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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1967
Page
4
The Bennington Banner, published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corp at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201, serves as the local daily news source with editorially focused reporting and community notices.
A review of the 1967 Brewers Almanac notes rising U S malt beverage sales and Vermonts high per capita beer and spirits consumption. It asks why Vermont lacks a brewery and suggests potential local economic gains from a state brewery, while joking about filling Lake Champlain with malt beverages.
Boston fans celebrate as the Red Sox win the pennant by overcoming the Minnesota Twins with help from the California Angels. The young Sox, led by Carl Yastrzemski, defy expectations and face the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, described as David against Goliath. A Globe note and a separate Family Weekly jab at gender roles follow.
Osman challenges Chou En-lai on African priorities, insisting Somalia ranks first in its agenda and criticizing American imperialism. Chou mutters chauvinism as talks reveal Cold War rhetoric and competing influences from the United States, Soviet Union, and China amid Somali relations with Ethiopia and French Somaliland.
Rome serves as a listening post for experts on Mediterranean and African affairs. E A Bayne, based in Rome for years with the American Universities Field Staff, reports on Iran Israel and Somalia and offers counsel on Africa south of there. The Somali president's clash with Chou En Lai shows America largely absent from the talks.
A Sunderland column cites a random survey of two dozen woolly bear caterpillars indicating a cold snowy season ahead. The piece notes skepticism about animal weather lore, recalls the Herb Herald Tribune study, and ends with an old lumberman’s quip that at his age it’s always a cold winter.
Gov. Rockefeller vows to block Nixon from gaining New York delegates to the 1968 GOP convention. He backs Romney and plans swift moves to secure the state's powerful delegation, the largest bloc at the convention. A second item reports Vermont alternatives to the war forming flexible, open groups.
The piece vents frustration at antiwar meetings filled with talk of newsletters and finances, joking about joining peace groups only if beards are shaved and jobs held. It then shifts to New York politics as Rockefeller and Javits maneuver over a potential Nixon-Romney/Goldwater dynamic and a Rockefeller influence in GOP strategy.
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