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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1965
Page
14
The newspaper notes it is among the original 26 dailies in Massachusetts to adopt the Bar-Press Guide of 1963. It aims to preserve press freedom protect individual rights and sustain the presumption of innocence across its reporting.
The City Council and School Committee clash over funding 5000 to install emergency exits at Pittsfield High. With enrollment over 2050 in a 1800 capacity building, safety and law are at risk. Goggins urges immediate work, even if double sessions are used next fall, to restore a valid occupancy certificate now.
The piece assesses six years of import restrictions on residual fuel oil from Latin America. It argues these quotas, sold as defense policy, raise New England utility costs and burdens totaling about 40 million dollars yearly. It claims internal pressure from oil and coal interests influenced White House and Justice Department decisions, hindering relief efforts led by Congressman Conte.
Welfare Commissioner Hodecker asks the Council to form a committee to study feasibility of requiring able bodied welfare recipients to work for the city. Councilors may learn firsthand the plan’s practical difficulties and be swayed by the experience. A Pittsfield court imposed a year for failing to support a large welfare-dependent family. Ex Eagle staffer Jack Batly returns to the Berkshires as a GE communicator shaping news.
The piece argues that restrictive abortion laws harm women and the medical profession detailing how laws that permit abortion only to save a mother's life push women toward unsafe clandestine procedures. It condemns treating rape incest and other cases with equal severity and calls for liberalization to spare women from danger and humiliation.
In Boston a surge of public support for Gov. Volpe grows while the Legislature blocks parts of his agenda. Lawmakers override a retroactive pay raise veto and approve a charter referendum veto, while criticizing a Crime Commission leak and backing a non retroactive pay plan for six months. The clash highlights Volpe's rising popularity amid partisan wrangling.
A review of Felix Frankfurter, editor Philip B. Kurland, Belknap Harvard, 257 pp. The collection assembles Frankfurter speeches and appreciations that reveal his wit erudition and influence. It contrasts his awe for mentors with critiques of Wilson era policies, praising Hand and Laski while noting his own stance on judicial experience and constitutional questions.
The Eagle editor writes on Asia gaining independence and Buddhism’s role in Burma Ceylon and India. Bhikshu Chaman Lal of New Delhi, a monk for ten years and former confidant of Gandhi and Nehru, speaks at the Unitarian Church on April 11 at 10 a.m. His first U.S. appearance abroad highlights Buddhism as a force of dignity and inner poise.
Mrs C J Woodworth of Chestnut Hill argues in The EaQgle that Citizens Hall in Interlaken embodies period architecture worth preserving. She notes the National Trust’s aim to keep preserved buildings in practical use and urges finding a suitable adaptive re use rather than a modern replace ment.
Peter C Artos chairman of the Pittsfield Democratic City Club argues against a Berkshire County Fair Taxes group backing Volpe’s sales tax. He cites Republican opposition, questions tax fairness of exemptions, and urges correcting inequalities before adding a sales tax to finance education.
Washington analysis on Johnson's broad front war against poverty crime ignorance and racial discrimination. The piece assesses the difficulty of coordinating a national assault, the limits of resources and the need for education to address a growing pool of unemployed and unemployable citizens amid a shifting economy and new poverty.
A Wall Street Journal item notes a father scolding his teenage daughter for her appearance. He tells her she looks like a mop, and she asks what a mop is, reflecting a domestic moment on youth fashion and parental critique.
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