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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1966
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
A speaker at a Montpelier conference warns Vermonters to plan for growth in tourism. He cites near doubling of a northeastern metro population, rising incomes, and more leisure time by 2000, forecasting a $156 million tourism industry in 1965 and urging safeguards. Planning, zoning, campground limits, and billboard enforcement are urged to prevent environmental harm from overpromotion.
The Burlington Free Press notes the Bennington gubernatorial race fixates on a never ending sales tax debate while voters want education prison reform tourism industrial growth and other issues. It urges more concern for public safety at Silk Road Vail Road junction and a stop sign to prevent frequent crashes.
A Williams College and Bennington College critic surveys Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer. The 1966 Farrar Straus novel centers on Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman in czarist Russia, examining humanity through imprisonment and moral growth.
A reader in Landgrove, Vermont critiques Stevenson era values, warns of sanpaku fear, notes concern over antibiotics and hormones in food, and defends local zoning while railing against tourists. He recalls Tyler Resch’s triangle of Stratton, Magic, and Bromley and urges barriers to vulgarity and tighter local manners.
In a New York analysis, the Johnson administration bets on a U.S. victory in Vietnam to draw Moscow toward peace. The piece argues Soviet leaders may bluff with belligerent rhetoric while quietly balancing east-west ties, wheat harvests, and currency incentives. It warns against trusting a warmer tone as genuine, suggesting electoral motives behind any rapprochement.
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