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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201.
The NAM spends 500000 to reach 7000 members in 27 cities on antipollution rules. Vermont presses International Paper over Lake Champlain sludge as permits and pay to pollute laws raise costs. EPA chief says lifestyle changes may be needed and lawsuits remain a last resort. Consumers may pay via higher product prices as DOJ pursues 40 pending injunctive suits.
The piece notes a government push for a $60 million National Arts Endowment request for 1972 and memos urging department support. It surveys the Kennedy Center preview in Washington with costly tickets and sharp critiques, predicting heavy taxpayer burden as the center opens with major venues and a Bernstein production.
The piece criticizes urban education strife and outlines a union local’s nine of eighteen demands including starting salaries at ten thousand rising to eighteen thousand in six years, longevity pay, early retirement with full pay, full welfare benefits, strict class sizes, and compensation for non teaching duties. It links these to looming tax hikes and broader budget tensions.
A spring scene on Searsburg observes five garden patches left from ten, recalling the farmer narrator’s first mountain year 24 summers ago. They describe organic and manure-based methods, limited chemical use, and a plan to plant lettuce carrots beets beans and 10 tomato plants while neighbors nurture seedlings in sunny window sills amid hopeful weather.
An observation of a Memorial Day event with raindrops and sun, a parade, children waving flags, a Gold Star mother placing flowers in the Walloomsac, camera clicks, Boy Scouts and National Guardsmen, Girl Scouts, VFW Auxiliary, red white and blue bicycle, an army tank, boys at play, applause, a salute, taps, national anthem, baton twirlers, graves, opening prayer, Gettysburg Address, a speech on drug addiction in Vietnam, and a spirited high school band.
A Mosaic of Memorial Day memories and political angst. Quotes condemn war fatigue and celebrate remembrance while highlighting 5.4 million unemployed workers andSen. Edward M Kennedy urging a bill to create 150,000 jobs. The piece blends solemn tributes with calls for economic action.
A reader seeks any paintings drawings or sketches by Anne Charlotte Lynch brought to Bennington in May 1841. She was born in Bennington in 1815 later married Vincenzo Botta of New York. The writer hopes for any surviving examples or references to her early paintings. Rochester.
Jerome W. Campbell of MAUHS music department requests coordinated planning for over 200 band members to perform at Veterans Day and Memorial Day observances. The schedule names Bennington, North Bennington, Shaftsbury, and Pownal events with set times, urging mutual agreement on any changes for 1972 and beyond.
A woman complains to a laundry about receiving six pairs of men's socks in her bundle. She says she is not married. The clerk replies with a practical remedy promising to send a man out right away.
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