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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1963
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont.
Editorial notes the Kennedy administration requests 98.8 billion for the next fiscal year, topping wartime totals. Military and space programs would rise to over 57 billion, with non military spending cut, signaling a liberal platform shifting toward defense while domestic services face erosion. The piece frames this as a grim commentary on global tensions and arms control urgency.
The 98.8 billion dollar budget faces likely congressional battles as lawmakers wary of military spending face President Ford's tax cut proposals. Deficit climbs to 12 billion with debt at 315 billion. economists favor growth driven deficits while fiscal conservatives push back.
The piece likens Governor Hoff to Mao’s China as it questions how Vermont may pursue a "great leap forward" in industry transportation and agriculture. It ponders collective farms communes planned economy and possible partisan rifts while noting Republican lawmakers' likely resistance and rural reactions.
Gov. F. Ray Keyser Jr. ends his term with humor and grace and notes the irony of aging as he leaves the governor's chair after two years. He jokes about becoming an elder statesman at age 35 and quips about 105 millimeter howitzers used at the inauguration.
In a public stance, General de Gaulle urges a Gaullist Europe led by Paris and Bonn excluding Britain from political unity while keeping economic ties with the Common Market. He questions whether Italy Belgium and the Netherlands will accept Paris Bonn leadership and warns of a fragile isolationist bloc amid Atlantic ties.
A Banner letter details a family dowsing experience that found water at a farm. The wife reportedly detected a stake’s location and a later dig produced a 12 foot well with clear water, prompting the writer to change views on witching.
In LANDGROVE a discussion on weather’s personal animus recalls Robert Frost as winter’s peril is illustrated by a 1832 Peru Village episode. Seth Lyon and Isaac Long chased wolves, spent days in deep snow, Long losing toes. a crippled wolf was later killed and pelt used to wrap his foot.
The 1946 Fulton speech by Churchill is cited as foreseeing Soviet admiration for power. The piece traces postwar arms rebuilding, the missile era, and the missile gap debate through Eisenhower and Kennedy eras, noting Khrushchev’s East Berlin remarks on U S nuclear superiority and the subdued tone toward thermonuclear conflict.
The Franklin Banner-Tribune notes a wry remark on mortgages as a means to achieve immortal status in humor about debt. The column frames the idea as a light, enduring jest reflecting local lenders and residents.
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