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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1962
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont.
A Vermont newspaper urges immediate action to modernize tax methods. The piece calls for a tax equalization board, empowered tax department leadership, and public education to combat apathy and inequities in property assessment and tax collection. It warns against delaying another decade and stresses gubernatorial leadership.
The editorial notes broad backing for defense and Berlin, predicting a 50 billion dollar military budget will pass. It questions Congress and public appetite for expansion of trade, health insurance, illiteracy aid, farm reform, welfare and UN peacemaking versus defense spending, urging broader support for nonmilitary goals.
A concerned writer warns that Vermont faces an existential threat from population growth and over advertising. He predicts traffic jams, crowded sidewalks, and mushrooming housing if borders stay open and publicity continues, proposing drastic measures to curb newcomers.
The piece recounts a Saturday trip with a group of Ban the Bomb demonstrators to Wethersfield to disrupt an Air Force base. The narrator claims a scientific interest in comparing British and French police methods, citing a French officer who joked about making an omelet by cracking eggs as he used force.
Secretary Ribicoff orders $60 million reduction in National Institutes of Health funding at Bethesda with total departmental cuts of $102 million. Critics warn medical research programs and grants to 86 medical schools, psychiatric research centers, and fellowships will be harmed while calling for cuts to nonessential congressional junkets.
A Springfield Union note about a justice of the peace who marries a couple, who then spend their lives in ongoing disputes. The item hints at irony and lasting conflict in a local life story.
Eldon A. Seebart of the Vermont Children's Aid Society praises The Banner editorial on the Newburgh Plan ruling as backward and harmful. He urges constructive criticism, supports Ribicoff on welfare reform, and argues for preventive social work to reduce future costs and human suffering.
HAL BOYLE reflects on adulthood as a widened version of childhood, arguing most people never fully grow up. He notes teens rebel for independence yet later face new demands and responsibilities, leaving adults often frustrated and inwardly childish.
At the first meeting of the year the town selectmen discussed buying a new bucket loader. Chairman Richard Van Santvoord proposed Alphabetical order to avoid partisanship and joked about delivery times. The session featured each salesman given five minutes and references to personal notebooks among board members. A salesman presented pocket memo books to the officials as gifts.
Samuel B. Pettergill of Grafton Vermont spoke at Norwich University convocation warning that the nation is sleepwalking toward disaster. He cited concerns about diet, education, crime and welfare, urging sharper national resolve.
President Kennedy’s message to Congress is ambitious and hurried, patched with last minute changes. He urges action on voting rights, federal education aid, and defense, while acknowledging the political cost of pushing new programs in a pivotal election year.
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