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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1975
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201. The June 11 1975 issue notes its home office and publishing schedule.
The piece notes a shift in American food buying as households cut back on ready meals and frozen items. Flour, baking powder, and yeast rise in sales while frozen foods and convenience meals drop, signaling a potential, lasting move toward casserole capitalism amid recession and energy shortages.
Reader letters critique surveillance era as a police state, citing LSD experiments, prisoner defection, mail covers, and police cooperation with CIA. Commentary connects Rockefeller report to Watergate and warns of state power. includes letters from Bennington and Union Street residents on social and economic strife.
The Bennington Museum showcases powder horns used with flintlock muskets from Colonial days. Horns varied in size and engraving, with smaller priming horns and larger body horns carried by soldiers. Some items bear inscriptions or scenes, including a horn linked to the Battle of Bennington and a Westminister Abbey carving. Several pieces will tour the National Maritime Museum in London in 1976.
A critical essay parallels historic orators with modern public rhetoric. It notes the shift from ceremonial oratory to media manipulation and recalls Barbara Jordan at Williams College, praising her speech and urging graduates to align action with founding ideals while highlighting evolving gender and racial representation.
The House will debate the Energy Conservation and Conversion Act, a Ways and Means response to President Ford’s challenge. It imposes declining oil import quotas and a gasoline tax rising to 23 cents per gallon, with auto taxes tied to mileage. It offers credits for insulation and solar, plus a 40 gallon monthly gas coupon to support lower-income households.
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