Marines Launch Peninsula Offensive Near Chulai
UPI reports thousands of U S Marines and Vietnamese infantrymen opened a major assault on a suspected Viet Cong stronghold on a narrow peninsula about 20 miles south of Chu Lai. Allied forces aimed to trap guerrillas with their backs to the sea in a campaign comparable in scale to the earlier Van campaign.
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Saigon
UPI
U. S
Chuglai
Van
Tuong
Ban Lang An
Oklahoma City
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Ba Lang An
Marine
Paul B. Blackman
7Th Fleet
Oklahoma
Chu Lai
U.S
Qui Nhon
da Nang
LBJ Sends Birthday Greetings to Ida Fuller in Vermont
President Johnson sent Ida M. Fuller, the first Social Security recipient, best wishes on her 91st birthday and issued a bonus check. A call from LBJ at the LBJ Ranch followed, with Fuller thanking him and older Americans for the gesture. The note notes Fuller received social security check No. 00-000-001 in 1940 at age 65.
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Ludlow
UPI
Johnson
Ida M. Fuller
Miss Fuller
LBJ
Federal Court Rejects Milne Remap Petition
A three judge federal panel denied the Vermont Legislature’s last attempt to extend terms through 1966. The ruling ends Milne’s bid for 276 lawmakers with a plan to realign the Senate to 30 seats and House to 150. Special elections proceed this fall. Hutchinson seeks to block them in county court alleging constitutional violations.
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Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Montpelier
Milne
Chittenden
W. Clark Hutchinson
Rochester
Soviet Accepts Plan for Underground Nuclear Test Ban
Geneva report says Soviet negotiator S K Tsarapkin announced readiness to agree without delay to a treaty banning underground tests above a 4.75 magnitude with a moratorium on smaller blasts. The United States and West seek on site inspections to deter cheating, Egypt proposed a broader moratorium on smaller underground tests.
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Geneva
UPD
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Soviet Union
United States
United Arab Republic
Egypt
Series of Minor Accidents Keep Area Police Hopping
State and local police investigated a rash of weekend accidents causing extensive property damage and injuries, with only one person hospitalized. Norman Peltier, 56, of Hoosick Falls, remained in fair condition at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a head on crash in Old Bennington damaged a utility pole and sparked a small fire. A Springfield man, Everett Bryant, 43, and two others were treated and released after a three car Arlington incident. Two Maxwell brothers from Spencerport and Pittsfield were treated and released after a rollover on Vermont 9. Five youths in North Bennington escaped injury when a crash on Prospect Street occurred following a dog-related maneuver. Police noted power outages and fire crews responding to multiple scenes. ACCIDENTS Page 10, Col. 3
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Bennington
Norman Peltier
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Old Bennington
Peltier
Main Street
Bennington Museum
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Bennington Village
Joseph Young
Springfield
Stanwood
Bryant
Conover
Volkswagen
Vermont 9
Woodford
Bennington Town Line
Preston H. Maxwell
Spencer Port
Stanley W. Maxwell
Pittsfield
Mass
Putnam Hospital
Preston Maxwell
Vermont Weekend One Hunting Death in Montgom ery
Vermont closed the Labor Day weekend with no fatal traffic accidents besides one. A 14 year old boy mistook Kenneth Elwood Lagrow of East Berkshire for a bear and shot him in the chest near Montgomery, killing him instantly. The state cites Project Failsafe and warnings to reduce road deaths. Two other injuries left in critical condition at Mary Fletcher Hospital include a West Charleston man flung from his car on Route 5A in Charleston and a Burlington woman with severe facial injuries from a two car crash on U S Route 7 in Charlotte.
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Montpelier
UPD
Vermont
Montgomery
Kenneth el
Wood Lagrow
East Berkshire
Lagrow
Departments of Public Safety and Motor Vehicles
Motor Vehcles
Burlington
UPI
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Here
West Charleston
Earl Dane
Charleston
Gwendolyn Breegear
Charlotte
Adjournment Fever Haunts Great Society Congress
Washington observers report adjournment fever as Congress weighs key Johnson Great Society bills including immigration reform, DC home rule, highway beautification, poverty and foreign aid funding, farm policy, right to work repeal, and higher education aid. Johnson aims to push through remaining measures this year while momentum lasts, then adjourn by June to allow lawmakers to campaign.
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Washington
UPI
President Johnson
Johnson
District of Columbia
Congress
Inside The Chanticleer notes local features and pages
Charles John Stevenson discusses Hand Melons near Cambridge New York with page 4. A full page of county briefs occupies page 5. Area brides reports appear on page 3. Columnist Alan Sophrin is introduced to the John Birch Society on page 4.
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Charles John Stevenson
Cambridge
N.Y
Alan Sophrin
John Birch Society
China Backs Pakistan In Disputed Kashmir War
United Press International reports Communist China offered firm support to Pakistan as fighting widened from Karachi to Calcutta. Pakistan claimed downing 24 Indian planes and held territory in West Pakistan while India reported losses and claimed some victories. UN Secretary General Thant prepared to mediate. Russia and the United States weighed involvement and aid shifts. Britain and CENTO SEATO options appeared unlikely. Reports detailed air raids near Karachi Calcutta and Rawalpindi Chaklala, with cross-border combat near Lahore and East Punjab.
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Pakistan
Kashmir
Karachi
Calcutta
China
India
Indo-China
Karchi
United Nations
Thant
Rawalpindi
New Delhi
Soviet Union
Moscow
Russia
United States
Harold Wilson
London
Britain
Central Treaty Organization
CENTO
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
East Pakistan
Rann of Kutch
Lahore
Punjab
Ara
India High Commission
Candidates in Mad Rush As Filing Deadline Nears
Local race voters face filing rush as petitions are due midnight Wednesday for Bennington County Senate seats and six House seats in districts No. 3. Key candidates include Elsworth E. Jannicky and Salvatore Santarcangelo with others yet to file. County Clerk George H. Plumb warns most peti- tions must be in early.
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Bennington County
Elsworth E. Jannicky
Arlington
Jannicky
George H. Plumb
Bennington Village
Salvatore Santarcangelo
Allan B. Rngney Jr
Robert M. Wilson
Pippin Knoll
Plumb
Manchester
Senate
Bennington-Woodford
David J. Allen
Airport Road
Bennington
Mary Hodeck
Joseph J. Caracciola
Alfred Arnold
Woodford
Daisy L. Myers
Lucia B. Howard
Monument Ave
George van Santvoord
H. James Wallace
Old Bennington
Reuben Levin
Area School enrollments Set Record
Bennington Graded School District reports all three village schools at record enrollments. Opening day high school enrollment was 716 with 677 by Sept 18, 1964. Cora B Whitney School opened 165. Bennington Elementary had 501 in grades 1-6, with kindergarten expected to exceed 110 and total enrollment at 605 including kindergarten by Sept 18, 1964.
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Bennington
Bennington High School
Bendi
Cora B. Whitney
Marines Use Tear Gas on Reds Near Qui Nhon
A Marine battalion commander used tear gas to drive women and suspected Viet Cong from caves and tunnels near Qui Nhon. The spokesman said the women were shields, the gas caused only tearful eyes, and the action was on the commander’s own initiative without authorization.
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Saigon
UPS
Qui Nhon
Bahamas Endure Betsy Fury With 140 MPH Winds
Nassau endures the 140 mph onslaught as Hurricane Betsy batters the Bahamas for over two hours. A Dutch freighter reported danger but later said it could limp through rough seas. The Sarah Elizabeth, new and radio silent, vanished from radar before reporting in Providence Channel. Islanders fear Betsy rivals 1929 damage as markets flood and shutters fly.
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Bahamas
UPD
Bahaman
Coast Guard
Sarah Elizabeth
Egg Island
Providence
Miami Weather Bureau
Florida Gold Coast
The
Keys
Southern
Florida
Key Largo
Fla
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Vrs. Fuller Greetings
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Studebaker
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Rutland
Elizabeth ©. Conover
Prospect Street
North Bennington
Anthony L. Ennis
Great Society Congress
United Press International
Calecutta
Chaklala
Indian Defense Ministry
Miss Hodeck
Everett S. Lillie
South Stream Road
Ethel Bruso
Beech St
Levin
State Boxing Commission
Betsy
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