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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1969
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
The piece questions a 100000 dollar pay hike for the president arguing it clashes with budget-cutting aims and inflation, noting possible motives from Congress to lift its own pay and urging fiscal restraint from federal leaders. It compares executive compensation to private sector salaries and warns against setting a costly example.
The Banner notes a harsh winter with persistent storms and subfreezing days. Main roads wear to bare pavement while back roads ice over, causing hazards in Shaftsbury and prompting complaints about salt and sand shortages and remote-area travel.
Editor notes consider renaming the Greater Bennington Association to the Greater Bennington Chamber of Commerce to reflect its service and promotion role. The piece notes modern business groups often adopt chamber names to avoid ambiguity with historical societies or other groups.
A Letter to The Banner argues taxes should be split into land and building charges and people charges. It urges funding property services by use value or per household assessments rather than market value, applying to water,sewage, sidewalks, street lights, and other town services. It suggests per capita or per property methods for broader services.
The text argues for a per household gasoline use tax to fund highway costs with a sliding rural rate for remote homes. It suggests financing education and welfare through income or sales taxes and critiques current state aid refunds to towns based on town wealth.
In Shaftsbury Hollow areas from North Bennington to the New York line treacherous roads with no sand and several ditch incidents have raised safety concerns. A reader cites numerous cars in ditches and a bus driver risk, urging proper road maintenance and tax-based funding reform to prevent accidents.
A Vermont couple recalls a terrifying dream of endless growth and asphalt. Towns multiply into garlands around the state as motels, highways, and factories replace green woods and streams. The vision ends with hope that conservationists and locals can safeguard Vermont’s natural heritage.
Washington senator Eugene McCarthy remains an enigmatic figure to colleagues and followers as he zigzags between positions on Vietnam, leadership roles, and alliances. He opposed Johnson’s policy, aided Nixon, aided Gale McGee’s rise, and defies easy political labels.
John J. Heks of Elmhurst argues that tax rhetoric inflates figures with dollars while real cost appears in pennies. He urges picturing bread loaves purchasable for a dollar to gauge spending and rising prices in common goods like drinks and cigarettes.
Neill and Rappaport respond to a Banner piece on the war on poverty and welfare urging a revolution in attitude. They argue poverty ends only with a drastic shift in national values, abandoning greed as a guiding deity to improve life for all Americans.
A reflective piece on how historians reassess U S presidents amid conflict fear and war. It weighs Washington Jefferson Lincoln Jackson Roosevelt and 20th century leaders like Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon against shifting moral and political judgments, noting ongoing revaluations driven by era and perspective.
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