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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201.
The Camp David meeting among Japan and three leading European powers will reveal whether a credible, unified plan against rising imported oil prices exists. If cooperation collapses, Ford and Kissinger may be heard as offering frustrated rhetoric rather than a real policy path.
John Nikitas asks Bennington residents to donate to the United Counseling Service UCS for the 1974 75 annual fund drive beginning October 1 1974. He notes UCS is a people helper in Vermont and that local funds leverage state and federal support, with donations being tax deductible. He urges reading literature and giving as able to sustain services in the community.
Dr. Michael Claudon of Middlebury College spoke at the Putney meeting on the New Hampshire Vermont Development Council report. He warned high school grads face a bright outlook while older workers face a looming downturn as Vermont shifts to a service-based economy with rising unemployment and skill mismatches.
U S Judge J Robert Elliot orders Lt William Calley released Wednesday criticizing pre trial news coverage of the My Lai massacre as unrestrained and uncontrolled He says Calley was portrayed as a murderer by the press and driven by media commentary to act in the killings the judge implies the media bears responsibility for the crime more than the actual shooter
The Calley case ends with Richard Nixon pardoned and William Calley freed. Rev. Billy Graham urged publishers to pursue moral and spiritual integrity as a top priority in editorials, a pointed stance likely not his own intention. An editorial reflection from Brattleboro Reformer notes the clash of justice and public virtue.
A reader praises Act 250 as sound but says state officials Salmon Jackson Johnson turned it into a maze hindering development. Bennington boards and inspector praise local work, while urging state support to avoid environmental problems and restore common sense in planning. James C. Jerome signs.
Edward Kennedy’s decision to not seek the 1976 presidency shifts the rivalry among Democratic hopefuls. It ends Kennedy’s dominance, allowing Henry Jackson Walter Mondale Lloyd Bentsen and others to compete without his shadow and to frame the race against the Nixon Ford record rather than Chappaquiddick.
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