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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1977
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201.
The Carter administration faced labor backlash over a modest minimum wage proposal cited as well short of union goals. It includes a $2.50 wage this July and 50 percent of the manufacturing wage thereafter, with talks of a negative income tax as a long term fix to support bottom earners.
Editor notes a Florida death of J Philip Hall a longtime Bennington businessman. The piece recalls his integrity and community involvement at Mt Anthony games business meetings church and among friends. It also addresses a Thursday Banner advertising error on Page 6 and states the ad followed requested guidelines but was a mistaken use of unreadable back matter.
A Burlington Free Press item muses that a man’s hat flying in March may signal either the wind or a bid for office while noting diets are stop-gap measures and mentioning Modern Maturity.
Letters to the Editor describe the federally funded Information Hotline sponsored by the Vermont Lung Center. The program aims to improve prevention and management of respiratory disease by coordinating health organizations, identifying problems, and delivering new information quickly to the public through the Vermont Lung Association as part of the consortium.
The Vermont Lung Center operates a toll free Hotline 1-800-642-3288 to answer questions on lung disease, provide educational materials, and refer to physicians. The service gathers public input from Vermonters while guiding federal health funding use to speed up health information delivery.
Philip Schuyler of Westport Conn writes from memory about returning to Bennington for his sister Margot Schuyler’s memorial in St Peter's Church. He describes Route 9 to the town, the Pippin Knoll lane, and the valley view, calling it a pippin and sharing personal reminiscences of Greta. He closes with gratitude to Bennington electricians and firemen after the recent storm.
A Middlebury opinion piece argues Vermont employers face a $44 million UC fund shortfall. It criticizes House Commerce actions that would force all employers to contribute while omitting stricter benefit controls, warning of higher costs and reduced hiring for the disadvantaged and part time workers. The author labels unions as driving liberal benefits and calls for tighter eligibility to protect employers and job seekers alike.
Country Mouse discusses New York as a city of extremes with cultural and political elites in contrast to nameless street residents who beg or survive in shelters, trains, and doorways. The piece notes street folk’ ignorance or distance from welfare and highlights professional beggars who work subway routes, especially Sundays, during charitable moods.
A narrator catalogs diverse urban beggars and street people in New York. He contrasts professional panhandlers with benign loners and a filthy bagged-woman, and riffs on paper-carriers who hoard paper as a mysterious, philosophical drive. The piece blends observation with humor and social commentary.
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