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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1977
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201.
The Governor's Commission on the Status of Women tested the waters and declined to sponsor a NOW rally on abortion funding, fearing backlash in the legislature. The piece backs NOW, notes the Supreme Court rulings, and argues public funding denies health access to poor women while wealthier women obtain abortions on demand. It condemns the inequity and warns of civil rights being tied to wealth.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the 560 million liability cap for nuclear plant wrecks. Opponents say the limit masks industry risks, and a ruling against it could force higher costs and a reckoning for the sector. If upheld, the ruling would press government and industry to confront long term waste, safety, and price concerns as the industry matures.
In an opinion piece, Eugene Frenette of Londonderry NH asserts he has developed a fuel-less furnace that can heat an average NH house for about 15 dollars a month. The device uses an electricity driven rotor and oil friction to generate heat, offering to sell the unit for well under annual energy bills.
Frenette's 12 room uninsulated home at 75 degrees hosts a claimed fuel-less furnace. If real and marketed, it could slash the 11 percent of U.S. fuel energy used for heating and reshape oil gas nuclear furnace makers and OPEC. The piece ponders wide economic ripple effects and whether the world can accept a simple solution amid interdependence.
The Letter To The Editor counters Tom Braden's Nov 8 report The two worlds of Richard Helms, arguing he missed a key point about an act performed in all good faith and urging a closer look at the matter discussed.
The statement argues that freedom is not free when judged by the morals in place at the time of the alleged offense, not by later attitude changes. It questions whether contemporary actions done for the country can be deemed acceptable today.
In letters to The Banner a critic defends Henry Brant's short symphonic piece Hip pocrates and rebuts a review deeming it funny. He calls the review a gratuitous slur and argues musicians use satire in music. A second letter questions wartime acts and warns of Cold War dangers.
Mark Russell notes in the Wall Street Journal that women struggle to find shorts in matronly size eighteen, while local shops cap at size twelve. He cites wives confirming the shift toward grizzled teen looks and questions where grannies in ginghams have gone.
New York notes a year of show business deaths with Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby seen as broadly missed icons while Elvis Presley attracts a different, more divided fandom. The essay links vaudeville roots to Crosby and Marx and contrasts them with Elvis and postwar media culture.
The piece cites Vermont home prices around 37 500 with few listings under 20 000 and notes nationwide new home prices near 50 000, up from 1970. It profiles a 25-year-old state employee seeking affordable built homes, land, or renovated wrecks, aiming for a 12 000 home in five years, and discusses manufactured housing and shifting ownership trends.
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