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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1966
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont.
New York State researchers describe a prototype safety automobile built like current cars but designed to cut crash injuries in half. Government backing and national standards could push safer design into mainstream production, transforming public attitude and industry practice.
The House Fish and Game Committee approves a bill to shift deer herd management from the Legislature to the Fish and Game Department for a five year test. Biologists would regulate herd size to balance food supply, reduce deer, and protect forests and crops. Ben Day and team cited as credentials.
Local librarian John Rothrock reported his personalized JBR plate Volkswagen bug missing from its spot. A nearby car owned by Mrs Nes bith Fienberg, also a Volkswagen, misled him as she approached, but the mix-up was quickly resolved.
Annie Dakin celebrated her 90th birthday with a front page ribbon in Fridays Banner. Shirley Rawson, longtime Woolworth manager, is reassigned to Bennington and returns to town as residents note renewed acquaintances.
Washington report analyzes infant mortality disparities between white and non white families, linking high non white rates to slum housing, inadequate medical care, and broken family structure. It cites Moynihan findings and Martin Luther King Jr. activism, warning of social turmoil if rapid changes in housing, education, and opportunity are not achieved.
Edward Kehoe Vermont Fish and Game commissioner will address Bennington Rod and Gun Club Monday at 8 p.m. at the Benn ington Club rooms on Main Street. The talk follows recent Montpelier deer herd developments and a Fish and Game Board chair resignation, with a Q A period planned.
Letter urges understanding of U S in Viet Nam by recounting Father Augustin Nguyen Lac-Hoa, a priest who led villagers from Canton to Cambodia and finally to Binh Hung to escape Communists. After a child’s murder nearby, the villagers voted, choosing to resist and fight. The writers compare their withdrawal to aiding Communists and urge supporting peace efforts in Viet Nam. Leaders like Sen. George D. Aiken push negotiations with the National Liberation Front to avoid wider war.
A Britisher at the New Yorker Hotel befriends a room clerk who tells a riddle about a baby born to the mother and father. The Britisher returns home and tests a friend with the same riddle, who answers with a punch line about the room clerk. Parade expression and an intertwining joke show the magazine’s quiz tone.
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