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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1969
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
The 1912 Putnam Deed of Gift blocks water rate increases and restricts annual repairs, risking stagnant pipes and bill shock for Bennington Village. A townwide survey may expose costs, but deed limits could thwart needed improvements despite calls to "break" the deed.
Editor’s Notes and local commentary compare spellings of Kelly Stand and Kelley, mention nearby East Arlington Stratton road. Also discuss Bennington traffic, Massachusetts state worker pay, Vermont budget for 1970, and a skeptical view of anti ballistic missile costs amid land sales and Mets fascination near Shea Stadium.
The McGovern Commission advances to democratize delegate selection, urging open primaries and voter traceable choices. While nine states lack democratic processes, reforms spread, with Chicago and Washington cited, and leaders wary of utopian aims yet recognizing the need to curb partisan control.
A commentator argues that urban greenery and shade should not be tied to income levels. The piece recalls observations from Bennington and Virginia about neighborhoods, banks, and landlords, noting how greenery appears across areas and suggesting wealth influences tree access. It ends with a moral about banks symbolizing money and trees.
The Cape Codder notes a shift in fertility thinking citing Editor and Publisher and Dr. Dudley Kirk of Stanford. It highlights that information health and education items relate more to fertility than economic or urban factors, and recalls Danish milk-foot folklore with a pun on footnotes.
McLuhan argues that books will persist in the electronic future though his preferred prose is abstruse. He told booksellers that any undermine of the alphabet undermines civilization’s progress, a remark seen as a major contribution to letters.
A letter from New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, read at Watertown Connecticut, 309th annual session, calls President Nixon to halt offensive operations, pursue ceasefire, end repression in Saigon, consider interim coalition gov ernment and immediate troop withdrawals. Ruth F. Osborne presides. letter signed by Mrs Ruth F. Osborne.
New York City gallery showcase features Reginald Marsh cartoons drawn after Yale graduation. The 25th anniversary exhibit at City Center Gallery on West 55th Street highlights Marsh’s vaudeville caricatures, created for New York News and later celebrated in major venues.
Anonymous couplet from How To Get a Good Night s Sleep notes Adam and Eve, while Boston Globe quips Pilgrims made wooden teeth and kids saying look Ma no knotholes a Red Blanchard Wal lace s Farmer reference preserved in the clipping.
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