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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1970
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is a daily newspaper published by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201, excluding Sundays and holidays.
Editorial argues cost overruns in major Pentagon weapons exceed 20 billion dollars. Robert F Keller cites GAO data showing 38 of 50 programs provided, with initial estimates 42 billion and actual expenditures around 63 billion, a 50 percent rise. Examples include a submarine rescue craft and the Gamma Goat personnel carrier. It accuses deliberate underestimation to speed approvals and ties defense waste to broader budget pressures.
Dean Rusk, once secretary of state, will join the University of Georgia as a professor of international law next fall. Despite opposition from local reactionaries over his liberal stances and his Vietnam policy legacy, he was ultimately approved, reflecting a complex legacy and a new academic career.
Insurgent pressure grows within both parties as they start 1970 in Albany. Democratic chairman John J. Burns struggles to unify reformers and regulars with candidates for governor and other statewide offices. Republicans see turmoil after Charles Goodell’s term tactics challenge Nelson Rockefeller’s leadership, with county chairs seeking a united front before the November contests.
President Nixon signs a broad environmental bill as a first decade act and argues air and water cleanup, new transportation options, and hunger reduction are concrete, manageable goals for the 1970s. He notes a new Environmental Council to drive action and oversight.
Noel Gerson writes the moving cat memoir P.J., My Friend, about Twink and her alley kitten Prince Julius Hamlet later known as P.J. The book traces their bond through home life in New York City and Connecticut, a cat who squings rather than blinks, and shared joys and losses.
The Swiss boom relies on Italian and other foreign workers, but rising xenophobia fuels a Schwarzenbach referendum promising to cap foreign employment at 10 percent. If narrow victory prevails, 300,000 resident workers could be expelled, crippling industry and municipal services across cantons.
Mrs Margaret Ray of 114 Congress St objects to dumping sites near neighborhoods. She questions locations on four corners and Houghton Lane, warns of uncollected bins, smells, and contract abuses, urging serious review of full scale collections before implementation.
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