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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1962
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont, serving local readers with regional news and notices.
The United Electrical Workers press for a 35 hour work week in contract talks with General Electric and Westinghouse as unions push to cut hours to create jobs. Kennedy and Labor Secretary Goldberg oppose, arguing a shorter week without productivity gains risks inflation, while some workers and businessmen doubt widespread unemployment relief. Moderates favor preserving productivity balance and resist accelerated reductions in hours or raises in wages.
A columnist argues that the 30 billion dollar space program for the moon could fund education and social projects instead. He cites rerouting funds to colleges, medical schools, teacher pay, and foundations, while noting the moon mission consumes vast public resources.
In the 87th Congress a Senate backed Wilderness Bill seeks a national preserves system to protect untouched tracts within parks and forests. Opponents from lumber and mining push 25 year review, terming it a crippling compromise while Citizens Committee calls it a dangerous concession. The Senate version is urged to pass without delay.
Bennington celebrates resilience after devastating fires in 1959 and 1961 with community pride. Vermont Development Board backs reconstruction plans at Indian Head Plywood in Newport employing 75, while St Johnsbury wins a new 5.5 million plant for Fairbanks Morse, signaling a broader regional push to rebound from disasters.
Washington notes the likely impact of Arthur Goldberg joining the Supreme Court, with Byron White and Earl Warren shaping a liberal majority. The piece traces past appointments, the court’s possible realignment, and the President’s power to influence jurisprudence for years ahead.
Washington's Arthur Goldberg rose from union roots to labor secretary and Supreme Court nominee. Durkin failed to deliver on Taft Hartley changes, while Goldberg kept a steady course with Kennedy, prioritizing inflation control and public welfare over special interests. George Meany cites Congress as the bottleneck, not Kennedy or Goldberg.
In 1997 on Labor Day in New York a yacht scene with Henry Palmer Buckshound recounts a 1962 tale about a clerk rising from office to chairman. He credits a holiday work ethic for his fortune and warns against working on holidays while noting his three chorus girls. The moral: never work on your holidays.
A South African humor piece recalls a hunter taking his wife on a safari. While the hunter boasted of trophies, the headline prize was the lion head supposedly felled by his wife with a 1961 station wagon. The exchange riffs on absurdity and pride.
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