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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1972
Page
2
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 424 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial lauds the Bennington County Choral Society as a strong cultural asset with over a hundred members and plans for workshops, scholarships, and college credit. It notes a critical need for more male singers and urges community financial support to sustain performances and youth musical education.
The column critiques U S air strikes in Vietnam as “not so smart” after a civilian death toll rises to 19. It notes promises of investigations that won’t restore the dead or comfort grieving families. It also covers Nixon’s talk on spending and selective enforcement, plus defense contracts for civilian advisers in wartime. John Page’s Bennington tree planting coverage is highlighted as a model for other towns. The page closes with a Wall Street Journal tie-in.
A first snow scene recalls a childhood memory by Bob Williams. The narrator recalls walking to a stream in cold dusk, watching dry spruce branches drift under a road sluice, and wondering about a boy’s fate as the current of life continues despite the cold.
Letters criticize the Legislative Apportionment Board for abandoning county lines and traditional units in a proposed Senate plan. They argue population shifts require reapportionment, but urge respect for tradition and constitutional standards. The 1974 General Assembly faces adopting a new plan despite public hearings and citizen sentiment.
The piece railes against rhetorical overkill in a Vermont debate attributing extreme views to George Clay and JOHN McCLAUGHRY Kirby. It cites megaton bomb imagery and criticizes shifts in word meaning from appeasement to permissive, warning how language shapes political thought per Orwell.
The piece argues President Nixon claims to battle permissiveness in America but applies the fight unevenly. It contends his second term faces tax, welfare, and defense gaps, warning against biased discipline and urging equal accountability across welfare, business, and government.
John Gould, an anti humorist columnist, questions a gun law amendment that would allow shooting snowmobiles with a muzzle loading weapon amid property violation concerns, asking where supporters intend to run.
A Windham County farmer uncovers an Archaic spear relic while Vermont relic lore is recounted. The piece notes famed collections, types like digividals and banner stones, historic and prehistoric pottery, and routes used by Abenaki Indians along Lake Champlain and major rivers.
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