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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1970
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
The Nixon administration’s family assistance plan to overhaul welfare faces likely defeat in Congress. It would set a nationwide minimum through a guaranteed annual wage, aid working poor, and reward self-support by easing welfare deductions. Polarization, political framing, and midterm campaigning threaten its fate.
Editor notes in A Glance at the Past recall a 40 year old meeting by Bennington Village Trustees on possible government consolidation. The column hints at slow progress and questions whether consolidation will improve efficiency and end backpassing as the trustees phase out in the coming month.
The Library of Congress division for the blind provides Braille editions of popular magazines to about 50 branch libraries nationwide. A noted missing title has been added with text only content, including Playboy, prompting readers to learn how the centerfold is rendered in Braille.
The piece argues public disagreement in government harms policy and stresses the Hickel-Nixon split as a rare, candid exit. It notes cabinet members often drift into anonymity, losing contact with the president, while risking bold ideas and genuine accountability in a system that rewards loyalty over conviction.
A Rhode Island style column critiques fluoridating Rutland and Bennington water, arguing for personal choice over public medicine. It warns against trusting assurances of safety, cites thalidomide and FDA pressures, and argues against comparing fluoridation to chlorination while urging individual control of dental health.
A reader defends Citizens Against Tydings CAT and its $50 000 fund drive from hunters and sportsmen. He blasts the media for labeling gun policy opponents as clear thinking citizens and argues that lax gun laws correlate with low crime in Vermont versus high crime in gun restricted areas.
A reader challenge echoes a debate sparked by Chuck Shafer in The Banner about hunting and gun control. The writer defends hunting Kenya elephants, recalls personal hunts in Africa, and taunts Shafer to join a future expedition. Acknowledges agreement with opposing gun control views and invites further debate.
A summary of assorted 15 to 25 year old local notes includes Wood Flong Corp. workers in Hoosick Falls walking off after wage talks fail, Bennington Elementary brick concerns by Arthur Lemieux seeking an engineering report, a 1956 Nash on display at Bennington Nash Co. Hunt Street, Lt. Col. Louis Perrotta's discharge at Ft. Devens, Charles R. Cummings dies in White River Junction, Vermonter editor Collins Graves’ Prohibition repeal remark, and village trustees planning a Dec 3 town reorganization meeting to cut costs and streamline governance.
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