Study Group Will Arrive Next Week
GREAT BARRINGTON—Tuller of Barrington Industrial Corp says a governor appointed committee to seek state and federal aid will arrive Monday and spend the week here. William Shugrue of the Commerce Department will set appointments. interviews by SBA and ARDA teams. Agriculture rep onsite midweek. Vocational Education rep Thursday. Brotherhood week events planned at AME Zion Church with choirs from local Zion churches. Cochairmen are Mrs. Sindara Gunn and Mrs. Pinkie Brooks.
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Great Barrington
Tuller
Barrington Industrial Corp
Small Business Administration
Area Redevelopment Administration
State Department of Agriculture
Vocational Education Division
State Department of Education
AME Zion Church
Pittsfield Zion Church
Cochairmen
Sindara Gunn
Pinkie Brooks
Penny Social Tonight at American Legion Hall
Becket Penny Social hosted by McSweeney Gage Runz Post 329 at the American Legion Hall tonight at 5 p.m. Event aims to raise funds with proceeds supporting local veterans activities.
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McSweeney - Gage - Runz Post 329
American Legion
Legion Hall
Home Ec Teacher Hired at Searles High School
GREAT BARRINGTON The School Committee approved the hiring of Doreen Finlayson of Worcester as home economics teacher at Searles High School. A 1962 Framingham State College graduate, she will start March 2, replacing Mrs. Robert Nault who resigned in December. she has taught at Westboro High and will fill in four rooms at 18 Reed St. for 1,865 monthly.
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Great Barrington
Doreen Finlayson
Worcester
Searles High School
State College
Framingham
Finlayson
Westboro High School
Robert Nault
Pittsfield
West Stockbridge Town Meeting set Monday at school
Voters will consider 30 articles at the annual meeting Monday at 7 30 p m in the Village School auditorium. The town may form a three member board of appeals and conservation commission. Selectmen endorse buying Shaker Mill dam from Massachusetts Electric for 1 and the company would cover up to 9000 of dam repair costs. Town elections begin the following Monday February 24.
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West Stockbridge
Board of Appeals
Shaker Mill
Massachusetts Electric Co
Eugene Delica
Board of Selectmen
Foxy $1
Movie Timetable for Mahalwe and North Adams Theaters
Movie listings show Mahalwe Great Barrington with The Cardinal at 9:00 and matinee Sun at 2:00. North Adams Paramount screens Take Her, She's Mine at 2:25, 5:35, 8:50 Marilyn at 4:05 and 7:15. Mohawk North Adams presents Hercules Unchained at 9:35, 5:40, 8:45 and The Night Creatures at 8:10, 4:15, 7:25. Adams shows Bashful Elephant at 7:00 and Mary Mary at 8:35.
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Mahalwe
Great Barrington
the Cardinal
Paramount
North Adams
Marilyn
Night Creatures
Adams
Elephant
Mary Mary
Canaan to Admit Voters for Local Tax Collector Election
North Canaan Board of Admissions will meet Monday noon to 2 pm to admit voters whose rights have matured since Jan 28. A special town election for tax collector is set for Tuesday from 8 am to 6 pm in the town hall courtroom. Candidates are Jeenny E. Pozzetta Republican and Elton T. Nolan Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaan
Conn
North Canaan
Stephentown Baptist Church Notes
Stephentown New York Rev Clyde Sorrell will speak on The Offering of Christ at 11 am tomorrow the second sermon in The Priestly Service of Christ Dorcas Society meets Tuesday at 730 pm at Mrs Laura McEwan s home members asked to bring church coupons to help fill missionary trunk Town Clerk Orin Meddaugh issues notice that 1964 town board meetings will be held the second Monday of each month at 8 at Town Hall per January resolution
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Baptist Church
Stephentown
N.Y
Clyde Sorrell
First Baptist Church
Dorcas Society
Laura McEwan
Orin Meddaugh
Stockbridge Town Meeting Clears Public Safety and Hall Plans
Stockbridge residents will vote on installing a mobile telephone in the police cruiser to improve communications when the station is unmanned. Chief Obanhein cites unsatisfactory systems and estimates 3434 in costs. A second article creates a five member Town Hall Committee to oversee furniture, memorials, and interior decoration for the Town Hall. St Paul’s Church service schedule and related church activities noted. Fitness classes postponed due to town meeting.
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Stockbridge
Wiliam J. Obanhein
Lee Barracks
Monday PTA Meeting Postponed to March
The Stockbridge PTA meeting was postponed to March to encourage attendance at Monday’s town meeting. PTA President Robert J. Prochaska said $184 was raised by ticket sales for last month’s PPA basketball game, with funds to support the Williams High scholarship fund and the Stockbridge-West Stockbridge basketball league. Menu for Monday features hot dog, potato chips, corn, fruit cocktail.
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Stockbridge
PTA
Robert J. Prochaska
Dalton Cashin Appointed Plumbing Inspector
Dalton selectmen appoint William H. Cashin licensed plumber as gas and plumbing inspector. From March 1 permits required for gas lines storage facilities and all plumbing. Future goal: inspection of all gas and plumbing lines in town. Also notes community items: church recognition of Albert Barnes for 39 years as church sexton. Patricia Kyer candidate for Dalton School Committee. J Leo Condron in critical condition after heart attack. Jacob Franklin returns from seminar on college admission issues.
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Barnes Albert Barnes
Dalton Methodist Church
Barnes
Ray Thompson
J. Leo Condron
Dalton
St. Luke’s Hospital
Jacob Franklin
Wahconah
New England School Development Council
Sturbridge
Town Election Set Monday in Dalton
Dalton voters will choose on Monday for School Committee terms of two three years and one year, with candidates Patricia Kyer Frederick Fahey Nicholas Boraski Richard Phelps John F Tracey and Robert N Hall. Finance Committee contenders include Lawser Bartley Farrell Bairstow Berube Daniels Kelly Roche Stengl Jr. A free warden referendum is on the ballot. Polls 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Junior High. town meeting 7:30 p.m. at Wahconah Regional High.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Kyer
St. Agnes
Richard Stetson
Claremont Drive
Dalton School
Dalton Dunnoy High School
B. Don Daniels
Joseph G. Kelly
John T. Roche
Harold J. Stengl Jr
Thomas J. Callahan
Wahconah Regional High
Red Cross First Aid Course Offered in Hinsdale
Hinsdale residents may join a no charge 16 hour Red Cross standard first aid course this month if enough interest exists. Certificates will be issued for the survival course and the full program. For details contact David I. Nubardpy Sunday.
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Hinsdale
Red Cross
David I. Nub
Band Mothers Meet Hinsdale at Kittredge School
The Band Mothers, an unofficial group, met at Kittredge School with music supervisor Roberts to plan a spring concert at Wahconah Regional. They sponsor fundraisers, donate instruments, create uniforms, and will buy instruments for students lacking them. Area teachers from Hinsdale Becket Washington and Peru met at Kittredge to discuss new mathematics, meeting every three weeks.
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Hinsdale
Band Mothers
Kittredge
Ftohn Roberts
Wahconah
Wahoonah
Becket
Washington
Peru
Kittredge School
Liquor Prices Drive CrossBorder Buying in Williamstown
North Berkshire State's Liquor Store near Pawnal Vermont has grown to nearly 250000 in six months, drawing Massachusetts buyers escaping higher prices. Residents from Williamstown and as far as Pittsfield reportedly shift to Vermont for bargains while Connecticut chain stores lure southward shoppers. A separate bond drive in North Adams aims to fund Acra-Mation, and the McCann School Board rehires its former chairman as legal counsel.
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St. Williamstown
State Line
Pawnal
Massachusetts
Williamstown
Pittsfield
Vermont
Connecticut
North Adams
Berkshire
Corporation
NBDC
Acra-Mation
McCann School Board
Bernard Lenhoff
Lenhoff
McCarm School
Northern Berkshire Development Corporation
Plunkett Hospital Tests New Heartbeat Transmission Device
Plunkett Memorial Hospital tried a new service on Valentine s Day using a device to transmit electrocardiograph examinations by telephone from the town to Williamstown where the cardiologist maintains his office. The $1,500 device could save many hours if the hospital purchases it.
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AVAMS
Plunkett Memorial Hospital
Williamstown
Boy in Truck Crash in Critical Condition
Seven year old Mark Lucas of Williamstown remains in critical condition at North Adams Hospital after a Wednesday head injury from a collision between his mother's station wagon and a parked truck on Glenn Street. He underwent an operation Thursday night as doctors treated his injuries. The driver claimed sun glare contributed to the crash, with a second vehicle, a small foreign car driven by Ali M Allmaker, also involved and blamed sun glare.
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Williamstown
Mark Lucas
North Adams Hospital
Glenn Street
Congregational Notes Lent Services at Dalton Church
The Congregational Church will celebrate Holy Communion at 10 30 a m tomorrow. Rev Patrick C Finleon will begin a Lenten sermon series with Temptation. Church school for grades 1 12 is at 9 am. preschool and infant care at 10 30. The Seven and Eight Club meets at 4 45 at the church to join a youth rally at Zion s Lutheran Church in Pittsfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Congregational Church
Patrick C. Finleon
Church School
Zion’s Lutheran Church
Pittsfield
Pilgrim Fellowship at St Luke's to Elect Committees
St Luke's Church hosts Holy Communion at 7 pm and a 10 am meeting for committee formation with Rev John F Davidson as celebrant. A day school for kindergarten through Grade 6 is set for March 8 with nursery provided. Junior Altar Guild meets at 10 am led by Mrs Ben Henri Hermann. boy acolyte training for ages 10 and up is Sunday at 9 under Bertram B Trobin son Jr.
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Pilgrim Fellowship
St. Luke's
Episcopal Church
John
F. Davidson
Sun
Ben- Henri Hermann
Bertram B. Trobinson Jr
Nurse Pollock to Visit West Stockbridge and Richmond
Mrs. Ann R. Pollock of the National League of Nursing will spend February 20 and 21 in Richmond and West Stockbridge to lead meetings and conferences on public health. A general community session is set for 8 p.m. Thursday at the West Stockbridge School for Community Health Association members and volunteers. Pollock, with a public health nursing master’s from Minnesota and a nursing degree from Oregon Medical School, has led other health education efforts in San Diego and Spokane.
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Ann R. Pollock
National League of Nursing
Richmond
West Stockbridge
League
Department of Public Health Nursing
New York
Pollock
Community Health Association
West Stockbridge School
Department of Nursing
Oregon Medical School
University of Minnesota
San Diego
Calif
County Department of Public Health
Visiting Nurse Association
City Health Department
Spokane
Wash
Methodist Notes and Local Sports Update Dalton
The Dalton Methodist Church lists services and youth events including a sermon on Jesus and Sacrifice at 10 43 am and a first Sunday Lenten dialogue sermon by Rev Alford B Perry Basil Jelly and Walter Gehring at 7 30 pm A Junior High Fellowship meets at 445 pm to travel to Zion s Lutheran youth rally in Pittsfield The Meth odist Youth Fellowship attends the musical For Heaven s Sake at South Junior High in Pittsfield A fellowship hour follows In local basketball Dalton Recreation Association Senior Girls lose 13 33 to Pittsfield Girls Club and CBA girls team enters Hinsdale tournament February 22 28.
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Basil Jelly
Walter Gehring
CRA
Dalton Recreation Association
Pittsfield
CBA
Hinsdale
Worthington Public Updates on Fees Church Services and Elections
The Public Health Office plans a welfare visiting nurse fee increase from $2 to $3.3 effective March 1, with state average listed as $4.50. Worthington Congregational Church to hold 11 o clock services led by Rev Edward A Cowles D D and others. Sunday school at same time. Pilgrim Fellowship meets Sunday evening. Dorothy Swain will resume Worthington class at 11 am Tuesday after presenting at Cleveland event. Worthington Fire District annual meeting set for Feb 21 at 7:30 p m. only routine warrant articles. Transportation to polls offered Monday 10 to 7 Dial 684-0855. Marion Bartlett is Robert Hall School Committee candidate resting at home after a fall.
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Public Health Office
First Congregational
Edward A. Cowles
D.D
Robert W. Hixon
C. Kenneth Osgood
Tno
Pilgrim Fellowship
Pioneer Valley Council
Cleveland
Ohio
Dorothy Swain
Worthington
Worthington Fire District
Marion L. Bartlett
Robert Hall
Robert M. Hall
Students Win Art Awards in Chester High
Miss Sally Johnson, Chester art supervisor, says Rosalie Goeney and Diane Clark of Chester High won art awards from the Museum School in Boston. They will attend Special Saturday classes starting February 29, studying drawing, graphic arts, painting, sculpture and ceramics.
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Chester
Sally Johnson
Rosalie Goeney
Diane Clark
Chester High
Museum School
Boston
Selectman Honored on 86th Birthday
Chester celebrates Thomas Rose of Maple Street with a surprise party marking his 86th birthday. A Becket native, he has lived in Chester over 60 years, ran a general store 50 years, served 35 years as selectman, 20 on the School Board, and holds roles in local banks and community groups. He has two granddaughters and a daughter Mary Ellen Niskanen.
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Chester
Thomas Rose
Maple Street
Rose
Becket
Chester Cooperative Bank
Egremont Voters face three contested offices at polls
Egremont residents will vote Monday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the North Egremont men’s club for three Board of Selectmen seats, the moderator’s chair, and a Cemetery Commission term. Incumbent Republicans Curtiss Hills and Bate oppose Democrats Haupt Lindstrom and Turner. moderator race pairs Walter Anicka and Niels Borg. Cemetery seat pits Edna Henry against William Weigle Sr. Other offices are unopposed.
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Egremont
North Egremont
Board of
Selectmen
Elwood Burdsall
Cemetery Commission
Willard L. Curtiss
Edward J. Hills
Clarence D. Bate
Erik H. Haupt
Rex Lindstrom
Robert W. Turner
Walter T. Anicka
Exremont
Niels V. S
Walter) Borg
Edna B. Henry
William H. Weigle Sr
Lenox RICHARD K. WEIL Menus and Contact Info
Lenox Richard K Weil listing shows phone numbers Dias 443-5072 and Lee Office 249-2471. Week menus list Monday Lasagne corn bread spinach salad, Tuesday Roast turkey with gravy rice cranberry sauce candied sweet potatoes, Wednesday Baked macaroni vegetables carrot sticks frosted cake, Thursday Shepherds pie salad, Friday Toasted cheese sandwich mixed vegetables Jello. Pizza tonight at Joe's Grill. Adv.
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Searles
Stockbridge
Lenox
Zucker Heads School Board in Chester
The School Committee elected Abraham Zucker as chairman and Mrs Elvera Kelly as vice chairman. Vincent Nevins was named secretary and Tino Cardarelli joined as a new member. They will petition state to activate Route 20 traffic signal and seek another light and crosswalks at school crossings. They oppose House Bill 1362 and will inform the Legislative Committee on Education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Abraham Zucker
Elvera Kelly
Vincent Nevins
Tino Cardarelli
Legislative Committee On Education
Massachusetts Selectmen's Association
Mothers' March Reports Contributions Total $109
Chester report shows Mrs Ahlan Mitchell and Mrs Guy Carthers as local chairmen announcing contributions of 109.10 dollars. Captains include Mrs Clifford Boyer, Mrs Armand Riel, Mrs James Clark, and others. Late contributions may be sent to Mrs Mitchell or Mrs Carrington.
School Patrol Officer Named at Hamnden Huntington Intersection
School patrol officer Andrew Haston of Prospect Street has been named the patrol officer at the Hamnden and Huntington Street intersection, joining the district safety team.
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Andrew Haston
Prospect Street
Hamnden
Huntington Street
Chester School Menus and Sunday Church Notes
The week includes school lunch options from Monday to Friday with items like baked meat loaf mashed potatoes succotash tapioca pudding and clam chowder peanut butter sandwiches and fruit cups. Sunday church services at United Church feature Rev Claude Doig organist Mrs John K E Jacobson and Sunday school at 9:90 with Mrs Raymond Leone.
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Chester School
UnitedChurch
Claude Doig
John KE. Jacobson
Raymond Leone
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William Dyer
Berkshire Council
Great Barington System
Peabody
Endicott Peabody
Butternut Basin
Joseph Massey
Main Street
Fairview Hospital
Sheffield Grange Hall
Sheffield
Stooges
Prince of the Church
TIN
Reed St
M. —Ady
Canaan, Conn
Town Board
Ann Shanahan
St. Paul’s Church
St. Paul's Church
St Paul
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Cashin
Bard Py
North Berkshire
Plunkett Hospital
Lanesboro
Jean McGowen
St. Luke’s Church
Methodist Notes
Arthur Capen
Lenox Oil CO
TEL
Selectman
Richard K. Weil
Lee Office
Joe's Grill
Zucker
Pocahontas
Pocahontas Club
TaskTa Council
Francis Salvini
William Laitinen
Amos Davenport
Leonard Alexander
Prudential Committee of the United Church
Charles Wheeler
James Leone
Ft. Dix
Nat
Ft. Ord
Sith
Thomas Luote
Huntington Road
Dariene Gargan
Beatrice Gargan
Middlefield Street
Barner
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