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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1963
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corp located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont.
Editorial argues the Kennedy administration faces pressure to cut overseas garrisons while reassuring allies. Deputy Defense Secretary Gilpatric and Secretary Rusk are cited as signaling reductions that clash with West German expectations, framing a delicate balance between domestic urge to pull troops home and allied security concerns.
The article argues that troop reductions are economically justified to curb a 7 to 8 billion dollar deficit and ease the balance of payments. It notes improved airlift enabling mobile reserves, domestic political support, and potential European backlash, especially from West Germany, complicating a withdrawal.
The piece treats Halloween as evolving from Druids roots to All Saints Eve then to a largely secular American holiday. It notes the festival's reduction to a children’s mischief occasion with mild vandalism occasionally tolerated by parents and communities.
Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Miller of Harvard Divinity School warned at Holyoke on Reformation Day that the 20th century is secular and global. He urged five changes including engaging the world, translating ancient truths, recognizing modern experiences of God, defeating sectarianism, and aligning ethics with the Beatitudes.
In Nelson New Hampshire a town meeting stalls over adding light industry locals object to change and fear tax hikes. New residents propose a survey committee while longtime residents defend a quiet rural life and warn against rapid growth and new colleges.
Letters to The Banner rail against repeated showings of the film Operation Abolition and accuse the press of publishing explicit material. Emma G Hoyt objects to front page pornography and Gerald M McCue warns of reader alienation. James Reston is cited on Goldwater club activism.
A Mississippi reporter details fierce local backlash to federal intervention over integrating a Negro student at the University of Mississippi. Lt Gov Paul Johnson blasts Republicans while campaigning in Natchez, arguing white power and a divided state minority rule threaten the old order. Johnson vilifies outsiders and cites arms and propaganda as factors in a volatile political climate.
The Berkshire Eagle reports Rev John J Drinan during a Berk shire District Medical Society talk on October 24 recounts a playful exchange with a four year old naming Martin Luther King III as a marriage prospect. The President objects noting his Baptist faith.
In St. Peter's Church the Rev. Frederick Wolf discusses three walls tumbling between nations races and churches using The Walls Came Tumbling Down. He recounts a Freedom March moment of shared fatigue and fraternity and urges whites to see Black fellows as persons, not as a race, to regain integrity. New vistas and partnerships with the Negro community are urged as essential to facing national and global challenges.
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