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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1964
Page
14
Daily paper published by Eagle Publishing Company at Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts appears as a standard masthead stating publication without Sundays and holidays. It underscores a regional news outlet serving Berkshire County with regular issues.
A Way Out in Viet Nam Editorials argues Johnson must choose between escalation and negotiation. McNamara’s third Saigon visit signals urgency amid intensified guerrilla warfare and limited allied support. A ceasefire proposal offers a stopgap, while risking prolonged stalemate and regional conflict.
A court battle over a U S mail watch on Roy Cohn after perjury indictments raises civil liberties concerns. The judge called the tactic shocking and Russia-like, while critics warn mail privacy rights are eroding alongside telephone privacy.
The column notes a clash over local education funding and federal intervention, praises Massachusetts racing regulation reform, critiques unemployment benefits expansion for strikers, and questions Pittsfield tax rate fears while urging action on longstanding high school overcrowding.
The Christian Science Monitor notes that even with a $95 million three year air pollution act, pollution may persist due to rising fuel combustion. Dr. Philip A. Leighton argues for reducing burning and shifting to non-polluting heat sources. Cambridge Civic Association offers residents a pollution reporting service to aid investigations.
Looking Back on Years Age William Deegan Frank P Wilson and E Ross Newcombe sailed Saturday for Bermuda. They will be gone three weeks. Mr Newcombe's father is proprietor of a hotel in Bermuda. He formerly conducted Hillcrest law in Lanesboro. John W Morgan of Great Barrington former treasurer and engineer of the Red Shirts now known as the Hope Fire Company was $3 on Washington's Birthday. He has been proprietor of a news store for 57 years. To get Boston Sunday papers on schedule he used to drive a horse and buggy Pittsfield to fetch the Papers. His son Coe W Morgan was associated with his father for several years in the store. Tommy Butch Potter 17 son of Mr and Mrs Gilford Potter 167 West Housatonic St won the city carom title for the fourth year Friday at the Boys' Club when he beat Jimmy Johnson. The men of the First Congregational Church of Dalton met Wednesday night on the 65th anniversary of the leave taking of the former church which stood on East Street at Otis Avenue until 1889. Miss Ruth Andrews read the sermon given by her father the late Dr George Wakeman Andrews minister of the church at the valedictory service.
Massachusetts newspaper representatives met in Boston to draft a guide limiting crime reporting under the First Amendment while safeguarding fair trials. The session lacked a Constitution copy in the premises. The column also covers quirky notes from readers, a Bowdoin Long letter, and cultural tidbits including aged rice method introduced by the USDA.
A Crosby Aerial letter criticizes Mayor Dillon’s opposition to a translator at Crosby Junior High School arguing the project is legal and beneficial. The piece urges citizen input and references Lenox PTA discussion on private versus public schooling, plus reader comments on youth culture, aging, and poverty in national policy debates.
Washington notes that Lyndon Johnson’s first hundred days have produced energy and momentum, with calls for continuity of Kennedy programs and a strong civil rights push ahead. The piece warns big tests remain in civil rights, Vietnam, and international pressures, while noting Johnson’s hands on approach and elite support.
G A Albert Sauer argues unions dictate foreign policy and mocks State Department lunches under Dean Rusk. He cites Miami Herald columnist Jack Kofoed and Ed Lahey, mocking diplomacy with food lore and vodka jests, asking who truly drives policy while urging focus on cuisine over Cuba or Panama.
A department store scene shows a small boy near an escalator handrail as a clerk asks if something is wrong. The boy replies that he is simply waiting for his chewing gum to return, delivering a light humorous moment from the Locomotive section.
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