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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1965
Page
4
A reader argues for keeping the voting age at 21, noting 18-year-olds lack experience despite some claim they are prepared. The piece reflects on youth service, responsibility, the New Deal, and the evolving political landscape to justify a one-year maturity threshold before voting.
Mt Greylock Regional gym show Friday night featured 6-foot-2 240-pound senior Ben Pindick as base for pyramids and tumbling. A 7th grader, Mike Allard, joined on the floor as Pindick carried him off with one hand. The program mixed modern dance and athletic feats to lively music, with 700 spectators witnessing routines on bars, rings, horse, and new Indian clubs and Swedish ball performances.
Cadettes from Pittsfield travel to Washington D C for a week long educational tour with two Senior Cadettes and three teachers as chaperons. They will visit Alexandria first then see the Library of Congress Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and a House of Representatives tour led by Congressman Silvio Conte. Highlights include the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art Natural History Museum and a White House escort.
Lenox High students face common teen habits such as nail biting borrowing money and homework copying. The piece notes how repetition shapes habits from nail biting to borrowing items and implies parents see these habits as undesirable but most can be broken with effort.
Nathan George Horwill of Lenox heads a Berkshire County morel contest opening May Day to teach woods lore and the hunt. Prizes include a Swiss watch for the largest stand, 1.46 per pound for morels up to May 10 then 1 per pound, two runner-up subscriptions to Scientific American and National Geographic, plus essays or photography judged for merit. Entries to The Eagle Young Berkshire page. registration with Horwitz required. lecture at Berkshire Museum Wednesday 8 pm.
Pittsfield High rehearsals for Pajama Game unfold in the auditorium as stage crew work with new tech gear and a Beach Boys record plays. Director Mooney halts scenes for cues, while Sid and Babe improvise onstage as actors practice love scenes and a steam train soundtrack records from Danbury.
The piece notes spring arrives when cherry ice cream returns to the Berkshires, a bold seasonal marker more reliable to locals than celestial calendars. It wonders if orange sherbet will follow, signaling warmer days ahead.
A brief note describes a whirlwind visit starting at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception then boarding a bus for Pittsfield. It frames the trip as a joyful vacation experience.
Pittsfield outlines Neighborhood Youth Corps plans to place 70 boys in two projects under the School Department and the Nan cock Shaker Community Inc with Action for Opportunity seeking Washington approval for a related food prep center. Girls may join eight week effort aiding Start Head Start. Crews will do school grounds maintenance and carpentry and gardening work at Shaker Village Hancock. Applications via Pittsfield High School guidance office. opening date June 28.
Hanover and Boston launch Dial-A-Ride a telephone clearing house for long distance rides for Dartmouth College students and affiliates. Aimed at easing travel between Boston and Hanover the service provides message relay and ride matching via two numbers 645-4166 in Hanover and 489-4166 in Boston. The idea came from Arg Daniel J Bell wife of a Dartmouth alumnus after her son and friends struggled to find rides.
Wahcanah Regional Car Wash hosted by First Congregational Church Pilgrim Fellowship at church parking lot from 9 a.m. to p.m. St Joseph's Spring Show sponsored by Genesians with admission. Mt Greylock Regional presents Ten Little Indians with showings Friday and Saturday. Pittsfield Right Dance by St Francis Youth Group runs 7:30 to 11 p.m. admission 50 cents.
Laurie Decker from Lee will speak on Problems in Democracy classes about her Student Government Day in Boston. Prom waiters and waitresses named, Mount Everett Regional A science open house showcases student projects. The PHS Girls Athletic Association to host Berkshire County GAA officials April 27. Senior prom date May 25, theme We'll Move It Again, with a detailed committee. Good Citizenship Award selection and All-State concert noted.
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