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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1970
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily excluding Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201. The notice specifies the newspaper’s publication schedule and corporate address for business correspondence and subscriptions.
Vermont Governor Deane Davis presents a measured opening address for 1970 urging clean water government reorganization creative localism a statewide war on poverty and improved law enforcement. The piece notes his conservative fiscal approach balanced with empathy for Vermonters and calls for legislative support.
A reader urges against installing dump depots around Bennington and proposes weekend landfill hours instead. The writer notes costs for bins and transport, dangers of mess and odor, and suggests keeping the dump open Saturdays and Sundays to ease weekly waste disposal, though extra staffing would be needed. The letter asks selectmen to try the weekend option.
Beatrice J Brown of Brattleboro argues radiation risk from the Vermont Yankee plant and condemns the Vermont Public Service Board and AEC actions as invalid. She cites the November 21 1967 bond authorization, missing public hearings, and fatal leukemia cases near Brattleboro, urging establishment of a radiation monitoring service.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration defends shutting a 50 million dollar a year electronics research center in Cambridge Massachusetts as NASA faces budget cuts. The move prompts questions about White House influence, regional political impact, and potential effects on area universities and tech firms amid broader defense reductions.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen discusses why U S foreign policy is hard to justify. He argues the policy rests on external wartime developments, not direct material US interests, and relies on broad aims like peace and freedom from threat. He warns moral framing can irritate sophisticated nations.
John R Thompson accuses WABC-TV and interviewer Melba Tolliver of allowing Peer Winther of the Student Mobilization Committee to use air time to denounce U S involvement in Vietnam. He claims no critical questions were asked and implies media withhold balanced reporting to avoid upsetting the public.
Vermonter Verder Elwell of Shaftsbury endorses Rep John Alden in opposing defoliation and a militant border fence from Atlantic to Pacific. He warns such a barrier would erode neighborly trust and urges Bennington County residents to lobbying their representatives.
A reader asks how the Bard would view campus unrest and welfare policy. He suggests Shakespeare might oppose pilot programs and advocate reform of existing welfare, questioning why a college graduate earns less than a non-worker and urging effort to secure job outcomes after education. Sent from Thomas M. S. Pinsonneaul t.
Ramparts summary warns of Paul Ehrlich’s Eco catastrophe scenario predicting the end of the ocean due to hard pesticides. It highlights predicted famines, mass deaths, dead fish, and oxygen loss from destroyed plankton, with corporate pesticide campaigns like Azodrin intensifying the danger and urging public action to ban worldwide poisoning.
The vice president argues against pressuring Saigon to broaden its government while detailing how the United States funds and equips South Vietnam. He notes Thieu’s moves to curb dissent, a bloated payroll in the 25th Division, and the broader costs and casualties of Vietnamization. The piece critiques corruption, press censorship, and flawed governance in Saigon, contrasting U.S. aims with realities on the ground. It ends by clarifying a prior misinterpretation about Human Events being anti Semitic.
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