Central Berkshire teachers reject $6,800 to $13,900 plan
Dalton The Central Berkshire Regional School Committee offered a 1970 71 salary package with a $16,800 to $13,900 spread plus sick leave benefits. The Central Berkshire Regional Teachers Association rejected the plan and countered with a $6,800 to $23,600 ratio schedule. No further talks are scheduled as the full committee reviews progress.
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Central Berkshire
Dalton
Central Berkshire Regional School Committee
Central Berkshire Regional Teachers Association
The
Teachers Association
Wahconah Notes Dalton Christmas Plans and Field Trip
The freshman and junior home economics classes led by Mrs. John Foster plan Christmas teas on Monday and Wednesday. The sophomore class hosts a Christmas party for preschool children with each student inviting a guest and planning snacks for ages two to four. The humanities class, led by Miss Mary V. Flynn, eyes a spring field trip to New York City visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lincoln Center to see La Traviata. This fall the class toured Chesterwood and heard a lecture by Miss Mary Underhill. The Current Events Club raised 90 dollars in a food sale for CARE.
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Dalton
John Foster
Foster
Mary V. Flynn
New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Opera House
Lincoln Center
Chesterwood
Daniel Chester French
Mary Underhill
North Adams State College
State rents Dalton space for central surplus food program
The state rents a Dalton building at 304 North Street for a central surplus food distribution point serving Southern and Central Berkshire County. Albert A. Bogdan of the Pittsfield Urban Coalition says free surplus food will begin distribution in early January. The warehouse owned by Harry J. Bairslow was formerly Berkshire Farms Wendover Dairy and a Sealtest outlet. It offers refrigeration for perishables after years of milk processing and apple storage.
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Dalton
North St
Albert A. Bogdan
Pittsfield
Schwartz Furniture Store Sold to Philip J. Lominski
Adams of Schwartz Furniture Store at 82 Summer St was bought by Philip J. Lominski of 169 Friend St, an interior decorator with New England Furniture Corp. He is a Bennington VT native, US Army Korea veteran, and alumnus of New England School of Art Boston. The 65 year old business passed from the Davidson estate, founder Morris Schwartz’s heirs linked to Schwartz Stores and Bay State Clothing House.
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Boston
Long Island
M. Schwartz
Morris Schwartz
Louis
William Schwartz
Schwartz Stores
Myles
Bessie Schwartz
Bay State Clothing House
Pittsfield
Dalton Rotary toHost Annual Pancake Breakfast
Dalton Rotary Club members plan a pancake breakfast Sunday from 7 to 2 at the Community House. Proceeds benefit the Rotary Scholarship Fund after netting about 650 dollars last year. Menu includes juice coffee pancakes sausage. club members will handle all preparation and cooking.
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Dalton
Dalton Rotary Club
Jack Cooney
Rotary
Snowballing Brings Warning From Police
Dalton chief Robert R. Powell warned parents to urge children to stop throwing snowballs and ice chunks at passing vehicles, citing injuries and damage risk. The article notes police reports, a Christmas mailing extension at Dalton Post Office, a library story hour for 4 and 5 year olds, and four boys league games next Tuesday at Kittredge School gym Hinsdale and CRA gym Dalton.
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Dalton
Robert R. Powell
Powell
Dalton Library
John Nikirk
Albert D. Reinhardt Jr
The
Community Recreation Association
Kittredge School
Hinsdale
MTF
Tigers
Glasiers
Budweiser
CRA
Winders
Western Mass
Electric
Dalton Package Store
Manning becomes editor of Dalton weekly paper
Marion Manning of 165 Grange Hall Road is named editor of the Dalton News Record, succeeding Randall G. Grumm. A former Winsted Connecticut resident, she has long ties to Dalton journalism, teaching, and local schools, and is active at Grace Episcopal Church with husband William H. Manning, GE executive, and four children.
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Dowd Printing Co
Winsted
University of Connecticut
Pittsfield
Central Berkshire
Dalton
Mannings
Grace Episcopal Church
James
St. Joseph's College
Philadelphia
Marcia
Wahconah
Jack
WRHS
David
Abatement Deadline Announced by Assessor Haworth Jr
Dalton-Lawrence A Haworth Jr, chairman of the assessors, announced the abatement filing deadline for real estate taxes is Monday. Eligible are the elderly, veterans and widows. Leaders of Cub Pack 41 will meet at 7 30 this evening at the Community House.
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Dalton
Lawrence A. Haworth Jr
Haworth
Cub Pack 41
Fire District Sets Tuesday Meeting Over Free Cash Transfer
Hinsdale Fire District schedules a special meeting at Kittredge School Tuesday at 7 p.m. to authorize 43,106.83 from free cash, covering expenditures this year beyond 8,000 in water tax revenue. If not approved, 9,106.83 would be paid from 1970 water taxes, raising tax rates. If approved from free cash, 1970 rates stay unchanged.
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Hinsdale
Kittredge School
Williamstown
Hoosic River
School Program Set for Dec. 19 at Hinsdale Kittredge
Hinsdale Kittredge School pupils will present a Christmas program Friday December 19 at 1 p.m. in the school auditorium. Every pupil will participate. Parents and friends are invited. Classes dismiss December 23 for Christmas recess, resume January 5. Part time custodial job available. contact principal Cornelius F Sharron after 1 p.m. Also note David Trombley celebrated his eighth birthday with classmates at his home.
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Hinsdale — Kittredge School
Kittredge School
Cornelius F. Sharron
David Trombley
Leo L. Trombley
South Street
Two Sprague locals reject two year contract proposal
North Adams unions Sparked by Sprague Electric Co have rejected the company two year contract offer citing inadequate pay raises. Local 101 AFTEC says the 44 percent annual raise is unacceptable while IUE Local 200 calls the offer unresponsive to workers needs. Williamstown General Cable names Walter Kisluk as new division manager succeeding Daniel Miller.
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North Adams
Sprague Electric Co
Roger E. Bell
American Federation of Technical Engineers
International Union of Electrical Workers Local 200
Walter D. Wood
Williamstown
Walter Kisluk
Fair Haven
N.J
General Cable Corp. Electric Assembly Products
Daniel B. Miller
Kisluk
General Cable Corp
Reels
Alpha Wire & Cable Co
New Jersey
Whit ney Babeu Horse Issue Referred to Mayor Cleary
NORTH ADAMS The City Council sent the Whitney Babeu dispute to Mayor James F. Cleary who oversees Building Inspector John Gattuso after Babeu urged action against Whitney. Whitney failed to remove a horse barn by court order within the deadline following a zoning violation.
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North Adams
Whitney-Babeu
James F. Cleary
John Gattuso
Babeu
Whitney
Gattuso
Strikes Hit GE Plant Costs in Schenectady County
Schenectady County faces about $18,000 in sheriff overtime this year due to the GE strike. The county board finance committee voted to move funds from contingency to the sheriff’s budget. Early strike days featured scuffles along picket lines as deputies kept strikers and nonstriking workers apart.
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Schenectady
General Electric Co
Schenectady County
County Board of Representatives
Oil truck spills 5000 gallons into Westfield sewer
An unidentified oil truck driver at Westfield Elementary School pumped 5000 gallons of fuel oil into a sanitary sewer that drains into the Westfield River after mistakenly connecting the hose to an outdoor cap. Authorities investigated the incident and cleaned the area.
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Westfield
Springfield May Halt Penny Parking
Springfield considers ending penny parking and raising the rate from 12 minutes for 2 pennies to 30 minutes for five cents, effectively doubling the cost for each time period. In related notes, Arthur J. Kleps of the Neo American Church appeals a two year jail sentence after four marijuana and LSD convictions, previously from South Hadley.
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Massachusetts
Thomas G. Barlow
South Hadley
Arthur J. Kleps
Timothy Leary
Kleps
Hampshire County
Kieps
South Hero
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Louise Millet
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Francis J. Morrison
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Sprague
General Cable
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Yale
New Haven
Yale University
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National Fast For Peace
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Lynn Shelly
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