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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1962
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is a daily Vermont newspaper published by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington excluding Sundays and holidays.
The Vermont Republican chairman Roland Q. Seward admitted ghostwriters helped his columns, with Barry M. Locke named as a key contributor. The Democrats countered with biweekly propaganda statements, sparking a debate over publicity versus genuine reporting. The Banner declined to publish the party epistles, urging readers to seek factual coverage amid political spin.
Detroit and the New York Coliseum report a shift from economy to performance in 1963 model previews. Studebaker and Ford unveil high horsepower sport models while Dodge Chevrolet Buick and Chrysler expand personal or luxury lines. Ford drops a VW class small car plan amid a cautious view of a full swing away from economy.
President Kennedy's questions at a White House news conference span steel prices disarmament and Berlin with a unifying Cold War theme. He ties domestic economic policy to arms spending and alliance stability as the nation confronts communism abroad and at home.
Bennington High School alum Cindy Stratton notes low attendance at meetings in North Bennington Arlington and Molly Stark Junior High about the proposed union high school district. She urges more participation to evaluate tax, management costs, and education quality, urging parents to attend future sessions.
New York plans lighting for Cleopatra's Needle and 21 monuments to deter muggings and crime. The 71 foot pink granite obelisk from Heliopolis dates to Thothmes III and will glow by night for the first time in 3,500 years.
The piece laments rising public apathy and hostility to authority in American cities. It cites a driver charged with DUI causing crashes and a mobless crowd that failed to restrain him, plus widespread assaults on police and cheating in exams. It warns that citizens must support law enforcement and uphold communal standards.
Aline Mosby's book The View from No 13 People's Street survey reads ordinary Russians’ hopes for housing beauty parlors and consumer goods over party rules. The work contrasts personal desires with Communist leadership notes that the non communist world will face ongoing Soviet competition.
A former Olympic champion from behind the Iron Curtain escaped to the West and was granted political asylum. In an interview at track meets, the athlete said that training near the border helped their runners excel, noting the border was used as a finish line.
The piece denounces a Geneva compromise by eight nonaligned nations as a fraudulent bid to avoid an enforced ban on nuclear testing. It accuses neutralists of hypocrisy and flatters U S resolve while condemning Soviet and neutralist stances and urging continued testing.
Letter to the editor questions if Bennington zoning laws are invalid for Coolidge Avenue with no formal court decision yet. Testimony and lawyers argued invalidity but court action is continued until April 25 when the court will reconvene.
A collage of remarks from Pablo Picasso Will Durant Jack Paar and Robert Ruark on art fame modesty ghost writers and Holocaust memory. The quotes explore the emotional toll of selling art the use of ghost writers pride versus modesty and skepticism about concentration camps and Nazi memory.
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