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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1966
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is a daily Vermont newspaper published by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont except Sundays and holidays.
The death of Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri followed his signing of a Soviet mediated peace pact with Pakistan. The agreement aims to withdraw troops, renounce force, and improve regional relations, shifting scarce resources toward disease and hunger relief.
A Bennington High School PTA panel on creative rebellion concludes a four‑part series on teen education and development. Parents and teachers heard Leonard Goldberg and David Tobis of Williams College, Rev. Donald A. Webster, and State’s Attorney R. Marshall Witten discuss motivations behind student activism, civil rights, and the social factors shaping adolescence.
The Mansfield report and allied senators challenge the White House on Vietnam. After a year of escalated fighting, the open ended war fuels criticism of secrecy and demands a public debate to restore credibility. The piece highlights risk to Saigon ports and the possibility of intensified bombing to seek a quick end.
A humorous column by Elizabeth Dwyer from North Bennington contrasts American advertising ideals with a quiet rural life. The narrator laments the absence of knightly romance and glamor, notes banal home life, failed fashion miracles, and the elusive transformation promised by ads. She jokes about failed beauty products, failed recipes, and tv dinners, concluding that a man’s interest often centers on a cigarette rather than shared affection.
Patricia Prandini, a Bennett College student and Banner reporter, writes from Montgomery about her North to South culture shock. She describes SNCC in Lowndes County, Freedom City tents for tenant farmers, and the visible racial segregation from Fairview Avenue to Negro neighborhoods. She notes police harassment near Freedom House and contrasts orderly white areas with impoverished Black streets near Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.
A mother employs psychology to end her son's thumb sucking. She asks, does it taste good or feel nice? The boy admits no, then explains the appeal lies in it being non fattening. Family Weekly notes the humorous exchange.
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