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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1970
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201, serving as the local newspaper for the area.
The Nixon administration proposes a four year four billion dollar pollution program that preserves spending but shifts enforcement clout to Washington. Air and water standards would be nationwide with firm penalties and federal injunction powers, overriding hesitant state action to ensure compliance. The plan argues federal strength is needed as local controls fail to meet national pollution challenges.
The piece endorses expanding Mt. Anthony Union High School television coverage to include school board meetings and town affairs. It questions ward residence rules for village offices, notes at large elections, and celebrates Vermont appointing Joseph W. Bett as commissioner of welfare returning from Alaska after higher pay elsewhere.
A 1914 account by Prof A M Simons inspires a correspondent to urge action on water and air pollution. The writer claims free research offered to ministers, criticizes politicians for funding lesser data, and promotes solutions for water pollution, soil productivity, air pollution, and miner lung diseases.
Bennington area readers were informed that the Bennington Religious Education Foundation cancelled its planned film series on Black History due to ongoing film rental problems and last minute commitments breaking. The group aims to continue quality religious education while seeking community input for future efforts.
A man who resembles Abraham Lincoln walks quiet streets after dark in Washington. He avoids past-focused talk, prefers lively chatter and ethnic jokes, and once reclaimed his Lincoln identity when mistaken by students near Farragut Square.
The piece recalls Abraham Lincoln’s wit and memory as the writer notes the President’s habit of revisiting his memorial and pondering past jokes. It shifts to a plea against pollution and consumer waste urging refusals of polluting cars detergents and pesticides while warning that sanitation plans may threaten Chesapeake Bay life and heritage.
A rhymed plea from Gary OSHA at 129 North St urging collective action to stop war. The poem contrasts modern indifference with a demand to see the human cost of conflict and to unite for peace and life over guns.
A peninsula near Chesapeake Bay is eyed for a two thousand ton per day landfill to serve Washington for ten years. The piece warns of nationwide waste growth while noting Arthur Godfrey’s Earth Day car pledge and calls for public action against such pollution.
The piece argues Polaris submarine forces offer stronger defense than Nixon’s $12 billion Safeguard ABM system. It cites Admiral Rickover’s likely testimony, counts ABM flaws against MIRV accuracy, and highlights Polaris reliability since 1961. It also notes future USMS submarine missiles could extend reach to 5,000 miles.
A witty WSJ observation notes the cruelty of pushing a bright child through school too quickly, risking an underdeveloped college experience as he enters as a precocious youth.
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