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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1963
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont.
The article profiles protests over racial bias in construction labor in New York and other cities, noting sit-ins and sleep-ins drew attention. It reports a new plan with unions and employers under Secretary Willard Wirtz to judge apprentices solely on qualifications, with local appeal boards for review, aiming to open trades to Black applicants and reduce discrimination historically linked to union membership.
The U S Senate faces a pivotal clash over the nuclear test ban treaty as scientists fear increases in milkborne strontium 90 and the threat of war. Secretary of State Rusk outlines the pact in calm detail while senators push questions about arms racing costs and security implications.
Old Bennington memories reveal how housecleaning and book collecting unlocked a discovery map tied to Elm Street and Dewey Street. The piece recalls the Chatham Railroad’s link to Centennial grounds, the Monument planning, and a August 12 ceremony with Hayes cabinet members, a 12 000 seat tent, a grand parade, and a Green Mountain catering crowd.
Frederick M. Myers of Pittsfield, a Paownal native known in Bennington, was noted for forceful intellect and unwavering views. He earned respect as a judge and attorney, chaired Pittsfield’s Planning Board and Capital Outlay Committee, and helped implement a major zoning ordinance and a broad municipal modernization program.
The New York Times argues vacations spread from English use after steam and spinning jenny to all, across classes and nations. It notes workers now expect breaks, compares European and Chinese practices, and suggests life may become one long vacation once machines do all work, though not yet.
Hal Boyle riffs on the idea wives think husbands never hear them but most husbands actually listen. He jokes that husbands act deaf to avoid conflict and reveals the classic scene of a wife recounting daily woes while a husband pretends to listen, then declares he heard every word.
A description of decorations at Centennial Grounds in 1877 with church groups and National Guard chaplain addressing troops. Vermont Editors and Publishers Association chose Bennington for their meeting with Eliakim Walton and remarks on light givers. The dinner featured talks by lawmakers and grandsons of Parson Allen, referencing the Battle of Bennington.
Irving Adler of North Bennington writes to The Banner dismayed that an AP Boston August 12 report wrongly lists him as a former Vermont State Representative from Pownal. He asks the editors to print a correction.
A Quartermaster Corps AGI clerk handles a stack of documents when an Army form reaches him by mistake. He forwards it to the meant officer who returns it with a note demanding erasure of his initials and the erasure itself. Signed Lt Hannibal.
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