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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1976
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201, serving the local community with daily news coverage and periodical notices.
The piece argues Social Security solvency requires broader reforms not a small payroll tax hike. It notes the regressive impact on low income workers, questions long term effectiveness, and cites Wall Street Journal criticism. Proposals include raising the base wage taxed and rethinking benefits linkage, retirement age, and cost of living adjustments.
The Vermont bicentennial committee moves toward leasing Steamtown Inc. trains for a Bennington to Burlington excursion, with timetable and stop decisions pending. Arlington faces possible elimination to save time, sparking local interest and concern from Arlington officials.
The piece notes starting seeds indoors soon for long season flowers and vegetables. Burpee's of Warminster Pa marks its 100th anniversary with a Big Girl Hybrid tomato and white marigolds from Helen Wonk's seed-saving, plus Seed n Start Kits and VF Hybrid tomatoes. Park Co Greenwood S C introduces Easy Peel tomato and dwarf Pinocchio asters. Spirit of 76 verbenas provide red white blue options.
A Bennington County Superior Court decision granting a land-use permit for a $12 to $15 million 350 room convention center in Winhall is viewed as a normal outcome in Act 250 review. The ruling, the first by Superior Court on an Act 250 case, reinforces that appeals are part of the environmental review process rather than a defeat for environmental safeguards.
The Banner discusses a Senate joint resolution to rescind the 1973 ERA ratification and covers a four hour Jan 22 hearing. It contrasts professional ERA supporters with local women opponents, notes New York and New Jersey 1975 rejections, and suggests Vermont voters decide by statewide vote.
A letter argues the ERA would erase gender differences by law, forcing females into male roles from alimony to combat, while criticizing male avoidance of family duties. It urges responsible parenting, warns against unemployment burdens, and questions covert operations policy amid CIA secrecy.
Reader's Digest reflects on covert operations and congressional scrutiny. The piece weighs banning covert capacity against its claimed necessity for national safety, citing Bay of Pigs failures, ties to crime, and the role of secrecy in international influence. It contrasts bureaucratic expansion with simpler historical precedents and includes a humorous employment anecdote.
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