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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1967
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Supreme Court justices Potter Stewart and William O. Douglas urge that the legality of U.S. fighting in Vietnam be resolved by the highest court. They argue that the issue affects checks and balances and Congress’s war-declaration authority, not merely protesters. The piece links this debate to soldiers who refused to go, noting the need for an open, decisive ruling.
Editor laments secrecy over teacher salary schedules and cost implications while reviewing the Rural Fire Department siren test and a large open meeting by the Bennington Taxpayers Protective Association. Deer hunting and historical snowfall anecdotes frame a cautious community outlook on inflation and local governance.
Dozers uproot the Memorial Avenue of Elms along Bennington Vermont Route 67A to make way for a Hy Goldfeld Ted Gladstone shopping center. State highway plans require a four lane highway, with no funds yet for replanting, prompting appeals for preservation and landscape alternatives.
A reader critiques Joseph Wood Krutch's take on McLuhan, rock and roll, and hippie culture. He tests McLuhan via a taped Fordham lecture, finding deeper meanings after listening twice and suggesting Krutch consider the audio to grasp the professor's ideas. He notes Fuller's clarity when speaking and questions the university’s high lecture fee.
In reflecting on the 50 years since the Russian Revolution and the 1976 bicentennial, the piece argues the USSR under Lenin and Stalin failed to create a society with the ethos of fellow feeling and consumer prosperity to match the United States. It notes internal liberalization yet persistent repression, a rising technical elite, and questions whether Stalin was truly necessary for the system to endure.
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