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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 125 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201.
The editorial criticizes OSHA rules requiring wired glass and metal frames on windows near fire escapes at North Bennington School. It argues the plan to remove fire escapes and route evacuations through narrow interior stairways endangers children and reflects bureaucratic overreach, noting decades of safe drills and credited student judgment.
The text argues that lay readers misjudge budgets while accounting language hides true surpluses or deficits. It notes Vermont is in a biennial budget balance dispute led by Governor Hoff discussions.
Gov Tom Salmon reports a 700000 surplus for fiscal 1974 while House Speaker Walter Kennedy questions the figure. Republicans and Democrats trade accusations over deficits and austerity as Vermonters eye rising prices and future tax policy amid a tight election climate.
Readers ask why private power interests face perilous finances and where the seven percent million dollars funding Velco went. They question if low cost Seaway power ever reached Vermont ratepayers and how a 1966 vote shifted against Churchill Falls. They note Vernon plant costs rising from fifty eight to sixty eight million and demand profits from exported power be shared with ratepayers while challenging atomic power as inefficient and costly.
Mrs. Marion Smith provided a pool lift at the Community Recreation Center to help handicapped entrants. It is used during two sessions, with lifeguards setting up the device quickly upon request. Bennington Recreation Director LOOMIS G. DANA thanks Mrs. Smith for expanding pool accessibility. T. WESLEY GRADY raises concerns about private power interests and state subsidies in Vermont.
In a U S News interview Luce argues that societies need a religion or faith to explain life and death and that democracy falters as Judeo Christian values erode. She likens communism and Nazism to enticing belief systems and warns Western democracy risks decline if religious foundations fade.
John Cooper of Guildhall moved to Windsor in 1827 with a pump for a steamboat that failed to function well yet spurred improvements leading to the National Hydraulic Pump Co. founded by Jabez Proctor. Proctor used Windsor Prison labor and helped morale. Hubbard, Proctor's partner, became warden. The piece catalogs Vermont inventors from Windsor, Middlebury, Brattleboro, and Brandon, highlighting Davenport and the electric motor, Morse, the flush toilet, and the origin of the term john for toilet.
Gerald Ford leads the Republican field in a Gallup poll with 27 percent support, up three points since January, and tops independents as well. Reagan trails Ford among independents, while Rockefeller and Goldwater hold smaller shares. Ford’s national profile grows through campaigning, fundraising, and party leadership, positioning him as a likely 1976 nominee.
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