Bennington Approves Planning Funds at Special Meeting
Bennington taxpayers approved by a 184 to 20 vote Tuesday evening an expenditure by the town selectmen of up to 8500 dollars as the local share in a 25500 dollar comprehensive planning program for the town and its three villages. The meeting was called by selectmen at the request of the Bennington Regional Planning Commission, a body made up of...
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Bennington
John C. Burdis
Albany
N.Y
Track To Move Back to Day Racing
Pownal Green Mountain Park will switch to daytime racing with a 2 p.m. post time for the rest of the season, while remaining nights through Saturday. The change follows a management study and patron survey citing daylight preferences amid cooler weather.
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Pownal
Green Mountain Park
Vincent J. Bartimo
Bartimo
Vermont board member calls for abolishing development dept to fund schools
John G. Kristensen of Guilford urges heavy cuts in state expenditures to free money for public schools, proposing elimination of the Development Department and reduced highway and forest spending. He argues education is Vermont’s key opportunity and a path to keeping youth, while noting current schooling lacks libraries and vocational offerings. The board declined to adopt his resolution pending rewrite for the October meeting.
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Vermont
Kristensen
Massachusetts
New York
United States
Funeral for Jane, Denise, Addie Mae, Cynthia Sparks National Mourning
In Birmingham three church bombing victims are laid to rest as memorials spread nationally for Denise McNair 11 Addie Mae Collins 14 and Cynthia Wesley 14. NAACP leaders MLK Jr Humphrey and others join services while Congress calls a Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation anniversary as a day of mourning and recommitment to equality.
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Birmingham
Ala
Carole Rosamond Robertson
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Denise McNair
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Congress
Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Congress of Racial Equality
New York
Washington
Wilkins
NAACP
Martin Luther King Jr
Atlanta
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bayard Austin
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights
Humphrey
Alabama
Our Fair State
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Carol Robertson
Alvin Robertson Sr
Mysterious killer linked to Vermont and Georgia infant deaths
An AP report notes evidence of a mysterious epidemic killer affecting newborns in Vermont and Atlanta last year. In Montpelier alone six weeks yielded three spinal bifida cases, with a fourth six months later. Dr Jerold F Lucye and his team review birth, death, and hospital records for clues.
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Vermont
Atlanta
Montpelier
Jerold F. Lucye
University of Vermont
Quintuplets Born In Aberdeen Gaining Strength
Mrs. Andrew Fischer the quints mother spoke at a news conference about her five premature babies four girls and a boy born last Saturday. The infants weighed in and were said to be gaining strength with all five expected to survive and remain in St. Luke's Hospital for about two more months.
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Aberdeen
S.D
Andrew Fischer
James Berbos
Chamber of Commerce
Fischers
St. Luke’s Hospital
S. D
Doors Unlocked At Vermont Tissue Reopens After Settlement
A Vermont Tissue Paper Co. Inc. reopening follows a settlement of a suit over about $58,000 owed for waste materials. The writ of attachment on assets was lifted, employees returned to the Bennington County plant, and operations are to resume in a few days.
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Vermont Tissue Paper Co. Inc
Francis E. Morrissey
Hudson Falls
N.Y
Bennington County
Yank Waste Co. Inc
Harold Yanklowitz
Arnold Slawsky
Yank Paper Stock Co
Morrissey
First Space Winged Payload Vanishes Off Atlantic
The first American space payload with wings lifted from Cape Canaveral for Project Asset but search vessels failed to locate it hours later. Officials fear it may have sunk after the launch as signals from a radio beacon on the payload were not received. Recovery is needed to assess survivability of the winged craft.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
UN Committee Pushes South Africa Expulsion and Penalties
A special 11 nation UN committee urged the General Assembly and Security Council to expel South Africa immediately for racial segregation and to impose penalties including an arms embargo, a petroleum embargo, and a halt to foreign investment. The report was delivered as the 18th General Assembly session opened amid other global tensions and a brief anti Castro protest during the opening ceremony.
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United Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
Security Council
South Africa
World Organization
U.N
Assembly
Special
U. N
South Viet Nam
Albania
Red China
China
Soviet Union
Peking
Red
Khrushchev Flays Harvest Shortfall and Fertilizer Exports
Soviet Premier Khrushchev denounces farmers and bureaucrats after another poor harvest. He faulted fertilizer exports while domestic needs remain unmet and urged putting fertilizer in the soil rather than exporting grain. He cited Yugoslavia’s higher yields as a contrast.
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Khrushchev
Volgograd
Stalingrad
Canada
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
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