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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1976
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 05201.
The piece critiques the Ford administration for vetoing Vietnam's UN admission and blocking its membership. It argues Vietnam may not be withholding information and urges the United States to pursue options short of expulsion, including restoring access to the General Assembly and pursuing a constructive postwar relationship with Vietnam through reconstruction pledges and recognition steps.
Vermont recount questions whether a two line ballot for Democrat John T. Alden counted as one or two votes. Buckley requests recount. clerks face discretion under sense of the voter. Bicentennial lighting at Bennington monument praised for tourism and local pride. Congressman Jeffords noted for junket avoidance, then travels to Indonesia to discuss food, energy, and relations.
Letter to the Banner expresses deep appreciation for the community effort in Trick or Treat for UNICEF. It notes Shaftsbury children raised 148.64 dollars and thanks students in grades four through six who went door to door and all who contributed.
A Bennington town letter thanks UNICEF volunteers Shaftsbury Elementary staff and Fairdale Farms for supplies. It also notes a correction to a prior Oct 25 1976 letter titled Tax Collector vs Selectmen and recalls a taxpayers’ funding point for 1977.
Vermont Heartbeat argues for inclusive meeting practice and group consensus over traditional top down control. It explains audience participation, roundtable seating, and an action first agenda to speed decisions while preserving input from all members, detailing brainstorming and five levels of agreement.
A reader from Manchester Center supports Vermont bail law as a public safety measure. The correspondent urges legislators to act, possibly amend the state constitution, to confine confessed murderers whether sane or insane, aligning with the editorial stance.
Country Mouse in New York notes a Connecticut boys choir controversy. Officials asked Washington if an all boys group could sing, received orders to admit girls or lose federal funds. Washington held that gender restrictions on choir participation were not permissible.
A long, sharp-edged column mocks federal sex discrimination laws across choirs, opera, theater, television, schools and sports. It ridicules mandates to cast women and girls, transpose roles, and rewrite literature, lampooning bureaucrats and media voices while questioning fairness and tradition.
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