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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1969
Page
4
The Bennington Banner records its daily publication schedule noting it does not publish on Sundays and holidays. It lists Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201 as the owner and operator.
The Washington rally featured Eugene McCarthy Leonard Bernstein Dr Spock and Arlo Guthrie amid chants for peace. Buckminster Fuller in New Delhi argued youth seek an omni world humanity and renounced national sovereignty as a path to new education. Observers doubt U.S. policy change this weekend yet deem the protest a bold nonviolent assertion. President Nixon faces a youth inheriting future ideas as Eisenhower once urged letting peace prevail.
The Joint Commission on Correctional Manpower and Training urges major prison reform to cut recidivism. It calls for overhauling rehabilitation and in-prison training at federal and state levels, upgrading corrections staff, and funding a $25 million annual reform program with strong national leadership.
A Mass demonstration in Washington drew about 250000 people to oppose the Vietnam war. Officials argued the crowd showed broad support for the president while fringe violence occurred. The piece frames the protest as a serious, enduring political force and critiques Nixon’s failure to see the mobilization’s significance. It warns that distrust in leaders has grown and that peace aims may be unrealistic under current policy.
Searsburg opens a hunting season amid rain with only two deer and one bear reported in three days. Town residents mostly hunt with year-round licenses while land posting rises due to hunter misconduct and private land enclosure. Encroaching development, dammed streams, and tourism threaten deer habitat. without action, hunting may be outlawed and deer could vanish again as in 19th century Vermont.
Quotes argue that Latin America must adopt advanced technology and local export expansion to grow, with no foreign lenders. Galo Plaza notes a new generation lacking memory of old ideological debates seeks fresh purpose. Damelvy Compton-Burnett dies at 85, highlighting education’s gaps as a key insight.
Williamson Good, a former New York observer, wore hippie garb to embed with Yippie and SDS strategists at the Democratic convention. He later exposed Father Bonpane, an ex priest linked to Guatemala and Marxist ideas, in UCLA circles and at Irvine shows. The piece frames Good as a West Coast counter to leftist influence and notes Coast and Southern Federal’s funding of free enterprise education.
A Wall Street Journal anecdote recalls a minister guiding an organist to play fitting music during a church fundraising appeal. The exchange ends with the suggestion to cue The Star Spangled Banner for congregants standing to contribute.
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