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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1975
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial notes Bennington officials push toward a solid waste incineration system with finite land disposal. It cites Pittsfield Massachusetts as a nearby example and references a New York Times magazine feature on incineration. The piece suggests Bennington facing a major future challenge.
Mountains of trash and landfill limits push nearby towns toward a regional incinerator. Five years ago former Selectman J Duncan Campbell floated incineration as landfill costs and issues then seemed insurmountable. Advances since suggest his forecast may have been prescient.
The obituary notes Thornton Wilder died on Sunday, praising his work in Our Town and The Matchmaker and noting his three Pulitzer prizes. It argues his comic spirit fought 20th century anxiety and suggests his novels and plays remain treasures even as trends favor esoteric realism.
Editor notes holiday bustle and promotes the Christmas Open House at the Bennington Museum with special exhibits from dolls to antique guns. The event runs through this week and next, offering a pleasant break in the busy season. The piece also recalls a publication date mix up on December 8, 1975 and jokes about the dateline error.
The writer rebuts a recent editorial response to Nancy Kaufman on a debt service moratorium. They compare New York City and Vermont amid higher social service costs and shrinking revenue, arguing the ruling class protects its interests. Fed data cited show wealth concentration and tax exempt bond ownership.
A critical view argues New York City’s 1.2 billion dollar annual debt service drains funds from the working poor to Rockefeller controlled banks and the super rich. It condemns budget cuts harming services and schools while protecting wealth, citing a 1911 critic on entrenched wealth.
Decades into this column, readers still write, including Mrs. Jessie Goddeau of Bennington who joins a Welcome Wagon Club cookbook project for January 1976. The piece recalls 28 years on the mountain, past rumors of ski areas and a nuclear plant, and notes wildlife, especially chickadees, remain fixtures. With patient sunflower-seed handouts, humans and birds bridge the cold season.
To the Editor the Dorset board of selectmen outlines steps taken since 1974 to refute and reduce the federal flood hazard designation. They note mapping errors, letters of appeal, and ongoing remapping by Michael Baker Jr. Inc. Harrisburg. A final minimal area awaits board satisfaction and a public hearing to review appeals.
A Bennington town Republican committee member argues that poor information flow from state headquarters and within the party, not media coverage, caused bad press. He praises media fairness and notes Sen. Stafford's Dec appearance was learned from radio and newspapers.
The Work Activities Center of the United Counseling Service hosts its annual Christmas bazaar at the Main Street Methodist Church in Bennington on Friday December 12 from 10 am to 3 pm and 5 to 8 pm. Client participants have prepared items for sale.
The piece probes Solzhenitsyn’s critique of Kissinger and U.S. diplomacy, challenging a novelist’s political analyses for excess and naïveté. It compares him to Twain Dos Passos and Steinbeck, questions the meaning of unending concessions, and notes broader reflections on politics and final solutions. It also includes brief digests from business and trivia items.
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