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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201. The note lists the newspaper’s publishing schedule and the parent company address.
Guest editorial questions the use of 2 4 5 T herbicide amid safety doubts and government testing. Critics highlight health risks linked to Vietnam use, while Vermont Electric Cooperative rejects its deployment under strict rules. The piece contrasts bureaucratic defense with public welfare concerns and urges caution.
The party plans a December gathering in Kansas City to adopt a permanent charter. Leaders hope to ban unit rules, end winner take all primaries, and replace quotas with participation requirements for blacks minorities and women. If successful the move could cut internal fights and aid 1976 prospects.
In a letter to The Banner, Woodford resident objects to a $1700 deposit charged by New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. for relocating wires on a right of way. He notes the house moved with little work by the company, no refund, and alleges misappropriation. He cites poor handling by authorities and appeals to higher offices, while criticizing a proposed 23 percent rate hike and questioning the company’s accounting.
A Sicilian pedlar visits a maiden at her door offering beauty in a bottle to make blue eyes brighter and hair gold. She refuses courting and loves another, and years later the tale endures as young suitors chant the pedlar’s song in spring.
A reader agrees with Jim Bentley on dog killings and urges enforcement of leash laws. The letter cites injuries from dog waste and property damage, notes uncooperative owners, and asks who bears medical costs while urging action against roaming dogs.
Profiles of Vermont's postwar beginnings highlight the 1781 surrender of Cornwallis, the founding of the Vermont Gazette presses by Spooner and Green, and Anthony Haswell. The text describes early state finance, counterfeiting trials, copper coinage by Reuben Harmon Jr., and Vermont's shift to a dollars standard by 1807, with notes on printing, taxation, and banking history.
In San Francisco on a Friday 19 1974 the Zebra killer strikes Ingleside and a black husband is murdered and wife raped on Kansas Street. City leaders press to oust a Nazi armband wearing police clerk Sandy Silva while officials deny firing grounds. A reporter on a Market Street streetcar observes a girl with a large grocery box revealing a dog inside and muses on subversive factions in the city.
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