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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont, providing local news and notices to residents.
Arkansas Senator J William Fulbright proposes a restrained holding action to avoid both full withdrawal and full escalation in Vietnam. He warns against triggering massive Chinese intervention or nuclear war, favors negotiated settlement, notes White House resistance to expansion, and highlights rising troop deployments and political pressure from Republicans.
The Bennington Museum announces James Mitchell as assistant curator reflecting growth as a major tourist draw under curator Richard Carter Barret and trustees. Also noted is Edward J. Bloustein taking Bennington College presidency amid expansion plans and Gov Hoff backing Sen Aiken on rural water development. Rumors persist about arson fires downtown River Street. officials urge release of any tangible evidence. A farmer viewing abstract art quips the piece best illustrates the farm situation, no matter the view.
A perspective piece argues the Vietnam conflict is a dangerous, unwinnable land war far from the sea, with American casualties likely in the thousands. It recalls Truman and Korea, notes difficult geography and ambiguous goals, and urges realism over hoped for sanitar y warfare.
UPI writer lauds Ed White and James McDivitt for high quality home movie footage from the Gemini four mission. The narrator notes the films stayed focused with minimal jerkiness and no distracting details, and jokes about wife guidance. He suggests future space cinema may grow monotonous after repeated orbital views.
After the initial excitement, astronauts may grow bored with long space missions as experiences repeat. The adage says once you have seen one planet, you have seen them all, highlighting fatigue with routine space travel.
Political fight over a proposed New York state lottery shapes the 1966 governor contest. The Democratic legislature backed a constitutional amendment. Rockefeller opposed it for now but left room to reconsider. Supporters expect a four-horse race weekly drawing to yield 400 to 500 million annually for education and possible tax reform.
In New York a column argues Dirksen must push to alter the one person one vote standard for state legislatures. It notes states rush to reapportion after the Supreme Court ruling, Connecticut’s convention plan, and low voter turnout amid boss-controlled candidate selection. Vivien Kellems’s protest is cited as emblematic of public dissatisfaction.
A witty Coronet anecdote has a traveler recounting a trip to Europe where a listener asks if she saw the Alps. She replies that she did more than sight them, noting she had lunch with them, illustrating humorous exaggeration about travel memories.
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