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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1975
Page
4
The Bennington Banner, a daily minus Sundays and holidays publication, produced by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont, presents a guest editorial reflecting on local issues and community perspectives.
The Brattleboro Reformer discusses New York magazine arguing for indicting city officials like Rockefeller and Lindsay for financial fiddling while blaming politics for tax avoidance. Vermont faces a similar fiscal risk as Gov. Salmon pushes for fiscal responsibility, yet the legislature resists tax rises and budget cuts.
A brief Star filler from Eureka California reports four Oriental surname hold restaurant workers were fined 25 dollars in municipal court for adding Sweet and Sour Bear to their menu. The dish violates state game laws and the health code.
An arc of curiosity follows the Sweet and Sour Bear affair. Questions arise about where the bear meat came from and why such a feast might clash with law in a Western state. The piece muses on pioneer food, cattle efficiency, and humorous filler as a classic line about stairs in a two-story house echoes.
A Bennington Museum manuscript dated April 5, 1773 shows signatures of early settlers on a subscription list to fund a schoolhouse north of the Old Meeting House. The paper, once owned by Col. John E. Pratt and later donated by his daughter, rests alongside a Troy Times excerpt recounting Bennington’s earliest schools and the town’s 1763 meeting house and school funding.
A Bennington pledge dated April 5 1773 pledges to pay sums to Ebenezer Wood Sam Pratt and Elijah Dewey for a school house to be built north of the meeting house on town plot. The document lists many early settlers including David Story Moses Robinson Samiel Robinson Nathaniel Spencer Gideon Spencer Ebenezer Wood Simeon Hathaway and Stephen Hopkins among others. The house is to be 20 by 20 feet and finished by September 20 with surplus returned proportional to subscriptions.
A letter signed Yours fairly truly expresses personal sentiment from a genuinely liberated woman. The Burlington Free Press notes the stylish remark and frames it within Worthington's Newsletter humor about fashion and risk, warning that overspending on attire can cost a fortune.
Vermonter in Washington explores how authorizations create programs while appropriations fund them, noting the gap between promised legislation and actual cash. It cites Elliott Richardson’s warning on the expectations gap and observes shifts in political rhetoric from California and Vermont leaders about government limits.
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