Mayor Studies Five Thousand Dollar Orchard Street Offer
Mayor Dillon considers a $5,000 bid from Stanley M. Shapiro for the Orchard Street lot behind an A&P, to fund a new store and transfer part of the land back for Mercer School playground use. Shapiro would demolish the stockroom site, transfer land back, build the store, and lease to A&P.
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Dillon
Stanley M. Shapiro
Orchard Street
A&p
Berkshire
Peck’s Road
Donald E. Farr
Shapiro
City Council
Public Buildings Committee
Orchard Street &Choos
Mercer School
Russell School
Arlos Attacks Rice Over Shadow Government Claim
Peter G. Arlos, head of the Democratic City Committee, labeled Councilman John H. Rice double talking at a Rotary luncheon. He criticized Rice for warning that democratic government is too fragile to entrust to politicians and for proposing a shadow government to rival an alleged existing one. He warned replacing one shadow with another would perpetuate corruption and urged returning party government to Pittsfield.
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Peter G. Arlos
Democratic City Committee
John H. Rice
Rotarians
Arles
Rice
Rotary Club
Pittsfield
Beagle Club Forms Junior Membership
The Berkshire Beagle Club announces a junior membership for school attending youths interested in handling and training beagles. Dogs need not be owned by applicants, but entries must be registered or eligible for registration. Contact Anthony Menin at 64 Taylor St for details.
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Berkshire Beagle Club
Anthony Menin
Taylor St
Bernard M. Collins
Robert U Johnson Honored at City Hall Party
City officials held a small party for departing Administrative Services Director Robert A Johnson who has served six years. He received a gift from associates as William H Kennedy is set to become Personnel director Monday.
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City Hall
Robert A. Johnson
Johnson
William H. Kennedy
Tickets On Sale Tomorrow For PHS Game With St John's
Pittsfield High announces adult tickets go on sale in the lobby of Springfield College field house from 10 to 10 30 tomorrow morning for the Western Massachusetts basketball tournament. Pittsfield High will face defending champion St. John's High of Shrewsbury in the first game at 7 30.
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Massachusetts
Springfield College
Pittsfield High
St. John's High of
Shrewsbury
State Guard Veterans Convention Planned in Springfield
The Massachusetts State Guard Veterans Inc and auxiliary will hold their annual convention at the Wendell Sherwood Hotel from Friday April 24 to Sunday April 26 with about 250 delegates. Howard B Plouf chairs the committee with cochair Gerry Lefevre and other members from Worcester West Springfield Springfield Cochituate Newton Highlands and more.
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Wendell- Sherwood Hotel
Howard B. Plouf
Springfield
Gerry Lefevre
Newton Highlands
Cochairman
Peter Savage
Worcester
Jessie Dudley
West Springfield
Laura Plouf
Alfred Johnson
Cochituate
Edmund Lefevre
Robert B. Dilson
Pittsfield
St. Joseph's Church
8Th Air Force Band
Westover Air Force Base
Ice Carnival Audience to Skate After Show
The West Springfield Ice Carnival at the Boys' Club rink features solos pairs and dances with a post show general skating session for all attendees. Skaters are invited to bring their own skates and join the Little Sun Valley Figure Skating Club. a small admission covers the after show skating.
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Boys’ Club
Little Sun Valley Figure Skating Club
John J. Loughlin
West Springfield
Loughlin
Rehabilitation Center Grants Fifty Five Thousand Dollars
Berksh ire Rehabilitation Center at Pittsfield General Hospital received a federal grant of 55 000 from the Department of Health Education and Welfare division of chronic diseases. Donald W. Curtis said the grant funds a program to develop staff and facilities and coordinate agencies handling chronic illness to reduce duplications. Dr. Vincent T. Barnaba is the center’s medical director and services are open to Berkshire County residents of all ages.
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Silvio 0. Conte
Berkshire Rehabilitation Center
Pittsfield General Hospital
Division of
Federal
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Donald W. Curtis
Vincent T. Barnaba
Berkshire County
Curtis
City Government Authority To Speak Here Monday Night
National Municipal League chairman Richard Childs will address a public meeting at the Girls Club auditorium Monday evening. Brought by the Pittsfield Good Government Association, the talk will cover partisan versus nonpartisan charters for cities. Childs helped launch the short ballot and city manager plans, shaping modern municipal reform and legislative apportionment debates.
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Girls Club
Richard §. Childs
National Municipal League
Pittsfield Good Government Association
Mr. Childs
Yale
Woodrow Wilson
Supreme Court
Childs
City Officials To Discuss Roily Water
Morgan Street residents demand action as Public Works Committee weighs a 1000 foot water main extension to connect Morgan and Hungerford streets. After a 14 hour hearing attended by 15 residents the panel backs a $1000 project to fix dirty rusty water harmful for drinking bathing and laundry. Councilman Roy F Brown supports a swift remedy.
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Public Works Committee
Commissioner of Public Works
John F.daniels
Dillon
Morgan Street
Daniels
Hungerford Street
Roy F. Brown
Winter Carnival Profit Seen At About 250 Dollars
Mrs Ida Fosty treasurer of the Winter Sports Committee said the year’s carnival profit is expected to reach about 250 dollars. The final reports were given at the last meeting of the committee at Springside House. Miss Linda Massery, banquet chair, announced Tuesday’s Eastover dinner will feature color slides of the carnival and Olympic games at Innsbruck by Louis Conway.
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Ida Fosty
Sidney Smith Named To Committee Of Savings League
Sidney M. Smith president and treasurer of Pitfield Co operative Bank has been appointed to the 1964 Trends and Economic Policies Committee of the United States Savings and Loan League. The appointment was announced by Eugene E. Mortlock president of Teague. The committee was created to study broad economic and competitive factors affecting savings and loan associations and cooperative banks and make recommendations on policies.
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Sidney M. Smith
Pitfield Co-operative Bank
United States Savings and Loan League
Eugene E. Mortlock
Teague
Smith
Ten Eligible For Police Dept Senior Clerk
Nine women and one man appear on the eligible list for senior clerk and typist in the Pittsfield Police Department per Civil Service. The exam held Sept. 7 covered women and two men. listed are Catherine Mullan Jeanne S Donovan Anna M Benham Anita M Nuciforo Mary G Gallagher Claire J Hess Clarice V Seely Beverly A Coty Mary E Scarra and Thomas J Pratt the sole man.
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Spittsfield
Civil Service
Catherine Mullan
North St
Jeanne S. Donovan
Whittier Ave
Anna M. Benham
Henry Ave
Anita
M. Nuciforo
Dewey Ave
Mary G. Gallagher
Births in Pittsfield Area Highlight New Arrivals
Mr and Mrs Werner Wohrle Cheshire welcomed a daughter yesterday. Mr and Mrs Arthur J Niarchos 79 Harvard Street welcomed a daughter this morning. Mr and Mrs Albert C Grunow of Bridgeport Conn welcomed a son, Craig Stephen, this morning at Bridgeport Hospital. Mrs Grunow is Deanne Derby daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Derby of Lanesboro. Paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Otto Grunow of 12 Gale Ave.
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Albert C. Grunow
Bridgeport, Conn
Craig Stephen
Bridgeport Hospital
Grunow
Deanne Derby
Howard Derby
Lanesboro
Otto Grunow
Gale Ave
Local Ads Roundup Hits Linden and Tyler Streets
Open Saturday 9 to 5 at Muntz TV 17 Linden St. featuring Smorgasbord dishes. Jecum Brook Club hosts Bob Sullivan on organ with guests on Friday and Saturday at Vanesboro. Launderaid offers wash while you shop next to Fenaway Cleaners with free pickup. Village House serves cooked spaghetti on Tuesdays and Saturdays with Sunday reservations. Berkshire Roofing offers roof inspection. Jung's Glass advertises auto glass service and Windshield AS-1 installed.
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Bob Sullivan
Jecum Brook Club
Vanesboro
Tyler St
Fenaway
Cleaners
Dial
Collapse Hospitalizes Two After Poultry House Falls
In Hillsdale New York a six story Pine Lane Poultry Farm house collapsed while two men gathered eggs on the third floor. John McCarthy 35 was rescued quickly while John Vachula 37 remained buried for hours. Both men were taken to Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson with McCarthy listed as fair and Vachula as serious. Police suspect a gust of wind caused the collapse of the 50 by 80 foot building. The farm owner John Gellert conducts experimental poultry work tied to the Carmiel Agriculture Department and sells much of its eggs in Pittsfield.
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Hillsdale
Columbia Memorial Hospital
Hudson
Pine Lane Poultry Farm
John McCarty
John Vachula
McCarthy
Vachula
John Gellert
Carmel Agriculture Department
Pittsfield
Three Ski Areas To Operate Tomorrow In Berkshire
Jiminy Peak Petersburg Pass and Dutch Hill plan to operate tomorrow despite heat and rain. Jiminy Peak has bare spots with fair granular skiing, Petersburg Pass shows three bare spots and three feet of snow elsewhere, Dutch Hill reports a 25 to 40 inch base with minor bare spots. Bousquet's is closed today but may open tomorrow.
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Berkshire
Jiminy Peak
Petersburg Pass
Dutch Hill
Thas
John Drummond
John Hitchcock
Bousquet’s
GE Gifts $1000 to Pittsfield Scholarship Foundation
General Electric donated $1000 to the Pittsfield Citizens' Scholarship Foundation to aid high school graduates from Pittsfield and St. Joseph's in pursuing college education. The gift brings GE's total CSF contributions to $10,500, with prior annual gifts the largest CSF has received each year.
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General Electric Co
Pittsfield
Citizens
Laughran S. Waber
CSF
St. Joseph's
Walter
Citizen’s Scholarship Foundation
Focal Csf
William S. Fradkin
James P. Reynakds
Fradkin
General Electric
GE Educational Foundation
Lee Stern Wins 8th Award for DPW Suggestion
H Lee Stern a survey engineer for the state Department of Public Works has received his eighth award for a suggestion to improve efficiency and safety His latest proposal calls for phasing out toxic chalk used for marking highways and survey stakes The Suggestions Board headed by Walter R Baylies notes Stern as the champion of state awardees and cites safety concerns for employees and the public
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H. Lee Stern
Bartlett Ave
State Department of ‘Public Works
Walter R. Baylies
State Suggestions Board
Stern
State Department of Public Works
Partic
Sularly
Fradkin
CSF
Chemical
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Public Works
Reynolds
Plunkett School
School Department
Arlos
Beagle Club
Robert U. Johnson
St. John’s
State Guard
Massachusetts State Guard Veterans, Inc
Auxiliary
Howard B
Piouf
Terest
Bon Ami Co
American Cyanamid Co
Lederle Laboratories, Inc
GGA
Richard S. Childs
Roily Water
Sidney Smith
U.S. Savings League
Police Dept
Werner Wohrle
Cheshire
Harvard St
Correction Muntz TV
Linden St
Adv
Village House
Cheshire Road
Berkshire Roofing & Insulation Co
South St
Volkswagen
Scholarship
Lee Stern
DPW
ART Shaffne
Mark
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Viracle
Hs&M’s
Dacron
Hs&m
Opes
Pat” Broderick
WBEC
Arrow Shirts
Flersheka
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