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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
A three hour joint meeting of Bennington Town Selectmen Village Trustees and water board members highlighted the inefficiency of separate governance. They urged unifying town and village into one government, backing a regional water system and joint sewer plans while planning highway projects and shared costs. Local leaders endorsed ongoing cooperation to support eventual unification.
Editors note highlights tight race as Democrats lag in nominating petitions for six House seats while Republicans field two candidates in each subdistrict. Senate race grows heated with Salvatore Santarcangelo and Sen. Robert M. Wilson entering. Vermont reports calm Labor Day weekend but a hunting accident death. School enrollments surge with Benhi overcrowding and six district students rising to 2,123 in total.
The writer warns that the Los Angeles riot reveals deep Negro discontent and demands on a nation facing vast reforms. He argues civil rights failures persist, cities must be transformed, and leaders face immense, slow-moving tasks beyond the Great Society, with wisdom only beginning to dawn.
An elderly skeptic frets about the abandonment of tin and copper in cans as packaging shifts toward plastic bags and tear‑top lids. The column humorously envisions a world of capsule meals, squirt gun foods, and new cookbooks while arguing some foods and rituals may endure despite trends.
In an analysis of Germany's looming election, slogans from Ludwig Erhard's Christian Democrats and Willy Brandt's Social Democrats echo each other as both parties drift from pure ideologies. The Vollraths, a young Berliner couple, illustrate the practical choice: higher wages versus inflation, education versus payoff, and the threat of long-term economic planning by the state. Willy Brandt remains a strong challenger amid intra party tensions and Adenauer's lingering influence.
Washington column defends long hair on boys, argues Beatle cuts overrated but crew cuts worse, criticizes school for enforcing hair policies. Notes Beatle style may be unsanitary yet preferable to extreme short cuts, urges less discrimination and more aesthetic judgment. Points to head coverage as a styling benefit.
A wife buys a new wig and plans a prank at the office. She asks her husband if he could make room for a woman like her, but he retorts that she reminds him too much of his wife. Parade
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