NYC Driver Survives One Car Crash in Egremont Route 71
Robert G. Heyman 21 escaped serious injury after his car rolled onto its roof on Route 71 near Shun Toll Road. He was treated for bruises and released at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Passengers Charles Guthridge 22 and Handsel Minyard 22 suffered minor injuries. Police trooper Powers investigated.
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Egremont
New York City
Lee Barracks
Robert G. Heyman
Fairview Hospital
Great Barrington
Charles R. Guthridge
West Palm Beach
Fla
Handsel B. Minyard
Phoenix
Ariz
Heyman
Shun Toll Road
John J. Powers
Wojtkowski Sees Education Bill as Key to Quality
Rep Thomas C Wojtkowski told Berkshire District PTA that House Bill 3300 is the key to the Willis Commission report and to Massachusetts education quality in the coming years. He spoke during a series of talks advocating abolishing the state board of education and creating two new boards, urging citizens to contact representatives and senators.
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Lenox
Thomas C. Wojtkowski
Berkshire
PTA
Willis Commission
Massachusetts
Wojikowski
State Board of Education
Buddhist Monk Draws Berkshire Attendance at Unitarian Church
More than 200 people from Berkshire County attended a yesterday service at the Unitarian Church to hear Rev. Chaman Lal, a Buddhist monk. Attendees were impressed by his memory and quotations from American and German sources without notes, said Rev. H. V. Kafka.
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Berkshire County
Unitarian Church
Chaman Lal
H. V. Kafka
PTA leaders attend meeting in Lanesboro
District President Mrs Lyle Lathrop of Lanesboro presided while state PTA president Mrs Elliott Anderson Lincoln D Lynch regional vice president from Pittsfield and Mrs Benjamin Wood state chairman of parent and family life education presented at the gathering supporting the bill.
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Lyle Lathrop
Lanesboro
PTA
Elliott Anderson
Lincoln D. Lynch
Pittsfield
Benjamin Wood
Parent and Family Life Education
BCHS Annual Meeting Set For April 28 Speaker Named
Berkshire County Historical Society announces its annual meeting on April 28 at 8 p.m. in the Berkshire Life Insurance building. Speaker Mrs. Richard Black, director of the Museum of Early American Folk Arts in New York City, will discuss Folk Art in Berkshire County. The event is open to members and friends. meetings will be led by Miss Margaret N. Hall. The newsletter urges a “each member get one” push to double membership and aid the Goodrich House restoration on North Street. A committee—Mrs. Peyton G. Townes, Mrs. Albert R. Neil, Mrs. Edward S. Sawyer—oversees Goodrich House interior work for summer visits by members and the public.
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Berkshire County Historical Society
BCHS
Berkshire Life Insurance Co
South Street
Richard Black
New York City
Black
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Williamsburg
Berkshire County
Margaret N. Hall
Goodrich House
North Street
Peyton G. Townes
Albert R. Neil
Edward S. Sawyer
Pastor Burchell to Receive Honorary Degree at Piedmont
The Rev. E. Roy Burchell pastor of First Church of Christ Congregational will receive a doctor of divinity at Piedmont College’s commencement on June 6. He will also preach the baccalaureate sermon in Demarest Ga. Piedmont President James E. Walter extended notice and invitation last week. Burchell has written religious poetry drama and articles used in Piedmont seminars. A graduate of Washington Jefferson College and Hartford Theological Seminary he joined First Church in 1958.
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E. Roy Burchell
First Church of Christ, Congregational
Piedmont College
Demarest
Burchell
James E. Walter
Piedmont
Washington Jefferson College
Washington, Pa
Hartford Theological Seminary
First Church
Chickens as Health Sentinels in New Mexico
The State Health Department will station sentinel flocks across New Mexico to detect encephalitis, the sleeping sickness linked to 32 Houston deaths last year. Birds show the disease before humans, with roosts placed where mosquitos—a key carrier—are prevalent, an insect control specialist said.
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Santa FE
Num
New Mexico
State Health Department
Houston
Tex
Joh W. Doll
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