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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1970
Page
20
Negotiations with Sprague Electric Co break off for two unions while AFTE plans a potential Monday strike. IAM pauses action pending NLRB petition ruling. ICW petitions prompt revised talks with Sprague officials. AFTE cites high dissatisfaction with offers and anticipates many members at picket lines.
Navy seaman Peter C. Vickerman, son of Mr and Mrs Harry O Vickerman of Route 23 Monterey, returned to Gulfport Mississippi with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 after completing the battalion s third tour of duty in Vietnam.
The North Canaan Red Cross drive begins Sunday and runs through March with a $1,575 goal. Mrs Ross Grannay chairs the drive, Arnold B Curtis coords soliciting retail stores, and Charles A Beaujon handles industries. About 50 neighborhood solicitors participate. unit is a branch of the Winsted chapter. The chapter supplied blood to hospitals and aided 229 servicemen families, with flood relief totaling $13,530 in 1955.
In CANAAN Conn a ecumenical Sacrificial Dinner will be held Sunday March 15 at 12 15 PM at Pilgrim House. Canaan and Falls Village church members will participate to dramatize world hunger relief. Rice and beverages will be served. Each family should contribute the cost of a Sunday dinner to aid hunger relief.
Gary Pulver of Prospect Street was elected president of the Canaan Men's Club at its annual dinner meeting held at Harry Deming's home. Stanley Sevalla was named vice president, Ivan Couch secretary treasurer, with Fred Pulver Donald Green and Deming joining the Board of Directors. The club, formed in 1950 and fully organized in 1931 by local businessmen, plans a community recreation center. A city commission public session on West Side school plans is set for next Thursday at 7 p.m. in Mayor Butler's office with guests including Rev Patrick Sullivan Thomas Connolly Supt. Thomas Whalen and other officials. Father Sullivan and Connolly chair the commission. Sullivan to lead the school program and Connolly the site selection.
The mayor seeks a third chair to oversee the construction phase and Buler proposes a 21 member commission with three seven member subcommittees. Some members would be elected, and a West Side majority is desired. The plan envisions a combined school and community center replacing Tucker and Briggs schools with advisory neighbor participation and after school decision making.
Salisbury Conn: Northeast Utilities president Lelan F Sillin says funds for independent ecological studies of a proposed pumped storage plant in Falls Village Sheffield and Mt. Washington Mass will be unrestricted and coordinated by private and public groups. A preliminary study permit will give exclusive rights to examine the two sites for 24 months. The company expects eight month studies, cost about 185 million dollars, and aims to compare Falls Village and Sheffield with Western New Hampshire and West Central Maine for a final site selection in 1971 or 1972. The funding will be placed in an independent conservation fund, with NE NENRC distribution, to avoid control by the utility.
Book of remembrance fund at East Canaan Congregational Church received a gift from Mrs. Charles Fuchs in memory of her husband, Charles Fuchs, to be used for re plastering and redecorating the sanctuary starting in April.
The Housatonic PTA will host a public card party on March 19 at 8 p.m. at the Community Center with general chairs Mrs. Bruce Bailly and Mrs. Richard Prohenski from Housatonic and Mrs. C. W. Leeds of Simon's Rock Great Barrington. Other chairmen handle prizes, kitchen, hostesses, publicity, and reservations.
Mayor Butler said the 100000 earmarked for municipal water to the south side of the General Electric complex will not cover costs. Bids require an extra 10000, prompting a request to the Council for appropriation. GE has demolished another hose as it expands parking facilities. The city building inspector issued the permit for the Woodlawn Avenue structure demolition.
Communion will be observed at 9:30 a.m. at Middlefield Congregational Church. The pastor Rev. David J. Joe N. delivers the Life of Jesus sermon. The Hie game season finishes with two games left. three teams vie for first as VFW Pleasant Street Market and Brooks are 10-3, American Legion 5-8, Chippy's 3-18, Johnny's Garage 1-12. Booster night on Monday features VFW v Chippy's at 6, Brooks v American Legion at 7, Pleasant Street Market v dolnns's Garage at 8. all games open to the public.
Berksh ire Community College announces sabbaticals for two faculty members. George J. Bagley of Pittsfield from the business department will take four economics courses at the University of Massachusetts including macroeconomics microeconomics economic history and international trade. Charles E. Bybee of Dalton, science department chairman, will study ecology behavior and genetics and plans field biology work in the White Mountains and the Rockies.
Fred B and Pauline E Cahall sell to Donald J and Beverly A Kells a house and lot on Lexington Parkway Estelle S Kolman sells to Isedore Goodman property on Francis Avenue Madeline C Schink sells to Alphonse and Mary Rancourt a house and lot on First Street R Bruce and Sandra J Reeves sell to Charles F Helme Jr and Anne B Helme a house and lot on Colonial Acres Richmond John A and Nancy J Fitch mortgagee to Pittsfield Cooperative Bank a house and two parcels of land off East Street Dalton
Northeast Utilities opened a public information center in Bowle 7, one mile south of Sheffield, to inform residents about the Mt Everett hydroelectric pumping station plan. Public information assistant William Crean will staff 8:20 to 4:30 daily, with a secretary added soon. borings and seismic tests will be released, movies may be shown to civic groups, and a sign is to be erected shortly.
The Berkshire Community Action Council votes to request 15 VISTA volunteers to operate across Berkshire County, quadrupling the current four. Most will be community organizers with one legal expert and one with architectural skills. BCAC aims to meet VISTA officials March 15 and seeks funding assurance for 1970-71 before borrowing.
Emerson Bid Is Lowest on N A Housing. George B Emer son Inc of Pittsfield bid 2,228,000 for the 11 story elderly housing project by the North Adams Housing Authority. Bids far exceeded the 1,900,000 estimate. Gordon & Sutton bid 2,595,000. Authority may raise rents from 60 to 75 per unit monthly. state officials warned the project could be shelved if new bids remain high.
Pittsfield City Councilman John F Fraser endorsed the North Street addition to the Jubilee urban renewal project and supported developer J Alan Ornstein. He warned that rejecting the amendatory would leave a second class downtown with discount clusters and said the plan would bring more than 15 million dollars in new tax producing construction and hundreds of jobs, while countersing tax losses from existing buildings. Fraser noted a public hearing set for March 10 and highlighted tenants led by Forbes and Wallace and potential benefits to local shoppers and the tax base.
General Electric announced the retirement of nine employees including John H. Fairs a 43 year heat treat specialist and Williams C. Leslie a 42 year power transformer tester. Also retiring in the power transformer department are Lows P. Gonzales Michael F. Stanley and Sophie Klemansky. Other retirees in relations and utilities include Raymond J. Vatley Daniel C. Stillman Mrs. Viola K. Anderson and Frank A. Menin.
Police report two break-ins aimed at narcotics failed to yield drugs. Officer Jan White spotted an intruder at Doctors Park on South Street around 4 am, as cabinets in Dr. McInerney and Dr. Breen offices were disturbed but nothing taken. Detectives noted physicians keep narcotics secure after hours. A separate break-in at Dr Irving Rubin’s office yielded 1,041 non narcotic semi synthetic pills and $4 in cash.
An ecumenical six part reading titled Behold the Man will be presented Friday at 8 pm in Sacred Heart Church. Rev Harold C Criswell Rev Gerald Spafford and several parishioners will participate as the Passion of Christ is portrayed in contemporary terms. Refreshments follow in the school auditorium. the public is invited.
Berkshire Hills Conference and Berkshire Development Commission plan to share ground-floor offices to improve operations. The move follows a consultant report urging merger of the two county organizations, with space negotiations and budget implications capped by county approval.
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