Trimesters Proposed in Pownal Raises Salary Talk
Pownal School Board fact finders recommended adopting a trimester year to boost salaries and facility use. The report’s main section was omitted in The Banner copy, and board reaction indicated plans to study it amid a new elementary addition aimed at future year-round use.
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Pownal
Vincent Pizzano
Pizzano
Mary Jane Rounds
Pownal Elementary
Factfinders
Teachers’) Association
Willy Brandt wins Nobel Peace Prize in 1971
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt won the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing peaceful development worldwide. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised his East-West policies and efforts to improve relations with the Soviet bloc, Poland, and East European nations through Ostpolitik.
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Oslo
UPI
Nobel Committee
Willy Brandt
Soviet Union
Aase Lionnes
Brandt
Europe
Norway
West Germany
Poland
West Berlin
Jens Otto Krag
Social Democratic Party
Denmark
Georgio la Pira
Florence
Italy
Charles de Chambrun
French National Assembly
Lionnes
Berlin
Social Democrats
Free Democrats
Ostpolitik
Christian Democrats
Socialists
Kissinger arrives in Peking to prep Nixon visit
Henry Kissinger landed in Peking with a nine member staff for four days of talks with Chinese leaders. The aim is to prepare the planned Nixon visit, possibly before year’s end. The Boeing 707 carried the delegation from Washington, followed by a rapid motorcade to a guest house, with Beijing guards and thousands of onlookers watching from closed streets.
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Kissinger
Peking
Nixon
CPA
Henry Kissinger
Washington
Peking Radio
Chi Peng-fei
China
Shanghai
Revolutionary Party Committee
Haile Selassie
Tanjug
Belgrade
Andersen Air Force Base
Guam
UPI
Chou En-lai
Lon Nol abandons democracy in pursuit of victory in Cambodia
In a nationwide broadcast Prime Minister Lon Nol declared the government will no longer “play the game of democracy and freedom” and will act to win. He urged unity while warning of a fifth column as Buddhists protested the suspension of the national assembly’s powers.
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Cambodia
Phnom Penh
UPI
Lon Nol
National Assembly
Long Boret
Viet Cong
Tam
Norodom Sihanouk
Vermont Elks vote to drop white-only membership clauses
Vermont Elks presidents announce all lodges have voted to strike white-only clauses from charters though final approval depends on National Grand Lodge action. Rutland Lodge already acted locally but national charter compliance remains in question amid pending Supreme Court race clause cases and a nationwide vote.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Loyal Order of Moose
Rutland Lodge of Elks
Taffner
Murder at the Landfill Dump on Page Two
A Pennsylvania tale titled Murder at the Landfill Dump appears on Page Two noting a grim event. Halloween UNICEF appeals unfold on Pages Three and Nine.
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Pennsylvania
Whitingham
Tom Braden
Sandgate
Bennington County
Rensselaer County
Supreme Court
Court action set over Corcoran trailers in Bennington
Bennington boards votes five to one to sue mobile home park owner Joseph Corcoran to curb trailer numbers at Mountainview Trailer Park and to order removal of nine of the twelve, arguing violations of zoning rules. Corcoran and family dispute the claims amid housing concerns. court process expected to last about a year.
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Bennington
Corcoran
Supreme Court
Joseph Corcoran
Alexander B.R. Drysdale
Selectman
Paul Sheridan
Edward R. Lamb
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Selectmen
Norton Barber
Lamb
Morgan Street
Imperial Avenue
A. Sidney Edson
Barber
Edson
Town to sue tissue mill over sewer violations
Bennington plans legal action against Bennington Tissue Mills Inc for violating sewer rules. A water test at the town plant found solids in paper waste above permitted levels, risking Walloomsac River contamination. Selectmen warned Aug 31 deadline and potential prosecution under new water quality act.
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Bennington
Bennington Tissue Mills Inc
Edward R. Lamb
John Ungar
Arlington
Walloomsac
Lamb
Paul Kelley
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Alexei Kosygin
Canada
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James M. Jeffords
Corcoran’s
Sirimave Bandaranaike
Ceylon
United States
U.N. General Assembly
South Asia
Edward Frasier
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