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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1963
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
Senator Goldwater rails at Defense Secretary McNamara for a directive allowing commanders to declare off limits areas near bases with persistent segregation. The measure, while criticized by some as a police state tactic, requires Pentagon approval and aims to curb civilian discrimination affecting military morale and effectiveness.
A discussion of the 1954 ruling ending separate but equal, the rise of nonviolent protests, and the push for a federal civil rights bill. It weighs the public accommodations section as a balance between the rights of proprietors and equality for Black Americans and other groups.
Hal Boyle collects odds and ends from mail and culture while arguing that roughly two million laws govern the United States. He weighs rights, segregation, and the need for a federal civil rights law to ensure equal service in public facilities for all citizens, noting the cost of racism to the nation and the role of majority will in justice.
New York Republican leaders weigh a path for a dark horse presidential candidate amid a continuing battle between Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Sen. Barry Goldwater. They urge Rockefeller to target Kennedy and the Democratic administration, arguing a middle course could boost a less polar candidate and key state leaders eye local wins over the national race.
Letters discuss the Carson Sensitively debated pesticides, from DDT to lindane, with local spraying fears in Detroit and Baltimore bans. Federal advisers push safer pest control while citizens urge non toxic sprays and soil health. Vermont Cancer Crusade thanks media for support.
Sylvia Porter reports a rising teenage unemployment crisis from Labor Department data. In 1947 born dropouts, about 24 percent of the 4.1 million unemployed, threaten New York City where 125000 will find work by summer while 250000 remain jobless. The piece urges a crash program and further education as the only escape from unemployment for teenagers.
Robert M. Hutchins argues technology erodes geography and weakens local civic virtue. He contrasts Jeffersons farms and citizen participation with modern workforces and education aiming at employment, while defending the Constitution but urging replenishment of intellectual and moral capital to face a transformed world.
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