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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1973
Page
2
The Bennington Banner is issued daily excluding Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 0520. This record notes the paper’s publication pattern and corporate address.
Editorial notes CBS faces pressure from Spiro Agnew and the Nixon administration leading to a change in policy. William Paley announces CBS will discontinue immediate newsman analysis after presidential speeches, replacing the prior lively commentary with muted coverage.
The writer denounces CBS for promising to allow opposing figures to respond within a week to the president’s speeches. They warn viewers will lose interest by air time, leaving only the White House line without questions. They argue presidential credibility is low and demand government operation clarity and network accountability.
A West Point cadet, James J. Pelosi, endured 19 months of social ostracism known as the silence after a quiz incident. He finally graduated as a 2nd Lt while most of the class, 938 peers, exposed by their actions, showed the academy’s struggle with morale and modern attitudes toward military education.
The Bennington Planning Commission backs a zoning update requiring flush signs in the central business district. Grandfathered signs remain, but long term the bylaw reduces clutter and wind hazards. Traffic remains heavy as pedestrians claim right of way with few sign painters seen.
The American Institute of Architects proposes a national growth policy to rebuild neighborhoods across urban, suburban, and rural areas. It urges public private cooperation, higher density, open space conservation, and a shift of funding from the Highway Trust Fund toward community development, aiming to house 6 million people by 2000 and restore confidence in planning.
The piece recalls the history of moonshining from colonial tax evasion to modern methods. It notes high liquor taxes driving legal and illegal distilling, sketches personal encounters with moonshiners in Vermont, West Virginia, and New Jersey, and reflects on aging bootlegger networks amid tax changes and shortages.
In a humorous aside on Watergate, neighbors debate whether a CIA aid to Howard Hunt was a misdirected request for spy gear for a costume party. They joke the CIA might have supplied a wig and gadget kit, fueling a theory of mistaken identity and a covert cover.
In Jerusalem Golda Meir weighs retirement or a new term as prime minister. Labor Party secretary general Aharon Yadlin notes she has hinted at resigning, but he doubts she will. Possible successors include Pinhas Sapir, Abba Eban, Yigal Alton, and Moshe Dayan, with Dayan unlikely to secure party support. Meir's choice would bring period of uncertainty but likely no party split.
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