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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1968
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial urges Vermont to act on the Kerner report and the Poor People's March, noting white racism exists as part of the national crisis. Gov Hoff proposes admitting 400 Negro youths to broaden horizons, while local groups form committees and housing projects. The piece calls for turning discussion into concrete action.
In Bennington County editors praise North Shire women for ditty bags aiding soldiers in Vietnam and hope for more shipments. An octogenarian rebukes a note about necking origins, apologizing to older generations. Brian Albiser joins Bennington probation and parole, aiding rehabilitation. Many weddings and engagements hint men slowing down from car rides.
Charles G. Carson Jr of Dothan rebuts a Bennington College piece on Dothan’s race relations. He challenges its geography, research, and portrayal of local policing, urban renewal, voter registration, and racial advancement, defending local bi racial progress and debunking alleged biases.
In this essay style piece the narrator muses on the meaning and variety of gardens. He cites English garden plans and landscape ambitions near North America, contrasts formal and wild gardens, and shares anecdotes from Vermont and Maine about plants, hedges, and the value of natural, restful landscapes over showy, costly designs.
Washington report outlines Nixon's push for black capitalism tied to Negro employment in core cities. It notes experts doubt private capital can scale gains without federal aid, cites Burrell’s plan for black owned business centers, and discusses SBA funding limits and the risks facing ghetto entrepreneurship amid budget debates and political pitches.
A light column humorously riffs on Dr Haim Ginott who urges angry parents to teach good English to children. The narrator recalls grade school retorts and uses elaborate terms such as miscreant cataclysmic devastation and peccancy to illustrate edifying parental wrath and vocabulary building.
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