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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1969
Page
7
Daily newspaper issued by Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Eagle Street Pittsfield MA, excluding Sundays and holidays, outlining publishing schedule and firm address.
The piece argues NASA shut Cambridge Electronic Research Center, a $100 million facility with 800 staff, despite low operating costs and little impact on the overall budget. It contends the move, aimed at reallocating funds to manned Mars exploration, ignores spin-off tech benefits and harms Cambridge’s redevelopment plans and local jobs.
GE officials and other figures fret over Japanese labor union support for strikes. The piece notes cross border tactics and warns that short-term gains by management and unions risk broader international conflict, urging constructive exchange over strike methods.
Snowy Berkshire reports highlight snowmobile ambulance teams aiding rescue work while Executive Airlines plans daily Pittsfield Boston flights for mail and passengers. Ski slopes brace for a profitable year end if storms ease, as snow depths reach record levels in several counties.
The piece traces a moonlit gunboat caper that slipped past a French embargo. It suggests French officials looked away and hints at Israeli involvement with an odd chain of sales ending in an Israeli port. A lighthearted, detective tone weighs motives and mishaps amid geopolitical dance.
A Fifty Years Ago item notes the Working Girls Qub and the Business Women's Club staged Martha with 250 attendees as Mrs. Chamberlain read a synopsis and Kathleen Burke performed The Last Rose of Summer while Eleanor McCormick played piano and Ray Pong conducted the orchestra. Tea hosts were Mrs. Goeney and Mrs. Yarter.
Pittsfield notes review survivors of the Hinsdale trolley wreck of 1910 with Dalton residents aboard. Mrs Schnapp recalls the ill starred car, seven died, 25 injured, brakes failed before the derailment. Also mentions Arthur Penn profile and Valley Forge reflections.
Readers weigh in on a blizzard mess with two letters about white Christmas prayer and street plowing in Yankee Orchard. Alice Brock laments poor snow removal by a red truck, urging neighbors to pressure officials. David Critchley and Victor Casino praise a plow driver for clearing streets after days of being snowed in.
A reader outlines a satirical list of official weeks for 1970 including National Apathy Week Law & Order Week Railroad Radical Week Kiss a Christian Week Mafia Recognition Week City Hall Renovation Week Destroy to Save Week Made in America Week Pollution Participation Week and Support our Boys in Viet Nam Week. The letter laments 1969 and urges new national unity and hopeful change.
A New York Times editorial argues the bulldozer is not gone but hiding. It links demolition to urban decay, pollution, and stalled renewal. It condemns federal program games, city indifference, and argues for a bold environmentalism tied to conservation and community.
A Parade humor piece by Dick Caveat notes the Mafia remain rare in making house calls, delivering a wry, punchy opinion on their persistence in old fashioned methods.
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