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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1973
Page
8
A columnist criticizes television advertising for degrading women and shaping children’s views, citing Geritol Clairol Biz detergent and Downy as examples. It argues ads show mothers as human props for product glory, while men receive far fewer stereotypes. Readers urged to complain, boycott, and demand fairer, reality-based advertising.
A varied library purchase list highlights Build Your Own Low-cost Home, Inside Psychotherapy, Black English, For Those I Loved, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, Green Ye, Bank Shot, Caps and Robbers, A Day No Pigs Would Die, and more. The Bennington Free Library hours are weekday afternoons and evenings.
The Bennington Briefs note a new Kitchen open on Friday nights at Moose Lodge offering steaks and seafood with entertainment by Ernie Caron on piano. Also the Altar Rosary Society hosts a supper and meeting January 30 at John XXIII Institute with speaker Miss Eileen Brogan. AARP meets January 29 at 1 30 p.m. at Baptist Church.
George Chartoff, long time A and P store manager in Mechanicville and former Bennington resident, retires after 51 years with the chain. He recalls early stores, Eight O Clock coffee at 19 cents, and kerosene oil can days. He plans a four week Israel visit and is survived by his wife Hess and daughter Jay Leonard in New York City.
A Sacramento report notes state Senator Donald L. Grunsky of Watsonville urging warning signs in restaurants using microwave ovens to protect pacemaker patients. He warned that electronic impulses from ovens may cause pacemakers to malfunction.
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