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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1968
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Vermont voters approve a 688000 bond for a new 12 room Chester elementary school while Chester Union District 35 rejected a second bond for a junior senior high school. The Chester High School will close, forcing about 175 local students to seek tuition at other high schools, with long bus rides a risk and crowded nearby options strained. The piece argues delays raise costs and harm education, leaving Chester and Wilmington youths burdened by wait and distance.
Virginia Lawrence warns against aggressive encyclopedia sales tactics including fake offers and marketing research claims. The piece notes Vermont cooling off laws may not apply after delivery and recalls a mounted catamount photo at the Vermont state museum from 1881. It closes with a short quip about punctuality from Changing Times.
Nixon chose Spiro Agnew as running mate to secure border states and blunt Wallace. Liberals attacked Agnew’s spontaneity, but his blunt realism appealed to voters, preserving the Republican edge in the Deep South and industrial Midwest.
Vermont Council of the Arts meeting at Castleton campus hosted cocktails and a luncheon as John Kouwenhoven and his wife visited. Paul Ashenbach introduced a resolution opposing a Lake Champlain atomic energy plant, sparking intense debate. The discussion questioned art versus technology and warned that science may outrun human control, citing Henry Adams and Leo Marx.
Byron A. Harrington of 201 Division St writes to The Banner critiquing a November 8 item about 12 residents protesting selective property assessment. He questions pity for the protesters, mocks the Bennington Taxpayers Protective Association, and suggests income-based tax or higher fees for professional services to ease tax burden on homeowners on fixed or low incomes.
Wall Street investors and bankers pace clues from Nixon inner circle as they forecast 1969 policy shifts. Analysts debate tax cuts, inflation brakes, and the 10 percent surcharge, with projections of a possible mini or maxi recession and Dow moves around 1000.
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