Carpenters Union to vote on new pact in North Adams
North Adams Local 193 of the Carpenters Union votes Monday on a tentative contract with Northern Berkshire and Southern Vermont contractors after a seven hour negotiation. The meeting at Eagles Hall 7 30 p m will decide whether to approve a wage raise slightly above the prior 2 02 14 hourly increase and end region wide building trades strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carpenters Union Local 193
North Adams
Berkshire
Vermont
Raymond E. Sutton
Gordon & Sutton, Inc
Sutton
The
Eagle
Eagles Hall
Russell Giroux
Laborers International Union Local 473
Pittsfield
Painters Union Meets Saturday in Pittsfield
Painters Local 94 of Pittsfield will meet Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Club on Union Street to vote on a contract offer from the Pittsfield Painting Contractors Association. The present contract pays $4.35 an hour and expires May 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Painters Union Local 94
Pittsfield
Pittsfield Painting Contractors Association
Stephen Bokankowitz
Elks Club
Union Street
Local 94
Mt Greylock panel seeks to cover Williamstown budget cut
Mt Greylock Regional School Committee votes to partly cover a 42000 cut by using 26000 from two sources and asks the town Finance Committee to provide the rest If not approved legal action is possible The panel will tap 1985 funds from 1962 state advance and 11000 in accrued interest on bond money to reach at least 39000 by year end Labor strikes threaten finishing the academic wing by 1969 70 prompting possible double sessions and extra costs The committee believes the February budget was the minimum to run the school and maintain quality education and invites talks with the Finance Committee to resolve the matter
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mt. Greylock
John W. McGowen
David J. Tierney Jr
Aca
Robert J. Oster- Tan
Mount Greylock music awards and salary vote
Williamstown officials approved a 9 percent raise for school administrators with the superintendent at 19200 dollars and other posts ranging to 13100 for an admin assistant and 16700 for a principal. They also awarded a fuel contract to Hayden Oil and Supply, accepted resignations of five teachers and an admin secretary, and appointed five new teachers. The Mt Greylock Regional Music Department will present the first of four annual Friends of School Music awards at tonight's spring concert in the school auditorium, with further awards May 16. Concerts begin at 7.30 p.m. and are open to the public at no charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mt Greylock
Hayden Oil & Supply Co
North Adams
Mt. Greylock
Friends of School Music
Proposed New Buildings To Be Topic
A Central Berkshire Regional School District representative will be at the Washington School Monday at p.m. to explain the bond issue to finance five major buildings and renovations. Towns vote on or about May 27. The Washington PTA holds its last meeting of the year with officer installation led by Mrs. Robert G. Elliot. PTA speaker Miss Ethel Mecum of Becket, former superintendent at Long Lane School in Middletown, Conn., for 14 years. The same school will host a concert at Becker Federated Church Saturday, May 17. Junior and senior high students are invited to attend Monday’s meeting.
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Washington
Central Berkshire
Washington Pta
Robert G. Elliot
PTA
Ethel Mecum
Becket
Long Lane
Middletown
Conn
Stephentown Mrs. Yatsonsky Heads PTA
Stephentown N Y Mrs Paul Yatsonsky was elected president of the elementary school PTA for the 1969 70 year Other officers include Mrs Frank Grant vice president Mrs Richard Conner secretary and Mrs Thomas Wheeler treasurer A bake sale is planned for tomorrow at Sykes Store Donations may be left at the homes of Mrs John Diggs Jr or Mrs Richard Vickery today or at the store by 10 a m tomorrow
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Stephentown
N.Y
Paul Yatsonsky
PTA
Frank Grant
Richard Conner
Thomas Wheeler
Sykes Store
John Diggs Jr
Richard Vickery
Pueblo Crewman James Shepard Assigned to Maine
Pueblo crewman James Shepard of Williamstown is assigned to the U S naval base at Winter Harbor Maine and must report by June 4 He was a communications technician aboard the Pueblo when seized by North Korea and testified before the naval board inquiry in San Diego He and his wife have stayed at his mother Leah Shepards Halli Street home and he says Maine assignment was his first choice.
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Williamstown
Pueblo
James Shepard
U.S. Naval
Winter Harbor
Maine
Shepard
Naval Board of Inquiry
San Diego
Calif
Leah Shepard
Halli Street
Adams Boy 10 Is Hit By Car In North Adams
Adams-Fernett boy Frederick G Fernett Jr, 10, remains in satisfactory condition at W B Plunkett Hospital after being struck by a southbound car on Howland Avenue. Allan D. Noyes, 27, of North Adams, says the boy ran into the road. Police charge Noyes with driving to endanger.
Republican Fund Drive Set for May
Rudolph A. Sacco announces May as an intensive Berkshire Republican fund drive. Proceeds stay local with a smaller share sent to Boston HQ. He also promotes a June 5 statewide $100-a-plate fundraiser at the Statler Hilton in Boston featuring Congressman Rogers C Morton as main speaker, his first major speech since becoming RNC chair April 14. Morton had been Nixon’s floor manager at the Miami convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph A. Sacco
Berkshire County Republican Association
Boston
Sacco
Republican State Committee
Statler-Hilton
Rogers C. B. Morton
Maryland
Republican National Committee
Saeco
Morton
National Republican Organization
Richard M. Nixon
Miami
Brown Chub To Hear Editor Of Alumni Magazine
Robert A Reichley Brown Alumni Monthly managing editor will address Berkshire County Brown Club at the annual meeting and dinner at the Stanley Club. Reichley discusses The Changing Magazine in a Changing University and brings a record of writing awards and editorial leadership at Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Reichley
Brown Alumni Monthly
Berkshire County
Brown Club
Brown
Pembroke College
Stanley Club
Willis B. Buck
Reichley
Atlantic
Culver
Ind
York
Colby Honored By MDS and State Senate
Dr. Tra S. Colby of Pittsfield was honored in Boston by the Massachusetts Dental Society and the state Senate as he stepped down from the MDS presidency. Dr. Walter S. Guralnick of Boston succeeded him. Colby received a citation for work with the legislature amid a welfare sector probe. The Senate resolution, at Sen. Beryl Cohen’s urging, lauded his efforts to ease Medicaid tensions and improve program understanding. Twenty six Berkshire dentists attended the MDS sessions May 5 7 in Boston.
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Fay Fon
State Senate
Bery Cohen
Ira S. Colby
Pittsfield
Boston
Massachusetts Dental Society
MDS
Colby
Walter S. Guralnick
Massachusetts
Committee On Social Welfare
Department of Public Welfare
Calby
Senate
Beryl Cohen
Dbrookline
Ven
West Stockbridge
Bernard Auge
Richard B. Duguay
Dalton
Richard M. Stevens
Great Barrington
Berkshire Teen Dramatic Group Wins $300 Grant
Berkshire Drama Theatre, a teen group formed three months ago, received a 308 grant from the Pittsfield Urban Coalition to stage Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. President William J. Moore, a Pittsfield High junior, reports 120 members and plans to rehearse at First Baptist Church after switching venues from the NEW antipoverty center due to alleged obstruction.
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Berkshire Drama Theatre
Thornton Wilder
Pittsfield
Hope Center
Tyler S1
Moore
New Center
Hope
First Baptist Church
Middlefield Selectmen Pay Tribute and Post Bids
The Middlefield board honors the late Dr. A A Starbuck who led the Planning Board for 20 years and outlines bids for mowing town lawns due Monday as well as selling a 1969 four wheel drive truck. Grange officers meet at 7 30 Monday at the school for degrees and the annual inspection occurs Tuesday with refreshments by Mrs George W Olds Ann Jewett Charles E Cook and Mrs Perley F P Boyer. Planning Board meeting was postponed to June 42.
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Middlefield
Selectmen
A. A. Starbuck
Grange
George W. Olds
Ann Jewett
Charles E. Cook
Perley
Lenox Grange Meeti ng Tuesday at Lenox Center
The Lenox Grange will meet Tuesday at 8 at the Lenox Community Center. A products party will follow at about 9. Refreshments will be served by Mrs John O'Brien and Mr and Mrs Stanley Lane. The public is invited.
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Grange
Lenox Community Center
John O'Brien
Stanley Lane
Lebanon Valley Nassau Group To Hear Lane
Nassau Improvement Association will meet Tuesday May 20 at 8 p.m. at the Brainard fire house. Assemblyman Lawrence Lane of the 100th District will speak and a question period will follow. Topics include conservation bills and planning board input. meeting ends early for July session. Times and attendees reflect local civic calendar.
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Brainard, No
Town of Nassau Improvement Association
Brainard
John O. Kie
Lawrence D. Lane
Kie
Dorothy Linton
Nassau Planning Board
Metropouloses win $24000 land damage award downtown
Metropouloses G and Alice J Metro poulos were awarded 24000 by a Superior Court jury for property on New West Street taken for urban renewal. The verdict nears double the prior 13700 awarded by the Pittsfield Housing Authority in 1968 and is less than Metropoulos value of 45000. The property included the Metro Grill tavern, a house, and a retail store at 257 259 New West St. This was the second land damage case in the current session. A separate suit by Harald Weltman against the PHA, valuing three Deering Street houses at 10000 each, was under way.
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Join G
Alice J. Metropoulos
New West Street
Metropouloses
Pittsfield
Cummington Kingham Tavern Opens May 24
The Historical Commission plans to open Kingman Tavern Historical Museum for the summer season May 24 25 and 26. Volunteers will be welcomed to help clean up and to act as guides on summer Saturdays from 2 to 5 p.m.
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Cummington
the Historical Commission
Kingman Tavern
Hilltown Little League Schedule and playoff dates
Cummington to host May 11 at Ash Field with games through June 15 and playoffs set for June 19 and 22. League teams include Ashfield Chesterfield Goshen Westhampton Williamsburg Worthington with listed coaches. Also notes injuries and hospital stays for local residents.
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Cummington
Hilltown
Floyd Lynds
Ashfield
Worthington
Westhampton
Chesterfield
Williamsburg
Goshen
Ashefield
Harold Whitehouse
Donald MacLeod
Francis O'Donnell
David Bridgeman
Philip Morin
Harley Mason
Widows of World War I leaders attend Boston board meeting
Three members of the Widows of World War I of Pittsfield attended a state board meeting at the Mid-Town Motor Inn in Boston. Present were Mrs. Margaret Brisson, past national president, Mrs. Louise Hannon, state chaplain, and Mrs. Janet Downey, president of Chapter 10, Pittsfield. Mrs. Rita Sheinhouse was named national sergeant at arms for two more years.
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Pittsfield
Mid-Town Motor Inn
Boston
Margaret Brisson
Louise Hannon
Janet Downey
Rita Sheinhouse
PWC Backs Mill Street Discontinuance Amid Board Debate
Pittsfield Public Works Committee votes 4 to 3 to back the discontinuance of a Mill Street section between West Street and the Penn Central tracks. Western Mass Electric plans a new HQ nearby, Berkshire Life a housing complex across the Housatonic, Eaton Paper urging river path changes. City Council must approve. Wealthy Avenue to be accepted as a city street after projects by Kenneth Conway.
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Public Works Committee
Pittsfield Housing Authority
Mill Street
West Street
Penn Central
Berkshire Life Insurance Co
Eaton Paper Co
Western Mass. Electric Co
Western Mass. Electric
Berkshire Life
Housatonic River
Western Mass
Eaton Paper
Company
Berkshire. Life
Raymond E. Crow
Ernest G. St. Peter
Edward D. Sotlle
Roy F. Brown
John H. Rice
James Richmany
Wealthy Avenue
Ao City Street
Kenneth D. Conway
St Peter Urges Merging Two City Posts
Councilman Ernest G. St Peter asks the City Council to consider combining the traffic engineer and city engineer roles. Mayor Butler has urged delaying an appointment as a single candidate shows interest in filling both posts. The idea faces opposition from Traffic Commission chair Dr T Edward Quinn. The traffic engineer post remains vacant after Hugh R McKean left after his 70th birthday. Combined salaries exceed 20000 dollars, with potential savings noted by St Peter.
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Ernest G. St. Peter
Butler
The
Traffic Commission
T. Edward Quinn
Hugh R. McKean
St. Peter
Avon Products Club Sponsors Indian Girl
The President's Club of Avon Products sponsors a 19 year old Navajo girl through the Save the Children Federation. Treasurer Miss Eveliner Santy of 67 Baldwin Ave will provide funds for clothing school supplies banks and spending money for the girl.
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President's Club
Avon Products, Inc
Save the Children Federation
Eveliner. Santy
Baldwin Av
New Teen Age Organization Holds First Meeting Tonight
Four Pittsfield High sophomores form People Who Need People, a teen discussion group for ages early teens to 20. Meeting at 7 tonight in Salvation Army headquarters on Fenn Street, with anonymous questions accepted in writing. Capt. Donald Gross thanks Salvation Army for setup and refreshments offered.
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Salvation Army
Fenn Street
Pittsfield High
Debbie Bartsch
Crane Ave
Gloria Gennari
Grant St
Peggy Amuso
Crown St
Cheryl Ryan
Clark Road
Philmont
N.Y
Bartsch
Salvation Army Center
Old Temple
Gross
Judge Quirico Signs Final Decree In Monterey Case
Judge Francis J. Quirico signed a final decree ending a two year Superior Court dispute with Monterey Planning Board over Harold W. Schwab's subdivision plan near Lake Garfield. The board argued roads and features did not meet town standards and Schwab failed to amend his petition within 10 days. The court had previously upheld a town demurrer, ruling the petition did not establish a case despite factual accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis J. Quirico
Monterey
Schwab
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N.A. Carpenters Union
Carpenters Union Local
Dataheld
General Contractors Association of
Local 444
Bricklayers Union Local 20
Painters Union
Demic
Joyce Meier
Yatsonsky
Sun
New York
New Haven
Spockbridge
Mast
Dial
Adams Boy
Dr. Tra S. Colby
South St
Helen Cook
Dr. Starbuck
Lenox
Ralph Conroy
Tel
Lebanon Valley
Nassau Group
Lane
Homemakers
New Lebanon, N
Frank &. Kohrs
C. M. Frambach Sr
Frambach
C. Edward Keopp
Karl Dieckmann
Little League
Albert A. Phelps
League
Lions Club
Mario’s
Charles Mohrman
David A. Lunde
Athens
Mrs. Sanford
Beach
Lebanon Springs
Florida
Cummington Kingham
Stanley Cowell
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Northampton
Henry Dunham
Charles Marinus
PWC
Blico
Avon Products Club
Laud
Donald Gross
Ahti Tuomainen
Kalava
West Shore Club
Pittsfield Roofing Co
Park St. S
Buckley Construction
Hawthorne St
Blacktop Corp
Quirico
Department OF Public Works
Commissioner of Public Works
City Hall
Gerald 5. Doyle
Missioner of Public Works
Berkshire County Savings Bank
Paysbanks Mos
Donald B. Kuntz
Pittstlein
Aaass
Henry A. Kirchner
Crystal Stu Lenox Dale, Mass
Jantzen
Clarice Corset Shop
North St. Dial
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