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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily excluding Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington, Vermont.
Voters in New York face a pivotal mayoral vote among John Lindsay Abraham Beame and William Buckley. Polls split on the outcome with Beame and Lindsay backed by rival papers. The race carries national implications for Republican liberal and conservative wings amid New York’s daunting poverty pollution crime and decay.
The note details an abrupt shift from fall to winter with early snowfall on Searsburg Mountain and cold temps down to six degrees. It mentions two-and-a-half inches of snow, plows on the highway, and rainfall data in Bennington. It also covers national notes on Viet Nam, a potential marriage for Luci, Bennington’s planetarium plans, and local bond talks linked to land use and a water system project. Fidel Castro is cited with a critical remark from the Boston Globe.
Washington writer questions Sweden’s welfare state under a long stable government. It notes aging king in Rome, Crown Prince poised to succeed, high pensions, and rising taxes. It cites suicide, alcohol use, and crime as debated outcomes and weighs future pressures and adaptability of Swedish policy.
A Cambridge New York Sunday in March 1888 describes a historic blizzard that isolated the village for days. Trains halted by deep snow, telegraph lines down, and residents digging through drifts as three locomotives finally cleared the line toward Eagle Bridge and the Boston & Maine connection.
A reader defends a mural on the First National Bank branch exterior, arguing it did not deface Manchester Center. The letter criticizes local signs and architecture, laments modern changes, urges preservation of the town’s Colonial atmosphere, and calls for a committee to oversee building decor.
Arthur Miller, head of PEN, promotes a Washington peace march with Dr. Benjamin Spock as he criticizes U.S. policy in Vietnam while remaining silent on Soviet dissidents. The piece contrasts Miller’s stand with harsh Soviet actions against writers like Andrei Sinyavsky and Zhenya Belov, highlighting alleged double standards.
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