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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1969
Page
7
Daily newspaper note states publication by Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts with no Sunday or holiday editions mentioned.
Editorial denounces the defeat of Congressman Conte's bill capping farm subsidy payments at 20000 per farmer per year. It argues subsidies mostly aid large farms, including foreign owned operations, while neglecting the poor. It urges overhauling the system to address hunger and price supports amid rising farm subsidies.
Morgan Bulkeley’s column notes the 65 year old sundial in Park Square was repeatedly vandalized and removed. He ridicules graffiti and airliner hijackers while imagining a colonial remedy with stocks to deter vandals, urging public action against senseless property destruction.
Labor watchers link GE skilled trades walkouts to IVE fears of militancy. Eagle medallion awards go to state Reps Sisitsky and Creedon for pushing agriculture fair probe. County tax rises stress welfare limits amid rising school costs. Pittsfield eyes a master plan while criticizing outmoded projection figures. Retired Capt Ray Coakley enters alarm products business as local concerns persist.
The Rockefeller Foundation five year review notes rapid global progress in recognizing population issues and expanding family planning. It warns oral pills and IUDs, though improved, may fail on a mass scale without major research and new methods.
Sgt Joseph L Fitzgerald Eagle employee returns from overseas with the 29th Engineers. Samuel S Van Etten retires after 12 years as station agent for Boston & Albany Railroad. Engagement announced for Eileen Bloomberg to Naval Aviation Cadet Elihu Ziskind. Paul Desautels graduates from Laval University. Richard Happel writes about Mercy Partridge Whitney, pioneer missionary to Hawaii. George J Rosa Jr and Frank Staro open Hallmark Studio in Greenfield.
Looking back at city history connects the West Street campus to the former 1830 poorhouse and later infirmary that operated on the land. From 1904 onward the facility housed up to 280 inmates, with farming to sustain operations, before closing in 1965 and making way for the BCC campus in 1955 and later relocations.
Readers from Pittsfield Lanesboro Philiont and Housatonic share reflections on Arab refugees and UN aid in 1969 Israel, air pollution and waste burning, and global population pressures. They question rights, law enforcement, and social strain, urging clearer action and accountability.
Susan Cantos of Williamstown warns readers about risks from atomic power, citing deaths among uranium miners and reactor accidents. She urges research into waste disposal, thermal pollution, and ecological harm, promoting a booklet by the Independent Citizens Research Foundation and offering copies for 35 cents plus a stamp.
A selection of quips notes fuel waste from dirty jets costing airlines fuel per mile and two brief literary asides. The quotes reference Robert J. Serling and Orville Prescott and a Philadelphia birth anecdote with a math joke about multiplying in the Brailingore Reformer.
A critical, period-voiced column weighs Mrs. Kennedy’s frugal acts with green stamps against public interest. It notes the clash with Mrs Gallagher over salaries, cites Kennedy wealth and household habits, and defends Jackie’s breakfast solitude as a dignified stance in a private household.
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