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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1960
Page
1
A New Orleans teachers association scheduled a mass meeting after most of the city’s 5,500 school employees did not receive pay on Friday. Emma McLendon said members petitioned for the meeting to discuss the pay issue and potential delays after Christmas. The NEA offered up to 250,000 in interest free loans to affected teachers to cover unpaid salaries and hardships.
Boston Symphony Orchestra members forgone Christmas gifts to aid October flood victims in central Luzon. Through CARE, agriculture tool kits were sent to 25 villages in Tuzon, funded by the orchestra and conductor Charles Munch, following their Manila tour.
President Eisenhower urged national self dedication during a Christmas tree lighting address. He warned against prejudice and lawless indifference, saying Americans must remove blemishes on their image through action and by shaping public opinion, not laws alone.
London AP reports Dr Barbara Moore the long distance walker was injured in a car crash Friday. She was treated for facial injuries and released from hospital. Moore 36 previously walked across the United States from coast to coast earlier this year.
The Albany Weather Bureau reports Berkshire snow tonight and tomorrow with flurries. Traffic for Christmas is smooth with icy spots, while Western New York reports a crippling Lake Erie storm that isolates Buffalo. Temperatures drop from Minnesota to the Ohio Valley, with zero to ten degrees. Major rail and air delays occur as trains stall and passengers endure harsh weather. National safety figures warn of hundreds of holiday traffic deaths. past Christmas periods show high fatalities across traffic and fires.
Adams defeated Holyoke 62 to 52 and St. Josephs NA beat Westfield 61 to 40. Lee netted 57 in a 44 point Westfield Trade clash as Williamsburg edged Chenter 42 to 21.
A narrator contrasts a privileged upbringing with global poverty and aging in a discussion of the Village Beautiful. She recalls Buddha’s story and her own daughters learning compassion in Ceylon, noting how wealth and modern slums shape views on age illness and death, then returns to critique segregated housing for the elderly.
President elect John F. Kennedy, after resigning from the Senate, declares at a Palm Beach news conference that he should be addressed as Mr. Kennedy for now and will become Mr. President in a few weeks.
President Eisenhower bluntly refuses Congress and a subcommittee request for State Department documents on U S aid to seven South American nations. He says disclosure would harm national interests and instructs the department to ignore a Comptroller ruling barring pay for some Mutual Security Administration employees who refused the papers.
Samuel Herbert, 28, of Middletown New York, driver of a large onion truck, slid off the Massachusetts Turnpike and plunged 49 feet down an embankment in zero temperatures. He was trapped for over an hour before a wrecker and a doctor aided him. he was treated for exposure and frostbite at Noble Hospital. The M K trucking Co. of Pine Island owned the rig.
In Moscow, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko urged friendly ties with the United States while blaming the Eisenhower Nixon era for failed relations. He cited the U2 incident, NATO missiles, and disarmament as key issues and called for a sober U S stance on Germany and Europe.
Anne and Julia Meaden two year old twins bit off and ate about six Christmas tree bulbs. A doctor at a Bristol hospital said the bulbs likely passed through with no treatment needed and advised letting nature take its course.
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