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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1966
Page
4
The Republican dominated legislature ends a productive session praised for action oriented results. Gov. Hoff notes major accomplishments including an educational TV network and a prison reform bill. Reapportionment reshaped power, with more business like, less partisan lawmakers pursuing change.
The BCHS basketball team defeated Rice Memorial to claim a second state championship. Tom Caron and Stan Krawczyk accepted the trophy, praising teamwork, training, and coach Frank Bizzarro's leadership for guiding Catholic High to another crown. The piece hints at a possible third consecutive title.
George Van Santvoord announces his last weekly legislature report to appear tomorrow. Rep. Kenalene Collins accepts Gov. Hoffs rebuke with good humor and might retaliate with a paddle. Town meeting at Bennington Village invites discussion of budget and tax rate with Tuesday balloting for village president planned.
Letters discuss proper placement and long term goals for educable and trainable mentally retarded students. Community programs since 1953 and 1965 law are cited, with calls to expand enrollment, join Bennington or Rutland, and ensure rooms are used to support tested needs. Also notes on public power politics and salvage yard zoning. plus a Brazil pen pal appeal.
A Vermont columnist argues that retirees and summer visitors form the ideal industry for the state, providing steady demand without crowding schools or jobs. He jokes about junked cars, envisions pine landscaping subsidies, notes younger movers arrive for illness, and contrasts Vermont’s “happy people with happy problems” to urban crises like New York’s schools and industry loss.
Democratic leaders in Albany grow less confident about unseating Gov. Rockefeller and search for a candidate capable of winning. A party leader suggests Rockefeller's stock rose after John V. Lindsay became mayor, with other theories including tax reaction or too many candidates in the field.
The piece surveys potential gubernatorial contenders led by Eugene Nickerson with Frank O Connor Franklin D Roosevelt Jr and Howard Samuels eyeing campaigns while Robert Wagner and Arthur Levitt face shifting roles The argument for public utilities as a public service contrasts with private ownership and sparks debate over competition and governance in New York politics ahead of the 1968 race
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