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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
The Vermont Legislature debates a bill forcing equal space for reader submissions, risking editorial judgment and free press principles. The piece notes dangers of censorship and previews political theater with Barbara Snelling and Watergate trial context, including John Dean's cross examination and the larger implications for press freedom.
A voiced indictment across figures in the Nixon era accuses key lawyers of betrayal and ethical collapse. Herbert Kalmbach, Frank Demarco Jr., G. Gordon Liddy, L. Patrick Gray III, Charles Colson, John Ehrlichman, and John Mitchell are named as examples. The piece argues law has been discredited as an ethical ideal by the administration and laments the damage to justice.
A Montpelier reader argues against a proposed eight story Holiday Inn near the Vermont Capitol. They praise the city’s scale, water, bridges, and Capitol view, warning the motel would be out of place, block the Statehouse view, and bring more traffic, eroding town character.
In Vermont’s capital, residents oppose a State Street Holiday Inn, arguing it harms neighborhoods and riverfront charm. They urge state action to preserve urban promise, restore taxes, and fund Montpelier’s revitalization through a new plan. Randolph.
The writer lists early spring bulbs and edible greens appearing in a garden and nearby church grounds. Snowdrops, winter aconites, irises, daffodils, tulips, crocuses, scillas, hyacinths, and day lilies push up. rabbits nibble tulips. edible picks include watercress, land cress, sorrel, violet leaves, dandelion, marsh marigold, fiddlehead, and milkweed shoots.
In rural Maryland Mathias, the Republican senator up for re-election, campaigns before Jaycees amid questions about energy policy tax reform and impeachment. He argues for exporting food to balance oil needs, answers questions patiently, but admits vulnerability to demagoguery in a changed political landscape.
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