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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1975
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201.
Officials and supporters urge immediate steps to address Lake Paran's financial emergency. For about 15 years donations kept the operation afloat but revenue alone cannot safely sustain the facility. Options include private sale or private club operation with high fees, while public subsidy may be needed to keep the jewel accessible to ordinary citizens.
Town leaders debate Paran’s share of the $250000 recreation budget for 1976. North Bennington residents contribute about 10 percent of town taxes and receive about $25 000 of the budget. Critics say cutting Paran would harm a valued public resource used by hundreds and urge consideration of its regional recreational role.
The passage imagines a nationwide celebration as the United States nears its 200th birthday. It paints a vivid scene of towns popping corks and Americans waking to a country transformed by widespread festivities and lingering party energy on the eve of the Great Day.
Russia and the United States will issue identical Apollo Soyuz commemorative stamps selling for 12 kopecks in the USSR and 10 cents in the US. With first class mail expected to rise to 13 cents soon, the 10 cent stamp may become obsolete before release. The note adds that postage speeds advance like a rocket, yet mail delivery lags, sometimes joked to travel by moon between points on earth.
A letter to The Banner extols Vermont Public Interest Research Group VPIRG as a public interest advocate driven by youth in colleges. It notes legislators opposed to VPIRG printed a score sheet showing votes and fears a push to expel VPIRG from Montpelier.
In a letter to The Banner, the writer urges keeping flashing beacons at the Bennington airport as vital navigational aids rather than decorations. They argue lights inform pilots of terrain, trigger runway illumination, and protect residents and pedestrians, noting automatic shutoff after 15 minutes. The piece frames progress with this safety feature as central to Bennington’s map presence.
A reader from Niles objects to The Banner printing gun control articles and urges balanced coverage. He asserts the Constitution also protects the right to keep and bear arms and condemns the paper for omitting opposing views.
The piece attacks Indian leaders including Nehru and Indira Gandhi, alleging arrogance shaped by English education, criticizing U N recognition of China, and condemning India’s bureaucracy and illiteracy. It mocks Indira Gandhi’s claim of a peaceful atomic bomb, contrasts Western aid with India’s failures, and ends with a verse reference to Kashmir.
Washington observers critique Ford Schlesinger breakfast remarks as a deliberate push to keep nuclear war on the table. The piece links renewed emphasis on first use to credibility doctrine, cites Kennedy era policy, and notes international and domestic backlash while tracing parallels with Nixon and Kissinger.
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