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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1965
Page
21
The daily newspaper published by Eagle Publishing Company operates every day except Sundays and holidays from Eagle Street in Pittsfield Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee issues a tepid tax plan raising 132 million annually, neglecting proposals for broad state aid to ease local real estate taxes and fund Willis report education reforms. Critics say it balances the budget while leaving cities underfunded and deferring real reform. Deputy Governor Richardson and lawmakers from both parties condemn the lack of bold action.
The article argues that calls for a UN backed cease fire and a Vietnamese plebiscite risk U.S. defeat at the polls and a unified Vietnam under Communism. It credits Saigon’s regime with minority support and notes past failures to hold elections under Geneva. It concludes negotiated peace is unlikely while Saigon struggles for popular backing.
In Briel the long lasting Berkshire Community College building on the Common still serves as a high school and more but citizens resist accepting it no longer meets school needs. Parking meter receipts rise, Boston and Washington moves languish, and Pittsfield High needs progress remains stalled after 14 months.
In a Boston Globe piece Ted Shawn predicts federal arts aid is coming but opposes government payrolls for artists. Moody's lists cities by financial stability including New York, Boston, Salt Lake City. France’s liner France sails with a record 4,675 round trip passengers. Los Angeles rioters anger President Johnson. a Pittsfield restaurant exchange ends without violence. Friendly’s Ice Cream expands in Pittsfield. Giacometti drawings on napkins at MoMA. A new French invention helps insomniacs sleep in two hours. Queen Juliana limits the use of Your Majesty. Indian Ocean monsoons reverse direction biannually. It is true that neither man nor nature has ever reached absolute zero.
Roger Hovey of Providence received the $500 Stockbridge golf trophy from Joseph Choate after defeating Walter Tuckerman of Stockbridge who had two chances at the trophy. Henry Oliver of Pittsfield Airport was chosen as an instructor for a CAA flight-training course. Selectman and Mrs. J Joseph McCabe report a hollyhock 11 feet 4 inches tall in Lenox. Robert Deloye inspects flood dams and seeks a blue parakeet named Tweet. Miss Bette Bradshaw wed Lawrence Coty at St Mark's Church Pittsfield.
The piece discusses the magazine industry’s struggle with television and the rise of 3-D methods and embedded audio features. Venture magazine experiments with Xograph 3-D photography, costing more to produce, while others explore phonograph bound pages and editorial recordings as ways to entice readers and advertisers. The Nation marks its 100th anniversary amid industry upheaval.
The piece reviews innovations in publishing with Aspen Magazine, a “Magazine in a Box” offering six to seven booklets plus LP records, maps, seeds, and other inserts. It compares it to National Geographic’s controversial extra media and hints at high costs and novelty value, inviting readers to subscribe for 16 dollars.
A letter urges cooperation between the Park Department and the School Committee to create a joint plan for a new Pittsfield high school on Victory Hill with Springside Park development. It argues for shared facilities like tennis courts and athletic fields, unified locker areas, and year round public use, advocating integrated planning in the city.
A Parade columnist recalls city parking nostalgia, contrasting past simpler times with today’s crowded streets and the challenge of securing a spot, while wryly noting how courting a companion rounded out the scene.
A Washington consensus argues that U S military might and strategic patience underpin cautious optimism about Vietnam. The piece cites Chu Lai Marines success, reduced hopes for a quick pullout, and Goldberg’s UN diplomacy while contrasting U S power with France in Indochina and warning that expansion by North Vietnam could derail détente.
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