Berkshire Eagle (Newspaper) - October 17, 1959, Pittsfield, Massachusetts The WEEKEND Fair and warmer with high near 70 reet today Partly cloudy er tonight Fair and cooler tomorrow 28 5 cents Ea Pittsfield Massachusetts Saturday October 17 1959 Volume 141 Steel Union's Offer Is Hailed by Mitchell Marshall Is Dead at 78 Leader in War and Peace WASHINGTON AP Secret Items Are Weighed o By Industry Bold WASHINGTON workers Union Friday made a compromise peace offer scaling down its money demands and Gen over a year he toiled to unite away convinced that Russia Marshall that country hp con- pd neither peace nor the eco- helped lead U.S arms to victory that both sides had nomic recovery of E in World War II and fathered the any real rhance for cold war Marshall Plan dird a plague on both day after a long illness He houses Military applied to di- Marshall to re- demanded an sald hp is optimistic that the Death came to Marshall at tire But President Truman tapped new tack be taken in the cold may be settled ter Army Hospital where he for service beginning to crip the world j quickly had been under care since secretary of state Marshall gave his answer on March 11 Death was officially Communism was 5 1947 to age and us activity and In his address to FALL FOLIAGE is framing a new addition lo the county landscape this year the Berkshire Life building on South Street in Here a yellowing maple and Patricia Lynch combine to form an attractive foreground for a view of ths building against South Mountain The lant In a series of open houses are being held over the next two weeks Berdins Takes A Swing at Coexistence WASHINGTON trine of peaceful coexistence by Soviet Premier Nikita as offering a way cut of the cold war was sharply Friday by a U.S man The peoples of the world are entitled to something Asst Secretary of State Andrew H Berding said Plight laid the United States cannot accept an arrangement with the Soviet Union that would rule out for the peoples in Com- munist nations the prospects of ob- true freedom national independence and ever form of government and economic and social they wish Peoples live they do not ply Berding said in a speech to a meeting of the al of Broadcasters In the way nations should live and cooperate for the increasing welfare of their peoples they should not coexist In peace Berding assistant secretary of lor public affairs described a summit conference in the near future as a distinct possibility China No 1 Threat greatest threat to world peace at present Berding de- clared results from the sionist aim backed by fanatical policies of the Chinese The Soviet Union he added hai a us the leading nation of the Communist bloc to moderate Chinese Communist be- havior In effect Berding argued that the degree of sincerity behind talk about ending the cold war must be judged not only by the actions of the Soviet Union but also by the actions of Red China Hii criticism of Khrushchev's doctrine of peaceful coexistence ot the strongest and most yet made by a ranking U.S official and one of the few in the since the Camp David con- ference between President hower Khrushchev Cost Quoddy Power Plan Sound For U.S But Not Canada WASHINGTON AP said Friday the 40 year dream of power generation from the enormous Passamaquoddy Bay tides not only is possible but economically sound The conclusion was reported to tractive to the latter This is due to differences in interest rates and power values The International Commission made clear in releasing the high- lights of the engineers conclusions that they are not necessarily the International Joint those of l the commission The Mrs K Visits Where She Worked MOSCOW of the electric bulb factory played host Friday to Nina wife of the Soviet TMS the Soviet news wid tion because formerly and has many friends there sion on Waters by Army and associated engineers after a three million dollar year study The engineering held that although the ideal plan of ing the tidal range and stabilizing the power output with an auxiliary hydroelectric plant would cost million dollars it would bp economically justified as far as the United States is con- cerned The group found however that assuming an equal division of power and initial costs between as started under the Federal the United States and Canada it would be economically at- and possible dations of the commission will only after a detailed ing by the engineers at a meeting in Boston around the end of the year Tn its 1955 and propriation to get an answer to the question of cost and ity Congress made it clear that it was not obligating the ment to undertake actual con- struction In 3935 actual construction of an project in Quoddy Appropriations Act This work was suspended in Greylock Tram Fight Taken Into 2 Courts The campaign to prevent an act referendum A that is subject to a referendum doesn't go into effect until 90 days after it has forcing the state to guarantee in- terest payment on money borrowed by the Mount Greylock Tramway Authority advanced on two fronts yesterday in Suffolk County Judicial and Superior Courts The first was a suit brought by in Berkshire Hampden Worcester Essex Middlesex folk Plymouth and Suffolk counties asking the Supreme Court to enjoin State Treasurer John F Kennedy from expending any monies or in- curring any obligations to meet interest payments on tramway It was filed by Walter E Reilly of Pittsfield and James B Wallis of Boston Associate tice Edward A Counihan Jr of Cambridge ordered the in- attorneys to before him Wednesday morning at at which time a date be tet for completion of the Declaratory Judgment The other action wai the filing of a in Superior Court for a declaratory judgment to the effective date of the tramway act It was passed by the Legislature Sept IS and it was signed into law Sopr 17 by Gov of State Joieph D Ward tai that the tive ot tot h Oct on the it III a Nil ind not subject to a statewide 1936 when Congress denied more money The present international plan I contemplates using the Passamaquoddy Bay as a high pool snd the mile Bay as a low pool with the penned waters flowing through turbines between the two bays The engineers found that this wholly tidal project would need auxiliary power for stabilization and included studies of two hydroelectric projects Rankin Rapids on the St John River and at a site on the River both in Maine They concluded that the most favorable combination would be the tidal and Rankin Rapids ects The construction cost was estimated at 630 million dollars with interest during construction bringing the investment to From this combination the en- estimate a dependable capacity of kilowatts and average annual generation of million Inequality Detailed Because of in inter- est rates and different values of alternative power between the United States and Canada the en- computed benefit cost ratios separately Then assuming cations of cerebral vascular dents strokes and lar renal kidney disease The had been The parries are closer together ing to forge into Europe A graduating at than they have been since the vere winter and spring drought 1 University the Mitchell told sharpened already serious announced the birth of the war problems on the Continent shall Plan to which he lent his seriously ill since suffering a j Britain the main bulwark of the j great prestige stroke at his winter home in free peoples of Europe was be- been passed by the Legislature equal division of costs and power and approved by the governor output over 50 or 75 year The for a declaratory ment was filed by five legislators and five other taxpayers The legislators are Sidney A of Sheffield Wallace B Crawford of Pittsfield Warren A Turner of Lee Mary B Newman in of Cambridge and James mandi of Lincoln Judge Horace B Cahill ordered subpoenas served on Secretary of State Joseph D Ward and members of tramway ity for an appearance before him Oct 26 at Suffolk County house Purpose is to set up a ing to determine whether the court should declare the Greylock legislation to be a or law If it is determined that it is a to make the tramway bond issue a referendum question on the 1960 ballot To get the question on the ballot would involve the tion of voter signatures within the period Reilly and Wallis contend in their before the Supreme Court that the constitution provides for a roll call vote and The way amendment enacted Sept IS by vote and without de- lation periods figured the fits to the respective countries In accordance with the current federal practice in evaluating wa- ter resource projects the interest rate used for economic analysis United States is 24 per cent In Canada the interest rate is per cent Taking the Rapids combination project as an ple Die engineers found the fit to the United States over 50 years would be 1.31 to 1 but to Canada it would be 0.58 to 1 The cost per kilowatt-hour in the ed States would be 8.4 mills and in Canada 11.5 mills Over a 75 year amortization law an effort will be period the cost-benefit ratio would be 1.53 to 1 in this country and M H 0.63 in Canada Kilowatt hour costs would be 78.2 and 10.6 mills respectively A federal power commission of- said the approximate age kilowatt-hour costs at private steam generating plants in the United States have been from 7.4 to 8.0 mills over the past three years In New England he said costs at steam generating plants ot most modern design would 9.0 ind of higtt fuei transportation hurst last Jan 15 President said death is cause for found grief throughout the United States Eisenhower spoke glowingly of Marshall's World War n record as Army chief of staff under ident Franklin D Roosevelt and later as secretary of state and of defense in the tration of President Harry S man He Picked Marshall's death must be poignant TO Eisenhower be- cause Marshall is generally ed with plucking Eisenhower from obscurity at The outset of World War II and starring him upward toward becoming supreme Allied commander in Europe A native of Uniontown Pa Marshall graduated from historic Virginia Military Institute and went on to become one of The few Pointers to achieve top rank in the Army Eisenhower issued a tion ordering that the flag be flown at half-staff upon all public buildings and grounds at military posts and naval stations snd on naval vessels until after hit neral Simple The Defense Department said that in accordance family wishes simple funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 30 p.m EDT at tha Ft Myer Chapel in Arlington Va Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery It will be private In addition to the general's ow Mrs Tupper shall he is survived by his sister Mrs John J Singer of burg Pa and a stepdaughter Mrs J Winn of Leesburg Va The family suggested that in lieu of flowers friends may to make a contribution to either the Army Emergency Relief Fund Washington or the Loudoun County Hospital at burg Va gining TO slip dangerously It message of American brotherhood to the Marshall got his first taste of world backed up with concrete Communist diplomacy on March 10 1947 at a Big Four foreign ministers on German and Austrian peace treaties He came aid that spelled the difference Marshall Continued on Second GEN GEORGE C MARSHALL had a commanding as he rounded out a unique public career as of defense in 1950 lie had served ar TI chief of staff and of state He lent great to the Plan to Europe's economy after the war Photo Received Nobel Prise United Gen George Catlett Marshall a headed U.S forces in war and won the Nobel Prize for his con- to peace As Army chief of staff during World War II he directed the greatest military force in U.S history With the defeat of the Axis Marshall retired to his country home in Leesburg Va on Nov 20 IMS But country wouldn't let him rest In the troubled postwar years he tackled new and ex- difficult career ai a statesman Only seven days after his re- Marshall received an urgent telephone call from dent Harry S Truman The Chief Executive said hr wanted Marshall to act as his personal envoy to China then torn by civil strife between Com- and Nationalists shall It proved a job For CSS Drops TV Shows Involving Big Sums NEW ORLEANS La AP face government action President Frank Stanton of the Millions of Americans were Columbia Broadcasting System announced Friday all quiz shows will be eliminated from his television network He said the quiz scandal has given all broadcasting a black eye Stanton made the announcement at a meeting here of the Radio Television News Directors Assn In New York CBS said Top Dollar and The Big Payoff quiz shows would be dropped as duped by what on behind the scenes during the production of many of these quiz shows and so were Stanton told New Orleans gathering PuNJe Policing Would We are now convinced that games appeal ij the winning by contestants of large sums of money or lavishly ex- pensive prizes ought not to be ried on the CBS television of next Monday Stanton said an-j work other show CBS may drop is The dangers inherent in such Name That Tune The network programs RS presently conceived already has dropped its biggest j have been highlighted for all to quiz shows Ssee and we believe that Chairman Earl W system of policing public or the Federal Trade however carefully de- angry over testimony of rigged vised can plug up all the Mitchell declined to comment on the merits of the union's latest proposal in which the steelworkers reportedly cut their money mands by about one-third Earlier Union President David J McDonald declined to spell out details The administration is expected to seek a court in- junction early next week in the event negotiations collapsed or became deadlocked again over the weekend Top industry executives ised to the proposal Their answer is to be made known to the union here late Saturday Counteroffer Expected An industry counteroffer would surprise nobody since the union proposal for ending the strike reportedly left unsatisfied the management demand for more freedom in changing work tices to achieve manpower mies Highly placed sources said the union proposal contemplated a increase for tha workers over a Two-year period This would include no wage boost but substantial insurance pension and supplemental unemployment benefits during The first year plus a sizable pay hike of about 10 cents an hour in the second year This amounted to roughly 10 cents an hour extra a year in contrast to the earlier union de- mand for approximately 15 cents an hour additional each year Be- fore the strike began ers averaged 5311 an hour From all the from steel customers and likely from the ed 500.000 was being applied to the industry and union to quit haggling and mer out a new contract Priorities The government slapped de- fense priorities Friday on able steel supplies The Commerce Department issued orders production by the 15 per cent of the industry still operating into items destined for use in siles launching sites and nuclear submarines The order also requires that the priorities continue for new steel produced by the rest of the in- dustry when the strike ends The growing pinch on the my was illustrated by word from Detroit that General Motors Corp may have to stop producing by Nov 1 to lack of steel Already GM employes have been laid off Altogether more than workers in and out of sreel have been idled by the strike Kaiser Steel Corp was reported near agreement on accepting the union offer Edgar F Kaiser board man of Kaiser Steel got out a statement in response to inquiries about these reports He said his company had no written or verbal agreement or commitment with the union to n new contract TV quiz shown Thursday called on the Industry to regulate itself for hanky-panky in the of the programs Moscow Wants Garlic MOSCOW AP The per Evening Moscow carried an Friday for had for flu V
