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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1975
Page
5
A humorous chronicle of replacing failed outdated house parts and the cascade of mismatched modern replacements. The narrator confronts a flood of “they don’t make it any more” refusals from salesmen for hinges, shutters, windows, floors, and even houses as a moving, collapsing punchline.
A 1975 Christian Science viewpoint finds Americans broadly content economically yet discontent with government. The piece notes rising inflation, joblessness, and hunger amid a mood favoring less government, fewer taxes, and reduced spending, with leaders in both parties facing a shift toward neoconservatism.
Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zare outlines seven energy strategies for the United States. He urges conservation taxes, domestic oil development including offshore reserves and the Alaskan pipeline, expanded coal and natural gas production, lifting interstate gas price controls, new energy tech like nuclear and solar, stockpiling oil from naval reserves, and harnessing American creativity in a free market to avert future embargo pain. He argues these steps will boost supplies, cut imports, and strengthen national resilience.
A 4 percent brown trout of 23 inches was caught by Guy R. Burgess in the South Stream, leading the season's catches for Bennington County. Elsewhere, the home of Mrs. Guy T. Murray in Old Bennington, a historic house linked to Moses Robinson, was deeded to Allene Corliss. Vermonters will receive $20 monthly old age assistance under the federal Social Security Bill, per W Arthur Simpson.
John H. Maloney of Bennington County was elected vice president of the Vermont State Sheriffs Association at a Hartford Vermont meeting. Vermont's 1960 census shows Bennington gain 973 residents with county total rising from 22,282 in 1940 to 23,873 in 1950. Arlington grows from 1,418 to 1,459. Reapportionment bills promise a Bennington House seat. Shaftsbury and Arlington residents back town planning and a five member planning committee. Bennington College heads toward a new president this weekend. Historical notes include 1940 England to Canada transport, 1948 Berlin blockade, and 1973 Nixon Brezhnev talks toward peace.
In a two mile California freeway crash with over 100 vehicles the columnist imagines harvesting energy from auto collisions. He notes chain reactions and demolition derbies as potential power sources, while acknowledging limits of feasibility and urging practical use of unintended smashups.
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