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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner operates daily except Sundays and holidays under the Banner Publishing Corporation. It is based at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont, serving as the local newspaper for the region.
President Johnson hails a $7.5 billion housing bill as a milestone with new programs beyond expansion of existing aid. Innovations include rent subsidies for low income families in private housing built by non profits, subsidies to place public housing tenants in vacant private units, and grants up to $1,500 for rehabilitating substandard homes under $3,000 annual income. These aims seek to reduce segregation and speed housing availability amid a shortage of government projects.
Editors note drivers praise trustees for reducing traffic bottlenecks on North Street while Washington fights over a constitutional amendment. Senators Aiken Prouty face questions about protecting Vermont voters interests. Guidance director George Sleeman urges dropouts to seek help as Vermont announces 750000 dollars in federal recreation funds for a state plan.
A provocative essay critiques inconsistent conservation spending. It notes individuals who lavish on bath remodels and pheasant purchases yet oppose bond issues for sanitary and wildlife programs. The piece questions self styled conservation experts who fund bounties while advocating broader predator elimination and wildlife control.
Washington reports on Latin American churchmen shaping responses to communism through social reform in Chile. Cardinal Silve Henriquez calls for land reform housing and jobs while stressing a broad national government. Jesuit Father Roger Vekemans works in slums and university teaching sociology, facing strong communist critique yet pursuing a middle path of reform.
A Milwaukee youth group Youthpower Inc mobilizes teens to job placements, offering tours, babysitting for museums, training courses for party hosting, garden clinics, and power equipment use. Involved students include Tom Bira Cree Michele Fink and Marga Niemeyer. The program has grown from 1964 to 1965 with 1,183 placements by Aug 1 and 1,300 the prior year.
Williamstown teacher program director Charles R Keller outlines the end of the John Hay Fellows after the 1965 66 year with Ford Foundation withdraw. Since 1952 the program funded fellowships and summer institutes for high school teachers, boosting humanities study across Yale Columbia Berkeley and more. Keller predicts government sponsored humanities institutes will replace it while noting the program empowered teachers with a new self image and broader educational impact.
A travel memoir recounts a family fishing trip to Ontario Canada with camping at a lakeside camp. It describes rain and sun, catching pickerel, a lakeside meal, and guides like Tom Sensebaugh. It notes environmental impact from population and litter near North Country wilderness.
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