Bennington’s Last a Blacksmith Keeps the Old Trade Alive
In Bennington a veteran smith, Robert Dempsey, 80, preserves century old craft in a Union Street shop. He recalls horse shoing’s artful methods, handmade shoes, and the shift from wagons to tractors, while maintaining rental property and never driving a car.
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Robert Dempsey
Union Street
Dempsey
Edmunds
Bennington
Blacksmitth
Rembrandts
Lucius Buss
Connecticut
Luci:'s Buss
Ontario
Dr. Locke
De Gaulle Urges German French Troop Pooling at Academy
President Charles de Gaulle told the German Staff Academy that pooling French and German resources would build stronger armed forces. He called organic cooperation indispensable for the alliance and urged neighbors to join. A German spokesman denied plans for nuclear joint arms.
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Hamburg
Germany
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
France
Uniform Code Of Laws Sought For Six New England States
Gov Keyser proposes a New England Governor conference study committee to draft a uniform code of laws for the six state region. Topics include highway traffic statutes unemployment benefits and pollution control measures tied to the Connecticut River. A second New England publicity office and air transportation issues will also be discussed in Chatham Massachusetts.
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Montpelier
Keyser
New England
Connecticut
Cleveland
Chatham
Mass
No Large Scale Call Up Seen
Senior military officials believed only a relative handful of Reservists and National Guardsmen would be needed in another emergency on the scale of Berlin in 1962. They noted that a larger mobilization could occur for a renewed Berlin or Cuba threat similar to summer 1961, when 145,000 service members were mustered for a year.
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Russell
Congress
Cuba
Berlin
Kennedy
Senate House Republican
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate Gop
Republican House
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Executive Branch
Thomas H. Kuchel
California
Senate
Pierre Salinger
White House
Soviet Union
Russia
Guantanamo
Washington
Army
Air Force
Navy
Arizona Health Dept Drops Loiasis from Monthly Report
The Arizona Health Department decided to omit loiasis from the monthly communicable disease report. Officials noted loiasis is a tropical African disease spread by an African fly.
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Tucson
Ariz
Arizona Health Department
Africa
Boy Scout Keeps $1 From Neatness Promise
Perry Iowa AP Mrs Tom McDonnell offered her grandson a $1 prize if he returned from camp with a neatly packed suitcase. He confessed he wore the same clothes all week and never opened the suitcase, winning the reward anyway.
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Perry, Iowa
Tom McDonnell
Perry
Names on Names Spell Trouble for Voters in Vermont
In Bennington area Vermont Republican Attorney General race, John S. Burgess of Brattleboro fears voter confusion over name similarity with Bennington County State’s Attorney John A. Burgess. Opponent Charles Gibson Jr. is mistaken by some as son of U S District Court judge Ernest W. Gibson Sr., while Burgess campaign chairman Ernest W. Gibson Jr. is the judge’s son, adding to the muddle.
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U.S. Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Edward J. McCormack
U. S. House of Representatives
John W. McCormack
Vermont
Bennington
John S. Burgess
Brattleboro
Bennington County
John A. Burgess
John S
Ner
John A
Charles Gibson Jr
St. Johnsbury
Ernest W. Gibson
United States District Court
Burgess
Judge Gibson
Ernest W. Jr
Tighten Vermont Highway Operations Control
A six member commission urged stricter state oversight of the Vermont Highway Department. The 35 page report calls for a percentage limit on yearly earnings from the highway garage and bans state funded construction projects over 15000 dollars unless Emergency Board approval or ski access road exceptions apply. It notes the hot mix plant is idle and may be sold or funded to operate.
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Montpelier
Vermont Highway Department
Vermont
Senate Favors Tax Free Plan In Pension Fund
The Senate moves toward passage of a watered down bill allowing self employed individuals to establish tax deductible private pension funds. Amendments trim benefits and set an annual limit around 1250 dollars, with constraints mirroring those for ordinary employees and measures to curb abuses in owner manager plans.
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Senate
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Russell B. Long
D-La
Senate Finance Committee
Long
Eugene J. McCarthy
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Joseph Latif
Branch St
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Helene D. Nolfo
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Brewster Academy
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Walter O. Noyes
Elm Stret
Wolfeboro
N.H
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Merson Street
King’s College
Wilkes-Barre
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Arlington
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Benningto
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