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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1964
Page
18
The Berkshire Eagle is published daily excluding Sundays and holidays by Eagle Publishing Company. It operates from SS Eagle Street in Pittsfield Massachusetts, providing local news and information.
Editorial notes Capital Outlay Committee to Mayor Dillon outlines a compromise for Pittsfield high school. Proposal limits capacity to 1,000 pupils now with potential for later expansion, aiming to satisfy School Department demand for 1,500 while easing bond approval. Council vote of two thirds needed for the bond.
The Capital Outlay Committee and city leaders insist a new high school is needed immediately and should be comprehensive rather than solely vocational. Estimated cost for a 1,000-pupil school around 1.9 million, excluding land and site work, with long term questions for architects and contractors.
The piece praises Northern civil rights demonstrators led by Mrs. Malcolm Peabody in Florida and North Carolina. It argues whites can show national involvement, counter segregationist claims, and provide educational insight, asserting their presence strengthens the civil rights cause and challenges local prejudice.
The Berkshire region sees a sensible DDT spraying policy from the Department of Natural Resources. Towns face disputes over roadside brush-cutting costs with Swann’s $5,000 bill likely unenforceable. Mayor Dillon condemns missing meters as Public Works fails to replace broken meters, hurting revenues. A Business and Commerce survey of 48 Central Berkshire industries shows mixed views on regional economic problems, with liabilities seen as assets by others.
Dennis Yarmouth Register argues that America faces a paradox of leisure amid poverty and ignorance abroad. It critiques planned obsolescence and calls for using affluence to advance humanity rather than wasteful trivial pursuits by retirees.
Looking Back notes Lenox selectmen Duclos Ferguson Flint Stanley Mabanna and Kir return from Boston after appearing before the legislative Committee on Taxation. Several towns voted wet or dry in annual elections. Sammy Spring festival set for Berkshire Museum April 18 to fund a trip for fiddler East Otis resident to the National Folk Festival in Washington. The Harriot estate of Mount Washington, died 1937 valued at 231215 by New York Wax Department. Irving Kanter son of local residents greeted at Georgetown University world affairs campus. Gershon Agron of Jerusalem Post visited. Blanchard and Purrington promoted at Western Massachusetts Electric Co. plant in West Springfield.
A collage of notes includes reader letters from Fitchburg and Pittsfield map mix ups, Tyringham church updates on George Guilder, radio commentary gripe, a joke about a mother in law, and a San Francisco park chief born after the 1906 quake. Also a rail excursion from Albany to Rutland via D&H and B M, and brief items on Adlai Stevenson, American Indians, audience participation, and a Nebraska U heart-rate study during a football interception.
The piece notes a generation clash as Beatlemania and Bond fandom rise among youths and adults alike. It cites Bond as a stylish, spy figure shaping fashion and culture, mentions Harvard and Oxford Bond clubs, and recalls Kennedy’s rumored Bond fan status amid social snobbery and media chatter.
The Rise of James Bond boosts U.S. and global sales past 10 million copies with 17 million worldwide, and Dr No earns about 5.4 million in U.S. gross by 1964. Bond films draw theater crowds as From Russia With Love nears release while Beatles mania provokes similar social buzz.
A collection of letters criticizes Berkshire Downs leadership over unpaid Hancock Raceway bills, questions ownership, and urges creditors to be paid. Other correspondents praise Mrs Featherly and Nathan Horwitt for freedom advocacy, while a Florida reader scolds Massachusetts graft coverage and urges attention to local discrimination and politics.
In Washington, Fulbright voices a private veteran view that U S foreign policy must revise its frozen posture as a broad debate shapes the run up to the November election. He argues the United States can no longer impose its will everywhere while Goldwater advocates brinksmanship and stronger military power.
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