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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1973
Page
2
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Sites in Bennington Vermont 05201.
The piece denounces congressional reluctance to fund foreign aid and international bodies, calling for bipartisan action to restore U S leadership. It criticizes low aid budgets, late payments to the World Bank, and domestic politics delaying help to poor nations. It urges Nixon to push a comprehensive and non paternalistic aid program.
Vermont's Whey Pollution Abatement Authority faces criticism over a stalled whey processing plant in Georgia Vermont. A $200000 EPA grant funded consultant fees to Henry McEvoy of New Jersey with a pending $500000 design request. A $167000 EPA check sat unused then flowed to Proctor Trust Co where a state authority member serves as president, raising questions of misused funds and lack of whey processing progress.
The 1969 Kent State killings linger as Mary Vecchio, photographed amid the bloodshed, faces harassment and judgment. The piece links her to national controversy, media exploitation, and a broader critique of the era's moral panic, noting DOJ reopened inquiries into the May 4, 1970 shootings and Mary's turbulent trajectory through public scrutiny.
Mountain notes describe garden prep for frost wary nights and a prepper's tented tomato covers. A river float down the Battenkill with Walter and Alice Krach highlights a peaceful Labor Day, while broadcasting a kitten rescue plea from Skylark as summer ends.
Madelyn Burns of Greenwich Connecticut writes a tribute recalling Henry Steel who for over two years managed Fillmore Farms in Vermont. She highlights his Ayrshire cattle expertise, 4‑H leadership, charitable acts, and patient mentoring of boys, while recalling a rescues at a car crash and his faith and humor shaping a lifelong farming ethos.
The piece portrays Henry Kissinger as a calculating balance of power thinker who studies national aims and foreign strategies. It highlights his humor, openness to others, and past experiences including a childhood marked by Nazism era persecution.
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