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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1976
Page
5
The piece notes Ayn Rand quitting her four page Ayn Rand Letter, citing cultural decline. It explores The Fountainhead, integrity, and violence as emblematic of modern dissent from Weatherman to IRA. It questions whether selfhood can exist without destroying others or oneself and hints Rand may write another novel.
A brief Reader's Digest line notes that Christmas can provoke homesickness even while one is at home, reflecting on midlife warmth and nostalgia through a Burlington Free Press citation.
A town clerk record shows Bennington’s population shrinking with 34 deaths and 25 births in 1935. First National Bank reports 456 new accounts and over 25 000 dollars added to surplus. A hospital hill safety warning, a public hearing by Cole Layer Trumble on property evaluations, and the Shea Insurance Agency forming in Savings Bank block are noted. Aliens registered total 138 to date. A unionization push for Vermont farmers looms as Senator Aiken weighs a third alternative to a Viet Nam study mission. Mt Anthony Union School Board approves a contract transfer to Ben Thompson Associates replacing Architects Collaborative. Bennington County Industrial Corp may build a speculative shell building. Retrospective dates include Ford’s 1914 Model T line, 1940 FBI arrests, Casablanca talks, and Agnew disbarment ruling.
Open letter to Shaftsbury taxpayers argues the town clerk's office is too small and poorly heated. It notes limited parking on busy Route 7 and proposes building an addition, suggesting Cole Hall as a solution with extra space from the nearby school addition. The plan includes a vault on the east side of Cole Hall and a fire escape roof platform.
The Banner letters discuss a proposed 10 percent cut in state aid to education by Speaker Tim O Connor. Vermont January 1976 aid losses, Gratiot-Tashman wealth based aid plans, and a push for local income tax to fund schools. A broad shift toward using personal income to measure town wealth is urged, with calls to enable local tax power and to devise a personal income based state aid formula. Senator Herbert Ogden Hartland supports a local income tax plan to separate school funding from property wealth.
A reader letter from Charles F Martin of Blueberry Hill Woodford and Donald L Moffitt of Shaftsbury contests captions in The Shires of Bennington. It corrects identities on multiple pages and argues Cole Hall relocation benefits residents and saves taxes.
In regard to bicentennial expenditures, so far it has mostly been for choo choo trains and gravy trains, with tens of thousands going for planners of tracks that won't hum and promoters of loops and side wheelers. Taxpayers deserve a breakdown of how much of the 3 million dollars will go to administrators, officers, and out of state operators. A more imaginative commission could have enlightened Vermonters in 1976. MALVINE COLE Stratton. To the Editor of The Banner. The following is for Dianne Hall, Dorothy Haddad and the Bennington County Home Extension Groups.
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