Bennington edit page warns of highway funding crisis
The Bennington Banner reports Gov. Hoff will seek funding to salvage Vermont arterial highway plans after a $315 million miscalculation. He plans one or two bonds of 24 million dollars, possible gasoline tax and highway user fee hikes to prevent indefinite delays on the Pownal to Rutland four lane project. Legislature faces resistance from some lawmakers.
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Road upgrades and local unity loom in Bennington scene
The piece argues for funding the reconstruction of U.S.7 despite state and local budget concerns, warning that delays threaten regional growth as new four lane highways elsewhere draw traffic. It urges cooperation between village trustees and town selectmen and envisions broader unification of local government to improve communication and planning in 1968. It notes downtown Bennington’s continued vitality amid nearby shopping center growth.
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Bennington Taxpayers Protective Association
Downtown Merchants
Greater Bennington Association
Springfield
Bennington
Springfield plans to curb rising traffic and boost downtown appeal
Local leaders and merchants must act to slow a slide in property values. Priorities include expanding off street parking, reducing congestion, improving building appearances, and keeping Main Street litter free. A pedestrian mall could be explored. Bird watchers counted 2843 birds on a Christmas count across 279 miles. The list included 20 hairy and downy woodpeckers. Sports editor Ed Bowmaker claims to have seen 22 Green Bay Peckers on TV. Our prayer for peace: a Christmas with Bob Hope home.
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Springfield
Ed Bowmaker
Bow
Midwest
Bahama’s New Black Premier Faces Hope and Tension
A Nassau political shift brings Lynden O Pindling as Bahamas premier, urging orderly progress with better housing schools and medical care for a rising Black majority. White minority fears Castro style handouts and tax gaps as the new government balances promise and performance amid an economy relying on high tariffs and imports.
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Bahamas
Lyndon O. Pindling
University of London
Progressive Liberal Party
Dunmore Town
Nassau
Pindling
Islands
Year in Retrospect Spotlights Peanuts and Politics
Washington wire ranks 1967 highlights in three areas. North Carolina peanuts aid peace efforts at the U.N. while Lyndon Johnson gains a poll lift from McCarthy. Dirksen rises as a national leader in Congress, with a stripper named Evvy Dirksen becoming a rare tribute. The Bahamas faces a growth dilemma as tourism and development surge amid Dunmore Town’s colonial past and Loyalist heritage.
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Rep
L. H. Fountain
D-N.c
U.S
United Nations
New York
Arthur J. Goldberg
Middle East
Cyprus
U.N
Johnson
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota Democrat
LBJ
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Congress
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Minsky
Evvy Dirksen
Dirksen
Mountain Chatter From Searsburg Christmas Reflections
In Searsburg Charlie plugged a cellar leak with cement after a holiday storm flooded the basement. Seventeen locals shared a pot luck Christmas Eve, while the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert reminded the author of past German childhood music training. A white Christmas brought four winter guests, including a clever gray squirrel that outsmarted a seed barrel to feast.
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Charlie
Searsburg Mountain
Searsburgers
Karma Putnam
New York Philharmonic
The
New York
Vienna
Winter
Legislators Declare War on Loan Sharks in New York
Albany lawmakers move to crack down on loan sharks after a yearlong probe into mob controlled usury. Governor Rockefeller to push reforms amid calls to tighten laws and empower police, with witness protection a key goal. A taped case shows a stockbroker employee lured into theft and blackmail by a cleaner who loaned 2000 dollars at 5 percent weekly interest, triggering violence and a staged securities theft to collect debts.
When a woman turns the other cheek, it usually means she wants another earful
A wry social aphorism from the Wall Street Journal about reactions to courtesy and conflict, implying that restraint may invite further admonition or commentary in everyday disputes.
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Syracuse
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