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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1966
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
The Democrats adopt their platform backing Gov Hoff for a third term while Richard Snelling attacks his rival and proposes tax reform. Hoff touts education penal reform highway work and government streamlining as Snelling counters on sales tax and right to work. The contest hinges on tax policy funding education and local government needs.
Editor notes praise Mt Anthony Union High School Patriots as first football and soccer teams win in the new uniforms. Local towns plan tax prepayment to avoid borrowing. Building delays for the new Mt Anthony Union High School threaten occupancy by February, with construction advancing despite carpenter shortages. An agreement ends a long labor dispute at Globe Union Co. and UAW Local 371 while a campaign finance critique surfaces.
UPI reports in Albany that Senator Kennedy never opposed granting the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor to Samuels. Amid Buffalo convention maneuvering, Lehman Sedita and Samuels emerged as top contenders. Samuels ultimately won the nomination for lieutenant governor with Sedita as attorney general as Kennedy aides pressed for a different alignment.
A candid reminiscence on becoming an ailurophile in old age. The author recalls a cat driven life story sparked by a stray litter, a family cat named Little Monster, and various feline antics. He riffs on cats as companions and their quirky habits, including a tabby digging holes for attention and Fu Manchu with a snake, all framed with humor and nostalgia.
A letter to The Banner editor urges citizens to protest dangerous foreign policy, support citizen-soldier paths through the Teacher Corps and Peace Corps, and study enduring social solutions. The writer, Dr. J. O. Chassell, reflects on shifting his son from physics to economics as a path to wiser world action, then shows a fable about a small engine that loves people and finds purpose in serving passengers.
A narratively intense tale follows a cheerful little engine that powers up mountains and along mountain towns until freight cars shrink and passenger demand vanishes. An elder engine reveals the corporation's profit motive as the real reason, leaving the engine and towns mourning a lost purpose while the whistle sounds melancholy.
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