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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1969
Page
4
The Bennington Banner operates daily except Sundays and holidays. It is published by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201.
The piece argues bureaucratic overreliance on studies and grants harms action, highlighting Bennington Day Care Center as a proven, needed program starved of subsidies. It condemns policy delays and defends continued federal aid tied to desegregation, praising Secretary Finch while criticizing White House political meddling.
The piece argues that J Edgar Hoover overstated limits on electronic surveillance and states that FBI bugging occurred widely from the 1950s to 1965 without proper attorney general authorization. It notes King wiretaps and other cases, including Levinson and Milwaukee, with officials like Kennedy, Rogers, Katzenbach, and Clark referenced in context.
A pair of letters to The Banner criticize a June issue editorial on nuclear safety and urge broader discussion beyond the AEC. The second letter laments a North Bennington Little League dispute, urging calm, fair play, and parental restraint to protect players and coaches.
Vernon C. Squiers Selectman Dorset describes a dramatic Route 30 crash near the Dorset West Road. He cites a bad road section near a bridge as a probable cause, noting two motorcycles collided in clear weather and at low speed, leaving one rider severely injured and expressing concern over repeated accidents and fatalities on that stretch.
The writer details a mountain garden in mid summer with peas blooming lettuce ready for thinning and a new asparagus crop promising next season. Weeds threaten patches while onions cucumbers and tomatoes struggle. A letter from 18-year-old Pfc. Wendell J. Southard in Vietnam praises true American youth and urges support for troops and Fourth of July reflection.
In the House Hale Boggs navigates a tight deadline to advance H.R. 4229 and a Senate rider on chicory roots. Phil Burton pressures for freezing the welfare aid, while John Byrnes seeks to lift the freeze. A conference committee resolves the pension and tax withholding clash, ending with approval and extension to aid dependent children.
The United Mine Workers Journal presents a cartoonish exchange where a mother asks her son to take his little sister fishing. Junior refuses, saying she scared away the last catch by eating the bait, prompting a humorous peek at family dynamics within a mining community.
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