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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1970
Page
4
Editorial notes from the Bennington Banner outline daily opinions issued by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont. The paper operates daily except Sundays and holidays, reflecting local civic concerns and community debates.
The editorial endorses an education voucher plan allowing families to spend public school funds at any public private or parochial school. It notes potential issues such as segregation and access for troubled students, and outlines criteria to qualify and the democratic appeal of parental choice. The piece urges Vermont legislators to study and consider the proposal.
Agriculture Department scientists report farm animals adjust to loud noise and show no permanent distress. Jersey cows paused milk flow for 30 minutes after exploding bags while forty two dairy herds and other animals including sheep horses and swine were unaffected by aircraft noise or sonic booms. Nursing sows were not upset by frequencies of sound though hogs startled briefly. The piece also notes a fined baseball fan who hit an umpire.
New York analysis notes autumn politics hinge on campus actions. At Stanford a summer upsurge in toughness accompanies a trial of former grad student Diarmond McGuire for malicious mischief linked to anti ROTC protests with witnesses from the Free Campus Movement. Rockford College readies an Administrative Disciplinary Committee to handle violations amid erosion of the Honor System. The Scranton Committee hearings on Kent State era unrest feature leftist witnesses, including Dr. Richard Flacks, as experts weigh in on responsibility and strategy.
Senator Ervin cites preventive detention concerns as unconstitutional while Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sidney Hook weigh in on personal responsibility and campus governance. The era’s tensions surface over how colleges should regulate dissent, with calls for faculty student administrator assemblies and potential court involvement if codes are not enforced.
A reader challenges Dr John Calhouns laboratory study on overcrowding in mice as a parable for modern society. The piece links The Mousery to youth culture and the theory that the young teach the old, drawing on Time Magazine and Boston Herald Traveller reviews to question whether affluence and urban life drive withdrawal and social decline.
Vermont's Department of Motor Vehicles charges non-polluting vehicles an extra 24 dollars yearly beyond the standard 32 dollar registration. Commissioner James Malloy says the tax on propane fuel dodges, while diesel vehicles pay maintenance fees but no fuel tax. Critics accuse the department of hypocrisy, noting the incongruity in policy.
Officials found a dozen marijuana plants at Rutland High School, grown by a horticulture student. A St Johnsbury priest was fined after police found a joint in his car. Vermont campaigns show two ads praising a lieutenant governor hopeful by his wife and son. Editorials mock VP Spiro Agnew and discuss pollution tips, with poetry honors and a sailor joke concluding the snippet.
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