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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201.
The piece criticizes the Davis administration for pressuring officials who speak against State push to attract industry. It highlights Steven Green of the Interdepartmental Council on the Aging and a $60,000 study showing elderly poverty due to lack of relief information, underscoring public funds revealing long-standing issues.
The piece critiques Gov. Davis and Vermont environmental policy while warning the GOP that criticizing the administration is essential to maintain public trust. It argues silencing dissent risks alienating young voters and endangering future political support.
A Vermont correspondent notes North Bennington pride in independence and civic amenities while joking about nude bathing at Lake Paran and calls for state police sex education. A Shaftsbury Hollow tip recounts a bull versus steer mix up with a trooper and farmers’ jokes. Pownal wins serendipity as new school bids come in near budget with hoped for downhill road to completion.
In a Washington week in April 1923 letter to The Banner, veterans from the Vietnam Veterans Against the War describe growing nationwide support, insist medals and records back their claim, and urge readers to judge by truth not rhetoric. They cite Nixon’s figures, Congressional records, and subcommittee testimony to defend their stance and call for ending the war.
In Ferrisburg a farmer known as Grampa sells a rusting five-foot wood stove for cash and invites three boys to explore his barn. The visit includes rabbits, piglets, calves, a curious cat, and a seven-foot bull. The scene ends with Grampa noting the farm’s likely demise as a proposed power plant cooling pond looms nearby.
Major Alexander de Seversky warns that pulling out of South Vietnam could trigger mass desertions and a chaotic Saigon collapse. The piece links his veteran credentials to a broader fear that U.S. weakness invites disaster, citing Kissinger awareness, a Blue Ribbon Defense Panel report, and analyses predicting a slip to second class power by 1971.
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