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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 125 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201.
The piece laments the economy as wages lag inflation and price controls erode. It notes Shultz leaving as Simon and Ash race for control of policy, with Nixon listening on tapes. A proposed tax exemption rise and its political aims are analyzed amid looming price-control removal and a wary Congress.
The piece argues tax cuts cannot quell inflation driven by food and fuel shortages. It warns broader cuts may lift demand and worsen inflation, urging a nuanced plan: reform tax structure, wage and price controls, targeted tax cuts, and production and export controls to ease the current economic dilemma.
A reflective piece on river sounds across North America. The narrator recalls warm southerly winds, riffles on West River, and the music of running water in mountain and valley rivers. He describes echoes from Nova Scotia’s Medway River and quiet Vermont streams, ending with a preference for open land and the music of a running river at night.
Albany signals a future Route 7 super highway pushing east from the Capital District. Thousands of commuters may move to Bennington Hoosick Falls and surrounding towns, straining housing, services, and schools unless communities plan now to curb bedroom-town problems.
The Putnam Square Cynic made a brief entrance yesterday waving what appeared to be a Harris Poll and asked, “Whatever happened to the Silent Majority?” He then turned and left.
Vermont power officials face a growing public relations clash over rising electricity costs and the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Critics label the plant and its operators as unreliable amid repeated shutdowns, radioactive emissions, and calls to shutter the facility. A state health official warns of rising radioactivity, while a high level meeting in Montpelier plans to address the plant’s ongoing problems.
The piece mocks positive takes on fuel shortages and jokes about delaying leadership foresight. A physician jokes about divine aid versus practical medicine as the Hartford Courant vignette closes.
Marchetti’s book about the CIA triggers a court order to edit the manuscript. The judge allows some material, bans others, and Knopf prepares an appeal at heavy cost. The piece argues clandestine, paramilitary CIA actions should be disbanded, noting Nixon era shifts but warning these operations persist and need oversight.
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