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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1964
Page
14
The Beekattre Eagle is published daily excluding Sundays and holidays by Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Boyle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts.
The piece argues the anti US Panama riots were sparked by Panamanian and US student clashes over flags, with leftwing and Castro sympathizers only staging violence later. An OAS committee confirms nationalism as the primary impulse, not a Communist conspiracy. The note underscores US responsibility limited to broader anti communism efforts.
A letter argues against branding Panamanian students as subversives over Balboa High School flag display. It urges U S recognition of Panamanian interests in the Canal Zone and a new Panama Canal treaty that treats Panama as a cooperating partner, not a subordinate.
Ex Representative Francis W. Perry of Duxbury, in Pittsfield to seek the Republican nomination for governor, endorses a limited sales tax and closing income tax loopholes. He argues higher state revenue is needed to ease rising local property taxes, urging public demand for legislative action to reform Massachusetts tax structure.
In Brief commends GE engineers and others for National Engineers Week activities. Governor Peabody supports the Greylock tramway plan, with details to come. A $600,000 drop in Pittsfield building permits in 1963 may lower property valuations, challenging Mayor Dillon's tax-rate goals as Berkshire winters persist with continuous snow cover since mid-December.
The New Haven Register notes Muller in Harper's critiques the revival movement. It argues the popular signs inspire disgust rather than true spirituality, citing Back to God, the slogan under God, moral crusades, films and songs, and sales of positive thinking books as evidence of religious illiteracy and superficial faith.
Notes on a Worcester Art Museum Houdon sculpture exhibit noting 34 marble bronze and terra cotta busts of Washington Franklin Jefferson and John Paul Jones. Eyed details create lifelike light. Exhibit runs through Feb 23. Also mentions community notices and local humor.
The narrative recalls a 22 inch snowfall on Friday night and Saturday, marking it as one of the era's great storms since the famed 1888 blizzard. It notes the death of Augustus H. Smith, 50, president of Smith Paper Co. of Lee, at his Park Street home, son of Wellington Smith who pioneered commercial wood pulp paper in America on March 18, 1876.
A reader questions the 7 to 15 percent fund raising cost claim by major voluntary agencies and the audit figures. Another letter debates whether a pregnant or male president is preferable and critiques Barry Goldwater’s likening to Tom Paine. Readers address housing discrimination, church statements, and Johnson’s poverty agenda with varied opinions.
Washington report on Project Mohole reveals seven years of conflict and confusion as scientists engineers and politicians clash over contractor selection funding and method. Brown and Root won the contract amid controversy while NASA plans a $47 million mobile drilling platform to reach two to three miles beneath the ocean and through three miles of crust. The piece notes opposition from Sen. Gordon Allott and ties to Lyndon Johnson ally George Brown as timing with Soviet space efforts influences urgency.
Albert R. Beisel Jr, chairman of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, defends a February 26 school stayout as a peaceful protest against de facto segregation. He argues the truancy law should not bar such targeted dissent and that the courts, not the attorney general, must decide legality.
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