New High School Site Debate Hinges On Council Votes
Mayor DeGallo presses Johnson site as City Council weighs eight votes needed for approval amid a split on multiple locations. A school committee push for September double sessions adds urgency while members weigh Petricca and other sites and await High School Commission guidance.
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Remo DeGallo
Arthur C. Johnson
del Gallo
Vale
Pittsfield High School
Edward L. Dobbins
Johnson
Petricca
Valentine Road
Dobbins
Roy F. Brown
Alfred
Bradley
Donald G. Butler
James M. Richmany
Ernest
G. St. Peter
Rice
Parnell
Crow
Scelsi
St. Peter
William A. Bunt
Victory Mill
Bunt
Brown
G. Brien
Williams Street
High School Commission
John H. Rice
Alfred S. Bradley
Kelly
Crane Avenue
Raymond E. Crow
Butler
Friday Meat Ban Lifted For Holidays by Pope Paul
Vatican City AP Pope Paul VI permits Roman Catholics to eat meat on Fridays before Christmas and New Year as a year end dispensation. Bishops worldwide may grant dispensations from abstinence and fasting on December 31, which falls on a Friday. A broader reform of fasting rules is expected to be announced in early 1566.
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Pope Paul
Vatican City
Paul VI
Vatican
Paul
Pittsfield High School adopts double sessions
The Pittsfield School Committee approved a two year plan to run double sessions at Pittsfield High School starting next September to ease crowding. Non vocational juniors and seniors will attend morning, sophomores in the afternoon, with vocational students unchanged. Morning 7 45 to 12 31, afternoon 12 43 to 5 31, class length 44 minutes. About 500 tenth graders move from Crosby Junior High. Extra cost 65000 dollars yearly for ten teachers and two custodians.
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Pittsfield High School
Pittsfield
James P. Reynolds
PHS
Crosby
Crosby Annex
Obsequies mark end of Crane Inn in Dalton
Obsequies were held for Crane Inn once named Irving House aged 71 who died November 8 after a long illness. Auctioneer Aaron Posnik of Springfield led the day long rites as mourners, many with grim faces, gathered to honor the venerable Dalton hotel with a history from horse and buggy days to the gasoline era. The building, once a social hub housing Rotary and Lions Club events, stood for decades before impending demolition next month.
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Dalton
Crane Inn
Aaron Posnik
Springfield
Mr. Posnik
Irving House
George M. Daly
Dal
Marines seal Viet Cong trap near Da Nang in heavy fighting
Thousands of U S Marines poured ashore from the 7th Fleet and closed a noose on a Viet Cong regiment of about 1500 men, 20 miles south of Da Nang, as air and artillery attacks rained down with napalm and rockets. Casualties were reportedly light for Marines while enemy losses remained undisclosed.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
7Th Fleet
da Nang
Viet Nam
Chu Lai
Britain Presses Conference Over Vietnam Peace Talks
Washington reports Johnson says US will exhaust all peace efforts before hard steps in Vietnam. Britain seeks Soviet help for talks while Moscow and Hanoi blame US expansion. Johnson defends US role, urges negotiations, and reviews options with Pentagon leaders amid rising costs and casualties. Kennedy hints at possible new push for peace talks as world watches.
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Washington
Johnson
Viet Nam
Moscow
Hanoi
United States
Britain
U.S
Texas
San Francisco
Peking
Tne
Batt Uefield
Pentagon
Secretary of Defense
Robert §. McNamara
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense Department
Harold Wilson
Savice
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kosygin
Briain
Wilson
London
Kosyzin
Christian Science Monitor
Godfrey Sperling Jr
Congress
Monitor
Southeast Asia
Hubert H. Humphrey
State Department
New York
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Lo Thin
Kennedy
Wo Chi Minh
Felix Greene
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Public hearing debates 1966 auto insurance rates in Boston
At a Boston public hearing on proposed compulsory auto insurance rates, witnesses faulted or defended the rise. An ALA spokesman accused insurers of withholding truth while one company said rates were too low. The state commissioner noted a 5 percent average increase with higher shifts for under 25 drivers. AAA boycotted, backing merit-based pricing to reward safe drivers.
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Boston
Automobile Legal Association
ALA
Herbert P. Wilkens
Massachusetts
C. Eugene Farnam
American Automobile Association
AAA
Robert S. Kretsehmar
Kretschmar
AL Wo" Query Jr
Reading
Bay State
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New High School
William Wiese IF
the Hague
Hollar Aken
Kyoichi Sawada
Prince Bernhard
Netherlands
Sawada
United Press International
By Richard K. Weil
Joseph J. Canavan
By Martin F. Glendon
New England
By Carl P
Dean Burr
Humphrey
New Hampshire Council On World Affairs
Manchester
Rusk
China
Chicago
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Breeds
Commonwealth
Oslo
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
Henry RB. Labouisse
Crom Gunnar Jalin
Nobel
Stockholm
Sinitiro Tomonga
Japan
Tokyo
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