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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
The House approved pay raises for state employees and department heads, arguing higher salaries attract capable officials to run expanding government. The piece defends public workers against cynicism, notes the high mental health commissioner's pay, and warns against second‑rate salaries producing second‑rate personnel. It concludes the bill is a realistic step toward efficient public administration.
The piece commends labor and management for negotiating to avert a work stoppage at Ben-Mont Papers. It notes Hoosick Falls school superintendent Jim Beaverson will leave to become president of Athens College in Greece, praising his impact on the district. It also voices support for Sen. Wilson’s reapportionment plan and highlights Dick Diamond’s Bennington Planetarium project as progressing from idea to near reality.
A reflective piece extols stump-sitting as a low cost, solitary recreation away from urban noise. It praises peaceful woodland solitude, the sensory pleasures of humus and birds, and views stump-sitting as a route to personal clarity and a calmer, ordered life.
President Johnson’s Howard University commencement speech is hailed as a landmark that maps a divide between eras. It confronts enduring Negro inequality, recalls the hard political battles over voting rights, and calls for a Fall conference to pursue deeper remedies beyond current programs.
Vermont youth from Bennington and North Bennington join six day Boys and Girls States events at Norwich University and Vermont College Montpelier. The program, funded by American Legion groups, trains leadership and civic skills with a detailed six day agenda and a creed emphasizing duties of citizenship.
A Vermont student, from Brattleboro, ranks high academically while pursuing studies at Randolph Technical College. He skied, ski jumped, and joined the outing club, balancing work summers on a Guilford vegetable farm with duties as team manager and later pursuing electronics in industry. He plans further training to secure an electronics job, potentially with Raytheon, showcasing Randolph’s role in producing technologists for automation.
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