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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1975
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201.
A Gallup survey shows only 12 percent support the Ford administration’s $522 million military aid request for Vietnam and Cambodia, with broad opposition across age, education, and party lines. About 90 percent oppose intervention over oil disruption in the Middle East, underscoring public aversion to new armed conflicts.
Bennington voters approved a $5,000 special appropriation for the Bicentennial Committee to cover expert planning and expenses for events in the next two years. The project includes a small “mini park” by the Methodist Church on Main Street funded from a state Bicentennial Commission grant as part of downtown revitalization.
A guide explains the federal mail system. Vermonters have 44 staffers in Washington costing $735,000 yearly to handle mail for Rep. Ford, Sen. Stafford, and Sen. Leahy. Robo letters automate simple replies while personal letters receive individual attention and potentially real signatures.
Profiles recount Vermont aviation history highlighting Brattleboro figures Fred Harris and Nason Arnold, Rutland builder George Schmitt, Manchester Center inventor Charles Hampson Grant, Caledonia State Fair flight by Charles Willard, Gov. James Hartness’s aviation leadership, and Lindbergh’s 1927 Vermont visit with wartime aviator deaths numbering eighteen.
Letters to the Banner discuss a Maine Times article from February 7 1975 outlining a crash program to build the nation’s first methanol plant. Gov Longley directs energy priorities, with pilot plant costs around 2.5 million, funded by federal and private sources, and a plan to expand across high unemployment areas.
A crash program for energy alternatives is urged as Maine relies on external oil and gas. Ethanol and methanol are discussed as auto fuel supplements, with Nebraska testing 14,000 gallons of ethyl alcohol and MIT researchers praising methanol for efficiency and lower pollution. Waste wood could yield methane and then methanol, potentially meeting 10 percent of fuel demand by 1980 if 30 to 40 percent of the potential is realized. Vermont’s wood resources are noted as another source location.
Vermont readers are urged to contact lawmakers about rising living costs unemployment and welfare needs. The note cites proposed changes to elderly and disabled benefits, income taxes and sales taxes, and calls for work requirements and public jobs or aid. It names Sen Westphal Rep Hebard Giuliani and others and provides a hotline for constituent inquiries.
A reader from Westford urges editors to seek leadership that favors taxpayers over bloated programs. The letter attacks liberal and Hoff Salmon Democrats, criticizes old party leaders, and calls for candidates who tell it like it is and promote economical government.
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