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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont.
Bennington Town Representative George Van Santvoord co sponsors a Montpelier bill to create a unified scholarship and loan program. It would award county based scholarships to top five percent test takers, provide guaranteed student loans, and offer grants for needy students with an 11 member board administering the program. The package would cost 535000 over two years and faces Senate opposition due to plans to replace the current criticized program.
The Air Force and NASA run separate space programs with budgets of 150 million and 50 million, duplicating effort and wasting funds. The piece argues for unification to save talent and money, avoid the costly space race, and enable both military and civilian aims within a broader, international cooperative program.
In a military analysis David Lawrence argues there will be no major Southeast Asia war. He says the United States and Red China have too much to lose to escalate, predicting a negotiated settlement to keep Vietnam split. He cites Formosa bases, carriers, and Russian and Chinese restraint as factors driving toward negotiated peace.
A reader criticizes U S retaliation in Vietnam as unchristian. The writer recalls a bygone era of itinerant photographers, noting how a car portrait studio appeared on Main Street with families, babies, and posed subjects in a nostalgic scene from about 70 years ago.
A vivid reminiscence of the Chanticleer Old Time Photo Studio with its camera theatrics and social vanity contrasts a political meditation from Adamant, Vermont. The piece moves from a nostalgic, detailed scene of a photographer’s booth to pointed critique of U S and Vietnamese policy, demanding moral accountability for crimes by government and society. The author urges action to build a more just society or face global chaos.
Comment by James J. O Leary, research economist, in The Challenge of Greatness pamphlet for New York Life Insurance Co. argues for selective federal intervention, Federal Reserve regulation to spur growth with inflation control, flexible fiscal policy, and competition preservation, while warning against overreach eroding individual initiative and economic freedoms. Also cites sayings from The Danville Commercial Appeal and The Anna Gazette Democrat with local school and marriage aphorisms.
Governor George W. Romney tours Lincoln Day speeches in Des Moines Boston Minneapolis Hartford and Charleston with a view to future possibilities. He weighs a 1966 run for Senate and a possible 1968 Republican convention role while stressing a broad appeal beyond civil rights adversaries. He notes Johnson's Vietnam stance as central and frames his own electoral strength in Michigan including a large Negro vote gain and a robust re election path if he stays in office.
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