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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1969
Page
8
The publication runs daily except Sundays and holidays from 33 Eagle Street in Pittsfield Massachusetts. It is produced by Eagle Publishing Company and serves the local area with news and notices.
The Nixon welfare plan mixes Moynihan’s radical premise of a guaranteed income with Burns’ conservative financing. It proposes $1,600 a year for a family of four and ends certain disincentives to work while letting some earnings remain. It also envisions job training and day care to aid self support, though state variations may blunt incentives and Congress will refine details before next July.
The Nixon administration weighs further troop reductions while Pentagon data show only a slight net drop from 537,500 to 536,000 in two months. Analysts doubt the claimed withdrawals amid steady replacements and military pressure to slow disengagement. Public demand for exit clashes with advisers’ caution.
Jeff Hancock a 17 year old from Wenham braved a Friday night thunderstorm and a Saturday night downpour in Berkshire while continuing his 2000 mile Appalachian Trail journey through Virginia and Pennsylvania. School Superintendent Thomas J Whalen backs a permanent city school building committee to streamline talent and save time and money. The North Adams Hospital's 1955 completion affects Adams municipal hospital, closing its maternity ward after long operation. The Urban Coalition pressed federal officials to speed three Pittsfield Housing Authority projects, aiming to cut red tape and serve its catalyst role.
Maine greets expansion of Great Northern Paper in Millinocket costing 60 million dollars. The project includes a recovery plant costing over 10 million to recapture chemical wastes from mill effluent and reduce river pollution. Officials say the plant will operate profitably and set a standard for industry pollution control benefiting Maine citizens.
A retrospective highlights Dr John Ready Quinn returning from European service to resume dentistry, Miss Justine Blackburn wedding to S Sgt John Boyd Liellen Jr, golf champion James T Hunter II at Country Club of Pittsfield, Carolyn Cullen training as Women's Air Force pilot, and art at the Sterling and Trancine Clark Institute with Bouguereau’s Nymphs and Satyr displayed, tying local histories to notable figures and places.
Notes and Footnotes share a string of short items about travel tales, Red Cross volunteering, space race views, Vermonter pie jokes, thanks to a Syracuse driver, domestic squabbles, a Kennedy tragedy during World War II, Tony Bennett’s contract, the aeronautical division birth in 1907, and a quip about dieting as a loser.
Readers mock District Court leniency for Philip Varga who killed three in an auto crash four years ago. They urge accountability and question justice, comparing monster verdicts to public outrage and calling for strong consequences.
Readers urge recognition of space program benefits across medicine education and industry. Kenneth E. Myers argues for faster knowledge transfer while Edward Kennedy's assassination and a local pet accident are noted in brief letters. Community voices frame social gains from aerospace and era of public discourse.
Washington notes that United States Steel announced a near five percent price rise on rolled steel, a move that will ripple through autos and appliances. The piece links the action to the Nixon administration’s tax policy and its struggle to tame inflation while big industry backs the president.
A Springfield Union item notes a humorous exchange where a woman admits enjoying spending, challenging her husband to name another extravagance, reflecting light domestic satire.
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