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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1963
Page
1
In central Viet Nam two Marine helicopters and a Vietnamese fighter-bomber crashed with no survivors found. Ground fire hindered search efforts as 13 American servicemen remained missing.
U.N. will dispatch a seven member fact finding team to South Viet Nam to probe Buddhist rights abuses as the General Assembly votes to approve the probe after Soviet and allied proposals are withdrawn. The mission director will be chosen by U.N. President Sosa Rodriguez.
James H. Meredith, the first Black graduate of the University of Mississippi, applied to reenter for law school amid campus hostility and renewed questions about federal marshals guarding his safety. The university declined to confirm receipt of the application.
President Ahmed Ben Bella cancels a U.N. trip and sends convoys into the Kabylie Mountains amid Berber revolt fears. Ten killed in a clash in Colomb Bechar draws Moroccan blame and a request from King Hassan II for restraint. Ben Bella vows no negotiations with rebels, signaling a hard line against the uprising.
Washington reports sign Kennedy could announce a major wheat deal with the Soviet Union and eastern satellites worth over 300 million dollars. White House delayed the news conference to 6 p.m. EDT amid rising speculation and policy reviews.
Inside Elizabeth Dwyer laments the moon is not really of green cheese, discussing disbelief in a familiar folklore.
Washington reports an agreement for French President Charles de Gaulle to visit the United States next year following two days of talks with Kennedy administration officials and Maurice Couve de Murville. Both sides praised clarification efforts and sought to clear misunderstandings. De Murville met Kennedy for 90 minutes and had two long sessions with Secretary Rusk plus a discussion with George Ball.
A report in the Christian Science Monitor claimed Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu would speak at Bennington College, causing laughter. The Boston office corrected the error, noting Sarah Lawrence was the intended speaker and a formal correction would appear.
Vermont education official reports 20 percent of 141 June graduates from three state teachers colleges did not meet required certification. Castleton shows two thirds of its 62 graduates completed only half a year of mathematics training, while Johnson and Lyndon grads must certify by examination.
Hurricane Flora, one of the most deadly storms, swirled from Maya guana into the Atlantic after ravaging Haiti Cuba and Tobago. Officials say Haiti may have about 3500 dead with 100000 homeless while Cuba Oriente and Camaguey face relief efforts as winds ease.
President Kennedy will hold a news conference at 6 p.m. EDT carried live by NBC CBS ABC and Mutual on radio networks. NBC will air the conference on television, ABC plans a 6 30 p.m. showing, and CBS will run it with its news program from 6 30 to 7 p.m. on some stations and 7 to 7 30 p.m. on others.
Blackpool England AP Harold Macmillan, 69, was taken to a London hospital for prostate obstruction surgery with a two to three month recovery. Conservative leaders consider naming an heir apparent as party crisis and polls pressure Labour in the upcoming election. Deputy PM Richard Butler, 61, to run the government during Macmillan's absence.
Town officials announced the final cost for the Clark's Woods sewer interceptor at 16,224.60, about 5,000 under the original bid. Wil liam H. Morse was paid nearly all of the total, with a 811.23 holdback pending audit and final accounting of engineering and legal fees expected to stay under the 29,000 available federal and state funds.
The University of Vermont Inter Fraternity Council voted 16 to 13 to end blackface makeup and 20 to 8 to ban kinky hair wigs in the winter carnival. Burlington NAACP leaders praised the move as advancing racial harmony.
Two men charged with illegal possession of dynamite in the Birmingham bombings investigation faced trial. Charles G. Cagle, 22, of Birmingham, received six months in jail at hard labor and a $100 fine after a Tuesday conviction for possession and aiding and abetting.
Mr and Mrs William Jay Smith from Pownal are in Washington DC to represent Gov Hoff at a showing of a Robert Frost documentary in the new Senate Office Building. The film covers Frost s last 18 months and follows his 1957 appointment as Vermont poet laureate. The Smiths will be guests of Sen Aiken and Secretary of the Interior and Mrs Stewart Udall.
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