Town Employes Pay Hike Disagreement Among Officials
In Dalton a recommendation for a 6 percent town employes pay hike may rise to 9 percent after a Finance Committee and Selectmen meeting. The Police Department faces a 9 percent rise, while others seek equity. A plan to rescind the 9 percent motion and reconvene a wage subcommittee was approved unanimously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Chapman
Selectmen
Bartels
Christopher Mr. Crane
Francis J. Morrison
Robert G. Bartlett
Finance Committee
Morrison
Robert A. Johnson
Local Weekly Expands to Eight Columns in Dalton
James S. Haskins, new owner of the Dalton News Record, expands the weekly to an eight column format from its tabloid roots started in March 1961 by Wadsworth R. Pierce. The paper, once printed in Litchfield Connecticut, now uses the Berkshire Courier offset plant in Great Barrington and published 2300 copies yesterday with an estimated circulation of 1800. The first full size edition boosts advertising income by publishing the entire Dalton Traffic Code. A Mobil Oil Corp sign relocation variance hearing is set tonight at 7:30 in Dalton Town Hall. Boy Scout Troop 222 plans a town canvass and candy sale Monday, Thirty scouts will participate. Airman Robert A. Bender, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Bender of Dalton, serves with Attack Squadron 75 aboard USS Saratoga in the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
James S. Haskins
Dailton News Record
Haskins
Reserve Fund
Robert A. Bender
USN
Edwin R. Bender
South St. Dalton
Saratoga
Mediterranean
Miss Finnerty attends Kennedy funeral in Hyannis Port
Miss Madeline Finnerty daughter of Mr and Mrs John J Finnerty of Goodrich Street attended the funeral of Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy at Hyannis Port yesterday. A student at Newton College of the Sacred Heart she is a member of the college glee club which sang at the funeral.
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Madeline Finnerty
John J. Finnerty
Goodrich Street
Joseph P. Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Newton College of the Sacred Heart
College Glee Club
Cable TV firm faces Dalton complaints at public hearing
About 25 Dalton Pittsfield residents criticized the Pittsfield Dalton TV Cable at a town hall meeting chaired by Selectmen Chairman John W. Bartels. Derek White and Atty James Sculary led company representatives who reported a new full time maintenance tech and limited evening service calls while promising progress reports after January 1. They cited aging equipment but noted recent line expansions and work on addressing channel interference and reception problems caused by air signals before the Dalton Richmond antenna.
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Dalton
Pittsfield-Dalton TV Cable
Town Hall
Selectmen
John W. Bartels
TV Cable
Derek White
Atty
James J. Scullary
John Gauchione
White
Scullary
Boston
Federal Communications Commission
Pittsfield-Dalton
Richmond
New York
Borothy Chapman Dalton
Dinsfield-Dalton Calle TV
Berkshire County Sewer Planning Funds Denied
Berkshire County Regional Planning Commission denied requests from Williams town and North Adams for financial aid to continue sewer planning. The panel urged awaiting a draft of the county master plan for sewers and water supply due in three weeks, citing confusing local planning issues and consultant fees of 10 500 and 11 000 dollars. Curran Associates of Northampton prepares the Hoosic River watershed plan as the two-stage project concludes.
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Berkshire County Regiona Phoning Commission
Bcorpc
Williamstown
North Adams
Commission
Karl Hekler
BCRPC
Hoosic River
Curran Associates
Northampton
Interim minister named for First Congregational Church
DALTON The Rev. Herbert B. Morrell of West Hartford Conn has been named interim minister for the First Congregational Church to fill the vacancy created by Rev Patrick C Finleon leaving for Needham Mass The 38 year ministry veteran is a Bates College and Yale Divinity School graduate who has served in Old Lyme Orient Turners Falls New Bedford Windsor Boston Southwick Chicopee Pittsfield and now Dalton He will be in town three to four days and his first sermon is set for Sunday Nov 30 after the 1030 a m service The pulpit committee chaired by Gordon D Thorp continues planning for a future pastor with United Church of Christ minister James Lancaster and youth representatives Terri McKee and Robert Bishop joining the panel
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Bates College
Yale Divinity School
Morrell
Old Lyme
Sirs. Morrell
Morrells
First Congregational Church
Windsor
Conn
Mount Vernon
Boston
Congregational Church
Southwick
Chicopee
Pittsfield
Gordon D. Thorp
James Lancaster
Massachusetts
United Church Youth
Terri McKee
Robert Bishop
Amherst Report Links Liberal Image to Urban Problems
A Local Citizens Review Commission report on Amherst argues the town's calm liberal facade masks broader U S style issues. It describes how environment and schools perpetuate economic and social disparities for low income whites and blacks, with prejudice in housing for students and polarization between college and noncollege communities reflected even by high schoolers.
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Amherst
Local
Citizens Review Commission
United States
Disrupted Schools To Get 5 Black Aides
Springfield School Committee approved hiring five black counselors for city public high schools to ease racial unrest after outbreaks at Technical High School. The move follows 10 demands from the Black community and builds on recent fights that led to temporary class cancellations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Technical High School
FUPSON-The General Worth Hotel Demolished After Veranda Collapse
The General Worth Hotel, built in 1836 during Hudson’s river rail boom, was torn down when a power shovel knocked off its rear veranda. Fewer than 24 mourners attended the funeral at the site, reflecting its contested fate after the city seized the property for taxes. TheGreek revival building once stood as a key early riverfront hotel containing a bullet from theAnti Rent War in Columbia County and was deemed a safety hazard by officials.
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Fupson
General Worth
Hudson
Columbia County
Meskill Pushes Travel Curbs Over SDS Cuba Harvest
Rep. Thomas J. Meskill plans to cosponsor a bill to curb travel aiding the Students for a Democratic Society in the 1870 Cuban Sugar harvest. The measure would authorize the Secretary of State to implement and enforce travel restrictions amid court rulings on authority.
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Meskill
Washington
Thomas J. Meskill
R-Conn
Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
Meskili
Supreme Court
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Albert D. Reinhardt Jr
Bartlett
Reinhardt
Thomas J. Fahey
James D. Manning
Local Weekly
Zoning Board of Appeals
Mobil Oil Corp
Datton
Boy Scout
Tera & Pt
Sally Bergmans
Cable TV Co
New England Bankcard
Arcacstion
Great Barrington
Dempsey's Tire Service
Bridge Street
Giant Stores Corporation
Veterans Memorial Drive Northampton
Bradlees
King Street
Cahillane Motors, Inc
Bradlees Merrill Road
Shapiro Motors, Inc
North Street
Tire Distributing, Inc
New West Street
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