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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1964
Page
4
The Bennington Banner state its publishing cadence as daily except Sundays and holidays, issued by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
The Bennington area schools receive a $237 000 Ford Foundation grant to upgrade instruction and curriculum. Team teaching flexible scheduling and classroom television will boost student learning and teacher time with pupils. Cooperating institutions include Bennington Williams College the University of Vermont and SUNY Albany.
The Ford Foundation funds a three year program to update teaching methods in Bennington. The grant supports testing flexible scheduling and team teaching as part of modernizing education. Principal Paul Kirsch and Mt Anthony Union School Board member Mrs Jane McCullough led the effort, marking a milestone for Southern Bennington County and Vermont.
The 30 percent Wallace vote in Wisconsin shows substantial white opposition to civil rights extensions. The result may prompt a Johnson administration reappraisal, influence filibusters and party positions, and affect the push for a civil rights bill amid calls from Negro leaders and groups. The outcome could dampen progress for civil rights and fuel moves toward compromise or further demonstrations.
Dallas observers note rising Democratic activity and internal Republican tensions as Rep. Bruce Alger and the Goldwater faction contend with former Dallas mayor Earle Cabell. The piece highlights poll signals against Alger, Goldwater’s strategic state absence, and Dallas business leaders pressuring for federal projects, including a $30 million center, while Lyndon Johnson’s 1960 campaign imprint lingers locally.
Archibald Shaw executive secretary of the American Association of School Administrators spoke in Woodstock on AASA’s 100th anniversary about public education in Vermont. He urged regional colleges and area educational districts and warned that heritage hinders progress. The column By Harold Raynolds notes Vermont’s shifting educational landscape.
William James Cartwright, longtime Williams College historical research librarian and informal town historian, has contributed decades of memory and free aid to press and public. Now 78, he reflects on nearly three score years watching Williams and Williamstown buildings rise and fall.
Letters urge standards for home child care as Governor Hoff studies the issue and recounts a disturbing basement care case. Also highlighted is Bill Cartwright of Williams College, a 74 year resident with scleroderma who aids in indexing Williams history and mentored a thesis on Mark Hopkins sermons. He was born in 1886 in Oneonta and educated in Williamstown.
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