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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1966
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
The Dirksen amendment to overturn the high court one man one vote ruling is opposed as self serving. Reapportionment has progressed with 37 states completing redistricting and only five resisting court orders, showing reform can occur without disruption. Strong urban gains over rural power drive the case for equal districts.
Editor notes reflect on Perry Merrill who led Vermont state forests and parks for nearly 40 years and retires in July leaving a gap. Manchester votes against regional planning delaying Bennington County program. cost of meetings cited. Bypass debate, IRS checks, and republican gubernatorial contenders in Vermont fill the rest of the week’s locally focused notes.
Brattleboro Reformer contrasts Red China and France as isolated powers pursuing greatness through isolationism. The piece labels their stance as a form of real Operation Bootstrap, noting how each country travels a self imposed path toward prominence.
In the Watts uprising 1965 a destroyed store run by a Negro manager highlights the gap between integration rhetoric and financial participation. The piece discusses capital, ownership, and the need for loans to empower Negro entrepreneurs while noting higher interest, capital scarcity, and the broader struggle of the ghetto. It cites John Buggs and War ren Christopher on policing, education, employment, and leadership as paths out of poverty and violence.
A reader laments money debasement caused by government printing and debt. The letter argues borrowers and politicians gain temporarily while workers and the nation lose long term, using examples of wage, debt, and inflated dollars. The writer signs as Herbert G. Ogden, Hartland, with a second notice about Green Mountain Vegetarian Home for Children, Inc.’s incorporation in Vermont led by local residents.
The Vermont hatchery will stock 14,000 trout across Bennington County waters from April 11 to 14,000 fish in streams and ponds including Battenkill and Searsburg Pond. Brookies browns and rainbows, seven to ten inches, are to be released with wardens supervising placement this year. Woodchucks appear as hunters prepare for spring, and a new pet tattooing service may be offered by Bennington County Humane Society to aid lost pets amid the national epidemic.
Gov Hoff questioned the link between a Boston and Maine passenger service discontinuance in Vermont and a looming merger with Norfolk and Western. The piece explains rail consolidation aims to cut costs and boost profits amid mergers, noting B and M weakness and N and W’s coal-network strength, with passenger service as the potential “window” to dump for tax and strategic gain.
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