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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 429 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial warns of secret GOP maneuvering in Vermont with names like Mallory Jeffords Burgess Mahady Kennedy floated as potential 1972 candidates. It argues voters will decide in November 1972 beyond party planners and “balloons,” emphasizing public choice over secret plotting and the risk of empty promises.
Miss Catherine Corcoran announces retirement as superintendent of the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union at the end of the 1971-72 school year. The SVSU board weighs successors with possible candidates including her assistant George Sleeman and potential conflict concerns if his brother Dr. Richard Sleeman resigns from the Bennington School Board to avoid nepotism.
The page compiles varied notices and pleas including a telegenic executive seek position, Kennedy quotes denying candidacy, a request for Henry Kissinger works, a travel funding plea from European student followers, a lost television act, and stray lines about state department contact and public notices. Names and locations show NY, Washington, Peking, and Europe. appeals range from six figure salaries to funds for non existent agencies.
A string of satirical classified items references the New York Giants, Shea Stadium, and a joke about trading a China piece for sports gear. It also includes spoof career ads, a demagogic needle tactic, and quips about elections, plus contacts named in Washington and Saigon. The piece ends with a tongue-in-cheek disclaimer about not being a candidate.
Notes on September wild foods highlight plums of sumac juice for jelly, milkweed pods and seeds for oil and batter, elderberries cranberries and huckleberries for juices wines and jams. Nuts like chestnuts beech butternuts and hazelnuts offer fat and protein while caution on mushrooms advises knowing each species or sticking to berries and nuts.
Editor notes mock the finding that Shaftsbury School added two tenths of a student to its average daily membership, netting the town $10 from the state. The piece questions the cost of the audit and mentions Allan Fortney crediting Bennington College for reporting Ed Bloustein’s departure as president. Donald R. Brown serves as acting president while a search for a successor proceeds.
In a Vermont Caledonian Record column, Family Weekly argues the Vermont Council on the Arts faced public outrage over paying $2,000 to a Johnson poet for a museum dedication poem. The piece contends the payment was a commission support, not payment for a single poem, and defends art funding as aiding artists’ livelihoods.
A reader objects to the Banner’s sports space allocation. He notes Little League and minor league take time, while Post 13’s baseball gets prominent attention. He recalls sporadic scores coverage and urges more full game write ups and minor league notes.
Sunday’s overtime final saw the Union Carbide team coached by Don Stephenson surge from the league’s bottom to top honors. Coaches and players earned praise for a season of effort with hopes for increased coverage next year.
The piece argues Nixon risks weakness in a postwar, post Bretton Woods world. It cites Soviet submarine tracking gaps from Cuba, warns of overreliance on an atomic umbrella, and notes conservative opposition to Nixon for ending the prewar comfort. Strom Thurmond voices concern about a Gulf of Mexico blind side.
A revived man calls his broker asking for General Motors and IBM prices after waking from a 35 year freeze. The broker quotes values and the caller exclaims with delight as a phone operator interrupts with a demand for a $700 for a short call.
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