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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1969
Page
7
Daily publication note from Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts indicating the paper appears every day except Sundays and holidays.
An editorial argues that amid NASA space funding debates the federal budget hides worse misallocations. It cites Lee County Mississippi golf club funding, agriculture subsidies to corporate farms, and broader DoD and NASA spending as examples of distorted priorities fueling hunger and waste. The piece questions why such boondoggling draws less scrutiny than space exploration.
Ex editor Marcus H Rogers of Mill River raises effort for a town library with a promised 500 dollars from P H McAuliffe, a former Mill River boy now in Cleveland. Previous notes recall 25 years ago clerk John J Fahey’s retirement after 40 years at the Pittsfield Post Office and a young local book reading triumph at the Berkshire Athenaeum.
In discussions on land development, a vacation home developer finds fault with engineers for not integrating site design, drainage, and appearance. A landscape architect’s holistic view is urged to preserve natural features, balance trees, water, and soil, and ensure lasting beauty. Vermont needs specialists. Gov. Davis backs new subdivision legislation.
A long analysis notes Con Edison constraints after weekend outages cut New York City power generation by 20 percent with repairs potentially stretching a month. It describes reliance on interconnections, environmental concerns blocking further fossil or hydro plants, and compares New England utilities expanding pumped storage and a Vermont atomic project delaying online until 1971. It also touches on ultrahigh voltage transmission work in Lenox and local issues like pollen counts and Park Square curfew settlement.
Visit from Howard Oltsch recalls the Empire Theatre later Auditorium Market on Summer Street, its interval as a dance hall known as the Casino Winter Garden and more, with Mayor Harvey Lake and Ernie Andrews band noted in social lore.
Letters laud Pittsfield's Mardi Gras parade for its joy, parade floats, and community effort. Readers credit Park Department officials and playground directors for staging the event and celebrate the youth’s participation and local cooperation.
A Washington column warns that the arrest of Minutemen founder Robert DePugh and ally Walter Peyson exposes links between lax gun laws, right wing extremism, and large weapon caches. It cites FBI searches, plans to rob Seattle banks, and parallel Nazi-like intimidation by left groups, noting Nixon era gun policy and growing arsenals.
An anecdote from American Legion Magazine recalls a large city advertising agency with a fiery boss who fired about four employees daily. Those surviving a full year were secretly rewarded by colleagues. One VP recalled starting day thinking his name was chalked on the door and that a sponge on the knob was unethical.
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