Year-Round School Plan Teed Up for Berkshire District
Dalton outlines 12 month school plan to begin fall at Berkshire Regional. A 24 room elementary on Fox Road would consolidate housing needs and may be funded with a new school project if voters approve in May. If feasible, construction could start next summer with completion in 1971, eliminating the need for extra buildings. If blocked, alternatives include double sessions or expansions at Craneville, junior high, and high school.
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Dalton
Central Berkshire
Bear Fruit
Paul Lieneck
Haynes
Leineck” & Smith
Fitchburg
Fox Road
Craneville
Ohn W. Bartels
Selectmen
Fred G. Crane ,Jr
Year Round School Plan Faces Dalton District Debate
A regional committee weighs year round schooling and double sessions to solve Dalton's growing pupil load of about 550 in grades 4 to 6. discussions consider replacing Center School with a two story elementary building and applying a high school blueprint to local needs while balancing tax impacts.
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Dalton
Brock
Lieneck
Jaffery
Leineck
Martin J. Daly
Thomas R. Shortelle
William H. Manning
Fire District Special Meeting Planned Monday
Warrants posted for a Fire District special meeting Monday at 2 in the tax collector’s office. Voters will consider five articles. three would transfer money to balance accounts. Article 5 seeks ratification of a grant to Western Massachusetts Electric Co. to run power lines over district property.
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Dalton
Fire District
Pridential “Committee
Western Mass. Electric Co
Prudential Committee
Edmond F. Shea
Harry A. Walton
Thomas J. Fahey
George N. Stack
Contestants For Queen To Meet Monday
A Dalton meeting set for Monday at 7 at the Community House invites girls interested in the winter carnival queen contest. Winter carnival buttons will be sold. the five top sellers become candidates. A junior girl will be chosen carnival queen by Rotary Club in February. The top seller earns a free weekend at a ski area.
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Dalton
Rotary Club
Zoning Board Schedules Three Public Hearings
DALTON The Zoning Board of Appeals has three hearings set for Monday at Town Hall to consider sign variance requests. Mobil Oil Corp at 630 Main St, Don's Market at 140 Park Ave, and Vella's Package & Variety at 47 John St are listed with times 7:30, 8:00, and 8:30 p.m. respectively.
College Open House for United Church of Christ Students
Dalton reports the annual college open house for all college students of the United Church of Christ Congregational. It will be at Rev. and Mrs. David Dickerman home 98 Central Ave between 3 and 5 Sunday. More than 50 church students are home for holidays and invited.
Annual Caucus Scheduled Jan. 12
Warrants posted in five places notify voters of a town caucus on January 12 at 7 30 at the junior high school to nominate candidates for town offices for the ensuing year. Signed by the Selectmen. Town Clerk Robert G Bartlett will call the meeting to order.
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Dalton
Citizens’ Caucus
Robert G. Bartlett
Funds Approved for Dalton Junior High Snowplow
The Central Berkshire Regional School Committee narrowly approved $600 for Archie Caesar to plow Dalton Junior High School yard, citing a safety hazard from snow blocking parking. The vote was 4 to 2 in favor with four members opposing.
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Dalton
Central Berkshire
Francis G. Driscoll
Archie Caesar
Driscoll
Martin J. Daly
Paul F. Marsh
Becket
John Stevens
Washington
Arthur Needham
Windsor
John B. Naughton
Hinsdale
Fred G. Crane Jr
John McGarry
William H. Manning
Frank Bacon
Fred Hansen Jr
Cummington
Gordon H. Fitzpatrick
Studley Press
Appalachia Press
Lee
Swift River Resident Cited in Two Thousand Men of Achievement
Horace Thorner of Swift River, longtime English department head and librarian at Williston Academy Easthampton since 1943, is featured in the first edition illustrated biographies Two Thousand Men of Achievement published in London. He is working on a study of Keats linking poems to life. Nearby, Serena Morey recovers from surgery at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and Gerald Howes returns home after an appendectomy.
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Cummington
Horace Thorner
Swift River
London
England
Thornier
Williston Academy
Easthampton
John Keats
Gerald Howes
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
H. J. Hamel
W. Dean Morey
Portland
Maine
Jeanette A. Horton
Windswept Farm
New England Brown Swiss Breeders Association
Highways Hotel
Concord
N.H
Earle Streeter
Stage Road
Franklin County Hospital
Greenfield
Tooley Family Holiday Visit and Becker Honor Society
Mr and Mrs David Tooley visit relatives at 623 Lakeway Drive Pittsfield and Bridge Street Lanesboro as Tooley serves with the Navy in San Diego California Miss Marcia L Gomes of Beach Hill Road Lanesboro is among 22 Becker Junior College Worcester students inducted into Gamma Chi Sigma honor society the senior is enrolled in a medical secretary course
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David Tooley
Edward Tooley
Lakeway Drive
Pittsfield
Henry Gallant
Bridge Street
Lanesboro
Tooley
Navy
San Diego
Calif
Marcia L. Gomes
Beach Hill Road
Gamma Chi Sigma
Becker Junior College
Worcester
Gomes
Bill of Rights Strikes Out in Honolulu
In Honolulu on national Bill of Rights Day a petition backing the Bill of Rights drawn by "Students for Civil Liberties" failed to win broad support. Reporter Dave Shapiro found 75 approached. 19 signed, 55 did not recognize the document. Only one of ten local patriots would sign, and four signers objected to bearing arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Dave Shapiro
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Students For Civil Liberties
Messiah Sing Set Sunday At Church In Cummington
The fifth annual Messiah sing will be hosted by the Village Congregational Church music committee this Sunday at 4 pm. Dr Nathan Gottschalk conducts the performance with soloists Roberta Cowell Ruth Rice Bradford Fisk and Paul Nixon joining a regional chorus and orchestra. Members travel from Needham Newton Hartford and Pittsfield area to participate. All welcome and scores may be borrowed.
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Cummington
Village Congregational Church
Nathan Gottschalk
Mars
Roberta Cowell
Ruth Rice
Dast Longmeadow
Bradford Fisk
Huntington
Paul Nixon
Pittsfield
Needham
Newton
Hartford
Rice
Girs’ Latin School
State Teachers College
Springfield
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
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Dorothy Chapman
Zoning Appeals Board
Golden Agers
Kay Elwood
Lakeview Florist
Duffer
Crai Wood
ST Andrews
Scotland
Operstuvweiza
U.S
Jr. High
Hope Garceau
Serena Morey
Katherine
Kirchner
Main St
Midtown
Strauss
Tahiti
Bern
Nixon
Grange
Cummington School
Harriet Morey
Ralph Page
Ralph Mougin
Gerald Tupper
Stanley Cowell
Bernard Forgen
Henry Damm
Home and Community Service Committee
Damm
John Sandford
Youth Fellowship
Angelica
Puccini
Rington
Helen Morgan
Berkshire Chorus
Tanglewood
South Congregational Church
Helen Wells
Betty Curtis
Chesterfield
Manjorie Pierpont
Martin Howes
Alden Healy
Henry Damo
Alice Pratt
Evelyn Lynds
Cummington Grange
Great Barrington
Cereus CE
Lee Aa
Aes
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