Catholic center fund drive at UVM reaches $500000 goal
The Newman Center launched a half million dollar campaign for a new Catholic center and chapel at the University of Vermont. Students have pledged $10,000 toward a contemporary chapel that will be attached to a traditional building housing the Newman Center and chaplain's quarters. The center is planned to serve about 1,000 students with a 150-seat chapel that can be divided into classrooms or used as an auditorium.
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Burlington
University of Vermont
Newman Center
Philip J. Branan
RPI Receives 11.7 Million Endowment Gift From Coggswell Estate
In Troy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced the largest gift in its 139 year history, 11.7 million dollars for endowment from heirs of William B. Coggswell, a graduate born nine years after the institute’s founding who died in 1921 at age 87. Income funds unrestricted use. In Albany, detective James L. Mattice, 58, was shot by his wife after a day of dispute and remains hospitalized. she faces first degree assault and illegal firearm charges. In Hudson, 125 clergymen and laymen from 32 churches formed the Hudson Mohawk Association of the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ. Rev. Robert S. Balfe elected president.
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Troy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richard G. Folson
Rensselaer
William B. Coggswell
Albany
Albany Burns
James L. Mattice
Hudson
Hudson-Mohawk Association
New York
Fall Foliage Festival Parade Faces Rain Delays
Berkshire’s Fall Foliage Festival in North Adams drew about 10 000 people as 65 percent of scheduled participants stayed away due to rain. The parade ran 50 minutes late but drew applause. Hayden Oil Co won first prize in the float division. Pittsfield weighs adding soccer to varsity sports after junior high momentum. Adams campaign for granite tablets to honor local soldiers aims for 3 000 by September 30 with 2 600 raised. tablets ordered after half the goal is met.
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North Adams
Hayden Oil Co
Pittsfield
Adams
United Nations appoints Jyani to Yemen mission commander
Lt Gen Prem Singh Jyani of India is named commander of the U.N. Yemen Observation Mission by Secretary General U Thant. The move expands U.N. operations in the Middle East.
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United Nations, N.Y
Prem Singh Jyani
India
U.N. Yemen
U Thant
United Nations
Texas Tower 2 Destroyed Amid Ocean Demolition
Texas Tower 2, a 192-foot three legged radar platform 137 miles southeast of Chatham Massachusetts, was demolished after a routine inspection found erosion around its legs. Only tower 3 remains in service while tower 4 collapsed in 1961 and all others were dismantled as obsolete.
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Texas
Atlantic
Ocean
Chatham
Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lincoln Laboratory
Wickford
R.I
Barnegat
N.J
Otis Air Force Base
Cape Cod
Air Force
Kearny
Bennington Banner Contact and Subscription Rates Notice
The Bennington Banner lists newsroom and advertising phone numbers, address at 425 Main St Vermont, and AP republication rights. Subscription rates are provided for 50 mile radius plus Vermont and nationwide options with three, six, and twelve month terms. Special rates for servicemen are noted.
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Vermont
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Ebony Predicts First Negro Governor in U.S.
Ebony magazine predicts Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke as the likely first Negro governor, possibly in 1964 or 1966, with other New England officials Gerald Lamb and Neville Beaubien cited as forerunners. Brooke, a Republican, faced significant hurdles yet won in 1962 amid a largely white electorate.
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U.S
Massachusetts
Edward Brooke
National Negro Monthly
New England
Brooke
Connecticut
Gerald A. Lamb
Rhode Island
Neville Beaubien
Lamb
Beaubien
Hoff for Boston Space Center Draws Vermont Viewpoint
Gov. Phil Hoff of Vermont says he was the lone New England chief executive backing a Boston site for a proposed 50 million space research center. He urges regional unity, studies of the area’s economy, and experiments in regional authorities as the six states face federal centralization. Hoff plans regional proposals when Vermont’s legislature meets.
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Philip H. Hoff
Vermont
New England
Boston
Hoff
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
New England Associated Press News Executives Association
Port of
Divers and hounds search for missing Boy Scout Gary Nester
Blood hounds and scuba divers joined the search for 11 year old Gary Nester missing since Saturday in Douglas State Forest. About 1 500 searchers scoured the rain soaked area with National Guardsmen in the woods through the night. The boy, son of Mr and Mrs Patrick Nester of Whitinsville, wore a Scout uniform without a jacket when he wandered away after taking a shortcut from his troop’s campsite.
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Webster
Mass
Gary Nester
Douglas State Forest
National Guardsmen
Patrick Nester
Whitinsville
Boston Hospitals Form Cooperative Laundry Venture
A retired British Army colonel helped establish Hospitals Laundry Association Inc in 1961 to solve frequent wash days for Boston area hospitals. The venture, led by Col William Smith of Children’s Hospital Medical Center, operates in its second year turning a modest profit and processing 13 million pounds of laundry annually.
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Boston
Hospitals Laundry Association Inc
William Smith
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Dixie St. Governor Defends Supreme Court Rulings
Kentucky Lt. Gov. Wilson Wyatt spoke at Williams College defending three landmark Supreme Court decisions on civil rights reapportionment and school prayer. He said the rulings uphold equality religious freedom and basic constitutional principles and condemned calls to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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Mass
Kentucky
Wilson Wyatt
Supreme Court
Williams College
Wyatt
Earl Warren
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