Two More Liquor Licenses To Be Issued By Board
Pittsfield Licensing Board announced two new licenses including a package store and a restaurant license. The package store license carries a $1,500 annual fee, up 25 percent, while the restaurant license rises to $1,100 and beer wine fees go to $700. Applications open for two weeks, deadline noon March 27, with details at City Hall Annex. The move aims to boost city revenue and potential amendments to state law.
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Pittsfield
Licensing Board
City Hall Annex
School St
Harry J. Burns
Harold W. Ruel
Francis N. Callahan
Ruel
Conte Boland Vote Against Pay Increases
Western Massachusetts lawmakers Congressman Silvio Conte and Edward Boland opposed a 10 000 annual pay raise for 1.7 million federal workers including Congress members The pair were the only Massachusetts legislators to vote against the measure Conte urged an outside study group and noted lack of evidence for the need or size of the raise The vote was 222 to 184 with about 85 Democrats defecting from party leadership.
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Massachusetts
Congress
Silvio O. Conte
Pittsfield
Edward P. Boland
Springfield
Rep. Conte
Holyoke
Committee On Civil Service
Conte
Truman
Eisenhower
AFL and
CIO
Births in Pittsfield General Hospital Reported
Mr and Mrs Robert P Kelly Dalton welcome a son yesterday. Mr and Mrs Stephen J Stocktey 52 Danforth Ave report a daughter yesterday. Mr and Mrs Robert P Dup Fay 47 Prospect St announce a daughter yesterday.
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Pittsfield
Robert P. Kelly
Dalton
Stephen J. Stocktey
Danforth Ave
Robert P. Dup- Fay
Prospect St
Student's Pen Wins Top Award For 23rd Time
Pittsfield High School magazine Student's Pen earns first place in the Printed general magazine class for senior high schools of 2,500+ in the 40th annual contest by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. It marks 23rd top award. editor Kathie Shelton leads four annual issues with November December published last fall and March June slated. The Scribe of St Joseph's High North Adams also wins a first for 500-750 pupils.
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Pittsfield High School
Fle Student's Pen
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Kathie Shelton
St. Joseph's High
North Adams
the Scribe
Pomona Grange Opposes Mount Greylock Tramway plan
Dalton Berkshire North Pomona Grange voted to oppose the Mount Greylock Tramway proposal including ski development on the state's highest peak. Deputy Howard Van Horn of Williamstown spoke, and was instructed to write the Tramway Authority voicing the Pomona's opposition at the Flintstone Grange meeting.
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Dalton
Berkshire
North
Pomona Grange
Mount Greylock
Grange
Howard van Horn
Williamstown
van Horn
Tramway
Pomona
Flintstone Grange
Mayor Cites Pay Raise Veto Reasons
Mayor Dillon sent letters to the City Council Friday explaining his veto of three ordinances that would raise pay for city employees. The council had approved three-step raises for police and fire and two-step boosts for other departments except School and Welfare. Dillon favors a two-step across the board for all employees now, arguing incentives should wait for the salary committee report.
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Dillon
Tthe City Council
Council
Dillion
Callahan Heads Campaign for Kit Fanning
Thomas J. Callahan of Dalton, Berkshire County Democratic Committee chairman, will be campaign chairman for the re election of Mrs Katherine E Fanning of Pittsfield to the Democratic State Committee. Fanning seeks a fifth term against Dorothy Crane in the Presidential Primaries on April 28.
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Thomas J. Callahan
Dalton
Berkshire County Democratic Committee
Katherine E. Fanning
Pittsfield
Democratic State Committee
Fanning
Dorothy Crane
Atty
George Crane
Ceylon Missionary Couple To Visit County Churches
A missionary couple from Ceylon, the Rev. and Mrs. Kingsbury Jeyasingham, will visit Berkshire County churches from tomorrow through Easter. They will tour the area, visit Haystack Monument in Williamstown, and speak at multiple Congregational churches as part of a six month tour. Their schedule includes services in Lee, North Adams, Pittsfield, Sheffield, Lenox, Hinsdale, Stockbridge, and other engagements before traveling to Albany and New York City on completion.
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Ceylon
United States
Berkshire
Kingsbury
Jeyasingham
Congregational Churches
Berkshire Association of Congregational Christian Churches
United Church of Christ
Haystack Monument
Williamstown
The
Berkshires
Pearing
Asia
Jaffna College
United Theological College
Bangalore
India
London University
Joyns
Inghams
Lalitha
Albany
N.Y
Ralph Johnson
Depot St
Dalton
Berkshire County
First Congregational Church of
Lee
North Adams
Pilgrim Memorial Church
Pittsfield
Congregational Church of
Sheffield
Lenox
Woodman Beaujean Promoted to State Forest Fire Warden
Kenton Andre Beaujean of South Lee has been named chief forest fire warden for the Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources, moving from Berkshire County service forester. The 6 foot 2 inch, 185 pound heir of a tree‑working family will oversee the fire wardens across 14 counties with regional coordination to protect timber and forests.
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Kenton Andre Beaujean
South Lee
Beaujean
Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources
Berkshire County
France
Albert Beaujean
Hurlbut Paper Co
Hurlbut
Lee High School
Air Force
University of Massachusetts
Champion International Pulp and Paper Co
Lawrence
Concord
N.H
Champion
October Mountain State Forest
Lee
Pittsfield
Pittsfield State Forest
Berkshires
Department of Natural Resources
Ashburton Place
Boston
Willow Street
Camp Sumner Day Camp Reunion Set
Robert C. Thompson announces a Camp Sumner Day Camp reunion next Saturday open to past campers and interested people. Alyah W. Sanborn will speak on wildlife with live exhibits. dinner begins at 6 4. Camp registrar Edith Dewey will take reservations for summer sessions. Door prizes will be awarded.
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Robert C. Thompson
YMCA
Camp Sumner
Alyah W. Sanborn
Pleasant Valley Sanctuary
Lenox
Burton Wright
Edith Dewey
Pittsfield Teachers Rebuke Quinn Over Kindergarten Remarks
The Pittsfield Federation of Teachers condemned School Committee Chairman John J. Quinn for remarks about kindergarten teachers' marital status, saying the implications suggested discrimination. Federation secretary Donald F. Morelli released the statement stressing that discrimination based on sex, race, or religion harms pay and should not affect kindergarten hiring or compensation decisions. The complaint centers on Quinn’s Thursday Eagle quote noting 19 of 26 kindergarten teachers are married.
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Pittsfield Federation of Teachers
John J. Quinn
Donald F. Morelli
Federation
Quinn
Eagle
City Council Nears End of Budget Sessions
The City Council finished budget interviews with major department heads and will meet next Friday for a session on the $5,450,000 school budget. The council also preliminarily approved a $39,639 budget for the parking meter account by City Treasurer John J. Fitzgerald, with Health Commissioner Harald Stein, Donald E. Farr, and Public Commissioner John F. Daniels among those questioned in the Springside House three hour session.
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John J. Fitzgerald
Springside House
Harald Stein
Donald E. Farr
John F. Daniels
Mayor names committee on pond fish in Pittsfield
Mayor Dillon selects William J. Hickey Rocco Scullary and Leon Goodermore for the city fish pond committee. The group oversees a 500 dollar annual appropriation to stock trout in area lakes and ponds.
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Dillon
William J. Hickey
Rocco Scullary
Leon S. Goodermore
Pittsfield
Hickey
WBEC
Berkshire
Izaak Walton League of America
Scullary
Lakewood Sportsmen's Club
Goodermore
Pittsfield Sportsmen’s Club
Andrew J. Miller
James H. Frank
Samuel S. Simonetta
Nurses' Unionization Bill To Be Aired by VNA Board
The Pittsfield Visiting Nurses Association board will discuss a proposed nurses unionization bill at its monthly meeting. The bill, filed by Sen James Henni e Ban Jr and Rep Martin Walsh, has bipartisan support and a no strike clause. Local legislators back the measure while hospitals oppose. Also on the agenda is a report on nursing student orientation at Pittsfield hospitals and home visits by eight St Luke's student nurses assisting post partum patients.
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Pittsfield
Visiting Nurses’ Association
James W. Hennie Ban Jr
Boston
Martin Walsh
Gardner
Committee On Labor and Industries
House
Ways and Means
Bhe
Massachusetts Registered Nurses’ Association
Wallace B. Crawford
Crawford
Hillcrest Hospital
Berkshire
George J. Phillips
VNA
Association
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mary E. Gauthier
Cole Ave
Susan B. Carlton
North
State CD Head To Address Kiwanis Club
Daniel J. Finn of Boston, director of Massachusetts Civil Defense, will address the Pittsfield Kiwanis Club at its weekly luncheon meeting Wednesday March 25 at the Wendell-Sherwood Hotel. George M. Tagliente will introduce him. Finn, sworn Civil Defense director February 7 1963 by Governor Peabody, is a Boston University trustee and a lieutenant colonel in the 94th Army Reserve Division.
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Daniel J. Finn
Boston
Massachusetts Civil Defense
Pittsfield Kiwanis Club
Wendell-Sherwood
Finn
George M. Tagliente
Berkshire County
Peabody
Massachusetts
Boston University
94Th Army Reserve Division
Mrs. Mary Renzi Named Democratic of the Year
Berkshire Young Democrats select Mrs. Mary Renzi of Pittsfield as Democratic of the Year for 31 years of party service. Sheriff Courtney urges strong county organization. Dinner April 25 at Highland Restaurant features Maurice Donahue as speaker and honors Renzi with 45 members voting.
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Berkshire Young Democratic Club
Mary Renzi
Pittsfield
Senate
Maurice A. Donahue
Holy‘oke
Renzi
Democratic Party
Party
Narcisso Barnini
Lakewood
Ward 3
Democratic
Courtney
Earle Fractures Leg In Sand Lake Two-Car Crash
Roger T. Earle 45 musician of 111 Bartlett Ave suffered a fractured left leg and knee and forearm lacerations in a Thursday two-car crash in Sand Lake New York. Albany Medical Center lists his condition as fair. Angelo Patti of Sand Lake veered into Earle. Patti and his passenger were also injured. Significant property damage reported.
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Roger T. Earle
Bartlett Ave
Sand Lake
N.Y
Albany Medical Center
New York
East Greenbush Barracks
Angelo Patti
Earle
Patti
Liquor License Transfer Approved for Buccaneer Restaurant
A City Hall Licensing Board approved transferring an all alcohol seasonal license from Shire City Cafe on Columbus Avenue to Buccaneer Restaurant at 26 Cheshire Road. The permit becomes effective upon ABC approval. Attorneys represented both establishments and Robert D. Powers is listed as Buccaneer manager. Shire City now operates as Woodrow Witter Restaurant with an all year license transferred earlier.
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City Hall Annex
Shire City
Columbus Avenue
Buccaneer
Cheshire Road
State
Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission
Ronald Oliveira
John Martin
Robert D. Powers
Woodrow Witter
Golden Tap
Mr. Witter
Mohonasen Band and Choir Visit Pittsfield and North Jr High
A 100 pupil band and choir from Mohonasen Central School of Schenectady NY performed at assemblies at North Junior High School and Pittsfield High School. Choral director Emil Kalled and band director Don Paulsen led the groups. They featured Handel Messiah and selections from West Side Story. Lunch was served at North Jr High. The visit was arranged by David G. Bournazian, Pittsfield High and North music teacher.
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Mohonasen Central School
Schenectady
North Junior High School
Pittsfield High School
Emil Kalled
Don Paulsen
North Jr. High
David G. Bournazian
Pittsfield High
Monday Only Creme permanent at Mayfair Beauty
An advertisement announces a Monday only Creme permanent service offering five complete treatments at Mayfair Beauty with contact dial 443-6273. It presents a brief local promo in a vintage newspaper style.
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Mayfair Beauty
Dial
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Boland
N. Pomona Grange
Callahan
Mrs
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Berkshire Hilltown
Mr. Beaujean
Federation of Teachers
VNA Board
Kiwanis Club
Maripac
Ann's Lobster Pool & Fish Market
Wahconah Street
Bob Sullivan
Secum Brook Club
Lanesboro
St. Patrick's Day
Berkshire Restaurant
Berkshire Roofing & Insulation Co
South St
Adv. Ag
Millie
Maplewood Avenue
E. H. Roberts
Great Barrington
Benny
Sheriff
Ady
PHS
NJH
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