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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1963
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is a daily newspaper issued by Banner Publishing Corporation based at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont except Sundays and holidays.
In a shift from critic to proposer Dr. Edward Teller outlines a two part plan: build an antimissile system and massive bomb shelters to shield about 90 percent of Americans in a nuclear war. He argues continued atmospheric testing and funding would enable US to confront Soviet advances.
The article argues a U S plan by Teller to spend about 50 billion dollars on a two part survival effort including missile defense and bomb shelters. It warns such a program would extend the arms race with the Soviet Union and Drive up defense budgets with uncertain security.
An editorial notes Vermont's new rooms and meals tax and Wisconsin's $2 filing fee on state income tax as evidence that lawmakers seek new revenue sources. The piece mocks the widening tax scope affecting residents and questions where the line ends.
The Hartford Courant condemns Ole Miss for rioting and factionalism on campus in Oxford Mississippi. It notes professors seek other contracts while urging continued military police and criticizes Chancellor Williams for wanting troops withdrawn. It calls student behavior boorish and demeaning to a Negro student, labeling it a national disgrace.
A column argues that Barry Goldwater's nomination would fracture the Republican Party. It warns moderates would resist and that Goldwater's anti federal stance would endanger national unity, with looming risks to figures like Eisenhower and Nixon.
Supreme Court Justice Arthur L. Goldberg urged Amherst College graduates to take responsibility for national problems. He warned that graduates who work in cities and live in suburbs must not ignore urban slums that breed delinquency.
The column notes the World Jamboree in Marathon Greece where 14,000 Scouts consumed vast food quantities and jokes about peanut butter’s ubiquity among modern youths. It recalls nostalgia for homemade bread and the shift from peanut butter being a luxury to a staple.
The passage reflects on evolving food habits from mothers and grandmothers to today. It notes that store bought bread and peanut butter are likely here to stay, suggesting lasting changes in how people spend time in the kitchen.
AP News analysis traces nonviolent defiance from biblical Adam and Eve to Socrates and Antigone, through Jesus and Quakers, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Hindu, Jain, Buddhist thinkers. It notes Coxey's 1894 protest and the 1932 bonus march of WWI veterans in Washington.
New York AP reports the steel industry begins to recover from a strike threat that never materialized. Orders and production rise for the first real gain since May as mills see pickup and analysts forecast stronger fall output. Iron and Steel Institute notes weekly tonnage up 1.1 percent to 1.742 million.
A humor vignette recalls a church visit where a clergyman, called to a sick woman from another church, chats with a household child about contagion. It contrasts with a quip about starting life in a log cabin versus a non air conditioned hospital birth from a different weekly source.
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