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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1977
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
The column recalls Rep. James M. Jeffords highlighting a pension snafu where an elderly woman was underpaid for 15 months, then overpaid, and finally flagged as dead by a computer. After corrections, payments resumed but earnings pushed her over limits, prompting threats to terminate benefits. The piece contrasts bureaucratic bungling with a human toll and notes winter imagery and a Vermont snowmobiling study.
A Senate resolution seeks to reverse the Jan 1 1978 abolishment of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs by extending its life for two years. Since 1968 the panel has pushed food stamps, child nutrition, and diet health education, warning that moving its work to Agriculture could favor industry over consumers while hunger persists.
A reflective piece describes a cold clear night by a moonlit pond and a hospital visit that highlights the warmth of nurses and neighbors. The author muses on home life, learning basic furnace and water system workings, and finds solace in birds at a backyard feeder amid springtime calm.
Ronald E. W. Crisman reflects on Gov. Snelling’s push for rigorous public program review in Vermont. He notes the governor shoulders the heat, defends program value and cost, and argues healthy disagreement between managers, legislature, and executive is essential to deliver taxpayers the best services.
A Manchester Center reader writes to The Banner about Putnam Memorial Hospital allowing sick patients to smoke in rooms. He recalls a smoker in Room 209 who slept deeply while smoking, notes fire hazards, and cites a brother’s reassuring note about never witnessing a home fire after 17 years.
The columnist argues the American Film Institute should label its list as favorites or memorable, not best, noting Carter’s pick of Gone With the Wind as a relic of youth memory. He recalls films like Singin' in the Rain and The Big Parade, stressing personal experience shapes taste and urging restraint in judging cinema’s worth.
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