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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1969
Page
7
A daily paper published by Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts except Sundays and holidays. The record notes frequency and address of the Eagle newspaper.
Editorials praise GE for a 6.8 million plan to eliminate industrial waste from the Housatonic and its tributaries. The piece notes a tougher Clean Waters Act, calls the program ambitious, and warns of broader costs for nationwide river cleanups and many smaller polluters needing accountability.
Chief Justice Burger tells the American Bar Association that while legal protections for the accused are strong, society ignores prisoners after conviction. He backs work release, limited confinement, incentive releases, and programs to help reentry, calling for expert collaboration on rehabilitating habitual offenders.
The Pittsfield Taxpayers Association pushes to pull the Pittsfield Housing Authority from urban renewal to focus on housing while federal plans for Osceola Street progress. Sixty four units are under review or in operation, and 70 units of older housing have been rehabilitated and leased. Tax increases in Washington rise 32 percent, Berkshire Natural Resources Council forms a land trust to save land, and Berkshire youth groups seek guidance from Lee and Lenox for building inspection and zoning enforcement.
The Springfield Union notes debate over thermal pollution as a health concern. British reports claim heated seawater from Ayrshire nuclear plants accelerates fish growth and reach market size in 18 months. In Oregon, utility projects test heated water for crop gains, with heated soil boosting corn height and beans’ germination.
Andrew Carnegie 43 died at Shadowbrook Lenox and gave away 240 million while proposing to pay 25 million to free the Philippines. He offered pensions to ex presidents and widows, donated to Morningside Baptist Church organ fund and New Marlboro library. Administrative and public notices follow with club staff changes and Civil Defense honors at Peru Town Hall.
Notes from Williamsville diary readers recount the Comstock homestead auction and related history. The piece flags the Comstock paper mill on the Housatonic River, corrects an error about Mrs Will C Brown’s death, and adds assorted local trivia including Mt Greylock, Bloomfield steelwork, and a Darrow School alumnus bound for Apollo 12.
John W. P. Mooney of Housatonic writes with sorrow over The Berkshire Eagle abandoning wire services and under staffing. He cites reliance on Times clips, late local coverage, and editorials amid staff departures, urging higher standards and accountability from the newspaper’s publishers.
Letters to the Eagle criticize dump curtailment hours in Dalton arguing for evening access and Saturday service for workers. A second correspondent disputes a Fill-More concert review, defending rock music critique and urging informed judges like the New York Times to reassess local coverage.
A reader questions why Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr did not protest White House religious services with Billy Graham and others and why Finkelstein’s blessing of Eisenhower differed from Nixon. Mordecai Kaplan defends separation of church and state while Rita Samboruk comments on Laurel Street bypass and traffic, noting high taxes and limited widening options affecting Lee and Stockbridge tourism.
In Colorado a debate on mass death facilities near Denver centers on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and dangers from nerve gas. Experts study disposal, public health, and environmental impact as activists press for full disclosure and soil surveys around Dow Chemical’s Rocky Mountain Flats plant amid fire and cancer claims.
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