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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is a daily and holiday edition newspaper published by Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 125 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201 and serves the local Vermont community with news, events, and notices.
Bennington Pownal and Woodford boards fault state for unclear guidance on subdistrict 3-2 and 4 layout. Miscommunication forces updated plans to balance voters in Subdistrict 3-2 and 4, costing time and money and delaying voter education before the next election.
Sen. Lowell Weicker Jr, a Watergate committee Republican, purchased a new home in Alexandria, Virginia for about 150000 from John W Dean III, who sold it after the Watergate disclosures. Dean had bought it for 72500 two years earlier, a quick profit amid shifting Washington area real estate as political figures stay put.
Eric Sevareid argues the Nixon conversations reveal a moral indictment of leaders. He says the private Nixon explains the public Nixon, yet the transcripts show no concern for the public good, only for salable publicity. The piece frames the affair as a deep character test for American government.
The piece decries a politics of “we or they” and personal destruction, citing Nixon and Agnew. It warns a cancer eroding the White House and the nation’s social ethic, stressing reverence for law, honorable opponents, and civilian authority as crucial to the Constitution.
The piece argues the Nixon transcripts show a manipulative, aggressive political operator more than a brilliant statesman. It contends his strategy relies on misleading the public, exploiting a party split in Congress, and relying on a tacit acquittal of associates, heightening partisanship and undermining trust.
Profiles from the Past recount Gov Thomas Chittenden of South Windham born January 6 1730 in East Guilford Conn later Madison. A seafarer turned land settler he endured frontier life with 10 children and an energetic wife. He served in Vermont conventions and led the Council of Safety before statehood. Known as One Eyed Tom for his lost sight, he governed 18 years before resigning and dying in 1797 at age 69.
A reader asks Senator Aiken to push for a fact finding mission to South Vietnam to verify how U S aid is used amid reports of graft and famine among resettled families. The letter canvasses Paris peace aims, the Thieu regime, and fears money funds a repressive dictatorship. It urges oversight before increased budgetary aid and notes declining public respect for incumbents.
A columnist shares a personal formula linking stability to cohesiveness and size. As institutions grow, cohesiveness must rise or stability falters. He uses examples from families, schools, and nations to argue love, leadership, and trust must scale with size to prevent turmoil. He promises to explain further tomorrow.
A Hartford Courant ITU Review notes that spring training rejects struggle to find work as fields like gas pumping become crowded. The piece uses a metaphor about landing a man being like catching a fish, requiring bait to wiggle.
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