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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1962
Page
4
Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sundays and holidays. It is produced by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington, Vermont.
Eisenhower calls for restraint amid a rapidly expanding NASA budget. The piece argues space funding has outpaced immediate citizen needs, warns against overemphasis, and urges tying space investments to broad scientific and social advances rather than denying terrestrial problems. It notes Congress supports space while neglecting Medicare, education, and civil defense.
The piece critiques the State Department note to Argentina over anti Semitic acts, arguing U S hypocrisy. It cites racial segregation in Georgia Virginia school closures black voters and Jewish discrimination in real estate hotels and clubs across multiple states and ends with a jab about sending aphorisms to Secretary Rusk.
The New York Herald Tribune reports Vermont counts 390000 people but only 383313 cows in state dairy statistics. The piece notes Montpelier’s restraint, the enduring stereotype of a rural haven, and jokes from motorists and farmers about finding Island Pond or White River Junction.
A Washington column analyzes the Peru crisis as a test for the Alliance For Progress. It notes the military junta, APRA politics, and U.S. investments, arguing aid must show quick benefits to win Latin American support while reforms are pursued.
Charlotte McCartney of East Thetford writes to The Banner correcting the paper’s notes on Rural Vermonter. She stresses the magazine is bimonthly, not quarterly, and not competing with Vermont Life but complementing it with local focus on education, farming, and forestry.
The letter mix cites FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover warning about Soviet spies inside the U.S. and questions whether his efforts suffice. Contributors, including W H Ferry and Samuel Stratton, critique U S cultural and civic gaps while August Heckscher calls for arts funding.
The Arizona Journal in Phoenix, a six month old daily, uses cold type and photo offset but faces financial strain. With 60 pages on Sundays and 20 to 24 on weekdays, circulation is about half the guaranteed 50,000, and ad revenue has lagged. Publisher Robert Morrison seeks $500,000 more stock and advertising to stabilize finances. critics doubt survival in 1962 though expansion hopes persist into 1963.
Richard Chaput a 25 year old Nashua NH resident paralyzed for 16 years uses a tongue operated IBM GE electric typewriter to draft short stories and an autobiography while bedbound. He relies on nurses at Desmarais Nursing Home and an iron lung at night.
A child asks if her grandfather was on Noah’s ark. He replies no, astonished, and she retorts why he wasn’t drowned. The exchange showcases a simple, old fashioned humor about biblical tales and family conversations.
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