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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1967
Page
4
The Bennington Banner presents daily editorials from its newsroom at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont outlining local issues and viewpoints. This briefing notes the publication routine excluding Sundays and holidays and highlights the newspaper’s role in public discourse.
The NASA run board report on the Apollo fire faulted design, engineering, and quality control while condemning NASA safety standards and North American Aviation. It blames rushed goals and a 1970 moon race deadline, urging a shift from political timetables to safer, thorough engineering.
Editor notes call for a pro war hawk to speak in Bennington while Vermont legislators echo Tennessee on Vietnam policy. They suggest repealing outdated laws such as Tennessee style monkey law amid talk of Scopes. Fire watching draws spectators as local firemen burn an old house on Park Street Extension for practice under sunny skies.
A Washington analysis finds Americans unsettled by rising taxes and wary of a growing youth alienation. It notes hostility to tax increases for schools and urban needs, surveys hippie culture in Haight Ashbury, and cites public figures on campus protests, drug use, and the idea that youth rebellion may fade or persist with maturity. The piece reflects broad public anxiety and mixed views on social change.
James Reston reports from the eighth World Conference of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in Santiago Chile. Delegates question the Catholic Church’s stance on birth control and whether reduced birth rates alone can curb poverty and disease. They note three persistent notions: parental rights outweigh children’s rights, children as economic assets, and masculine pride fueling perpetual reproduction. Lord Caradon warns population issues must be addressed alongside poverty and ignorance though no solution for machismo is offered.
A Vermont club member recalls muskrat trapping habits and tips learned decades ago. He notes muskrat burrow damage to ponds and the shift to scent lure, plus a tale of trap robber owls and a $25 mount sale. The column urges pond checks, warns opening trout season cold weather, and highlights the Bennington Rod and Gun Club’s pheasant stocking efforts with Fish and Game, urging donations.
Courtesy column lists little known facts about animals and fashion. Coyotes are not dangerous to people or large animals and can be affectionate in captivity. Seal coats come from fur-bearing sea lions, not seals. The praying mantis is said to be the only insect that can turn its head.
An essay contrasts papal welfare views with socialist states, urging caution before expanding welfare and mixed economies. It cites Red China resisting pure socialism, Soviet etc. It notes private plots on farms, mini tractors in Yugoslavia and Hungary, and Libermanism debates in Czechoslovakia and Poland, stressing limits of market flexibility under socialist controls.
A humorous proposal suggests combining a national lottery with the Selective Service to fund Vietnam. Draft age youths would receive numbers for groups of 1000, buy $1 lottery tickets, and drawings would draft the group while prize money backs war costs. Proposes Las Vegas HQ and a free ticket per registrant.
Ian McLeod of the Edinburgh City Police Pipers Band recorded four tunes on tape. London producers issued 1000 LPs of which 400 sold before the record was revealed to be recorded backward. None of the 400 English buyers complained.
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