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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is a daily newspaper except Sundays and holidays published by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont.
Editorial praises the Vermont House for approving a 150 member reapportionment plan despite conservative and rural opposition. It notes previous doubts about self reallocation and cites court orders enforcing one vote per person, calling Friday's vote historic and a step toward representative government.
Floyd Harmon's rainfall chart in Saturdays Banner underscores ongoing drought risk this summer. Rain last night pleased residents while calls for regular rain persist. Also featured are Napoleon Pietryka's Mol ly Stark School mechanical drawing classes showing a shift to high quality vocational education from ninth grade onward.
A California school teacher urges advanced students to replace ornate phrases with plain speech and cites examples from Congress. The piece laments Washington jargon and argues for clarity in official writings, recalling Bastogne and the Bonhomme Richard as contrast points.
Perspective argues that the new radical movement emerges from campuses aiming to reform through alliances with liberals and Big Labor. It examines youth energy, white and Black poverty, and the tensions with Johnsons Democratic establishment and foreign policy.
A humorous column recaps Eartha Kitt’s champagne and caviar method for quitting smoking, notes a quip about fink origins from Fred Woltman, and recalls Rep Emanuel Celler advocating brevity at a long hearing. It ends with a nod to Harold Urey and hydrogen's role in science.
New York lawmakers rush to finish the 1965 session as Rockefeller pushes record tax hikes including a 2 percent sales tax, higher cigarette and auto fees, and a $1 billion water bond. Officials predict 1966 tax cuts only for the wealthy, with Greenberg cautioning against relief for small earners.
Sen Tom Dodd of Connecticut assailed U S press coverage of Vietnam as inaccurate imbalanced or blank noting a Saigon visit suggested conditions were more hopeful than U S reports. He defended his foreign policy judgments citing prior correct predictions and urged careful evaluation of reporting and policy approaches.
A coach sought a grade reversal after a star football player was flunked by a professor who refused. The professor alleged cheating, noting identical answers with the class's brightest student until the final question where both wrote I don't know the answer, the star student adding I don't know the answer, either.
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