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Newspaper

Berkshire Eagle

Location

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1969

Page

25

Bear hunting rules eyed in Massachusetts overbear population

Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Game considers tighter bear season limits and tagging to curb declines. Chief biologist Bill Pollack said proposals include shortening the season to six days, checking bears at stations, and possible cub-bear ban, though feasibility is uncertain. Bears harvested include a 310 pound Rowe bear and several others. two intoxicated bears were once found near Monroe Bridge.

Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Game DFG Bill Pollack Western District Pollack Rowe Edward L. Carpenter Clarksburg Henry R. Farnfin Chesterfield Fred Holcomb East St Dalton Windsor Wayne Tower Monroe Berkshire Natural Resources Monroe Bridge

Bears in Massachusetts stir debate on hunting policy

A Monroe youngster reports sighting untagged bears before deer season while experts note rising bear numbers since protection eased in the mid-1950s. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst collect data for policy shaping, with sightings and kills urged to be reported. Also tributes to STANLEY E. RICE, a longtime outdoorsman who died after deer hunting. Trappers auction yields higher muskrat and fur prices, with beaver trapping set for December to April. Scattered notes cover a hunting club dinner, a deer-jacking penalty increase, and gear guides from local merchants.

Alassachusetts Massachusetts Richard Cronin DFG Wayne Lilvestrom Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management Holdsworth Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst Joseph Larson Lilvestrom Stanley E. Rice Pittsfield A. H. Rice Co Angiers Brooks Brattle Stan

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Presidential honesty and Laos policy questioned

The article critiques President Nixon's statements on Vietnam Laos and related policy, noting possible misstatements about Marine construction in Vietnam, a $3,400 income proposal, and Laos neutrality. It argues presidents should inform the public accurately, with Agnew's view on citizens forming their own opinions acknowledged, and urges candid explanations on troop roles and subsidies.

Unburied Soldier and Lunar Zoning Jabs Stir Pittsfield Letters

A July 3 1969 letter recalls Bill Terry a black Vietnam casualty denied burial in a public cemetery and questions racial injustice in war. Other notes mock zoning plans and NASA satire while urging indoor recreation and condemning Vietnam policy seeking global peace under law.

Catch Up Plans for Pupils Doomed to Fail

Newton Mass AP So called compensatory programs in education for under privileged children such as the Head Start Program are failures in the opinion of a researcher Dr Robert R Hind president of Education Development Center Inc a nonprofit educational research organization said in his annual report that the failure stems from the mistaken notion that certain people cannot be educated We should start assuming that all children want to learn unless for some reason they become unmotivated Tests in schools show that the compensatory approach is not working Dr Hind said Proponents of this approach he said believe that many minorities and other under privileged people are inadequately socialized do not have sufficient male figures in their lives have no books in their homes cannot delay gratification and suffer from accumulated environmental and cultural deficits So they provide strengthened doses of prescriptions that have been ineffective before more remedial reading more trips to zoos more psychological services.

Newton Mass Robert R. Hind Education Development Center, Inc Hind

Quotes on theologians and civil rights from 1960s era thinkers

Quotes trace theologians leaving ivory towers to engage in civil rights and peace activism in the 1960s. The passage notes their shift to secular colleges and the influence of radical youth, with addenda from Martin Marty and John Kenneth Galbraith. Additional lines reference Art Buchwald and a Nixon era rumor.

Ivory Towers Sylvan Martin Fe, Marty University of Chicago Ladies Home Journal

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