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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1966
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
Editorial lauds town board for designating over 70 acres of idle Town Farm land as a public park with exceptions for a sanitary landfill and possible U S 7 bypass. It stresses benefits for recreation, youth facilities, tourism, and urbanizing Bennington, while noting this is only the first step.
Civic leaders, selectmen, and the public are urged to advance a new park project. The Allen Organization has drawn a preliminary plan shown at The Banner. Recommendations include forming a park board, soliciting public input, and pursuing master planning and federal aid.
Following a change in command the CIA faces intensified propaganda from the Soviet bloc branding the agency as part of an invisible government. Moscow Radio cites a 10‑organization intelligence community and accuses U.S. offices abroad, the Peace Corps and others, of backing covert operations. The attacks recount past CIA actions in Iran, Indonesia, Venezuela, and Turkey, suggesting a wider struggle with Washington. The piece questions why the propaganda surge occurs, linking it to Wennerstrom espionage revelations and potential CIA overreach amid Cold War tensions.
A narrative of Stephen Field a Williams College alum and California Supreme Court justice. Highlights include his duel with a Marysville judge his 1863 appointment by Lincoln and notable cases such as Sharon V Hill Neagle and the tumultuous clashes with politicians and lawyers. Field shaped civil and criminal California law and twice sought the Democratic nomination for president.
Letters from Bennington County residents critique a proposed four lane highway arguing it would destroy rural Vermont’s character by cutting through forests and farm properties. They warn large ski developments and rapid access threaten the state’s traditional appeal and quality of life.
A young actor, short on cash, boasts to his landlord that in a few years people will point to the apartment and say Smith once lived there. The landlord retorts that if the rent isn’t paid tonight, tomorrow they’ll be able to say it also.
Editors note a sign removal in Putnam Square improving looks and suggest finishing vacant lot with topsoil or grass. Vermont faces severe teacher shortages as districts fill most Bennington area jobs, hindering pay competitiveness. Vermont GOP candidates Snelling and Hayes tout polls, Hoff campaigns, and Democrats field 15 incumbents for justice slate in this fall's race.
Comment by Jack Kofoed in the Miami Herald decries napalm as a brutal, inhumane weapon in Vietnam. He contrasts it with atomic blasts and laments the ritual of so called civilized warfare, urging discussion of U S conduct.
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