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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1970
Page
10
Daily publication statement notes the Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts publishes every day except Sunday and holidays.
The piece argues for replacing conscription with a volunteer military, noting Nixon's campaign stance and a citizens' commission backing the plan. It weighs cost estimates from $2–4 billion versus $15 billion feared by critics, and asserts civilian control at the Defense Department and Congress is key to keeping the military in check.
A reader asks the newspaper to reprint an Associated Press dispatch on Vice President Agnew’s Manila arrival, comparing its emphasis with a reader’s rewrite and headlines. The piece discusses slant, neutrality, and how anti-US demonstrations and ceremonial aspects are presented. It weighs how coverage shapes views on US policy in Asia and Filipino attitudes toward external and internal threats.
The School Committee voted 5-0 to endorse in principle Superintendent Whalen’s long range school building plan amid a honeymoon year. The move underscores faith in the plan’s quality and the committee’s readiness to approve its direction.
Ohio State University football faces rising costs despite 12 years of record home attendance. Five sellout games in a 5,000 seat stadium show high gear costs and salaries, with only about three dollars charged to students and faculty. Budget pressures reach into reserve capital as expenses climb.
Tenor: Searles High School students form a school orchestra with Edward Durant and Edward McCormack on piano, Hugh Knox on violin, George Brouthers and Richard Durant on mandolins. Isabelle DuPont, daughter of Mrs. Frank J. DuPont, Lee, promoted to first lieutenant in Army Nurse Corps and wears Bronze Star for Anzio work. County Commissioner Frederick H. Purches begins term after oath before Miss Isabella Kelm and Walter S. Dickie. board members include J. Joseph McCabe and John Henderson. Ten years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nichols celebrated 50th wedding anniversary with 1,000 guests. James H. Hunter announces a $2 million order from the Russian government for Hunter Machine Co. in North Adams. The largest GE transformer shipped to Consolidated Edison in New York for Brooklyn use weighs 418,000 pounds, 36 by 40 by 22 feet, top capacity 125,000 kva self cooled, 166,667 kva forced oil.
Notes trace Hinsdale trolley disaster recollections from 1910 as residents recount who survived and where they lived now. The column also shares quirky local items including a reporter’s sweatshirt gift, letters to the editor, and a Beethoven anecdote from 1792.
Vice President Spiro Agnew arrived in Manila with a 43 member party including astronaut Eugene Cernan. He stressed U.S. Philippines partnership and predicted a new mutual friendship in the 1970s while meeting with President Marcos and addressing protests by antiwar demonstrators. The trip follows Fulbright criticisms of Philippine troops in Vietnam and a debate over American Asia policy.
The letter-writer notes progress toward collecting 600,000 Betty Crocker coupons for a missionary project in the Philippines, with Christmas cards arriving from most states and continued coupon support from the Berkshires as the campaign aims for another 300,000.
A letter quotes a longshoreman style critique of progress and unions from a union member noting 1939 inception and 19 years at GE. The writer credits union gains for current benefits and warns that progress in negotiations may be souring as tensions rise.
The piece cites Sen Proxmire and a Boeing tied SST dispute with Washington state links, plus Mrs Wedel urging a shift left in a 100 year ecumenical body. It also contains a reader letter questioning hair style bias and personal privilege. The letter writer Diana Wellington signs from Sunshine Avenue Les.
A syndicated poet recalls the sixties as a decade of ill-directed passion and civil unrest. It laments dissent suppression, race rights misuses, and cultural shifts, praising through nostalgia the era’s upheaval and tragedy. The author marks the sixties as a time of violence, upheaval, and disillusionment, urging its end.
Chauncey Somes amused members of the Mount Desert Historical Society in Somesville with stories about his sixth generation family. He recounted a modest maidens tale while noting his grandfather kept a hired man and girl. The anecdote highlighted era customs and woodpile etiquette in Ellsworth.
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