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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1976
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Guest editorial notes Hinsdale Raceway and Green Mountain Park face closures as neighboring states expand gambling. Vermont lawmakers will decide on a state lottery while New Hampshire touts numbers racket, igniting revenue fears and political pressure.
A letter from Beech Street School children recounts a Christmas spoiled by outside vandalism. The writeup notes the hurt and cost, urging sympathy while stressing a hard lesson in responsibility for others property and the impact of careless acts.
At a team dinner in the YMCA building the 16 Bennington high school players and their fathers received Christmas letters or certificates. Recipients include John Cronin Reginald Lewis James Kearns Edward Sharkey Alfred Barschdorf John Leahy Emmett Gaul Elmer Hansen Charles Bartlett Kay Kroepsch Charles Hogan Beach Randall Martin Daigneault Rocko Cassano Michael Hogan and Walter La Flamme plus the team manager. An earlier note reports a village fire in East Arlington damaging the old machine shop owned by Irving Grout breaking the main cable and causing about $1000 in damage with no insurance. At Fillmore Farms Dairy Bar there were homemade animal lollipops for stockings and candy decorations. ADV 25 YEARS AGO The Cooperative Weather Observer lists three observers in Bennington county.
Arlington Fire Department introduced the Tot Finder program this fall with high visibility stickers to locate rooms of children and handicapped persons during emergencies. Thanks are sent to Fisher and Sunderland School teachers for distributing the markers and a master list of users is being compiled for relay at fire scenes.
Looking Back highlights longtime cooperative weather men Rufus Gilbert Dorset George Briggs Searsburg and Chester C Gadbois Readsboro for over a decade. Vermont teachers from Woodford Pownal Shaftsbury and Bennington attend Department of Classroom Teachers meetings. Roger Hurley hosts Manchester Fire Dept deer pool win with 186 pound eight point buck. Hoosick awaits a new fire truck aided by Rev Edith Craig Reynolds 20000 donation. A CVPS line break on Ben Mont Avenue triggers village fire alarm and three and a half hours of outage after a limb fell on wires.
A holiday meditation contrasts enduring Christmas customs with modern science and technology, recalling Santa lore, family memories, and the Christmas spirit. It shifts to a political note on the two party system, noting Democratic figures like Hubert Humphrey and Edward Kennedy and predicting ongoing party maneuvering and legal entanglements.
In a sharp analysis, the piece argues the current two party dynamic is failing, with Republicans reduced to a souvenir half party and Democrats set to absorb conservative and moderate factions. It predicts a shift toward multiple real parties by 1980 or beyond as voters seek new options. The column notes Reagan, Carter, and Rockefeller as pivotal forces shaping a possible political upheaval. A local church bulletin tip about luck and medicine closes the note.
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