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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1970
Page
7
The item presents a masthead stating daily publication by Eagle Publishing Company at 1 Eagle Street Pittsfield MA 01201 with no Sunday or holiday issues noted.
Editorial argues that confrontation politics, while not ideal, has driven reforms in institutions including Pittsfield's Afro American Society and the Christian Center. It cites campus activism leading to liberalized governance, participatory decisions, and more relevant higher education, noting peace may reflect previous reforms.
The State of the Union promise of a five year 10 billion depollution program seems scaled back in detail. Federal share may be 4 billion with cities and states paying the rest, stretched over nine years averaging 445 million annually. Skeptics, including Senator Muskie, warn the rhetoric may outpace real action.
Miscellaneous items report Center School Dalton closed by water main break and Clarksburg elementary classes halted by boiler explosion. North Adams schools shut by furnace trouble. Housing tenants form Massachusetts Alliance to push subsidies and upkeep. Afro American Society protests at Christian Center provoke measured response and call for broader Center board representation. Incal high schools launch emergency drug education after near fatal student experiment.
A photo by Donald Vincent shows a snow plow created sculpture titled Old Man Winter in the GE ordnance parking lot. The piece formed by plowed snow reflects a hard-edged, unyielding grin. It may not last, melted by wind and more snow. Local note reflects humor around winter imagery.
Residents blame GE for air and lake changes during the strike era and question resumed operations. A reader notes ice and pothole conditions around Pittsfield and offers a critique of city maintenance. A former Lee resident laments town governance and low candidate interest, suggesting a shift to representative government.
Leonard Bernstein hosts a derisive fundraiser against the Black Panthers, while critics lampoon the event. The evening features donations from Sheldon Harnick, Burton Lane, and others as Bernstein engages with speakers and a pointed critique of civil rights activism. Local letters attack media and advertiser culture amid wider debates on race and art.
Michael Lerner, Yale graduate, in the autumn 1969 American Scholar argues hatred flows both upward and downward, stronger downward, linking a class apart to those who hate the middle. He notes elites acknowledge ghetto black anger at police yet label police violence against a partial upper-class protest as fascism in embryo.
Looking Back notes four year ago Berkshire Fire Chiefs Association held an annual meeting with a venison supper at Pittsfield Central Station. Lenox chief Oscar Hutchinson supplied the venison and was elected association president.
A county report honors Stockbridge Police Chief William J. Obanhein and veterinarians Dr William Gulick and Dr Bernard M Collins for their humane response to two starving horses in subzero weather. The Eagle's coverage and reader letters to the MSPCA are praised. locals condemn the owners and urge compassionate animal care.
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