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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1963
Page
8
Theaters show 45 Days at Peking at 6:30 and 8:30 at Mebaine and Great Barringhe Adams, open weekends only. Paramount North Adams lists Incredible Journey at 2:45 5:55 8:00 and Make Way for Lita at 1:10 4:15 7:25.
The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the district Department of Veterans' Services will be held Dec 4 at 7 40 p m at the district office on Railroad Street Great Barrington. Directors from 11 towns including West Stockbridge Otis and Tyringham will meet chaired by Edward J Hills. Agenda includes reviewing the 1963 office maintenance budget and planning next year's budget. Man wanted to handle tractor trailer trip Great Barrington to Pittsfield. 40 hr wx. Apply Milk Exchange. Ad.
Parishioners of Housatonic Methodist and Congregational churches will meet at a union Thanksgiving service tonight at 7 30 at the Methodist Church. The Rev. Donald T. Kell will announce the combined choirs and the sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Edwin A. Brooks of the Congregational Church.
GREAT BARRINGTON A two week fund drive for the family of the late J. D. Tippit of the Dallas police is conducted at Broverman’s Market on North Main Street. Officer Tippit was killed Friday reportedly by Lee Harvey Oswald, President Kennedy’s alleged assassin. Mr and Mrs Paul Broverman started the fund with a $100 check.
The Girl Scout town association donated new editions of the Hand book Leaders' Guide and Leaders' Notebook to Mason Library. Two copies of each Brownie Cadet Junior and Senior Handbooks will circulate for two weeks from the library on a regular schedule.
Event listing notes opening times tonight from six to eight thirty and Thanksgiving Day two to six and six thirty to eight thirty on Friday and Saturday. It lists a sequence of numbers that likely reference contact or location details.
Spokesmen for the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce say workers have begun stringing wires across Main Street for Christmas lights and expect completion early next week. Two new light strands and three new centerpieces have been purchased. Trees at Town Hall and Belcher Square will also be lit. The Christmas Committee will meet to organize the home and business decorating contests and set the date for the lights’ unveiling.
Great Barrington residents Mrs. Arthur Jones and Mrs. Louis Schneider named chairmen of the baked ham supper after the Christmas sale hosted by the Women’s Guild of the Congregational Church. The event follows the Dec 4 sale, with meals at 5, 5:45 and 6. Reservations via Mrs. Marsh B. Giddings.
Tony Rossi of Rossi's Restaurant in Lee faces daily pie production as he bakes up to 40 pies on peak days. He explains kitchen techniques from dough handling to oven layering, weighing ingredients for consistent results, and shares tips to save time for households. The Rossi family, Pittsfield natives, closed on Thanksgiving for a family day after the birth of their son Edward.
GREAT BARRINGTON Adv. Paul A. Tamburello of Pittsfield asked the board to allow the Barn Inc all alcohol license to be used at the Berkshire Inn on Main Street from December through March next year. The Barn Club property was sold to Wilma Osman wife of Berkshire Inn manager Harris Osman. The board tabled the change request and asked to file a formal manager change and premises change applications and to consult town counsel and the state ABC with proper procedures.
The 85 students at Dehon Seminary on Christian Hill will not go home for Thanksgiving. A special program will mark the day with a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving at Dehon Chapel and a community assembly in the evening. Classes are suspended. meals will be served as scheduled. A weekend wedding on Long Island involved relatives of Modolo and LaFontana.
Town officials were informed that Mullen Mayflower Co. of Pittsfield will donate a Mayflower plant for town beautification in observance of Thanksgiving. The letter notes the tree was sent under separate cover and a location choice is pending. The exact plant type is unclear, as Mayflower spans several spring bloomers including trailing arbutus, hepatica, and anemone species.
GREAT BARRINGTON In three public hearings Tuesday night the Selectmen granted three permits. The Massachusetts Electric Co. received a pole location on Church Street. Aaron Broverman was authorized to store 8,000 gallons of gasoline on State Road. Dehon Seminary was approved to store 10,000 gallons of fuel oil on the Christian Hill campus. A roundup meeting for area motorcycle enthusiasts is set for Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Berkshire Motorcycle Club in Clayton. Daytona and Laconia race films will be shown.
Lenox notices show Communion at Trinity Church on Thanksgiving morning at nine and Union services at Church on the Hill at ten. Trinity holds two services Sunday instead of three. Advent and Holy Eucharist services scheduled. Lenox Community Center closed all day Thursday and open Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for age groups. Card of Thanks from the Bontell family for Mass cards and floral tributes.
Sheffield Mass Tomorrow Our Lady of the Valley Church will hold a Thanksgiving Mass tomorrow morning at 8. Thanksgiving Communion Christ Church will conduct Holy Communion services tomorrow morning at 8.
South Berkshire Regional School Committee met Tuesday night with 45 teachers to outline a new building program. The plan calls for renovating one room schools and adding 16 rooms to Mount Everett Regional School, at an estimated cost near 500000. It foregoes a west side four room elementary school and would form a committee with four residents from each town and one faculty member per town to develop and present the plan to the public. Voting possibly by late spring with broader participation than last year.
Housatonic mill employees received 283 turkeys as part of a long standing company custom. A Thanksgiving letter signed by new president Robert B. Anderson announced record 35 year high sales and gratitude to workers. Retired workers also got greeting cards. Masses for the welfare of the country were planned at All Saints and Corpus Christi churches. Legion prizes were awarded, including a $25 cash prize to Richard Kowalczyk and radios to two other winners.
Murphy Leary Post American Legion Barracks 2255 Veterans of World War I and Adams Budz Post YYW drape their charters in black for 40 days of mourning for John F Kennedy. The Housatonic War Memorial Build ing flag flies at half mast and remains spotlighted. Delegates attended District 1 memorial services in Pittsfield and Masses at Corpus Christi Church and St. Peter's Church in Great Barrington.
Miss Sharon Flynn of Wyantenuck Street was elected president of the Hones 4-H Club for the 1963-64 season at a recent Community Center meeting. Other officers named include Elizabeth Dezieck vice president Ellen Dougherty secretary Laura Adamis treasurer Betty Palmer news reporter Frances Hayden hospitality Barbara Meaney game leader and Rachel Dougherty song leader.
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