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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner reports editorials issued by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201 noting daily publication schedule excluding Sundays and holidays.
Gov. Deane C. Davis will ask the 1972 Legislature to create an eighth administrative district covering most of Bennington County, leaving Rutland's district intact. The move preserves county service offices and local planning and environmental commissions, urging Bennington towns to cooperate as a countywide unit.
The Putnam Square Cynic notes no large youth influx toward Bennington as predicted. He observes caravans of campers with families and dogs, and explains Vermont’s summer living is easy but not free. Local school tax changes are modest, with Pownal at 4.07 and neighboring towns varied but generally lower than past years.
The essay argues that modern life fueled by industrial speed and instant gratification erodes historical understanding. It cites rising undergraduate history declines, television dominance, and a culture that prizes quick results over deliberate effort, warning that rejecting the past empties life of meaning.
A Vermont student urges open on campus drinking, criticizing the Liquor Control Board for banning rathskellers at colleges. He recalls UVM student leadership backing a campus Rathskeller and warns of student ire if the plan dies while defending citizens rights to drink in an open setting.
A Louisville Courier Journal column echoes Sam Yorty's 1965 Vietnam letter to Lyndon Johnson criticizing Nixon era passive wartime strategy. It argues for decisive action to destroy sanctuary sites and end Hanoi's war support, urging full use of military power and reject negotiations seen as appeasement.
The text cites Sam Ogden and M. Siveram on Vietnam history, Pentagon Papers, and Ho Chi Minh. It argues Washington protected the shift in Indochina, criticizes press bias, and praises Marguerite Higgins as essential yet silenced.
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