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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1965
Page
5
About 150 invited guests mostly local businessmen attended the formal opening of Radio Station WBEC in its new studio at 211 Jason & I. The event ran 4 to 8 p.m. with facility tours and refreshments. John Jacob, WBEC Washington representative, traveled from DC for the informal open house.
Realty sales record shows Marjorie G Lawler transferring a house and lot on Preston Avenue to Alexander and Pauline Dentley. Another transfer lists Robert B Dillon Jr and Virginia B Dillon selling a house and lot on Elaine Drive to Francis C and Margaret H Brennan. Additional transfers include Clarence B Anderson Jr to Francis J McNamara Jr and Gertrude D McNamara for Denise Avenue. John C and Rita P Kelly sell land in Pittsfield to Charters W and Mabelle R Wade. Charlotte B Degen Reece transfers to Raymond F and Betty Ann Filip on West Center Road in Olis.
U.S. Army confirms remains of ten airmen found after more than two decades. After a 1945 chartered flight vanished over Dutch New Guinea, survivors were identified through dental and medical records. Wreckage found in West Irian in 1963, remains sent to Japan for autopsy, and remains held overseas awaiting burial instructions.
Washington dispatch reports the Air Force seeks to acquire up to 1,000 German shepherd dogs for training as sentries to supplement 2,000 existing dogs. Eligible dogs are males or spayed females aged one to three. Some may guard Southeast Asia air bases.
Sunday night fire record lists a student nurse triggering a hospital alarm at Pittsfield General. Multiple incidents include a stove overheat on West Street, a gasoline leak at 239 North Street, and several outdoor fires at Woodside, Brown, and Hull Avenues. Several residents and visitors from Lenox, Great Barrington, and surrounding towns underwent tonsillectomies or other procedures at local and area hospitals.
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