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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1969
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is a daily newspaper published by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201. It operates every day except Sundays and holidays, providing local news, events, and community notices to Bennington and surrounding areas.
The piece argues for U S initiative to admit Communist China to the United Nations as a new administration nears, noting Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek presence and suggesting a phased approach. It cites Kennedy and policy thinkers proposing realignments with Beijing while delaying hard resolutions on U N membership. It highlights Italy and Canada moving toward relations with China and calls for starting a clearer policy now.
Editor notes announce the Bennington Area YMCA will build a new facility and expand programs in 1970 serving Bennington and surrounding communities. Residents are urged to support the effort as years of planning progress. Also covered are Vermont education funding figures and a Vermont Highway Department hearing at the armory on South Street tonight with a call for public input.
The New Left, once marching 10,000 to Washington for Nixon’s Inaugural, faces leadership questions as Gene McCarthy’s role and Ted Kennedy’s future loom. Media interest fluctuates. campus protests persist but aim for nonviolent debate. Nixon may offer a respite by shifting to volunteer drafts and quieter campus activism.
A reader complains of unreliable garbage men and inflated charges. He recalls a humorous Vermont tale of a garbage man who moonlights as a doctor, and jokes about a new business in Bennington selling a satisf actions guaranteed garbage refund.
Pfc William E Deery Jr from Fort Myer Virginia recalls carrying the Vermont state flag during the January 20 inaugural parade in Washington DC a moment he calls a great honor for a Vermonter at heart.
A writer recalls a Disney TV film set in a fictional Swiftwater Vermont where Calloway fights to protect wild ducks from a tourist trap plan. The tale ends with community insight, bucking development to preserve open space and birdlife. The piece compares Calloway’s inspired refuge with Victory Bog amid Vermont debates on conservation.
The author notes Vermont remains largely unchanged in many spots, yet urban influence has increased over the past decades. He questions whether Vermonters can resist modern comforts after generations of hard pioneer life and rocky soil.
The Vermonter may still find mountaintop or valley seclusion hours away, where one can feel alone among birds and woodland creatures. But such places are shrinking yearly as urban growth tightens its grip and calls for a defender like Callaway grow uncertain.
The article examines why Nixon’s administration, aiming for a cross racial team, faced resistance from black leaders. Secretary Finch cites Uncle Tom concerns as an oversimplification while cases like Elsa Poston and James E. Johnson illustrate a cautious recruitment approach. Negro leadership remains fractured as Wilkins and Young highlight complexity in filling top posts.
A humorous line from Airscoop recounts a Texas boy rushing home to demand a pistol set and holster from his mother, claiming the teacher will teach drawing at school the next day. The exchange playfully hinges on wordplay about school and drawing.
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