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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1969
Page
4
The Bennington Banner operates daily except Sundays and holidays under Banner Publishing Corporation. It is based at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201, serving the local area with daily news.
The piece argues student disruption can weaken private colleges by cutting revenue from alumni giving and endowments, threatening stability of schools like Williams and Yale facing tax and funding pressures. It warns that inflation and campus unrest jeopardize private education while urging restraint to protect educational economics and institutional solvency.
The Vermont state Jaycees announce Operation Aware to build a statewide information campaign about drug effects and, potentially, a treatment center. They aim to inform youths and parents with science based facts, foster dialogue, and avoid a moralistic stance while recognizing the drug problem's breadth and need for community involvement.
Editor notes highlight local involvement as Bennington's Day Care Center at 114 Ben Mont Ave hosts an open house from 6 to 10 pm. The skimpy-budget facility offers a safe, pleasant place for children while mothers work, born from urgent community action amid subsidy challenges.
A letter to the Internal Revenue Service questions tax policy, inflation, and government spending. It challenges Vietnam funding, anti ballistic missiles, farm subsidies, space programs, and defense budgets. The writer urges clarity on why funds are spent and stresses taxpayer confusion and concern.
A Vermont writer denounces the mania for change permeating art and politics. He targets one man one vote reforms, welfare and education costs, and tax tinkering, warning such shifts worsen conditions and are driven by self interest rather than progress. He laments rising poverty, costly programs, and ill advised tax relief proposals for seniors.
Roger L. Stevens critiques calls to oppose anti ballistic missile defense arguing that cost exchange ratios have shifted toward unity or defense, undermining the premise of superior offensive deterrence. D G Brennan, in Foreign Affairs, urges rethinking defense strategy and even military budget ceilings to potentially reduce risk and save lives.
In a provincial meditation, Tom Wicker examines a national shift from city life to suburbs and back toward rural living. He argues solitude in the country offers relief from urban stress, yet cautions against forced or permanent moves and notes the value of rural labor for physical and mental balance. He laments the city’s grip and praises nature as renewing yet demanding and practical, while contrasting the old farm and new suburb with modern technology and social pressures. A second letter to the editor from Carl L. Farnham of Shaftsbury opposes a voter wording for a Sunday racing referendum, urging a fair vote for Pow nal residents without pandering to track interests or state power.
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