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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1966
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is a daily newspaper issued every day except Sundays and holidays. It is published by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington, Vermont.
Executives of the Greater Bennington Association and local industry back a cooperative Vocational Guidance Program aimed at orienting students to labor opportunities and job requirements. The plan, discussed this week, would educate youths about careers, free enterprise operations, and help local industries find skilled manpower, building on the earlier Prep Club effort.
A Vermont opinion argues against a sole widening of U S 7 proposing a four lane expressway to handle future traffic. It notes reconstruction would displace homes, require bypasses, and risk obsolescence, urging a balanced plan preserving local commerce while expanding capacity for regional growth. It supports improved U S 7 for tourism and local traffic.
The Boston Globe notes Richard Nixon’s rapid pivot from hawkish threats to a peace oriented stance. After talks with Republican strategists in Washington he adopts Peace Progress Prosperity and backs an Illinois candidate’s Asian settlement plan for Viet Nam.
A reader writes to The Banner to Ernest W. Gibson II, Vermont public service commissioner, about Central Vermont Public Service Corp evaluating three alternative rights of way in the Bondville area, one crossing and defacing a landscape feature and raising concerns over scenic impact.
A humorous column questions the value of constant striving and cites studies on success and crisis coping. The piece shifts to a Vermont land dispute near Bondville, urging preservation of meadowland from high tension power lines and advocating burial or alternative routes, toward public interest and scenery protection.
A Burlington Free Press item recalls a roadside sign near an army camp warning drivers to slow down. Beneath the warning, a crayon scrawl from a recruit reads Be a big game hunter Wait for an officer. The anecdote highlights wartime morale humor.
The Soka Gakkai Buddhist group through its Komeito arm wields strong Tokyo votes and rallies for clean government as it quietly builds a 700-year-old Nichiren base. Its push toward a third party could redefine Japan's postwar era, blending mass organization with political influence while skirting church-state barriers.
The piece recalls Dr. John M. Thomas and a 1935 Montpelier hearing over the Green Mountain Parkway. It notes Thomas's stature, rival voices, and a statewide referendum defeat. It then shifts to Burr and Burton School in Manchester, the author’s trustee resignation, endowment efforts, and Education Commissioner Gibboney’s intervention, ending with a meditation on Thomas and the seminary’s fate.
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