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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1972
Page
2
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 125 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201, serving local news and community notices.
A Harris poll for Amtrak shows 96 percent call trains vital, 42 percent want passenger rail, and 64 percent favor continuing intercity service with subsidies. Half place higher priority on better rail than highways or air travel, while Congress debates funding from the Highway Trust Fund to mass transit.
A local letter argues against a new grade crossing on the spur from the Route 7 connector to Northside Drive near the former Peteogas Station. The writer cites a New York Times report on federal efforts to remove grade crossings and warns of light failures and traffic jams undermining safety and efficiency.
A guest editorial honors more than 28 million living American veterans from four 20th century wars. It recalls battles such as Chateau Thierry Belleau Wood Omaha Beach Guadalcanal Inchon Pork Chop Hill and the Mekong Delta. The piece praises citizen soldiers sailors airmen and Marines for upholding freedom and national purpose.
The Vermont message honors veterans for courage devotion and sacrifice and urges public dedication to Veterans Day 1972. It calls for pride in America support for world peace and active observance including displaying the flag by households and businesses.
In a foreword attributed to Herblock for his book Herblock's State of the Union, the cartoonist recalls Winston Churchill's wartime message and imagines a candid alternative address to the American public outlining unresolved crises and an unusual Good News Commission.
In a note to The Banner, supporters hail Tom Salmon as a top Vermont political figure with real odds to win the governorship. Governor Davis acknowledges his potential, praising Salmon’s legislative record, clear tax and welfare positions, and ability to articulate issues while appealing across party lines.
Emma Harwood of the ILGWU urges Vermont voters to back Tom Salmon for governor, arguing his program to bring Canadian power lowers high rates and challenges the established one party system. She criticizes Jim Jeffords supporters and labels Salmon a clear plan to move Vermont ahead.
A citizen letter to President Nixon and Congress criticizes the Vietnam bombing strategy. It argues force fails to release POWs, urges moral reflection, and warns about jeopardizing American and Southeast Asian welfare. The writer predicts two outcomes: increased North Vietnamese morale and intensified offensives.
The piece ridicules George McGovern for grandiose midwestern oratory and compares him to historic figures while noting Americans tolerate exaggeration in campaigns. It recalls a Vermont anecdote about communists and bastards as rhetorical devices and mocks McGovern’s attacks on Nixon and Watergate.
A New York Times excerpt argues Republicans mock McGovern on amnesty but warns such scorn harms posterity. It urges amnesty as moral recovery of the country, cites Vietnam era behavior, cites Nixon and Lincoln, and calls for generous national spirit to heal wartime wounds and unite a divided nation.
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