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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1970
Page
5
A group of 33 Assembly Republicans led by Speaker Perry T. Duryea proposes a three stage path to lower the voting age. The plan aims to have 20 year olds vote by 1971 and 19 year olds by 1977 with a 18 year old vote following in six years. A referendum would be held in fall 1971 after legislative approval.
GREAT BARRINGTON The School Committee tabled a motion to discontinue Berkshire Psychiatric Clinic services after a delegation urged continued support for the year. The clinic serves Central and Southern Berkshire County with a 47000 budget, including 4500 from Berkshire Hills Regional School District.
Middlefield and Littleville fair leaders joined residents in Boston on Monday to back Sen. Barrus’s bill reallocating Agricultural Purposes Fund for fairgrounds and buildings. Attendees included Gordon Miller and Catherine Olds. A Grange meeting was canceled due to the storm, while Nancy Olds solicited contributions for the Heart Punch derive in Middlefield.
Great Barrington Supt. George P. Lane won approval to study expanding vocational education, weighing a Monument Mountain Regional High School wing against forming a separate vocational district. Committeeman Guidi urged keeping options open, while Klein questioned potential impacts on student initiative and district bargaining power with the state. Lane cited a state bill offering up to 75 percent reimbursement.
Lane proposes four paths to expand vocational education within Berkshire County. Options include a vocational wing at Montment Mountain to broaden the high school, a separate vocational high school district, a single vocational wing administered by a regional district, or a two or more district regional vocational entity. He argues a comprehensive high school best serves all students while stressing marketable skills through a broad program.
WORTHINGTON The Friendship Guild voted at a Mollison home to sponsor a Cub Scout pack. Mrs. Moran said new shades were bought for a Sunday school room and will be installed later. Committees were named for social, service, material aid, Belchertown School, and state hospital. Next meeting is March 5 at the parsonage with Mrs. Jerome Wood as hostess.
In Canaan Connecticut the annual Girl Scout Cookie sale starts today and runs through March 2. Girls will take orders for five varieties to be delivered in April. Proceeds fund camping trips crafts and supplies with seven cents per box going to troops. Funds support camperships Wider Opportunities and a council station wagon and Camp Maria Pratt development near Torrington used by thousands of Scouts.
Housatonic Valley Regional High School seniors raised 10563 in magazine subscriptions in the annual drive ending last week. Easy Riders led by Nancy Matson and June Bailey earned 3283.69. Top sellers included Hollis C. Brickman 395, Denise M. Tracagio 297.88, Judith M. Ford 254.21. A fourth prize of 2 cameras went to Jill L. Blodgett. Betsy L. Marston won her sales amount. About 38 students sold over 100 dollars and eye an all‑expense trip to a vacation area. profits support the yearbook graduation and class activities. Samuel Albert III born Feb 3 at Sharon Hospital to Samuel Dibbing and family.
More than 100 adult and teenage 4-H leaders gathered at the Community House in Cummington for a winter special. Easthampton 4-H members presented slides on community projects while a Germany youth involvement film played. Lunch was served by Cummington 4-H town committee. Mrs. Philippe Derette demonstrated meeting conduct with tips, and Prof. Merle Williams of UMass spoke.
New York Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe is honored as Construction’s Man of the Year for 1970 by Engineering News-Record at a dinner with over 500 attendees. The award cites his work shaping a balanced, coordinated U S transportation policy and notes his awareness of social and environmental factors in national planning.
Worthington A court of honor for Boy Scouts was held Monday at the Town Hall with about 40 attendees. Awards went to Steven Magargle Ilyd Fernandez-Sierra for one mile swimming badges and to Christopher McCarty Magargle for den chief braids, plus several tenderfoot and second-class badges.
The first meeting of the Friends of King Man Tavern Museum occurred February 3 at the Community House library. William Streeter presented two town maps, tracing schoolhouse locations and the original district, then described schooling consolidation into one town building. Mrs. Olive Thayer read poems and Georgia Richards shared Deer Hill House registers and ledgers. Douglas R. Wilcox, son of Norman Wilcox, was promoted to Army specialist and stationed in Tay Ninh, Vietnam. he is a former Cummington resident and grandson of A. B. Garceat.
In LiMA Peru the military government jailed its first press critic, sentencing Dr. Auguste Changanaqui to six months in prison and 730 dollars in fines for a magazine article deemed prejudicial to police honor. The story underscores a broader crackdown on media freedom under the two month old regime.
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