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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1965
Page
22
The Berkavine Eagle is issued daily excluding Sundays and holidays by Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Eagle Street in Pittsfeld Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts House approved the Willis Commission's education reform bill and set the stage for broad changes. It would abolish the state Board of Education, create a seven or more member board, establish a new higher education board, and form an advisory council to enforce uniform standards statewide. Governor Volpe and House Speaker Davoren are praised for steering the bill, with Berkshire lawmakers solidly backing it and Pittsfield's Wojtkowski staving off divisions over handicapped divisions. The measure proceeds to the Senate in near its original form, signaling a major step toward improved public schooling in Massachusetts.
Franklin L. Orth of the National Rifle Association admits errors in letters opposing the mail order gun bill. Senator Thomas J. Dodd cites misrepresentations as opponents distort the measure that would curb mail order firearms and restrict handgun sales to buyers within their state of purchase. The bill would still allow qualified citizens to buy sporting guns and carry them for lawful purposes across state lines.
The Schweitzer division selects Lee as the site for a new paper mill, marking a second Lee mill in seven years and reflecting the town’s labor peace and cooperative stance. The Lenox School Committee awarded three-year contracts to a distant low bidder, sparking taxpayer concern, while calls surface to reexamine Licensing Board appointment rules for council members.
The New York Times laments boxing’s brutality and postpones praise for Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston. It notes their peaceful bout as a sign of the sport’s decline and questions boxing’s future after a crowd’s damage. The piece argues the sport is unsustainable if brutality remains central.
Looking Back 38 Years Ago the Berkshire Photographic Society held its second annual dinner and display at the Hotel Wendell with Rupert Bridge winning most prizes. Braod notes include lobster prices at 23 cents a pound, a dune bride set for May 31, and local youths winning marble and air race distinctions. A bird census reported 132 species across Berksh ire in Hoffmann Bird Club’s century run with five teams totaling 17 participants.
A Yankee Magazine piece recounts the Battle of the Berkshires era split of Tyringham, the Konkapotters moving meeting sites, and the 1847 Monterey name adoption after the Mexican War. The tale ends with the Monterey Tyringham peace, plus quirky notes on golf injuries, cashing paychecks, and oddities like sea slugs and a sunburned porpoise.
Readers criticize the Clay Liston bout as a setup that harmed the public and call for boxing regulation. The letters praise Roger O Gara and Suffolk DA Garrett Byrne while questioning Mrs Robie and Atty Gen Brooke and urging political action.
A reader letters page discusses The Eagle newspaper and Bob Smith with nostalgia for McCarthy era defenses of free speech. The writer argues Smith pressed unpopular opinions, notes economic critique and labor issues, and recalls local impact in Lenox Becket and Springfield.
In a Washington column, Frank Conniff suggests campus antiwar protests shifted from civil rights to international peace as a fashion, possibly guided by hidden Typhoid Marys. He argues Communist needs drive the antiimperialist push while civil rights focus wanes and urges scrutiny of alleged infiltrators among the New Left.
The Wall Street Journal recounts a joke where a doctor tells a new father he has a girl instead of a boy after birth. The father replies that a girl was his second choice, highlighting lighthearted gender mixups in a medical setting.
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