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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner, published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corp at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont, presents editorials reflecting local viewpoints and community concerns.
Gov. Deane Davis pays $100 weekly for a personal legal advisor, Frederick M. Reed, newly departed from the governor’s staff. Vermont spends about $500,000 yearly on attorneys, yet the arrangement raises questions about need and cost amid state legal resources. The reflection shifts to Cuba as Western intellectuals’ stance on Fidel Castro shifts after arrests, with poet Herbert Padilla detained in Havana.
An editorial note spars over Vermont tuition rising toward private-college levels as the University of Vermont weighs keeping out-of-state access. It cites 1700 applications rejected, calls for legal reform in state regulation, and warns a tuition hike may require balancing access with money. It warns against overlawyering, notes Delaware-like incorporation, and laments a physician shortage. It contrasts campus funding needs with Vermonters’ access and calls for solutions beyond tuition increases.
Frank Mankiewicz notes that the American Army in Europe is long tailed with 128 generals and 52,000 support troops for 100,000 combat soldiers. He argues Mansfield failed to cut half the force as Brezhnev’s withdrawal offer muddied the bargaining position. The piece flags debates over costs for families and facilities and claims the force is top heavy.
A Vermont village shutters a planned June 5 fundraiser in Springfield for Michael Fennessey, a kidney transplant patient. Officials fear a rock oriented youth gathering signals an external invasion yet reveal a deeper internal distrust about long haired youths and premarital sex. The piece laments stereotyping and urges compassion over fear.
Neighbors recount a film made by Mt. Anthony students featuring animals and settings at the Holy Cross Novitiate farm. Visitors enjoy cows milking, horses, pigs, and geese while noting pastoral scenery and hospitality. Despite welcoming tempers, some farm buildings have broken windows and earlier animal losses. The writer praises openness and neighborly kindness, urging mutual goodwill. Local life blends with the novitiate’s private space and seasonal farm views from the window on a Bennington hillside.
A Banner letter writer contests expanding Vermont postsecondary reach to include a two year community college in Bennington. He notes Mt Anthony High School already offers some industrial training, that St Joseph College is not just a business college, and that its liberal arts and general studies paths can support teacher aide and park administrator training. The college has explored law enforcement but lacks federal funding.
Rev. Charles C. Matusik of St Joseph College explains to Bennington Rotarians the college’s mission to broaden access and diversity, urging support for tuition grants over state technical college expansion. He notes the college welcomes mixed races and beliefs and aims to educate Vermonters beyond high school. Copies sent to Gov. Deane C. Davis and state provost Robert S. Babcock.
The Ader 7th Grade class thanks donors for newspaper contributions to a school paper drive. Some households may have been missed. Donated papers will be recycled at Bennington Tissue factory with proceeds aiding the Child Care Center and the American Cancer Research Fund.
An anthropologist asks a cannibal chief if his people know religion. The chief replies that they gained a glimpse when the last missionary visited, a humorous line from The International Teamster.
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