Greenfield Recorder Gazette and Courier (Newspaper) - October 25, 1969, Greenfield, Massachusetts i - New View Of An Old King viewed annually by thousands of tourists from the vantage of a Rte. 2 bridge high above the Connecticut takes on a new view while the river is held at low Western Mass. Electric Co. has drawn down the level to permit work at the Turners Falls Dam several miles Some viewers of this scene have speculated that the huge rock has They say the smaller portion at left matches exactly the larger one in indicating they split at some According to French forces from Canada in the early 18th century claimed the area for their Photo by Raises Value 8.5 West Germany raised the value of the mark 8.5 per cent Friday to check an inflationary The revaluation of Europe's strongest currency was expected to send shock waves through the international monetary will buy 3.66 Under the old rate was worth four the revaluation after a Cabinet Economics Minister Karl Schiller said it was courageous but not a foolhardy He said it would bring stability to West German and can't have stability without West German Industrialists anticipated sharp cuts in profits and stiffer competition An the West German Industry Federation tion is being regretted by industry but revaluing the mark from 25 cents to 27.3224 the government announced It had decided to do away with a 4 per cent export tax imposed last November in an effort to curb West Germany's huge surplus of exports over was the first significant act of West Germany's new coalition government of Social Democrats and Free headed by Chancellor Willy Brandt's socialists had been proposing upward revaluation since last March but their former coalition the Christian successfully blocked told a news it became obvious last spring that the country's unchecked boom and rising prices could not be controlled without raising the mark's exchange he remove the results of but it is never too late for a good Washington the U.S. Treasury Department welcomed the mark's saying it resolve in a constructive manner the cause of uncertainty that has existed in the exchange the second in nine was another illustration of the mark's rise to stability from the economic ruin of wartime Germany in less than 25-years. Drive Due In ( Allied intelligence officers expressed belief Friday that a recent upswing in enemy activity end movement Indicates that the Communist command is making final preparations for a peg the first or second week In November as the probable target and cite captured the increase In the number of arms and ammunition caches found by allied and casualty statistics for the past three years which show that November has been one of the bloodier months of the war In the the Communist command does begin a new offensive next it is not expected to involve massive ground it is expected to select targets and rely mainly on coordinated rocket and mortar These tactics are calculated to inflict maximum casualties on U.S. and South Vietnamese forces while keeping Viet Cong and North Vietnamese losses enemy preparing to give himself the option of launching a one intelligence analyst but added that he decides to launch one or not is another action lending support to the Intelligence hypotheses was a clash between infantrymen of the U.S. 25th Division and North Vietnamese forces in the Ho Bo just 28 miles north of U.S. rifle platoons on Page All Set To Take PETER O'LOUGHLIN Associated Press Laos Whatever the outcome of the Paris peace North Vietnam will almost certainly be in a position to cause serious trouble for Laos and Cambodia when the Vietnam war is the view of diplomats and military sources Thailand as well as These informants say they are disturbed by increasing North 2 Page Page 14 7 12 10 11 8 6 Page 9 Ads Page 13 Recorder Third cloudiness and warmer today with chance of a few showers towards Mostly chance of showers and mild partly cloudy and in the three Mekong River where the situation is most North Vietnam has an estimated 48,000 combat They are well well and can move across the border with relative the North Vietnamese have a front man in Prince leader of the rebel Pathet The Pathet with the support of their North Vietnamese effectively control the eastern half of the but their postwar political power remains a matter of forces play no active part at the moment in the nominally tripartite neutral government made up of neutralists and the Pathet Souphanouvong's Prince Souvanna a is American and other Western supporters of government fear that the Pathet Lao could emerge as the dominant political force after the Vietnam would give Souphanouvong a strong bargaining position in the eventual over-all settlement of the which the United States has stipulated include provisions for Cambodia and It on Page Arms Race Talks The administration indicated Friday that an may imminent on the start of talks to curb the strategic arms press secretary Ronald L. Zlegler said he had nothing about the proposed talks left open the possibility of an unusual news briefing the State press officer Robert J. for the second straight day declined to say whether Moscow has answered President Nixon's bid to begin discussions between the two superpowers on limiting their nuclear missile question arose following a call by Soviet Ambassador F. Dobrynin on Secretary of State William P. Roger's to the administration on Page Loses Limbs Under Rolling Greenfield railroad car inspector was in serious condition last night at Farren Memorial Hospital in Montague after apparently being run over by a rail E. 69, of 202 Davis was under intensive care last night after two hours of surgery in which his right arm and leg were Hospital sources said that Scopa was his a 47-year employe of the Boston and Maine was found about noon yesterday by another railroad worker in the rail yard in East and was then taken to Farren Memorial by W. superintendent of cars at the Deerfield said that as far as could be determined Scopa was run over by one of the rail cars he was don't know what happened since we couldn't talk with the accident probably occurred about 11:30," Airey said that Scopa usually worked alone in the His job was to check the mechanical condition of cars before they are shipped accident follows another railroad Thursday two engines and five cars left the tracks in the Deerfield No injuries were reported from that Peter Pan Drivers Mass. Buses were slated to resume runs Monday through Springfield streets following end of a 12-day strike of union mechanics and of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 448 voted 122-68 Friday to accept a new two-year contract hammered out late strike had left an estimated 20,000 commuters and school children agreement includes a 30 cents hourly pay hike spread over two A union spokesman said the increase was estimated to cost about a planned strike by 56 members of Local of the same union against the Peter Pan Bus Co. was averted when they approved a new two-year contract union spokesman said the Peter Pan drivers won a weekly pay raise while mechanics will receive a weekly Pan runs buses between Springfield and Amherst and Windsor Sure Winter At Thunder Mountain will definitely have a skiing operation this according to Executive Dir. Emma Blizzard of the Mohawk Trail but it won't be called Thunder will be Berkshire East Ski said Miss Blizzard who got her information from a contact in the corporation whom she was not at liberty to Berkshire which bought the ski operation lease of Thunder Mountain Skiing Incorporated at public appears to be a sort of organization with headquarters in which is very selective about who gets Its telephone Miss Blizzard confirmed that on Page Year No. 252 October 25, 1969 Terrorists Back S treet War I n Yemen Lebanon Demonstrations in defiance of a government curfew erupted into open street warfare in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli At least seven persons were reported fought running battles with armed civilians and Arab The boom of heavy weapons echoed off and Lebanese Mirage jet fighters swept low over the outburst came amid flurries of activity on the Middle East planes struck Israeli forces in the northern Sinai Desert for the second straight the military command in Tel Aviv Eleven Israeli soldiers were reported Israel earlier said its planes attacked Egyptian positions at Ras about 120 miles south of Suez Neither side reported any aircraft Yemen broke diplomatic relations with the United States and ordered all U.S. Embassy personnel out of the country in 24 Salem Ali 35, chairman of the presidential blamed for recent clashes between Palestinian guerrillas and government troops in Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda blamed the tension between the Beirut regime and Palestinian guerrillas on Western and Israeli agents who have to sharpen the contradictions within the a city of 150,000 people and a hotbed of Arab snipers turned their guns on Lebanese troops in the Chateau St. a massive castle overlooking the Lebanese security forces moved cautiously up the steep street toward the castle firing machine-gun bursty at suspected sniper reports said the outbreak in Tripoli began when Moslems defied a round-the-clock curfew to attend prayer ceremonies at Friday is the Moslem a government communique claimed the mother of a local political leader on Page ARTICLE House Speaker John W. addressing newsmen in his Capitol office Friday Life Magazine for malicious magazine's charges included saying Washington lobbyist got to Influence in a tax while in the Massachusetts Democrat's private office It said McCormack was not present at the but he was than naively involved in whatever took place in his For In Early For Martin of Shelburne Falls just had to touch these icicles in Buckland to be sure they are really Spring water dripping over rock outcropping always forms icy cover each winter but October icicles are a hit Temperatures down to 10 degrees this week accounted for it. Photo by DENNIS NEELD Associated Press Lebanon beleaguered Lebanon has tried to remain neutral in the Middle East but now it is under attack from both Arabs and nation of 2V 2 million half of them Moslems and half of them Lebanon has grown sleek and prosperous on trade and leaders knew that peace and security were essential for its continued well-being and that to take sides in the confrontation could lead only to economic Lebanon stayed out of the Arab wars with Israel in 1956 and 1967 and tried to isolate Itself from the strident voice of Arab problem became more serious after the 1967 war when the Palestinian guerrilla movement with the strong Israeli defenses along the Jordan River and in the Golan Heights of occupied the guerrillas looked to the soft Lebanese frontier as an easy jumping off point for attacks against appealed to the Lebanese government to line up with Jordan and Iraq in the of began to infiltrate In increasing numbers into southern setting up camps in the rugged foothills of towering Mt. Hermon and In the sleepy villages on Its lower In this they found support from the 200,000 Palestinian refugees who make their homes guerrilla bomb and machine gun attack on an Israeli airliner in Athens in December 1968 gave Lebanon its first taste The guerrillas flew to Athens from Israel hit back with a devastating commando raid on Beirut's International Lebanon's fleet of Commercial airliners was virtually wiped the storm of recrimination at the army's failure to defend the the government and militant nationalists became more by the Lebanese Arab guerrillas stopped up their against Israel from across the Lebanese border further the Lebanese army attempted to curb their refugees stormed into the streets to In the subsequent riots and security forces 17 persons died and dozens were again government but Premier agreed to remain in a caretaker Before forming a new government he demanded that Lebanon decide once and for all whether It should become a base for guerrillas to strike against But Lebanon shelved the on Page Storm Cools After GHA to the inconvenient hour of the Greenfield Housing Authority's meeting Wed. at 5:05 under fire from Greenfield Neighborhood Council members apparently simmered down Friday following a statement from Gerald I. executive explained the authority wants time to explore all facets of low cost housing problems in Greenfield and to determine what it will The next regular meeting in will probably be an evening meeting to make it 11 1 Mill f fill f illif f llll II mil Be Be Be As A for all interested persons to Levitch executive director of the Franklin Community Action whose directors this week instructed Gawle to ask for a change in meeting said Friday has encouraged that GHA is apparently studying the housing Is pleased that the GHA is looking into various possibilities for handling the housing problems in on Page Doing 1 CALL RECORDER 772-0261 1
