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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
Editorial lauds President Johnson for proposing federal voting registrars to place Negroes on registration lists in discriminatory states. The plan imposes penalties on officials who deny rights, aims to cut red tape, and could dismantle decades of white supremacy in the Deep South. Public support is broad, and leadership signals national resolve on civil rights.
The Bennington Museum was looted Monday night with thieves taking money from old coins and a wall display of paper currency before rifling the museum safe, totaling $15. A civil defense drill at the Polygraphic Company housed 16 participants in a basement room, surviving on a Spartan diet. The town village government unification committee targets a 1966 vote, as loose ends remain, and Joe McDonough shows unusual happiness.
Opinion column condemns Alabama defiance of the U.S. Constitution over voting rights for African Americans. It highlights Selma police action, calls for federal voting rights legislation, and frames Selma as a national disgrace demanding national repentance. It notes Republican opposition to Gov. Wallace and urges action to end disfranchisement.
A Vermont House debate denounced extreme racial prejudice and police brutality linked to Alabama but the chamber tabled a resolution. The piece argues Vermonters must challenge complacency, reminding readers of Rev. James Reed, the Declaration of Independence, and the danger of appeasing tyranny.
Patricia Smith writes from Dublin in World Travel Guide praising Ireland for its expression and wit. The piece recounts a renaissance in Dublin, notes the Ascendancy era, and contrasts stage Irish misconceptions with vivid dialogue in pubs. It highlights Yeats, Gogarty, Behan, Tyrell, and Irish storytelling as a living heritage.
A collection of local letters praising Bennington water connections to Globe Union Inc. and questioning garden spray claims, urging practical pesticide use. sorrow over Arlington voters opposing a Bennington Humane Society grant. and a VEA statement defending teachers’ citizenship rights and intellectual freedom in education.
U S Representative Robert T Stafford Vermont outlines support for federal aid to elementary and secondary schools with a formula favoring low income families Vermont estimates about 1.5 million dollars. He also promotes a voluntary medical insurance plan for people over 65 and calls for Social Security benefit increases and broader reforms. He lists additional measures and notes vote against the Appalachian Regional Development Act while supporting funding for the Inter-American Development Bank Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the House One American Activities Committee.
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