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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner operates daily except Sundays and holidays from 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201. Editorials reflect the newspaper’s opinions and policy positions and may address local state and national issues as observed by the editorial staff.
The Federal Trade Commission flags Reader's Digest promotions as less than honest promising six chances to win 2 000 a month for a year and 36 045 prizes. The piece notes inflation dulling public trust and concludes promotions persist while profitable, the Post Office may gain if campaigns end.
New York Times notes the 91st Congress tripped over SST opposition and defense budget inflation. It cites Wayne Parrish giving the Bubonic Plague Award to the Times for doubting the supersonic plane while highlighting Pentagon cost growth, inflation, and limited prospects for defense cuts.
A reader attacks anti Communist demonstrators as ignorant rebels, cites Soviet oppression in Latvia and East Germany, and mocks their cause. The letter vents about Lyndon Johnson era aerospace myths, SST debates, and space age lore while defending U.S. scientific claims and questioning environmental fears. It blends political outrage with curiosities about aviation history and meteorite weather.
Read about trout angling despite winter. The piece reviews classic works by Walton Skues Hewitt Bergman Atherton Ritz Flick and Haig Brown. It praises honest, experience based writing over fish counts and urges buying one or more titles as Christmas gifts.
A long past snapshot reports Harvey Lincoln age 20, son of Rupert deputy sheriff, killed by an accidental gun discharge carried by an 18-year-old student in Tarrytown. The Banner notes other era items including William Tilden quitting amateur tennis, local dog listings, Korean rightists protests, a wounded veteran trampling accident, a GM strike, a court session delaying a wedding, town consolidation talk, and Annie Oakley in local broadcasts.
Ambassadors Bunker and Abrams pressure to stop chemical defoliants in Vietnam now. Senate faced defeat on amendments last year as Stennis and Dole defended use. New Vietnamese findings show about 20 percent of forest lost, triggering Thieu calls to end spraying. A somber tally notes few players admit fault in this costly war policy shift.
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