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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1977
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201.
Vermont Governor Snelling outlines a budget with a $30 million surplus in the next two years based on a brighter economy. He seeks $2.2 million more for local education, larger special education funding, modest vocational aid, and $400,000 more for state police to add 40 officers. A 16.6 percent pay raise for state employees accompanies a longer work week.
The article recalls Tip O Neill rising to speaker and now confronting an ethics issue involving Rep. Robert L F Sikes. Sikes chaired the Military Construction panel and voted for a $73 million contract for Fairchild Industries in which he held stock. The House Ethics Committee recommended a reprimand last year. many Democrats want removal of his subcommittee chair, but O Neill has not supported that step. Critics say his stance undermines his ethical reform rhetoric and echoes past leadership under Carl Albert.
Vermonters prepare for March Town Meetings by revisiting Ira Allen no 1798 assessment of Vermont The founder praised the land its people schools and women urging industrious settlement and mutual aid He described mountains farms forests and the welcoming nature of Vermonters with a call to work together for the state Future items will extend his view of Vermont in the late 18th century and compare it to the late 20th century expectations
The author writes to Sen Barry Goldwater and President Carter protesting the pardon of draft evaders and condemning Johnson era wartime actions. He argues many draftees acted under government power, some driven by fear or propaganda, and notes that over thirty thousand draftees died with long lasting consequences for many others.
A rambling column blends draft era distrust with a Western parable featuring the Clanton boys from a CIA motif and a visiting senator named Theodore Sorensen arriving as a white horse stranger in Manchester Center. The piece satirizes Washington liberals, mail tampering, and Senate authority in a desert saloon allegory.
A satirical comparison pits CIA power and Washington establishment against reformers and schoolmarm rhetoric. References to Kissinger, detente, and a Western trope critique how elite interests shape policy, with a parable about cattle breeding ending in a humorous Indian wizard twist.
A reader recalls finding a half starved honey colored angora kitten frozen in a snow bank during a storm. She condemns the cruel act and offers a liberal reward for information leading to an arrest, while the cat is up for adoption after neutering.
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