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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. Located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201.
Sixty seven teens in Hoosick Falls publish a letter urging adults to accept their humanness and oppose curfew talk. The piece contrasts adult fear with youth insistence that they are responsible community members, urging mature understanding from Bennington and Hoosick Falls adults.
In the wake of the Pentagon Papers, veterans like Fulbright Aiken and McCarthy defend antiwar stances and decry an unseen force guiding policy. McCarthy urges listening to reason over partisan noise, arguing the nation must learn from history to shape the future despite Vietnam’s end.
James W. is 48 with six recent jobs and no diploma. Vermont gets a $195,000 Labor Department grant to fund a 21 month Public Service Careers project to place 60 disadvantaged adults in clerical roles, upgrade current workers, and provide social services and adult education, while addressing supervisory barriers and state structural rules.
Gladys Lodge of Dorset writes a lengthy Letter to the Banner praising reading Poisoned Power by Gorman and Tamplin and criticizing nuclear power risks. She cites the Emergency Core Cooling System, insurance concerns, and the Price Anderson Act while urging public action and environmental awareness. She shares personal observations on pests, sustainable farming ideas, and nature as resilience.
A Vermont column riffs on Thoreau and Walden, noting a revival of interest yet questioning its appeal. The author recalls personal ambivalence, recalls encounters with young “Waldenites” in the woods, and warns against taking Walden too seriously while urging readers to try reading it again with patience. The piece contrasts self reliance with modern easy living and Vermont independence.
WASHINGTON a couple of weeks ago on his first day off in three months Sen Edmund Muskie took a golf lesson at a Maine summer resort. The instructor was the same pro who taught there when Muskie bellhopped 40 years ago. He says Stand still wave your arms dont move so damn much. Muskie fears moving left or right could cost electability. He is quiet thoughtful six four 57 and a Democrat from Maine. He worries about creating visible caring beyond his famous 1970 kitchen broadcast. Style is being yourself he says but wonders if a President can win without waving arms or provoking crowds.
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