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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1962
Page
4
The Bennington area watches a six week strike at Ben-Mont Papers Dow Chemical division as locals question absentee ownership and favor a locally responsive solution. Negotiations focus on wage increases and fringe benefits with concerns about potential plant closure looming amidst shipping and competition pressures.
A House battle over a large tax bill centers on an investment credit up to seven percent for new plant and equipment purchases. Proponents say the measure spurs modernization to meet Western Europe’s competition, while funding via closing tax loopholes and a possible withholding tax on dividends and interest.
A Globe of memories connects the Sherlock Holmes tale to the death of Harry Baskerville, a Devonshire retired coachman who inspired Conan Doyle’s Baskerville family name. The piece notes Stapleton as possible villain, mentions the famed hound, and reflects on immortality through literary naming.
Washington reviews Nixon’s Six Crises as a self revealing document on his character and conflicts with the press Democratic party and Khrushchev. It highlights his tensions with Eisenhower Kennedy Brown and his rise in California politics. Nixon’s income figures are cited to contrast public service with private earnings.
The article argues taming the wage price spiral is essential to boost U S exports and strengthen the dollar. It notes wage gaps with Japan and Italy, rising foreign costs, and the role of fringe benefits in trade competitiveness, while citing First National City Bank data and a 1961 export record. It ends stating wage control is a prime step toward reducing the balance of payments deficit.
Amos Toggle fills the five gallon water cooler with gin and triggers three weeks of revelry at Acme Tiddlywinks Corp. Employees drink, quarrel over preferences, and union leaders bar a staff revolt. After wives protest, Toggle offers to banish free gin in exchange for pay cuts and one fewer holiday. Moral: people value what they think they need.
The author recalls years aboard the S S Mae later renamed the Mac a bulk carrier hauling phosphate rock and sulfur between Boca Grande Houston and Baltimore. With rust and molten sulfur changing the ship’s fate he fears a final voyage ends in scrapyard.
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