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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1969
Page
7
Daily publication statement notes the paper publishes every day except Sunday and holidays. Located at 32 Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts, Eagle Publishing Company issues official notices and serves the local community.
The piece contrasts Apollo 12 splashdown coverage with a National Commission on Violence warning that poverty and ghettos breed crime. It laments misplaced priorities yet notes Pittsfield debates low cost rental housing, while warning the urban crisis could reach Hartford and Springfield.
The Dartmouth Holy Cross football tie faces a financial strain as Holy Cross cures a hepatitis outbreak that canceled its season. Dartmouth proposes passing the hat among football schools to cover Holy Cross deficits, with Dartmouth pledging 1000 dollars as they consider the motive and history behind player funding of college athletics.
In Brief notes GE and TUE spar over meeting times and table size. Professor Flint Kellogg, resident and historian, edits a new Mary White Ovington 1911 edition. Ovington’s 1914 pamphlet on the NAACP endures. Mead paper bales clog a Lee town dump, now a landfill. Waste burning stopped and air improves. Experts foresee shorter workweeks as productivity rises. Wheeler Taylor in Great Barrington explores sabbatical leaves for workers.
William L. Shirer argues in the New York Times that both the French Third Republic and the United States risk warping democracy when generals and defense industries hold sway. He cites France in 1940 under Pétain and Weygand and notes U.S. defense spending surging from 12 billion in 1948 to 80 billion this year, with neglect of social needs. The piece cites the French inquiry criticizing delegating defense to the military and references Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy and a broader critique of civilian control.
Arthur W. Plumb was reelected president of Pittsfield Co operative Bank. Dr Walter W Slocum of Dallen became vice president and Lorenzo H Gamwell was named treasurer. Period ending Oct 15 showed assets of 1 639 736 with net earnings 95737. 21 213 shares in force, up 1048 in year.
Notes trace Thanksgiving from 1620 Pilgrim landing to Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation, Roosevelt’s 1939 shift and back, plus Prohibition era crime roots and a humorous British barns sale pitch. Individuals include Sarah Josepha Hale, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Wilson. places New England, New Netherlands, and America.
Letters from readers discuss GE strike tactics and petitioned access to the plant on November 20 by 523 employees. Writers critique picket timing, welfare, and management policy, urging wage justice, fair share, and clearer community impact.
Kathryn Smith of 174 Eleanor Road urges Pittsfield City Council to approve immediate low income housing and broader housing plan. She argues for inclusive growth, cites bus service and nearby amenities, disputes anti low income stigma, and supports a plan featured in The Eagle on Nov. 22 as a positive asset for the city.
The quotes capture Rev. C Edward Crowther criticizing church funeral rhetoric after opposing apartheid, Edgar B Speer weighing a $100 billion pollution remediation cost for steel mills, and Arthur Mann noting a public shift toward racial ethnic emphasis as the climate changes.
A reader criticizes Eagle reporting for out of context quotes about the Dalton area sex education policy. The letter cites Walter Gehring and SEICUS as figures in school program debates and questions the Playboy Masters interview quotes influencing curriculum decisions.
In Helsinki negotiations on strategic disarmament the Soviet Union demands politics be excluded from discussion while the United States, under pressure from hawks like Humphrey and Muskie, contemplates concessions. The piece argues such a ban risks undermining the talks and that both sides avoid addressing key geopolitical tensions.
A Boston Globe note cites Andrey Sinclair's The Last of the Best with a humorous coincidence. An Estéthary prince claims 3000 sheep on his Scots estate, prompting a duke to observe that the prince also has 3000 shepherds, a comical exchange about aristocratic splendor.
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