus transportation and home separations pose challenges.
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Farmville
Ernest Pratt
Ernest
Prince Edward Free School Association
Virginia
United States
Neil V. Sullivan
East Williston
Long Island
N.Y
Free Schools
Sullivan
Prince Edward
Brenda Abernathy
George Abernathy
Letitia
Worsham School
James Wiggins
Worsham
Amendment Fails In Cambridge Maryland
Cambridge voters reject a town charter amendment to open restaurants motels and hotels to Negroes in a 1944 referendum 1940s context. The measure failed 1944 to 1720 with about 60 percent of Black residents not voting. City officials call it an attempt to end segregation demonstrations that sparked last summer violence.
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Cambridge, Md
Calvin W. Mowbray
Cambridge
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Robert Frost
Union Carbide Consumer Products Co
Scott Street
Hilda Hurley
Ida Mattison
Main St
Joseph A. Pello
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Greentree
Drysdale’s
North Bennington Road
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Williams & Bugbee, Inc
DIAL
C. Awdry Thompson
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
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Madkour
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Saratoga
RTS
River Valley
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Armour Columbia
Tokay
HAM
Fog
B.C
By Bob Schulz
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Blondie
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Steve Canyon
Milton Caniff
Senorita
Heart of
Juliet Jones
By Stan Drake
Miss Jones
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