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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 125 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
The piece champions wind energy over nuclear power, citing windmills like Grandpa's Knob and Professor Heronymus's coast wind system. It warns of bureaucratic bias and praises Nader's PIRG as a public-spirited check. It notes Faith Prior's Vermont Extension work and a potential conflict with Peter Paul board ties. Also highlights Robert Frost centennial events in Bennington Old Town and a regional New England music festival as the community looks to Maine basketball playoffs.
Richard Sleeman rebutts Thomas C Thomas in The Banner letter, defending his and the sisters income from property. He challenges Thomas’s ownership claims, notes the 300 Pleasant St. address is in Laura Tirzah Ayres Thomas’s name, invites Thomas to visit the sisters’ office for explanations, and offers to sell an apartment on Pleasant Street as an introductory option. Sleeman cites honest work and emphasizes sisters’ town contributions.
A six member committee from occupations gathered in a motel front office to draft a regional development policy for Vermont. They advocated planned growth, stressed quality over quantity, and highlighted jobs, tax base and agriculture while noting out of state competition and the need to improve existing businesses. A reader letter from Old Mystic, Conn. comments on impeachment and constitutional powers.
Adelaide Fine president of the Bennington League of Women Voters thanks The Banner for publishing Know Your Town. She credits the newspaper's assistance as invaluable and expresses deep gratitude on behalf of the group.
A Washington column views spring vitality amid Watergate. It argues the republic renews itself beyond Nixon and impeachment, praising Congress for shaping campaign finance, privacy, and election safeguards. It warns the presidency must yield to the system’s integrity, not personal defense.
The President spoke at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital dedication in Miami, endorsing his health insurance proposal and opposing Sen. Edward Kennedy's competing bill as an easier path that would raise taxes and expand government control. He urged that doctors work for the patient, not the federal government, when patients seek care.
The text notes only one Nixon physician, Walter Thrach, a major general in the Air Force, who conducted a full checkup before the Miami dedication. It emphasizes the doctor is a government employee and points out Nixon uses Bethesda National Naval Medical Center, a federal facility in Maryland.
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