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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. Located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont, the paper serves the local area with daily notices and news.
A Joint Economic Committee report refutes old stereotypes about defense spending. It shows most funds now go to sophisticated weapons systems rather than traditional hardware, with California receiving 21 percent of total procurement and ten states collectively supplying over half of all contracts.
A Joint Economic Committee report shows New England universities like MIT and Harvard receive a third of academic defense research funds, with firms such as Boston's Raytheon drawn to federal contracts. Defense outlays as a share of GNP have fallen from 11.1% in 1954 to 8.2% in 1964, while productivity and weapon development rise. the picture is reassuring for continental defense unless the U.S. enters a grinding land war in Asia.
Washington battle lines form as lawmakers brace for a fight to repeal Section 14 B of the National Labor Relations Act. Farm state senators resist Meany backed wheat shipment demands, while Johnson weighs executive action to ease the 50 percent wheat ban. Debate rides on unions' power, farm economics, and potential shifts in postwar policy.
Editor notes that the north gate closure on Bennington College Road ends a long hazardous shortcut. Speed limit was ignored, accidents rose, and police time spent on stop signs will ease. Also notes appointments and local figures: Manchester new town manager Jim Woodard, farmer of the year William Strohmaier, county agent John Page, and village trustee Joe Pello with vacation antics.
A 1000 Booster Club offer lures donors with a day on Dwight D. Eisenhower's Pennsylvania farm by invitation of the ex president. The plan aims to raise a 2 million campaign fund to challenge Democratic incumbents in marginal districts, amid splinter groups and party frictions in Congress.
Letters to the Editor discuss the special election candidate list in Bennington. The piece notes varied backgrounds among Republicans including Joe Caracciola a legislator and dealer and Sal Santarcangelo a public servant and petroleum dealer, plus Everett Lillie dairy farmer and David Allen a publishing mathematician with farming ties. It cites Daisy Meyers Lucia Howard Jim Wallace Allan Angney and others, praising American diversity of names and experience while urging the party to avoid fringe elements.
The November elections heighten the stakes for Republicans and Democrats in New York as 1966 reapportionment looms. Dems ruled 1965, but a GOP-favored plan looms in a split legislature. Rockefeller’s status, taxes, and a proposed lottery shape the looming battle.
In Munich RFE policy sessions discuss cross reporting to tell Poles Hungarians and others what is really happening rather than Soviet or Communist lines, stressing credibility as essential to exposing liberalizing trends in Eastern Europe and countering bloopers.
The Coronet quotes a memorized rule about i before e with exceptions. The list includes words like being beige deify rein their seize and weight. The remark notes many other examples beyond those named.
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