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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1962
Page
4
The Bennington Banner lists daily publication except Sundays and holidays. It is issued by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
Reston argues the cold war will be settled by the society best at adapting to rapid revolutions. He calls for widespread local study groups with factual guides and analysis of actions. A new Christian Citizen group aims to mobilize Christians into civic participation and influence policy through education.
Dispatches praise Mr and Mrs Robert F Kennedy for a successful goodwill tour in Japan and the Far East. The piece notes broad amiable public reception despite anti American sentiment and argues proxies like the Kennedys can ease presidential workload.
The New York Herald Tribune defends President Kennedy for invoking executive privilege amid hearings on censoring military speeches. It argues the subcommittee overstepped by demanding specifics and urges focus on the core issue of officer muzzling. The piece calls for swift, discreet conclusions and mocks the holiday remark.
At a public hearing in Wilmington Vermont the sanitary engineer noted detergents partly survive sewage treatment and travel through water systems reaching hills sourced supplies. He warned water may be reused six times now and tenfold in twenty years. Vermont bids open February nineteenth for aerial photo mapping with Bennington Arlington Manchester and Wilmington among areas to receive detailed coverage.
Washington columnist Marquis Childs contrasts the France on the grand liner France with Paris’s crisis of authority. He notes De Gaulle's push for a strong nuclear deterrent and rebuilding the armed forces, while terrorist attacks and internal strife threaten the Fifth Republic's stability.
Letter to the editor compares election costs in Bennington Brattleboro and Springfield from 1954 55 citing the consolidated towns lower per election costs and paid boards. It argues volunteers could replace paid meals and questions reliability while noting town meeting advertisements claiming no payola yet little change in expenses. Mrs Kent Lawson Bennington signed.
The author recalls a prior column about winter tourism in Vermont and defends his facts against The Banner and Mrs. Cole. He argues that vacation facilities and established businesses, including banks and utilities, served the public during winter, contrasting pre ski era slow winters with modern growth.
A Vermont ski economy relies on year round operators with winter inflow boosts. Small businesses profit while summer sightseeing options threaten three month seasons. A dispute with Stratton Corp prompts calls to safeguard the industry amid a broader debate over community benefits. Further passages include Senator Aiken recalling a childhood song about not biting the hand that feeds you.
President Kennedy stays relatively calm as he weighs resuming nuclear testing and rejects Khrushchev’s 18 nation summit proposal. He must avoid embarrassing Khrushchev while keeping a doorway to a future meeting, balancing domestic politics and international pressures.
Seldon T Williams, president of Scovill Manufacturing Co in Waterbury Conn, says national policy creates economic strangulation by failing to recognize industry needs and by opposing industrial growth while foreign governments promote theirs He notes wage and tax differences and lack of US government support undermine competitive standing.
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