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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
In the 1940s and early 1950s polio terrified children until Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine in 1954. Officials note fewer immunizations now may expose kids to risk, urging parents to vaccinate. October is dedicated to child immunizations, with Vermont warning of measles and polio reappearances. Immunizations prevent diseases like tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, and rubella.
A proposed House reform would break up overburdened committees and abolish marginal ones like Post Office and Civil Service and Internal Security. Members would serve one major committee, sidelining chairmen resistant to change while younger lawmakers push for modernization of the legislature and a broader budget oversight reform.
The piece notes farmer hardship from inflation after Agriculture Department data show binder twine rising from 8.96 dollars per bale in June 1973 to 27.10 dollars this June. It urges readers not to mock string-saving friends.
A Letter to the Editor lauds the Endangered Species Act of 1973 as a landmark of the 93rd Congress. It argues that human technology and ecological shortsightedness threaten 145 animal species with extinction. It asserts environmental alteration, not nature, endangers biodiversity and that humanity’s survival may depend on preserving diverse life.
The text defines an ecosystem as the total environmental system where all living things depend on one another. It notes each species fits a niche and affects its surroundings through life processes, using deer plants and soil bacteria as examples, and introduces the concept of biodiversity as related to interdependent life networks.
Dick West argues Ford uses ambassadors as patronage spoils and proposes multiple vice presidents as ceremonial rewards. He mocks knighthoods for officials and suggests expanding the vice presidency to honor political allies while preserving foreign service integrity. Hazel A. Watts remarks on wildlife conservation and endangered species.
A Bennington resident denounces town officials over Bell's Trailer Park eviction. The writer argues housing is affordable but policies force mobile home residents with families to relocate, noting a family of five cannot find new space and asking authorities to provide mobile home sites.
In Jamaica and beyond, renewed debate erupts as hunting season opens. The piece defends hunting as essential for wildlife management, citing increases in deer from 3,000 in 1900 to over 10 million by 1970, the role of Ducks Unlimited in wetland restoration, and funds from Pittman-Robertson taxes. It praises hunters as stewards of game and nongame species.
Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros met at the Plaza Hotel as Kissinger visited New York, arriving after midnight with no proposals. Cyprus refugees number about 200,000 as Turkish forces displace families. Cyprus talks lack State Department experts. Leaks and detente debates haunt Kissinger while Greeks urge concrete actions and a return to Cyprus talks.
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