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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1968
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
The piece quotes Martin Luther King Jr from his Letter from Birmingham Jail urging direct action and condemning the endless wait for constitutional rights. It contrasts slow progress in the U S with rapid independence elsewhere, describing the harm of segregation and violence against Black communities.
A speaker argues that the vast majority of twenty million Negroes endure poverty and humiliation in an affluent society. He describes the daily indignities of segregation, name-calling, denied lodging and park access, and the moral pain inflicted on families. The speech contends that persistent injustice exhausts patient restraint.
Editors discuss a fivefold rise in junked cars at a landfill, a local car crusher plan to move through towns annually, and Vermont's new junked car law enabling state title transfer and private disposal contracts. The column also urges support for wildlife advocates and spotlights a need for defending overlooked species like bats, slugs, woodchucks, and hedgehogs.
MARQUIS CHILDS reflects on Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi as icons of nonviolence amid violent power dynamics. He notes King’s 1963 march impact, FBI tensions with J Edgar Hoover, Nobel Prize laureate status, and his Chicago efforts facing entrenched white and gang influence, framing the struggle as a clash between peaceful change and harsh power structures.
A letter signed by William B. Abernethy and others from Bennington argues for racial reckoning. It acknowledges the United States’ slave past, the three fifths compromise, and calls whites to confront prejudice. The writers pledge to pursue honesty, justice, and a new covenant with Black Americans.
In this column, the writer notes an early spring on Searsburg Mountain with thawing ponds and visible wildlife including robins a flicker moles and chipmunks. They reflect on gardening challenges and humane mole control. The piece shifts to Easter memories from a German home near the Rhine describing egg hunts outfits and family warmth. It closes with a wish for peace and friendship this Easter.
A Vermont purity law prompts a sharp push to remove books from shelves. The speaker contends Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Little Red Riding Hood The King’s New Clothes Sleeping Beauty Alice in Wonderland and Uncle Wiggily are harmful, urging a bonfire of supposed obscenity. Manchester based Johnny Appleseed Bookshop tied to the discussion.
Helena S Moore argues April’s whimsy contrasts with spring’s awakening while George J Rogers laments rioting and looting by a minority, urging restraint. Both letters call for calm and progress through lawful means and patience, addressing race tensions in America.
A humorous UC medical journal classified item asks who took a jar of alcohol from Room 303 and requests its return with no questions asked. It frames the missing jar as an appendix belonging to a relative, in a playful Parade tone.
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