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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1975
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Economists Anita Summers and Barbara Wolfe of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve challenge long held beliefs about teacher effectiveness. The study suggests that years of service and advanced degrees may not guarantee better results with poor students and that factoring pay by seniority or degrees may be misguided. The decisive factor appears to be the quality of the school where a teacher earned their BA.
Bennington selectmen will hold a hearing tomorrow at 7 30 p m in town offices on proposed alterations to the zoning map and bylaws. Public input could shape final regulations amid ongoing disagreement between the planning commission and the town boards over roadside commercial restrictions.
Editor notes mourn the Caravan Players departure from the Dorset Playhouse after 27 years of summer theatre. Patricia Carmichael will direct a two weekend bicentennial show in July focusing on the Green Mountain Boys and Vermont in the American Revolution. Also mentions Nixon friends considering a New York base and possible primary antics.
Dear Editor, a farewell note from missionaries leaving Bennington describes gratitude for the community. The verses praise New England hills and memories of New England days, the mission field, and friends made, with best wishes and blessings for all.
Robert G. Cornwall MAUHS Shaftsbury writes to Banner to state that the decision to drop the Living course at Mt. Anthony Union High School for next year was not due to an official ax from the school board. He asks readers to understand the action was not caused by administrative or board intervention.
A reflective essay argues that TV violence could be detoxified by presenting it as cartoon myth rather than real life. It notes past media depictions from fairy tales to cartoons rarely harmed audiences and suggests shifting to mythic framing, though it acknowledges actor unemployment.
A reader challenges Kevin Hicks on Cambodian ideology, arguing Cambodians are Maoists rather than strict Marxist Leninists. The letter cites I F Stone and contrasts Leninist urban peasant power, noting mass mobilization and reeducation patterns, and likens national socialisms across Germany Italy, Russia, China, Cuba.
Gerald Raftery of Arlington notes Harrison Salisbury’s 1966 analysis of the bloc’s emotional federation and North Vietnamese schooling aided by Poles Hungarians and East Germans, plus a "genocide" claim contrasted with population changes due to disease.
The piece critiques Congress as timid for failing to enact a national energy program, while President Ford delivers a forceful energy speech. It warns of future confrontations with oil scarcity, notes a 10 day holiday mindset, and analyzes U.S. global influence, CIA, FBI misdeeds, and corporate entanglements amid a shifting world order.
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