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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1973
Page
3
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 42h Main Street, Bennington, Vermont F201.
Exitorials praise Sen. Lowell Weicker CT for moral outrage over the White House misconduct. He challenged Haldeman on the White House example and democratic ideals while others offered defense of palace guard actions.
Sen Weicker voices outrage at the few who faced Watergate revelations including a former attorney general, a former secretary of commerce, the special counsel to the president, and the president’s personal lawyer. He presses to identify the moral example behind such conduct, while Haldeman offers little. He believes millions hold basic morality and fair play, resonating with Weicker’s stance.
A Times movie page shows violence returning to ads with The Hong Kong Cat promising intensity and The Macintosh Man featuring a submachine gun scene. Yet lighter fare appears with Fantasia revivals and Julie Andrews films Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. A teaser for Hail to The Chief hints at a president’s ascent.
The article questions H R Waldeman memory of events from weeks earlier during the Nixon tape inquiry. It notes his hesitancy to recall dates and who proposed involvement while highlighting sharper memory when refuting statements by Dean Mitchell Magruder and Strachan.
In the summer of 1770 Ethan Allen led a volunteer military group to bar Yorkers from the Green Mountains. The Green Mountain Boys formed as a frontier force with local companies and leaders like Remember Baker and Seth Warner. Fay's Tavern in Bennington served as their ward headquarters while Allen assumed colonel command.
The text recounts Green Mountain Boys insignia, Ethan Allen leadership myths, and the group’s tension with New York authorities. It notes petitions to England, Connecticut paper support, and Allen’s protest writings. It mentions governors, shifting loyalties, and 1772 rules restricting surveyors and enforcing safety approvals while delaying New York actions before the 1775 Revolution.
Washington analysis argues the United States, despite Nixon’s foreign aims, faces a weaker position globally. European unity, Soviet lead in strategic arms, and rising Japan and Europe alter trade, currency, and defense dynamics, with deficits and waning reserves eroding confidence in U S guarantees.
A first person piece by Bob Williams describes a boyhood fishing scene with dace, a leaky tackle box, and a plan to manage chores. The narrator recalls his father’s influence, the pull of the river, and the hope of a lone, private place to fish away from daily duties.
Timothy G Finney of Vermont voices frustration with environmentalists delaying a vital highway project. He argues for printing completed highway photos to show benefits and suggests citizens could seek legal action to enjoin environmental actions, urging balance between development and nature.
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