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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner operates daily except Sundays and holidays under Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201 with standard publishing oversight.
The critique targets 15,000 rice growers with “vicious little monopolies” as a Ford administration shift toward open acreage faces House resistance. The piece links rice controls to inflation, hunger abroad, and calls for a unified domestic and international food policy tying reserves and fertilizer production to humanitarian needs.
Letters argue that the Ik of Uganda and urban poor worldwide reveal a cycle of neglect and hunger. The piece cites street children in Mexico and Buenos Aires, rising infant mortality, and studies linking lack of maternal care to later antisocial behavior, urging attention to neglect and abuse.
A letter in The Banner contrasts Bennington’s downtown revitalization with Rutland’s plan. The writer warns against overreliance on powerful investors, urging a humanistic approach that includes small merchants and community collaboration to build a vibrant, pedestrian friendly district rather than a parking lot destined for Canada. The piece emphasizes preserving the town’s character and inviting broad local participation.
The narrator details autumn’s rapid advance from colored mountains to bare trees and drifting leaves. He recalls past harvests, old roads, and vanished settlements, then reflects on fall as part of a universal cycle. Change, he argues, is inevitable and to be embraced as life’s steady rhythm.
A reader from Pleasant Valley Road critiques a Bennington gun control article, arguing 500 foot setbacks do not solve conflicts and citing rifle ranges and bullet trajectories. The letter condemns indiscriminate and dangerous weapon handling while noting the writer is a gun buff with many like-minded friends.
In a Council Bluffs Nonpareil reminiscence from Champaign Illinois last weekend heroes rise and fall with public adulation. The piece recalls Red Grange as a timeless football icon and warns that once a leader gains high polls the push to tear them down follows, urged by aging fans and media alike.
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