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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1964
Page
17
The Hoosac Lake Taxpayers Association adds two members and schedules an April 8 buffet supper at the County Squire with reservations due by March 28 via Cheshire North Adams or Pittsfield contacts. An executive committee meeting is set for March 18 at an announced location.
Arthur Tinney, Lions Club candidate for governor of district 33, pursues an active campaign. Last week he and his manager visited Springfield, Westfield and Easthampton. this week they visit Longmeadow, Greenfield Tuesday, Dalton charter night Wednesday, and Southwick Thursday. Election set for May.
Cheshire Baptists and Methodists unite for a midweek Lenten service at 7 30 pm in the Methodist Church with Rev Chandler M Holmes of the First Baptist preaching on Jesus Christ as Protector. Deacons and deaconesses gather Tuesday at 8 pm at the Phelps home Furnace Hill. The George E Sayles Women's Relief Corps will present an American flag to the Cheshire First Baptist Church at the Women's League meeting tonight for outdoor flagpole use. Weekly menu notes list meals for Tuesday through Friday including sausage patties turkey and hamburg dishes.
Cheshire Troop 34 spent Sunday at Adams Troop 56 camp near Windsor Lake with activities from bogganing to snowshoe racing. After a spaghetti dinner the Cheshire group won eight of forty winders sports contests. Adams campers had been there since Thursday.
Gateway Regional High School hosts an interclass basketball event with juniors led by Ed Lagoy and sophomores led by Robert Baillargeon facing seniors and freshmen in the first day of competition. Winners meet at 3 20 p m Wednesday to decide the class champion before a 7 30 p m Friday final against the faculty.
About 35 Gateway Regional High School students will ride a bus to the Kirby Theater tonight to see Shakespeare's Twelfth Night performed by the Masquers of Amherst College. They will depart the school at 6 45 accompanied by English department members Miss Dorothy McQueston and Mrs Marion Niskanen.
Middlefield 4-H Tomorrow The Busy Beavers Working 4-H Club members will meet at Mrs. Ralph Bell and Mrs. Robert Doane as the leaders. Ladies' Aid Wednesday The March meeting of the Middlefield Ladies' Aid Society will be Wednesday evening with Mrs. PLY. Rathnam as hostess, at the parsonage. Members are to bring articles for a silent auction. The Middlefield Arts and Crafts Club met Friday with Miss Nancy J. Olds, the leader, Members made horses, dogs and Indians of plaster of Paris and painted them. Next meeting of the club will be March 13. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Andersen had with them for the week end their daughter, Miss Ellen Andersen, a student at Middlebury College, VT. Mrs. Alton M. Sternagle spent the weekend in Boston where she visited her daughter, Miss Marian D. Sternagle, a senior at the Massachusetts College of Art.
Boxing results from Mexico and Jamaica show Raul Rodriguez of Mexico outpointing Kid Anahuac. In Guadalajara Panama's Julio Ruiz knocked out Alfredo Sanchez of Mexico. Kingston Jamaica saw Bun Iny Grant defeat Kid Banga on points.
Becket voters at the annual town meeting with 75 of 451 registered attendees approved a 1964 budget of 233,903.27, up 14,580.27 from last year. Highlights include school funding, Wahconah High School share, cemetery supervision, street lights, and a plan to establish a stabilization fund. The meeting also authorized a bylaw committee approval process and created annual Recreation Committee appointments.
Negro comedian Dick Gregory and more than 70 civil rights demonstrators were arrested in San Francisco after defying a court order restricting picketing outside the Sheraton Palace Hotel. They carried signs demanding freedom and condemning discriminatory hiring. A police spokesman said they faced criminal contempt charges. one picket was to be charged with resisting arrest.
Becket voters chose Albert R. Palmer to a three year term on the Board of Selectmen. In other races John F. Anderson won a three year seat on the Assessors, Mary Z. Trudeau became tax collector, and Charles D. Rice with Joseph W. Pelletier were elected constables. Palmer defeated Peter L. Trudeau 161 to 131. Anderson beat John C. Boomsma 161 to 123. Trudeau topped Dorothy L. Webb 151 to 137. Rice led with 235 votes, Pelletier 126, Arthur B. Rice 109, and Edward Murray 70. A total of 295 votes were cast out of 451 registered voters, with Paul F. Marsh and Kenneth A. Damon winning School Committee seats without opposition. Damon succeeds Harold Elovitta. For Finance Committee three years, Thomas V. Murray beat Christopher C. Roche 238 to 198. Roche succeeds T. F. Robinson who did not seek re election. For Finance Committee two years John R. Barisch won 219 votes. Incumbents elected without opposition included Board of Health one year Joseph W. Pelletier 228, cemetery commissioner three years Franklin F. Robinson 270, auditor three years Eva A. Crochiere 257, Board of Health three years George G. Breit 245, Board of Public Welfare three years Albert R. Palmer 239, tree warden Edward Murray 245.
Hill Rise scores a six length victory in the Santa Anita Derby at Arcadia in a field headlined by top thoroughbreds. The $132,400 race underscored a strong performance by the winner as rivals trailed.
Montreal leads the standings with 17 11 77 188 146. Chicago 34 19 41 277 193 146, Toronto 27 23 10 64 157 149, Detroit 24 26 11 59 154 174, New York 20 22 9 49 168 27, Boston 16 36 10 42 146 184. Weekend results: Montreal 4 New York 0, Toronto 4 Chicago 1, Boston 2 Detroit 1. Sunday Chicago 4 Montreal 3, Boston 5 Toronto 3, Detroit 2 New York 2 (tie). Tuesday Toronto at Detroit.
The Cum mington selectmen elect Stanley Cowell as chairman and Francis Wells as chairman of the Board of Public Welfare, with a full slate of appointments including town secretary Helen Wells, police chief Arthur Garceau, police officers Robert Pratt and Alvah Emerson, and several other town posts. Thomas Caldwell listed as patient at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.
AMARILLO TEXAS AP Two former associates of promoter Billie Sol Estes began serving prison terms after a two year fight to stay free. Coleman McSpadden 47 of Lubbock Jane Ruel W Alexander 38 of Amarillo pleaded guilty to mail fraud tied to mortgages on fake fertilizer leaks. Orr 33 of Amarillo received 10 years but died from carbon monoxide poisoning in a closed garage. Estes remains free pending appeals on 23 year federal and state terms.
Lee High will sell about 700 tickets for the Lee Pittsfield basketball game Tuesday. Students may buy at 8:15 a.m., adults can buy remaining tickets noon to 1 p.m., and season ticket holders can pick theirs up at the school office. The game is set for Tuesday night at the Boys Club gym in Pittsfield.
The Lee selectmen name Rev. Warren A. Turner to represent them before the state Public Access Board regarding a public access and boat ramp project at Laurel Lake. State Public Works Commissioner Francis W. Sargent outlined plans for the project on February 19.
Edward Herlihy Jr. of Lee was found guilty in District Court Saturday on a morals charge and fined $200. John S. Hughes Jr. of South Hadley and Joseph H. Weniger of Milwaukee were found guilty of speeding and paid $206 in fines.
Lee Bowling Sunrise Tenpin High earns single scores for Basinait 203 Withers 200 Blace 438. High totals Basinait 1508 Vininetti 470 Withers 439. Women Candlepin High singles Sandra Lyng 126 Buffoni 116 LHeureux 114. High totals Butt solo 320 Ruth Tacy 304 Linda Jo Ludlow 302. Yankees lead second round 40 4 Angels 29 13 Red Sox 26 18. Mixed Candlepin High singles Ann Finnegan 116 Bona 130 Tom Smith . High totals Bau mann 304 Bona 337 Griffen 335. High singles Peter Matterella 167 Coro 144 Comalli 135. High totals Caco 370 Mottarella Panetti 360 Consolati 349.
New Haven AP reports Yale football upset Columbia 19-7 the same day Kingman Brewster Jr. was named Yale president. Yale had earlier defeated Connecticut 3-0 and lost to Brown 12-7, with sports writers noting strong play under Brewster administration.
Yale engineers a 20-6 football win over Harvard marking the first victory over the Crimson since Yale freshmen era. Fourteen Eli seniors bid farewell with revenge as Harvard suffers 18 graduations scheduled in June.
New York, UPI reports Theo dore C. Sorensen, a former adviser to John F. Kennedy, has signed a contract with Harper & Row for a book covering his year with the late President. Sorensen joined Kennedy in 1953 as legislative assistant to the senator. Look magazine and Cowles syndicates will handle serial and magazine rights.
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