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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1967
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 questions why Mt Anthony Union High School bond failed though adding a new wing would have cost less than renting BCHS space. Voters may oppose spending, yet district strengthened by a $22,000 budget increase. Catholic involvement and rental prospects complicate outcomes as boards seek a new plan for 1968.
Lyndon Johnson’s broad water and public health goals face Capitol Hill opposition amid Vietnam war pressures and Middle East turmoil. A U.S. led 94 nation symposium showcased water technology, desalination, and international aid, with U.S. support totaling about $5 million in organizing and exhibits. The piece notes Israeli desalination progress, Egyptian debt, and Soviet involvement, concluding that Johnson’s global tech-driven public health program deserves sympathy even from his fiercest critics.
A hypothetical meditation imagines Brezhnev, King Faisal, Indira Gandhi, and Johnson exchanging views on Vietnam, Nasser, Suez, and oil. The piece toys with measured diplomacy and the tension between national interests, Western conscience, and wartime commitments amid Middle East turmoil.
The Banner highlights recent graduates and brides amid national worries, praises Burr and Burton teacher Paul H. Bullock Sr. after 46 years, and notes local water extension delays awaiting federal approval. It comments on bureaucratic red tape, Vermont politics, Putnam Square weather complaints, aging reflections, and a satirical take on realism from other papers.
A humorous reflection on pets needing psychiatric care and the absurdities of animal psychology. The writer recalls dogs, a rabbit, a mailer, goldfish, a canary, a turtle, and an ant colony in a comical sequence of animal misfits and mistaken therapy.
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