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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1970
Page
4
The Bennington Banner reports daily publication except Sundays and holidays from its office at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201. It is published by the Banner Publishing Corporation and serves as the local news source.
Editorial calls for a coordinated international drive against air piracy after a wave of Middle East skyjackings. It argues that extradition alone insufficient and urges accelerated airport security, universal anti hijacking treaties, and punitive boycotts by governments and pilots unions to compel compliance.
In a Burlington address to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Senator Aiken reiterates that criticism of nuclear plants is driven by competitors in fuels. He argues opposition would fade if uranium rivals gain plant control, a view biologists dispute as outdated to today’s energy landscape. The letter includes a personal welfare tale from Mrs Eve Paxis criticizing absent fathers and urging state action.
In a letter to The Banner Glendale resident C C Moseley argues that Health Education and Welfare spending, up 944 percent from 1953 to 1971, drives inflation and high taxes, far beyond defense growth. He calls Congress spenders to restrain social programs to avoid bankrupting the country.
Letter from Walter G Danisch on Robinson Avenue defending the Mt Anthony Union High School Board for sticking to original educational goals and a core curriculum while opposing fringe programs like modern dance. He cites Booz Allen Hamilton specs and urges readers to support realistic, taxpaying education and community space for alternative programs.
In Southeast Vermont Vernon hosts a large Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant under construction, while nearby Guilford grows as a youth escaping center. The piece weighs economic impacts, tax changes, and broader questions of power, progress and spiritual values versus material comfort. It argues more power fuels gadgets but degrades the human condition and urges a shift in values to balance technology with ethical considerations.
A letter to The Banner recounts a wind event that felled a large branch on Monument Avenue in Old Bennington, bringing down hundreds of bees and yielding over 100 pounds of honey. The writer recalls bee-collecting as a boy and notes ecological concerns, praising the bee man who relocated the swarm instead of using insect killer. John S. Holden, 150 Upland Rd., Cambridge, Mass.
The piece notes Sen. Henry Jackson and 13 colleagues urging a standstill cease-fire to halt fighting in Vietnam and push private talks, a plan the White House and Vice President Agnew dismiss as not on the table, risking a credibility gap and limited pursuit by Nixon.
A woman recognizes the celebrity as he paces nervously before addressing the club. He denies nervousness, then a remark reveals his location in the Ladies Rest Room, prompting amused reaction from onlookers.
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