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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1963
Page
18
Published every day except Sundays and holidays by the Eagle Publishing Company located on Eagle Street in Pittsfield Massachusetts.
Editorial asserts Lyndon B. Johnson proves political vigor by promoting federal cost cutting. It notes his stance aligns Kennedy legacy with a personal leadership style, leveraging voter support while nudging Congress to accept fiscal restraint. The piece argues Congress resists cuts in wartime spends and subsidies, heightening the political stakes for 1964.
The piece argues Premier Chou En-lai’s Africa tour aims to gain political support from newly independent African nations and nonwhite groups by linking civil rights struggles to class warfare. It claims China seeks leadership of Afro-Asian communist parties through aid promises and racist rhetoric to counter Soviet and American power.
Massachusetts legislators push for elective zoning boards of appeals. In Great Barrington and other towns boards already elected in some cases, reducing the power of appointment by selectmen.
The WI Herald notes a surge in civil suits for large sums after accidents. A Manchester woman faces a $25,000 claim from a New York guest who tripped at her home and garden fundraiser. The piece warns such suits may curb community events and hosting.
A playful column recounts a Lenox student’s whiskered Santa Claus tale with Metrecal jokes and a NZ style interview. It recalls old North St beer stores, cites Marriages proverb, silent-film star Ramon Navarro quotes, and notes Newport News Shipyard furniture for the Enterprise. It ends with a health caution from the state health department about shoveling snow.
November gifts to the House of Mercy include oranges cider baskets apples jelly turkeys and clothing from several donors. Notable items recount Aunt Louise Gillet of New Lebanon known in the valley for generosity and a tale of land grant era marked West Street. Dudley Head named All Little Three football honoree from Williams Amherst Wesleyan coverage notes. Louise Lavery elected president of Pittsfield Southern Berkshire Hairdressers Association. Eleazar Williams receives leave to work on a foreign policy commission led by Clarence Randall of Inland Steel.
The Eagle suggests Speaker John W. McCormack step aside for a younger man, raising talks of revising the presidential succession law in case of disability. Reporters note his age near 72 and argue he is better prepared for the presidency than Truman was in 1943.
A reader questions renaming Oswald Avenue to Ruby Avenue citing a cold blooded murderer and urges compassion for Oswald’s family. Letters from Gertrude Bergen, John Matorano, Kenneth Bemis, and Albert M. Jackson discuss hunting, charity after a fire, and bibliomania with regional references to Pittsfield Lenox Becket.
Washington era survey in Philadelphia's 47th Ward finds 18 of 24 Black voters backing Kennedy in 1960 and 10 certain or 11 probable for Johnson if election held tomorrow. Voters view Johnson as civil rights champion, with minimal hostility to his Southern background, and Republicans may rethink need for a Negro appeal.
A 90 year old woman asks a doctor to cure her illness but he explains aging brings ailments. She retorts that she only wants to grow older, not become younger, in a Parade humor snippet.
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