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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
Deputy Attorney General Chester S. Ketcham told Democratic legislators in Montpelier that the federal courts would block any attempt to use a constitutional convention to deny one man one vote. He asserted the legislature must act now to realign Vermont's representation per the court ruling.
Editor notes the parallel between Churchill and Lyndon B. Johnson as heirs to freedom, praising Churchill’s wartime defiance and warning that Johnson must sustain Kennedy's line. It argues the late 1960s demand decisive leadership in a dangerous, thermonuclear world and urges resolute U.S. engagement rather than retreat.
The Johnson administration seeks defense cuts totaling about 2 billion for the year ending June and 1966 while expanding national power. Advances in military tech allow phasing out costly hardware, enabling higher social spending under the Great Society. Despite opposition from congressmen losing defense plants, McNamara leads cuts with political nerve and Democratic backing.
Burlington Free Press notes Santa Monica Judge W Blair Gibbons imposes drastic penalties on drinking driving offenders. Offenders watch accident hospital scenes, perform broom detail cleanups, and view real life horror color films to deter recidivism, urging Vermont to adopt similar steps amid high highway tolls from drinking and careless driving.
Peter L. Streit of Warren Vermont warns that Supreme Court reapportionment decisions threaten state sovereignty. He argues courts cannot alter Vermont’s constitution or legislative makeup and urges freemen to defend states rights against federal overreach in a public letter to The Banner.
A reader critiques James Fenimore Cooper’s prose and social satire in Homeward Bound and Home as Found, contrasting Cooper’s aristocratic Eve Effingham with modern fashion and morals. The piece notes Noel Perrin’s Vermont Life discussion, cites Run River, and comments on evolving propriety and public taste.
The article praises Lyndon Johnson at his Capitol inauguration, noting his natural leadership and the global focus on the event. It contrasts American democracy with tyranny, urges unity and rejection of hate, and questions how his background can guide crisis decisions while highlighting the need for equal responsibility and belief in liberty. A short joke about a waiter and a lion closes the piece.
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