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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays. It is published by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201.
At a Kennedy health subcommittee hearing, officials signaled support for curbing drug company promotion. Charles Edwards testified the administration backs a Kennedy plan to limit gifts and samples to doctors, amid estimates of two billion free pills worth 14 million dollars last year and about 30,000 annual deaths from adverse drug reactions.
A 1969 House Select Committee on Crime study found U S drug firms supply about 8 billion doses yearly of amphetamines and barbiturates while needs run in the thousands. Critics say doctors and patients treat uppers and downers as cure alls, making addiction widespread beyond alcohol and heroin. Senator Kennedy and the Nixon administration push to curb advertising and promotion, aiming to curb overstocked medicine cabinets nationally.
Selectman Peter R. Donavan votes as a civil authority member to back a reapportionment plan giving Pownal its own state representative. The move defies local pressure to keep Bennington's system, risking neighborly backlash but earning respect for voting conscience and substantive representation for about 1,400 Pownal residents.
Editor notes reveal the General Accounting Office reports nearly 400000 spent on Nixon's Watergate defense. Taxpayers and voters foot the bill, while fringe benefits include a Potomac dinner cruise for the President's staff aboard the Navy yacht Sequoia. Energy news notes a looming oil surplus and Britain’s North Sea discoveries edging toward self sufficiency by 1980. Dr Spock shifts on child-raising as New Math debates persist.
San Francisco columnist Bob Williams notes a spring upswing in job offers for graduates, especially in business and technical fields, while liberal arts and education majors still face difficulty. He cites rising starting salaries, 13 500 to 16 500 for MBAs and accounting, engineers at up to 12 000 yearly, and a 26 percent higher rate of offers nationwide. He discusses race and gender employment patterns, minority recruitment, and Berkeley's superintendent selection, urging true equality without reverse discrimination.
Henry Little recalls a 1805 Danville summer when his mother hosted legislative boarders as Vermont settled on Montpelier as capital. He describes rustic tableware, open fireplaces, sand floors, pillories, and early stove arrivals around 1810 that transformed home life and cooking.
The Banner letter to Lawrence E. Harrington discusses a front page item suggesting wagering his seat on the Mt Anthony Board as a test of community reaction to his educational policies. The writer finds the proposal intriguing and potentially revealing about public sentiment.
JOHN H. WILLIAMS II of Bennington proposes clarifying the community consensus on Mt Anthony and offers to be a challenger if the board member resigns and seeks re election for the remaining term. He says he looks forward to further communication.
Letters from Shaftsbury and Ellenville criticize censorship in schools and libraries. They argue art requires context and warn against letting Mr Harrington and Mrs Woodward dictate standards. The writers urge defenders of free access to materials in education.
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