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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1966
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
The negative income tax, praised by Milton Friedman and James Tobin, would floor purchasing power for about 12 million families and stabilize retail. critics say it is social engineering and unlikely to pass while Vietnam war funding continues. With federal outlays rising to 125 billion in 1967 and possibly 140 billion in 1968, domestic reform may wait.
Paper planes have long amused children and irked teachers. Scientific American announces a contest for paper plane throwers and designers, rewarding direction accuracy and air distance, suggesting the lowly wad could become respectable and advance simple science.
Ginsberg argues marijuana experience defies sanitized language and shifts focus from verbal rules to direct sensing of phenomena. He notes some dislike the experience, but many smokers report time slows and curiosity opens a new state of mind, calling marijuana a metaphysical herb less habit forming than tobacco.
The state considers building a governor's mansion in Montpelier but faces a heavy bonding load. Advocates cite local officials near Montpelier and a shift toward four-year terms, yet officials urge delaying until bonding is lighter and term changes are approved.
Washington commentary argues Harold Wilson cannot save the empire in Rhodesia. It asserts the United Nations should cut trade while Britain cannot suppress the rebellion, noting Wilson’s shift from imperial power to protector of the African majority and the difficulty of enfranchisement under white minority rule.
A reflective piece contrasts Santa’s inaction with the labor of parents and elves, arguing the magic of Christmas lives in caregivers not in the red suited figure. It questions who bears the bills after Jan 1 and laments Santa’s absence from family moments, while noting the UN’s limits in Rhodesia policy and urging realistic international action.
John Chamberlain notes Hale Boggs the majority whip of Louisiana says a tax hike is coming and would fuel inflation, challenging classical and Keynesian theories. He argues middle Americans will still buy with credit, making a tax rise ineffective at restraining demand.
A reader mocks a Vietnam peace plan invoking Clausewitz while another letter urges a youth recreation center and drag racing strip to curb teen loitering in Bennington. The column discusses consumer credit, inflation, taxes, and 1967 fiscal policy with references to Nixon and Keynesian ideas.
A family of tourists watches a lumberjack in an Oregon forest cut trees with few strokes. The father asks where he learned, and the lumberjack replies with a desert pun about the Sahara, the Sahara Desert, then Desert now, in a light Family Weekly humor item.
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