Architect Granger To Be Consulted For New Elementary School Planning
Bennington School District directors agreed Wednesday night to review plans for a new elementary school with architect Alfred T. Granger of Hanover New Hampshire at the next board meeting. They weighed advancing a bond vote this year to cover rising construction costs now at about 23 per square foot and to avoid losing rental space at the old Bennington Catholic High School.
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Granger
Bennington
Alfred T. Granger
Hanover
N.H
Anthony Pello
William F.D. Smith
Howard F. Kelley
Pelle
Smith
Bennington Catholic High School
Bernard Bellemare
BSD Inc
Mt. Anthony Union High School
BSD
Mt. Anthony
Pello
George Sleeman
Sleeman
Marion Hardy
Frost Road
New Saigon Offensive Seen B52 Bomb Attacks
UPI reports U S B52 bombers dropped 500 tons of bombs to disrupt invasion routes toward Saigon aimed at countering a planned third Communist offensive timed for Monday a Viet Cong holiday. Bombing centered near Tay Ninh and along the Cambodian border with additional strikes in the Central Highlands and near the DMZ as government spokesmen noted.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Tay Ninh
Central Highlands
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Nam Bo
Pravda Attacks Bonn Over West German Arms Drive
Pravda accuses Bonn of stirring a military psy chosis in Washington to win arms for a buildup and says Bonn seeks to rebuke Soviet Union with a campaign of slander. The report cites Schmidt and Birrenbach as carrying Western firm demands for orders from West Germany, while fighting continues across Vietnam with U S forces engaging North Vietnamese units and air campaigns intensifying around Saigon.
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Moscow
UPI
Pravda
West Germany
Washington
Bonn
Soviet Union
Helmuth Allardt
Bundestag
Hellmuth Schmidt
Kurt Birrenbach
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
U.S
Arson Suspected In Berlins Mountain Church Fire
Berlin N Y fire officials report a 100 year old Zion Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Church destroyed by a fire of suspicious origin discovered shortly after midnight. Berlin Poestenkill fire crews fought flames as a $100 reward was announced for information leading to an arrest in a string of arsons across eastern Rensselaer County. The Dutch Mountain Church, built after the Civil War, served as a social and religious hub with later lamplighting services attracting old timers and descendants. A year earlier a rear fire caused minor damage and was also blamed on arson.
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Berlin
N.Y
Rensselaer County
Berlin Mountain
Zion Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Church
Poestenkill
Stephentown
Petersburg
Grafton
Mountain
United States
Jordans
Gutermuths
Verdons
Vertons
Goodermotes
Soviet Union to purge Czech leaders list in Moscow
Prague reports the Soviet Union has prepared a list of top Czechoslovak government and intellectual leaders to be purged and will demand action in Moscow. The move signals a broad purge sweep affecting officials and prominent figures.
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Soviet Union
Prague
UPI
Moscow
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Jiri Hajek
CTK
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Oldrich Cernik
Ota Sik
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak
Interior Ministry
Central Committee
Alexander Dubcek
Kremlin
Dubcek
Ludvik Svoboda
Gustav Husak
Slovak Party
Presidium
Josef Spacek
Zednek Mlynar
Mlynar
Miroslav Galuska
Vladimir Kadlek
Cesimir Cisar
Czech National Council
Hajek
Vermonters Face Five Parties On November Ballot
Vermonters will choose from five parties in the November 5 general election. Denise McCluggage filed petitions to place the New Party on the ballot with Eugene McCarthy and John Lindsay as its leaders. Other filings include George Wallace’s American Independent Party and the Socialist Workers Party led by Fred Halstead.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Denise McCluggage
Warren
Secretary of State
New Party
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
John V. Lindsay
New York
George C. Wallace
Alabama
American Independent Party
Socialist Workers Party
Fred Halstead
Miss McCluggage
McCarthy
Hubert H. Humphrey
McCluggage
Eloise Chase
Boston
New England
Wallace
Governor Hoff Offers Trooper Drivers in Vermont Race
Gov. Philip Hoff proposed assigning a state trooper as a driver for both major candidates Deane C. Davis and Lt. Gov. John J. Daley in the fall campaign. He argued long campaign hours risk lives and noted similar offers in past races. Davis’s spokesman said a decision is pending after a noon luncheon with Daley. Daley unavailable for comment.
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Hoff
Public Safety
Erwin A. Alexander
Deane C. Davis
John J. Daley
Davis
Daley
Inside editorial on deed of gift update and local zoning
An editorial calls for updating the deed of gift on file. Readers note possible rewrites to reflect current needs. Residents discuss revisiting zoning and mobile home park laws amid ongoing local policy debates.
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Putnam
Clark and Hoover Clash Over Police Role in Riots
Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover offered sharply different views on law and order during closed hearings of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Hoover praised Chicago authorities for preventing disruption during the Democratic National Convention while Clark warned that police violence exceeds authority and risks public safety. The panel chairman said the hearings were closed to the public to avoid interfering with Justice Department investigations into Chicago events.
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Washington
UPI
Ramsey Clark
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice Department
National Commission On the Causes and Prevention of Violence
Hoover
Chicago
Clark
National Guard
Presidential Commission
Milton Eisenhower
Atty
Law and Order
Commission
Lloyd Cutler
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Maracas
Molly Stark
Phillip Viereck
George A. Sleeman
Jerome Campbell
Quang Tri
Duy Xuyen
Quang Nam
Mekong
Tam Ky
da Nang
198Th Light Infantry
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