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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201.
The piece warns that rising reports of pollutants in foods like poultry, tuna, and beef risk desensitizing the public to danger. It cites a 1968 69 Agriculture Department finding of organic arsenic residues in 16 25 percent of poultry. It urges a beefed up federal research program to uncover effects, asserting the public has a right to know and to live.
In a broad broadcast Gov. Davis challenges Vermont press accuracy while urging specific criticisms. The piece notes Betit’s public role and the press’s coverage of welfare policy. It also recounts Rutland Herald editorial mixups over a Bennington firehouse story and ends with a Feb morning scene in Vermont.
In his Burlington Free Press column the reviewer discusses The Fight for Quiet by Theodore Berland. He argues for a simple enforceable noise law addressing disruptive neighbors, loud phone chatter, jet noise, and roared tires, lamenting speeding air travel and slow commutes.
A Nation editorial argues the Nixon administration uses air strikes as a path to withdrawal from Vietnam, widening the war with indiscriminate bombing. It cautions against Vietnamization and questions the logic of negotiating peace through broader conflict.
Charles Silberman argues in May I Say So that Silberman’s study of education offers useful insights yet flawed by tutoring vs teaching confusion and Ivory Tower bias. The piece praises some progressive school examples but criticizes naïve systems and superficial quotes.
New York reports that the White House pushes Nixon's program as conservative friendly while reshaping FAP to force work incentives. Projections aim for a noninflationary full employment budget, with deficits to cut unemployment to 4 percent by 1972, prompting debate among economists and labor groups.
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