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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1967
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. Office located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201.
A fresh federal report reinforces the 1964 finding that cigarette smoking harms health and may cause death from coronary heart disease. It ties smoking to heart disease, stroke, ulcers, aneurysms, emphysema, bronchitis, and several cancers, and notes rising cigarette use despite warnings.
Editor notes express disappointment that the Bennington Taxpayers Protective Association is not studying the school situation amid fall votes on a new elementary school and a union school addition. The piece urges a meeting with the school board to compare costs and consider cooling towers to curb river pollution from the Vernon plant. It highlights youth programs at North Bennington recreation area and ends with a quip from the American Legion Magazine.
A Washington essay argues that riots reveal failed racial policies and that true progress requires integrating Negro advancement into a broad Great Society effort. It warns against white philanthropy as a sole path and says reform must be national, not limited to minority uplift, while war abroad distracts from domestic needs.
Richard Perrott’s lengthy Banner letter is challenged for its logic as a debate on peace and anti communist measures. Readers discuss Vietnam, censorship, Hungary, De Gaulle, and rights to protest, defending loyalty while condemning government overreach and street demonstrations amid global Cold War tensions.
A verbose defense of independence and wary stance against federation, Anguilla style, ties local pride to historic resistance. The piece argues North Bennington values self rule, welcomes friends, rejects external gunboat threats, and recalls frontier powder caches from nearly two centuries of isolation.
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