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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1972
Page
3
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner. Public notice lists the publishing office at 425 Main St, Bennington Vermont 052.
Editorial argues the college shrouds faculty biologist Irving Lyon’s contract case in secrecy. It cites petitions from 800 of 575 students and 25 of 65 faculty calling for impartial inquiry, urging accountability, due process, and public justification of the decision.
Voters in Bennington Shaftsbury Pownal Woodford and North Bennington may vote in the Mt Anthony School Board election. Balloting runs 1 to 7 p.m. Monday at designated sites with final results included in the tally. A district floor meeting follows at 8 p.m. in the Mt Anthony building on Park Street Bennington. Official warnings appear in The Banner and district notices.
The note laments a 12 cent price rise on Life-Savers and nickel cigars, cites smaller holes as excuse, and comments on spring signs. It recalls a Minnesota camper in Bennington town, mentions Clean Up Week scavenging aiding the highway crew, and urges pickup of green bags on Hunt Street while intact to support Green Up.
The piece discusses how U.S. press standards demand reporting events even if editors dislike them, while distinguishing between real news and non-events. It argues that objective journalism fostered figures like McCarthy, noting British press norms would have censored such stories as sensational or unprintable.
Letter from Clifford B Harwood of Manchester Center condemns Madame Binh, North Vietnam's Paris negotiator, for attempting to sway Congress by sending personal letters to lawmakers during World War III era. The writer likens the tactic to Goebbels and urges Congress to denounce Communist aggression and not abandon South Vietnam.
A letter from Cleveland Dr. Croton-on-Hudson urges Bennington College trustees to keep Dr. Irving Lyon on the faculty. The writer praises Lyon as an unusual, highly regarded scholar willing to engage with the social consequences of his research, noting his past presentations on radioactivity and his strong showing at regional events.
Dorset residents praise community effort during Green Up week with 20 to 25 teens clearing Route 20 and local roads from 5 am to 1 am. Supervisors Peggy Abbott Helen Tyler and volunteers Bill Gilbert Sylvester Ford Tim Baker Bob Streeter led cleanup. town officials thank all participants and vow fewer litter incidents next year.
The Vermont Natural Food & Farming Assoc calls Sen George D Aiken to end his role as apologist for the AEC in a letter urging halting nonessential power use and rationing electricity. The spring meeting at Mt Abrahartt Union High School in Bristol drew over 400 attendees. The message also criticizes ARC and the electric power industry and urges safer, consumer-focused energy policies. A separate note seeks a home for a homeless gray Tom cat found in Bennington after wandering from White Creek, asking potential adopters to call 442pets.
A Beamer letter questions Mt Anthony overcrowding and a pre engineered steel structure as relief for faculty concerns. The section shifts to Washington where Nixon's Moscow trip hinges on North Vietnam's offensive and Kissinger’s talks with Brezhnev and Gromyko.
The piece outlines the Vietnam war theater with Brezhnev and Kissinger, noting North Vietnam’s leverage and the risk of a Russian message being ignored. It cites polling suggesting White House belief in public support for bombing, McGovern’s results, and Kissinger’s Moscow trip as a possible warning or plea amid growing tensions.
Jim the salesman led a group touring new condos then slipped away to another room and whispered Can you hear me Yes Can you see me No There you are he joked Them s naits for you Ain't they A bored spokesman noted the odd moment Later a man in a big hat and overalls lost $2000 on the first casino roll and calmly walked off admitting easy come easy go as he thumbed a ride away
A narrator recalls visiting the historic Chelsea Physic Garden in London near the Chelsea Embankment. The garden, founded for apothecaries, now serves as a demonstration site for cultivation and plant research, with old trees and views toward the river. An encounter with a gardener leads to a guided tour of greenhouses and herb beds, including madder and dye plants, with notes on seeds and climate limitations for growing madder in England.
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