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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1969
Page
9
Daily newspaper issued by Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts with no Sunday or holiday editions.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the registrar can revoke licenses in emergencies but requires a Registry hearing before any nonemergency suspension. The ruling targets bureaucratic overreach tied to political influence, declaring government must be governed by law not by officials or legislators.
The Rev Richard Riley fondly bid farewell at Notre Dame and Holy Rosary transfers, with a $550 gold gift. Shire City Club celebrates in new eight room Renne Building quarters on Fenn Street, Harold J Leonard toastmaster, E C Ferrrett chair updates club rules. Local graduates and scholars noted with awards and degrees, including Lenox High School valedictorian Annemarie Cowhig and salutatorian Faith Pelton, Miss Winifred Williams set for Russell Sage College graduation, and eleven GE employees earning UMass BS in engineering in June.
The piece notes Columbia considering an underground gym and high rises on campus amid urban pressures, drawing parallels with Harvard housing plans and Pittsfield zoning debates. It critiques attitudes toward the poor and questions future campus development while invoking Michael Harrington’s concept of the invisible poor.
In Brief the Pittsfield Capital Outlay Committee presents a concise 1969 plan centering fiscal wisdom in municipal budgeting. It includes the library and self liquidating projects and sets a 11 cent library tax rate for 1969 with a 52 cent 1970 estimate, while noting the city tax rate likely won’t rise more than 5 dollars.
Fifteen manufacturers were convicted of fixing plumbing fixture prices. Three companies plan to appeal. two may clear. Twelve defendants pleaded no contest. Home buyers likely bore higher prices, and the industry could face many dama ge suits. The case erodes public confidence and underscores the need for vigilant antitrust enforcement and fair business conduct.
A column discusses how media mislabels youths as ages 30 to 33 amid campus disturbances and notes, with verse on youth, while a birthday party for Mary Terrell highlights her 93 years of travel work since 1929. Also includes reflections on inflation and social security’s first 1937 payment.
A former Williams student recounts an 1960s campus debate sparked by the Afro-American Society takeover of Hopkins Hall. He discusses student views, media coverage, nonviolent tactics, campus culture, and his revised opinion of Preston Washington while urging alumni to engage directly for insight.
Readers dispute Dalton Eagle coverage of a May 6 park gathering. Michael Pierce of Pittsfield accuses the paper of exaggeration and police misrepresentation, while Grace G. Green questions library funding delays and policy stances. George Kirk of Amherst critiques U.S. troop withdrawal proposals in Vietnam.
Washington analysis argues that punitive measures against student protests will worsen higher education strife. It highlights Stanford, Chicago, Colorado, and Duke actions, warns against federal overreach, and notes rising state bills curbing assembly and privacy rights amid campus turmoil.
A humor line from the Tri-City Herald of Washington jokes that alimony is a system where when two people make a mistake one keeps paying for it. The quip targets the financial fallout of failed marriages with blunt wit.
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