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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1969
Page
9
The Eagle Publishing Company at 83 Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts publishes daily except Sundays and holidays, indicating a continuous newspaper production schedule with standard weekday operation.
Governor Sargent proposed legislation to seat students on state university and college governing boards. The piece examines aging trustees, Princeton adding young members, and the impact of younger trustees on governance amid campus unrest and inflation pressures.
In Stockbridge Mr and Mrs Dan R Hanta lost jewelry valued at 60900 after burglars entered their home. The Berkshires see a fourth major jewel robbery in two years as police investigate leads across the region. Meanwhile local sports and social notes highlight Pittsfield baseball standouts, society secretaries in New York, and community engagements.
Readers respond to local political clashes over representation and dissent. Contributors blast name calling, question poll selections, and urge accountability amid concerns about health, governance, and national figures. Names include Mrs K W Hudelston Pittsfield Lynn Peluso Peter Arles William Gian James Derivan Edward Kennedy Nixon Cooper and others in Pittsfield and Stockbridge.
Terry Schnell, 19, says locals fear increased police and Secret Service presence. Adults reportedly would not have voted for Nixon if they knew they'd have to live next to him, reflecting public concern over the president's purchase of a home in the area.
Washington decries the campus unrest conspiracy theory as comforting but misleading. It cites Yale and Iowa commencements, student protests against Vietnam, and calls for authority and dialogue with moderates. It questions FBI roles and contrasts international student movements with U S political parties. Milton Eisenhower urges restraint and guided protest.
A Wall Street Journal joke depicts an executive evaluating a job candidate who cites references from three ministers. The executive notes the firm does not work Sundays and asks for a weekday reference. The quip hinges on religious roles and office schedules.
Berkshire Regional Planning Commission and Williams College Center for Environmental Studies back a design-team approach to highway and mass transit planning. The plan aims to include land-use planners and ecologists to balance efficiency with livability and conservation. It envisions pilot funding and a model for other regions, despite highway officials' fears of delays and public hearings.
Notes and Footnotes include Cynthia Seton planning a new book The Mother of the Graduate from W W Norton & Co. She contrasts it with The Graduate film and mentions her earlier book A Special and Curious Blessing. The column covers local chef Blaige Lawrence at Jug End Resort, a controversy over the Give a Damn slogan, Mum Bett slavery history, and light items on vacation wit and dieting trends.
A letter from Mathilda Barbe recalls learning in a French Alpine rural school where students copied to learn reading writing and arithmetic. She argues copying with proper texts improves spelling geography and geometry and recounts personal experience teaching beginners while the teacher supervised. She notes a federal education idea and cites Dan Fader and Readers Digest coverage.
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