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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner operates daily except Sundays and holidays under Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial calls out Vermont Bar Association opposition to no fault insurance ahead of the 1972 legislature. It notes attorney fees reduce injury awards, questions consumer protection by a state lawyer, and argues for motorist premium relief and simpler claims. It warns lawmakers to represent drivers, not lawyers, in Montpelier.
I F Stone, 63, will publish the last issue of his Washington based biweekly newsletter LF Stone's Weekly. The iconoclast muckraker supplied sharp insider national news from Washington for decades and influenced liberal journalism through the 1950s and 60s. He will move his byline and 70,000 subscribers to The New York Review of Books.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower visited New Jersey last week to dedicate two public parks. One site was a former missile installation turned over by the federal government to a town for park use. In her remarks she urged youth to help clean and preserve the environment, saying we have our lives in front of us and hoping for more parks than missile sites.
The piece portrays William Rehnquist as a political throwback, contrasting grandfather’s grandfather with the modern era. It notes Rehnquist’s early segregation stance and later desegregation opposition as evidence of archaic thinking, predicting he will be a lasting, provocative reminder of the Nixon administration.
A citizen letter protests severe school clothing shortages in Bennington Vermont. A Concerned Citizens Children's Committee forms to collect warm clothing donations via local banks and the elementary school nurse’s office with proceeds used for needs, not expenses. The piece also rails at political praise of President Nixon and contrasts with Eisenhower era politics.
The piece argues that media and political discourse create unduly labeled experts like Nixon and others. It cites Nixon’s toxic misreads, Henry Jackson’s miscast conservatism, and McGovern’s perceived decency. It recalls Romney’s Vietnam-era brainwashing remark and notes how political labels often misstate reality.
The piece notes a new reissue of Zadock Thompson’s Natural History of Vermont (1853) and highlights Thompson’s self taught, field based approach. It praises his first hand reports on wildlife from cows and hogs to birds, woodchucks, moose, and mink, plus his candid admissions when lacking knowledge.
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