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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1968
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial urges careful consideration of Articles 12 through 21 on borrowing for outside appraisers sinking fund for sewer and water extensions funding for Bennington Battle Day park tree replacement and a town building expansion plan. It also criticizes two listers changes urges a compact annual tax booklet and supports a CPA audit. It notes regional election interest and praises local sports coverage.
Letters discuss a proposed 4000 dollar special article for veterans groups to fund Bennington Battle Day celebration. A reader recalls last year's 2000 dollar total, questions doubling the amount, while fire department says costs require this year. The second letter criticizes King of Kings TV ads for religious film, urging viewer protest over beer, cigarette, and wine adverts during the program.
A Bennington letter page rails against highway expansion and rising taxes, urging residents to tell their representatives what they want. Citizens critique U.S. 7 relocation costs, bonded spending, and fair assessment practices while calling for clearer listing procedures and protections for taxpayers and industry.
Henry Coley of Arlington argues that including kindergarten in the town system would cost about three thousand four hundred dollars after offsets. He contends state aid of about two thousand five hundred and saved allocations reduce the net tax increase to roughly five cents per hundred, not eleven.
A Vermont Education TV station in Burlington plans extensive student and adult programs for southwestern Vermont. The schedule features emergencies classes 4H action, cultural programs from Marcel Marceau to Einstein, and broadcasts on law, policing and Vermont education reform. The author hopes for legislative funding support.
Washington columnist laments Leap Year on February 29. He echoes Russell Baker questioning the calendar anomaly. The piece traces Julius Caesar’s calendar reform and its error, arguing to move Leap Day and noting a humor about a man paying a psychologist and fined for talking back.
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