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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
Editorial argues that American and British arms in the Kashmir hostilities increase both nations' responsibility to secure a ceasefire. With India and Pakistan unlikely to negotiate, the UN is the last hope to deploy peacekeepers and stabilize Asia, despite recent Congo and Gaza financing setbacks threatening its effectiveness.
The Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan threatens global peace and tests the U N Security Council. With no peace talks in sight and ongoing fighting, a veto could fail the council. The article notes new voluntary payment procedures as a test of the UN’s ability to respond.
A Banner summary notes anonymous mailings from Woodbury Vermont accusing Vermont newspapers of withholding truth while linking civil rights efforts to communist plots. The piece contends the letters aim to trivialize Cold War dangers and harm the civil rights movement, urging better understanding and civic responsibility.
Editor notes speculate Lt. Gov John Daley hints Gov Hoff may seek Senate seat in 1968 forming a dramatic potential race. Shoreham votes to keep high school over sending students to Middlebury, with Vermont Education Office to pursue targeted reforms. Hutchinson challenges elections as unconstitutional while Democrats seek candidates. Census shows New England growth 6 percent, Vermont 1.9 percent, orchard outlook looks bright as year shapes up. One party dynamics surface in county politics with calls for change in Vermont and Chittenden County electoral history.
Washington lawmakers reveal hush hush mood around the Manned Orbiting Laboratory project as officials describe a space system aimed at peace but raise questions of a space arms race. MOL will use advanced sensors and communications to observe radiations, heat and sound from space while avoiding weapons use per UN resolutions. NASA is kept distant due to security needs and potential interagency conflicts. The Air Force pressed for space roles, while NASA contemplates buying later access to its own scientific vehicle.
Washington report notes Goddard Space Flight Center struggles to collect fireflies for a proposed mid 1966 rocket containing firefly tail lights to test for live microorganisms in the upper atmosphere. About 10,000 insects collected. season waning. no firm quote on needed total.
In Sandgate the Arlington Fish and Game Club runs a turkey and rifle and shotgun shoot starting September 12 at 10 a.m. Refreshments will be sold. the event aims to sharpen shooters ahead of a September 19 Shaftsbury shoot at the Bennington Rod and Gun Club with clay pigeons on the trap field and extra novelty ideas.
A comparative critique of global union movements in Asia Africa and America. Narayanan Kenya and Walter Reuther are cited negotiating state power versus independent unions. The piece argues for non state controlled unions echoing Gompers while warning of compulsory unionism and state l sales.
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