Berkshire Eagle (Newspaper) - September 11, 1976, Pittsfield, Massachusetts E H jE The first wave enthusiasm is shown by these pupils at the Morningside Community School in Pittsfield as they wave their hands to volunteer the answer to Mrs Margaret McMahon a team teacher in the third and fourth grades Pictures and stones on the new Morningside School on 18 and 19 si Senate in wake of veto override votes a billion jobs ef WASHINGTON UPI Following up the congressional override of President Fords veto the Senate Friday approved a billion public works appropriation designed to create 300000 new jobs in economically stagnant areas The vote was 60 to 14 The House previously approved 311 to 72 a money measure million smaller and a joint conference committee now will have to work out the differences The Senate version earmarks billion for grants to state and local public works projects billion in revenue sharing programs and million in construction grants for waste treatment facilities Ford vetoed the authorization which set a ceiling on the public works appropriation but he was overridden 73 to 24 in the Senate and 310 to 96 in the House The margins on the appropriation News index Area News Briefs 8 Building 1821 Churches12 County 78 Eagle Editorial Foreign 2 Hospital Ust 13 Local 9131528 Name In The News 15 Sports 1011 TV Movies 27 indicated the President would be out voted again should he decide on another veto Sen John 0 Pastore DRI called the one more step in the congressional program of economic recovery Sen Charles McC Mathias Jr RMd said It is distressing that we have 78 per cent of the work force unable to find a job And thats what this is all about Its a way to give every person who wants to work a chance Its better than a dole No opposition to the was voiced in the Senate which rushed it through in less than half an hour But opponents of the measure earlier disputed claims the program would create 300000 jobs Some in the House claimed a more realistic figure would be 160000 and that the cost to the taxpayers would be Ford charged at the time his veto was overridden that the program would create bigger federal deficits higher inflation and higher unemployment in the long run The billion in grants is designed to put people to work as quickly as possible For approval applications must demon strate that onsite labor can begin within 90 days Projects must be in areas where the average rate of unemployment has been 65 per cent or more in the past three months and 70 per cent of the billion must go to areas where unemployment exceeds the national average of 78 per cent Meanwhile the House Friday gave final congressional approval of a billion subsidy for the US Postal Service and included a ban until March 15 1977 on any rate increase or cuts service The measure approved earlier by the Senate by voice vote was passed on a 27633 vote and sent to President Ford for his expected approval Backers of the measure said it was only a stopgap effort until a special commission created in the recom mends by the March date a permanent solution to the postal problems with the possibility the service would be returned to complete congressional control Congress gave up running the postal service in 1970 setting it up as a dependent agency operated by a board of governors and a rate commission The service incurred widespread congressional opposition when it proposed earlier this year the closing of small rural post offices as an economy measure It eventually dropped the plan The measure authorizes the billion subsidy until Sept 30 1977 Rep David Henderson DNC manager of the said the temporary curtailments on the services powers would protect the public from higher rates or post office closings until the new Congress makes a final decision Rates would be frozen at their present level until March 15 and a waiting period would be imposed after that time on any increase proposals Post offices with 35 or more patrons could not be closed during the ban Scores American League Detroit 1 Boston 0 New York 6 Milwaukee 4 Baltimore 4 Cleveland 3 National League New York 4 St Louis 3 Chicago 3 Philadelphia 2 Montreal 4 Pittsburgh 3 Forecast Berkshire Weather Service Lingering showers vvith par tial clearing late in the day high in the 60s Cool with chance of a shower tomorrow temperatures in the 60s Eagle Vol 85 No 106 Pittsfield Mass Sat September 111976 28 Pages Bishops like Ford on abortion stand WASHINGTON UP I Roman Catholic bishops conferred with President Ford Friday and made clear they prefer his stand on abortion to that of Jimmy Carter but are not totally satisfied In a White House meeting that ran more than an hour six leaders of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops questioned the President on what they called the central issue in our nation and our world and told reporters they were encouraged by what he said In saying we are encouraged that is not to say we are totally satisfied said Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincin nati who spoke for the group Bernardin said Ford made it very clear he favors a constitutional amend ment giving each state the right to make its own laws regulating abortion fur ther than Carter will go but short of the bishops demand for an amendment that would give maximum protection to the unborn We feel there are better approaches than the states rights amendment Ber nardin said Nevertheless he said we are encouraged by Fords position After a recent meeting with Carter on the same subject Bernardin said bishops were disappointed by his refusal to support a constitutional amendment banning abortion and found his personal opposition to such operations inadequate demonstrators have since dogged Carter at nearly every campaign stop Bernardin said the bishops are not endorsing or opposing the presidential candidacy of either man White House press secretary Ron Nessen said Ford was very pleased with the frank exchange of views he had with the bishops He looks forward to meeting them again in the future Nessen said Before the session Nessen said Ford would not change his opposition to a con amendment banning abortion outright because he approves of it in cases of rape incest and danger to the life of the mother Bernardin said the bishops also asked Ford to curb federal abortions saying they had risen from 586000 in 1972 to over one million last year as a result in part of the Supreme Courts 1973 ruling on legalized abortion He said the President gave the bishops a promise that a study would be made to see what could be done about this Nessen said Ford wants to ensure federal abortion subsidy is restrained to no more than the minimum required by the Supreme Court ruling The White House later released a letter Ford presented the bishops saying his abortion views rest on three convictions I am against abortion on demand The people of every state should have the constitutional right to control abortion There is a need to recognize and provide for exceptional cases such as rape and incest The letter also told the bishops Ford supports continued government aid for church schools Meanwhile Jimmy Carter seeking the labor vote condemned the Ford administration Friday for allegedly asserting that the economy is hurting Wall Street more than the working people Were going to change tnat attitude the Democratic presidential nominee told a cheering audience of 2300 delegates to the convention of the International Association of Machinists Carter apparently referred to testimony given several months ago by Alan Greenspan chairman of President Fords Council of Economic Advisers Labor leaders also were vvith Carter when he opened the day in the Midwest He was flanked by United Auto Workers officials as he shook hands at the Allis Chalmers turbine factory in Milwaukee Wis After visiting Illinois and Wisconsin where he said he is in a close race with Ford Carter flew to Hollywood for the speech to the Machinists His theme was the inflation and unemployment of the past eight years Weve seen in this instance a typical example of what we inherited in the last eight years from a Republican administration whose chief economic adviser said in the depths of a depression which is still here the people who are suffering most are the Wall Street brokers and not the working people of the country Carter said Were going to change that attitude next January Besides greeting the workers during a shift change at the Allis Chalmers plant in Milwaukee Carter also shook hands with anti abortion demonstrators whose placards and shouts of life have confronted him most of the way on the road Wisconsin is going to be a hardfought state Carter said in Milwaukee at a Serbian breakfast sponsored by one of the several ethnic groups he has visited this week The choice is very narrow almost a tie billion in aid is voted by Senate WASHINGTON UPF The Senate Friday approved a billion foreign aid money benefiting mostly the Middle East and sharply reducing amounts the administration requested for countries of southern Africa The 5225 vote sent the legislation to a conference for resolution of differences with a carrying a price tag million higher Before final passage the Senate voted 67 to 10 to eliminate outright a requested million for Mozambique and reduced amounts for Zambia and Zaire from million each to million But the Senate left untouched million for Mozambique which was in the 1976 appropriations bili and which still could be used The Senate also rejected a ban against aid to Angola or Mozambique although the new measure contained funds for neither country Administration officials had argued that assistance to the southern African nations was essential to restoring political stability in the area and ting racial wars But Sen James B Allen DAla threatened a filibuster against the entire aid program if President Fords full requests for southern Africa were gran ted and the Senate imposed the cuts to avert a standoff with less than four weeks remaining before congressional adjournment The administration asked for million for Botswana Southwest Africa Zaire Zambia and Zimbabwe But Allen said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had targeted half for bique the staging ground for guerrilla attacks on Rhodesia The Senate provided only million for Botswana and million overall for agricultural development and training in the southern African countries The Senate earmarks billion in military sales credits for Israel half of which will not have to be repaid and the remainder carrying only nominal interest rates Israel also would get million in security support assistance Egypt gets million and Syria million in support aid Jordan was ear marked for million for security aid and a like amount in military assistance UPI DEMOCRATIC candidate Jimmy Carter shakes hands vvith workers entering a plant in Milwaukee as he campaigns in the state At his right is Gov Patrick Lucey Stockbridge School says its closing Joel By Benjamin L Ginsberg STOCKBRIDGE Stockbridge School the Route 183 college preparatory school founded by Hans and Ruth Maeder in 1949 as an institution dedicated to the teaching of democracy will not reopen this year In announcing the end of the old school Maeder now the chairman of the board of trustees said yesterday that declining enrollments and increasing debts forced the close of the tional institution Fiftyfive students were scheduled to begin classes next week on the campus that was once the estate of Re publican party Mark Han na Maeder who stepped down as tor of the school in 1971 said that 90 stu dents would have been needed to meet expenses this year Three groups all of them representing educational institutions have expressed an interest in buying the school site which includes 12 buildings four of them dormitories Maeder said he expects a purchase agreement to be worked out by the end of the month He declined to name the potential buyers The demise of the Stockbridge School continues the fiveyear decline in the for tunes of the areas private schools Six such schools in Lenox have closed in the last five years Students were informed of the schools closing in letters sent out Wednesday Maeder said administrators were aiding the students in finding schools to attend this year Eighteen teachers and admin would have been working at the school this year Part of Maeders educational philosphy was to teach his students an under standing of democracy and a belief in world peace Participation in governance of the school and a student body that in cluded citizens of many nations were used that end Another picture on Page 8 In a letter that will be sent out to all the schools alumni Maeder wrote When in 1949 the school opened its doors Ruth Maeders wife who died ear lier this year and 1 envisioned a place dedicated to the education of world un In the 23 years that we spent building the school from 14 to 150 students the goal of education for world understanding never changed Many of our alumni are now im our philosophy Maeder wrote As professors in political science and the arts and music and through trade and agriculture and not least through the activities of the United Na tions as secretaries or ambassadors many of our former students are work ing to build a road toward a better world Maeder was succeeded as director in 1971 by Thomas L Newman who resign ed two years later He was succeeded by Richard Nurse who remained at the school until last July He was succeeded by Jack Lockett The schools enrollment reached a high point of 150 in the but dipped to 110 in 1971 73 in 1973 65 in 1974 and 65 last year The school found itself in severe finan cial difficulty in February of 1975 Only an emergency infusion of from students parents and other donors got the school through the year The school has most recently been used this past summer as the home of 150 Berkshire Music Festival students who were studying at nearby Tan glewood under the auspices of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Maeder said yesterday he would con in his fulltime position as a New York City educational consultant He also said he would continue to maintain a home he owns near the school
