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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
The era of agricultural overproduction has largely ended due to exports and soil bank retirements. While surpluses fall, experts urge expanding U S food giveaways to combat global hunger, suggesting a new policy to produce and distribute more farm commodities to underdeveloped regions, even via UN auspices.
Local political party activity ramps up ahead of the November 23 election with Democrats featuring candidate images and a Shafts bury legislative bid while Republicans gear up behind George H. Amidon. Veterans groups plan a Veterans Day event with speeches and a color salute as Gov Hoff appears on Meet the Press to discuss Japan and Vietnam. Vermont receives $400,000 for highway beautification and billboard control under a new federal act, and the state tax program aims to root out evaders with a computer system. The piece notes tax resistance among 8,000 Vermonters and reflects on national political rhetoric and media coverage from the Boston Globe and Burlington Free Press.
London reports leaders struggle over Europe’s nuclear future as De Gaulle seeks national control while Bonn, Washington, and Moscow weigh Germany’s role. Allies fear a split in NATO amid German unification, a potential nuclear force, and a race with France and Britain. Stewart seeks a path to a treaty.
Mr Stevenson writes of a beaver romance near the New York Vermont line. Hannah frees herself and her bachelor beaver lover from a padlocked cage at a game farm, elopes, while Glum Gus and the baby become a local mystery. The piece blends humor with animal capers and a moral about love.
Letters praise Henry W Putnam and his son for funding a hospital and gifts to Bennington institutions. Readers note the Putnam Deed of Gift, ask whether changes require a public vote, and cite 1961 1964 hospital values and Putnam's Vermont Legislature service. Also quoted are comments on Pearl Harbor survivors and a satirical civic test segment.
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