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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1963
Page
11
Special music is planned for the 9 and 10 am Christmas Day Masses at St Agnes Church. Mrs Andrew J Flynn of Pittsfield is organist and choir director. Children’s choir will sing Gesu Bambino Sleep Holy Babe The City of David is Sleeping Silent Night O Holy Night and So How a Rose Eer Blooming. Mrs Flynn will play Christmas Postlude. The 10 am Mass features a Christmas Suite and the men’s choir performs several carols.
Dalton School Committee meets again on hot lunches in elementary schools. They note no feasible immediate solution, though Junior High will offer hot lunches for Grades 6 7 and 8 at St Agnes parochial school. Craneville Center Schools lunch plans are tabled. parochial pupils to be served with no extra staff costs. Pvt Gail Cornellier on Christmas furlough from Fort Knox Kentucky.
Joh J Dakin of Manville Street, treasurer and manager of the Austin Riggs Center in Stockbridge, spoke to Barrington Rotarians dispelling myths. He said the center is a nonprofit with charitable work, open patients come and go, most patients are psychoneurotic, no drugs or restraints used, and no surgical or shock therapies. He noted $1.1 million spent on eight years of research and 50 advanced residents trained since 1947, and urged help to find work for patients ready to earn money.
Dalton The annual hare and rabbit hunt of the Delton Rod and Gun Club will be Saturday Jan 4 from 7 to 5. Entry at the clubhouse. Prizes for largest hare and largest cottontail. Refreshments available at the clubhouse. Annual membership drive underway with sales by members or at business places. Berkshire Chapter OES meets 7:45 tonight in Masonic Rooms Union Block with a Christmas party and gift exchange. Each attendee to bring a 50 cent gift for man or woman. Card and gift wrap at Kirk's Store open daily.
Hinsdale area youths gathered at the Lions Club Youth Center for a party with about 125 children in attendance. At the Lions Christmas event, 15 Cheshire Club couples attended, prize winners included Walter Reid Dalton Henry Berti Cheshire John Hamilton Dalton Mrs Ruth Orpin Hinsdale Paul Berti Cheshire Adrian Cyr Steve Delaney Cheshire Joseph Catle Dalton John Mazur Dalton John Collins Hinsdale Mrs Isabelle Butler Hinsdale Martin Glendon Dalton Beth Taylor Dalton Edward Goolis Cheshire
No nomination papers filed with the town clerk so the annual town meeting ballot will list the two top caucus vote getters for each office. Names from last week's caucus automatically appear on the ballot for each open seat.
The church schedules Christmas confessions Tuesday 10 to 11 30 a m and 4 to 9 30 p m and 7 to 8 p m plus Dec 28 at 4 and 7 p m in Cheshire and Berkshire. Masses Christmas day 7 9 15 10 30 in Cheshire and 8 9 in Berkshire. Sunday masses Cheshire 8 9 15 10 30 Berkshire 9. New Year’s Day Cheshire 8 9 15 10 30 Berkshire 9. The junior choir rehearses Tuesday at 2 a m Christmas Day. Children’s choir sings at 8 a m Mass. Adult choir sings at 9 15 Mass.
The First Baptist Church in Cheshire staged a Christmas cantata titled Tidings of Comfort and Joy on Sunday. The senior choir, led by Rev. Chandler M. Holmes, featured piano by Mrs. Doris St Hilaire and solos by Ralph Schorge, Mrs. Daniel Haskins, and Mrs. Stanley OConnor. The cantata honored Mrs. Frank Bliss, recently deceased, who long served in the church choir.
Middlefield children in the 4-H Arts and Crafts Club held a Friday gathering at Nancy J. Olds home. They made gifts and exchanged presents during the afternoon. The next meeting is set for January 1 at the Olds residence.
Lenox announces that William T. McCormack will not run for re election to the Board of Selectmen at the February 24 town election. He cites business and personal reasons and says fresh ideas will help run the town. Dennis J. Duffin seeks the Republican nomination for the three year post. McCormack, Lenox resident since 1951, has chaired the board since 1962 and notes a professional police chief as a major contribution. He owns Lenox Hardware Store on Housatonic Street.
Mr and Mrs Lea Florence and their family have moved from the Dragon home on Frost Road after living there for several years to a new residence on Valley Road.
John Doyle of Chatham earned the top award as county’s outstanding young farmer. Adrian Langdon of Copake took second, Lawrence Benson of New Lebanon Center placed third among twenty-one young county farmers chosen for the honor, with the winner eligible for a state Jaycee award.
Robert Plageman and S Roy Curlew, both Republicans, announce bids for four Lenox School Committee seats in the February 24 election. Incumbent Democrats Iola Drumm Helen Maree Toole and Frances Martin seek re-election. Curlew, IBM Pittsfield executive and Berkshire Community College committee chair, and Plageman, Berkshire Life Insurance executive, bring prior public service and family ties to Lenox. Lenox Library to close for Christmas and reopen Thursday at 10 a.m.
Albany court frees Darby Corp of Kansas City as a defendant in the Berlin blast case ruling lack of New York presence or tortious act in state. The Feathers suit seeks damages from the 1962 cargo tank explosion that killed 10.
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