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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
An unpublicized CIA misadventure from 1961 resurfaced as Singapore's prime minister Lee Kuan Yew recalled an American agent arrested for attempting to buy state secrets. The episode adds to criticism of U S covert operations and fuels distrust abroad and at home.
The CIA offered Lee 3.3 million to hush a Singapore espionage episode. The prime minister called the bribe an insult while the State Department denied the accusation, then produced a 1961 letter from Secretary Rusk apologizing for improper activities and promising discipline. The dispute exposed CIA bungling and poor communications, though officials say reforms may reduce repeats.
A Vermont geography fiasco details how mislaid topography in the Wallingford Quadrangle led to Mt. Tabor being renamed Peru Peak and later relocated Mt. Tabor. The 1955 corrected map still confounds the Long Trail route, drawing criticism of official renaming, accuracy claims, and disregard for local tradition.
The 1965 New Hampshire lottery posted sales of more than 3.8 million dollars, but this was nearly 2 million below 1964. Despite an earlier six month earlier start, the decline questions Vermont’s pursuit of a lottery and suggests limited financial payoff for state gambling ventures.
A private Moscow lecture by Abel Aganbegyan, a 33 year old Armenian Soviet economist, argues the USSR faces a shrinking growth rate, defensive bias in spending, and a backward industrial structure. The document, not reported in the Soviet Union, aligns with Western observers and highlights the Seven Year Plan's failures and misjudged forecasts.
The letter urges attention to a looming end for Bennington’s Little League due to the lack of a playing field and broader recreational facilities. The Banner invites ideas, while political jabs about Vermont figures and party shifts color the page, noting former officials and cross-party reactions to changes in state administration.
A critique of Pravda accusing the United States of cold blooded acts in Los Angeles and linking them to Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. The piece contrasts Soviet race oppression with American democracy, notes past communist stances on race, and questions Western propaganda. It cites Khrushchev era abuses, Katyn, Baltic expulsions, and the book Ward Seven by Valery Tarsis as context.
William B. Hart of the Bennington Little League laments the potential loss of the Little League Park for storage, power lines, and future fields. He urges the community to fund a new Little League and a regulation baseball field, warns baseball may vanish if land is not found, and questions editorials deeming recreation priorities, advocating tennis as a substitute.
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