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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1964
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
The Bennington Town Meeting drew about a hundred voters as Village Trustee Joseph Pello pressed to raise the town highway tax to lower village general fund taxes. The scene resembled Keystone Cops chaos and a Charlie Chaplin film, revealing tangled municipal finances and opaque accounting that frustrates residents.
The editorial says President Johnson handled his first live news conference cautiously, avoiding bloopers but offering little new public enlightenment. It argues that such formal Q and A sessions are not essential and should not dictate how a president communicates, advocating flexible outreach over rigid formats.
Dartmouth announces a two week Alumni College for alumni and spouses with tuition about 250 dollars per couple. Courses span Science and Human Values Current Economic Problems Literature and Contemporary Affairs and The Scientific Age Dream and Reality. Four Dartmouth professors teach. preparatory readings include Job Walden and Shakespeare.
The Bennington area faces merging town and village governments as road tax disputes reveal growing need for unified services. J Duncan Campbell, chair of the Bennington Republican Town Committee, argues for consolidation to prevent ongoing separatism and reduce financial confusion. The piece links a post Kennedy era mood shift to bipartisan demand for stability and cautions against extremism while praising Johnson and Goldwater debates.
In a Vermont special session the focus shifts from improving schools to defending local control from the state Board of Education. The Hebard amendment blocks withholding state aid for not meeting board standards, prompting debates over library funding, teacher salaries, and the balance of Montpelier versus Glover influence.
Hal Boyle reflects on memory as a passport to a stable past. He sketches midcentury American life through vignettes of Joe College, coonskin coats, dancing the fox trot, hot biscuits with butter, gold watches, blind love, patent medicines, sheriff candidacy, barber shop chatter, chewing gum under dinner tables, and Rin Tin Tin earning more than the president.
The piece argues that a small U.S. wheat sale to Russia did not trigger new world trade shifts. It highlights shifts in global power centers, with France and de Gaulle pursuing diplomacy, Britain and Japan seeking trade outlets, and the rising role of nonaligned nations amid cold war tensions.
After Lord Home's visit, Britain reports a January trade gap of 120 million pounds, the largest monthly deficit in history. The prospect of ongoing shortfalls drives expansion of trade with Russia including risky long-term credits.
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