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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1969
Page
7
Published every day except Sunday and holidays by the Eagle Publishing Company at Eagle Street, Pittsfield Massachusetts.
Editorial argues state aid must rise to curb rising local property taxes as real estate burdens balloon beyond market value. It notes Massachusetts levy at 14 billion, towns varying rates, and improved assessments yet fairness remains weak. Calls for major state aid despite higher taxes.
A second major antiwar demonstration plans a large turnout as students travel from Cambridge and Boston to Washington and San Francisco, with older figures like Dellinger King Spock Ward joining in. The piece notes rising youth unrest, migration of draft-age Americans to Canada, and a cross-generational push tied to the draft and Vietnam policy.
Edward J Farrell's Parcel 5 Follies appears as a playful piece with a moral at its core. Lon O Nordeen and fellow nature lovers are thanked for clearing debris from the Housatonic River. The Hickory Film Club debuts at Stockbridge School offering cinema classics. Pittsfield officials implement a full time substitute teacher program to ease absences.
Richard L. Cheney of the Glass Containers Manufacturers Institute urges home waste segregation at a National Pollution Control Conference in Houston Texas. He proposes separate containers for glass and metal, paper and combustibles, and garbage to conserve materials and balance ecological needs, even if unpopular with housewives. Denison la Review.
Fifty years ago items note George Everett, 98 Lenox Ave, a 1915 Pittsfield High graduate and UPenn student, teaching salesmanship and advertising in university night classes in Philadelphia, Wilkes Barre and Scranton.
The editor cites October 10 12 1925 as the first snowfall in the Berkshires with five foot drifts in Richmond and three foot drifts on the Williamstown to Pittsfield auto stage at New Ashford. Windstorm spurred sleighing. Berkshire auto club housed nearly 1000 marooned motorists. Girl Scouts stranded at Camp Pierson Richmond Pond were rescued. local memories recall the 1935 blizzard and figures like Edgar J. Scace.
In a Vietnam era critique the piece warns that the Nixon administration echoes the «Who lost China» chorus as it weighs exit from Vietnam. It cites 42,000 American deaths, 250,000 wounded, and a public eager to leave, while fearing national humiliation and political strife amid a large antiwar mobilization. It notes McCarthy era parallels, the Nov 13 15 Moratorium, and calls for law and order against demonstrators.
A trio of readers debate Pittsfield traffic and park area changes. One argues car dominance would dominate society, mocking pedestrian rights. another proposes practical traffic measures, including lighting synchrony and curb adaptations. a third cautions against highway projects cutting trees and devaluing homes, urging preservation.
A young man on a Cambridge Massachusetts bus, moved by a moment of courtesy, stood to give his seat to a woman. He grinned and admitted he acted after seeing it in a movie, remarking to the crowd that he saw it once in the movies.
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