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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1963
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corp. at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont, providing local news and community notices.
The Banner outlines its shift to cold type and offset printing using Justowriters and perforated tape. It explains faster justified columns, removal of column rules, and transition from hot metal to new devices to reduce costs and boost reporting quality.
The 31 day Atlantic Coast dock strike ends after government backed settlement. Shippers fear costly raises and possible compulsory arbitration while longshoremen concede from demands, prompting broader calls to strengthen how Taft Hartley Act handles mass work stoppages. Public interest and 100000 workers affected, costs over 700 million cited.
A state plans to furnish television sets for all schoolrooms to aid education. Critics question whether TV will replace traditional book learning and other long standing schoolroom traditions.
Washington grapples with longshoremen and printers unions in a broad clash over cargo handling. The fight spans overcaracal skins shipments via the USSR, Cuba trade, automation, and jurisdictional disputes affecting labor and policy on East and West Coast ports.
Robert E. Wall of Wall Streeter Shoe Co. leads New England Shoe and Leather Association amid rising imports and foreign competition. The piece traces postwar growth of European and Asian shoe industries, Bata’s global spread, U S and New England production shares, wage gaps, and the potential of synthetic uppers like Poromeric to reshape costs.
A Vermont 1963 session measure, House Bill No 7, would ban carrying a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle except for on duty police. The piece discusses firearm registration doubts, urges public input to the Judiciary Committee, and cites Lowell Krieg’s speech on private firearm ownership. It also notes Maine’s plan to import Newfoundland caribou for Baxter Park and a ruffed grouse trade.
A poem playful in tone explains variations in the o u gh sequence with examples like rough cough hiccough through and through. The verse frames the broader joke of English irregular spelling while presenting quirky contrasts in pronunciation.
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