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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1968
Page
4
The Bennington Banner, published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corp at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont, offers editorials on local issues and community interests reflecting the paper's stance and civic concerns.
Bennington selectmen urge creation of a Town Road Committee to study North Bennington Road traffic between Ben Mont Avenue and the new shopping center and to push the state Highway Department for improvements. Proposals include widening the road, building sidewalks, reducing speed, a traffic circle at Ben Mont Hunt U.S. 7, a light at U.S. 7 Kocher Drive, turning lanes, and center-area signals funded with shopping-center help.
A letter extols Willow Park as a delightful summer picnic area. Tables sit under shade trees along Park Street with a view across a field toward Mt Anthony and the Battle Monument, shielded from the Flats by greenery.
The New Hampshire Municipal Association reports a 75 percent ten year rise in the state per capita property tax, now $169.39, outpacing income growth. The note cites seniors relying on fixed incomes and urges keeping Willow Park for public use as taxes surge.
The piece argues that Pierre Trudeau embodies a swinging yet competent leadership fit for a shifting national mood. It contrasts Canadian optimism with Britain and the United States, noting Trudeau’s blend of vitality and craft as pivotal to Canada’s bilingual, bicultural identity and its evolving democratic elite. It also links media spectacle, celebrity, and ritual in politics to a broader, era-defining charisma phenomenon.
A reader critiques a Vermont paper for misusing a Vietnam letters headline. The excerpts from Robert C. Ransom Jr. reveal idealism and fear, countering the idea that soldiers relish war, and highlight the disconnect between the headline and the letters' humane, lucid reflections.
In this Letter to the Editor from Irving Fineman of Shaftsbury a familiar Abraham Lincoln passage is cited. The writer argues free society grants equal chance to acquire wealth and improve status, noting New England's poverty and wealth contrasts and wishing Lincoln were running again.
Senate foes accuse President Johnson of briefing Dirksen 36 hours before naming Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry to the Supreme Court. A secret strategy session weighed filibuster risks as GOP leaders protested cronyism and lameduck timing while warning of potential further confirmations.
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