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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1967
Page
4
Editorials from The Bennington Banner cover local issues with community focus and opinion stance, reflecting Vermont civic concerns. The collection highlights governance debates, social matters, and public interest topics shaping Bennington and surrounding regions.
The Vermont Board of Education faces a difficult push to raise all high schools to minimum standards. While waivers and delayed enforcement are debated, critics warn that shifting rules erode credibility and threaten bond-approved districts. A more nuanced plan may reward progress and apply varied timelines by district.
Editor notes that Vermont's educational television system will go on air this fall with a schedule for elementary grades and future plans for secondary level programming including Shakespeare, novels adaptations, language films, and social issue depth talks. The piece also covers water-project bids under HUD review, delayed start, and the Bolles Brook pipeline aims to ensure reliable supply. plus village hydrants get a bright red and yellow repaint.
The Senate hears Sen. Cooper argue for restricting bombing to infiltration routes near the DMZ to keep pressure on North Vietnam while avoiding Chinese intervention. He warns escalation risks drawing Beijing into the war, and notes Haiphong and Hanoi actions haven’t halted communist troop movements toward the South. Senators Percy Hatfield Morton Aiken echo concern that US policy may blindside Congress and public alike, urging restraint and conscience over partisan brinksmanship.
In Bennington around the turn of the century the village boasted five hotels with wide verandas and a slow pace visible on Main Street. Merchants, blacksmiths, carriage makers, and dozens of service trades lined the town, with notable figures like Rudolph Goldsmith and Tillie Keeseman shaping local culture, while doctors and midwives served the community before the hospital era.
A reader’s essay on the color film Blow-Up argues it functions as a living Rorschach test, inviting varied readings. Viewers debate whether the photographer is a conflicted artist, a danger to others, or an allegory of death and emptiness, with truth shaped by each spectator’s choices.
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