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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1965
Page
9
Canaan residents receive tax forms with filing deadline of November 1 and a 10 percent penalty for late submission. Assessors offer help in town hall hours. Also reports church meetings, engagements, local Republican group formation, nurses meeting, summonses, and Army promotion notices from Canaan area.
The bloodmobile will operate from noon to 545 pm at the First Congregational Church auditorium with walk in donors accepted. services include free baby-sitting and transportation. Blood collected Tuesday supports Viet Nam efforts per Mrs Nils Guettormsen recruiting chair, Lee Kiwasizes plan a Monte Carlo night on Tuesday Oct 26 chaired by Arthur Wolfe. Fire minor at Alter's Sales and Service Center Street Friday evening due to late firing. St Mary's Church Confraternity classes canceled for Pope Paul VI UN visit. Sunday Masses urged to watch papal events on TV. Jack's ad promotes corduroy slacks and fall merchandise.
Lakeville Connecticut annual fund drive for the Housatonic Psychiatric Center seeks 16000 dollars. Center serves the northwest area, has aided almost 2008 people since 1952, and employs a psychiatrist, a social worker, and a psychologist. Fiscal support comes from local governments, the Winsted area Community Chest, the New Milford United Fund, and the state Department of Mental Health.
Lanesboro MRS Jean McGowen Tel 42 5518 reports results from turkey shoots at Rhinehart's Farm and West Shore Club. Winners in the American Legion event include Robert Bristol William Hillard Anthony Casella Sr and Jr of Pittsfield plus Beebe Barnes Szczepaniak Daczek Clark Winterkorn from various towns. Lions Club event winners from Pittsfield and Lanesboro with two diners won for most bulls eye hits. A second shoot is planned next week.
In Lanesboro the American Legion Auxiliary seeks new unwrapped gifts costing at least one dollar for the Leeds Veterans Hospital Christmas gift shop. Glass items are avoided. Men and teens are especially needed. Deadline is November 6. A meeting with Francis Doyle narrating a film is at 7:30 Tuesday at Cheshire Road Pittsfield. Donations can be made via Mrs. Robert J. White Summer Street. Red Volunteer Fire Dept. Cross will meet tonight at 8 at Central Station.
The text traces Crane Inn from a fire-destroyed original to a 1894 rebuilt structure and a 24-room Irving House run as a Real New England Inn by the Treadway chain from 1935 to 1942. It later closed in wartime, reopened for a decade under George M. Daly, and, after 1953 extensive redecorating and a name change, John Donegan became inn manager. The owners have not announced land use plans after removal.
Lenox section leaders and captains of the United Fund Lenox neighborhood division meet tonight at Lenox Academy. The drive begins Oct. 18 with pledges to support 24 Red Feather Red Cross agencies. A neighborhood kickoff for Pittsfield Lanesboro Lenox solicitors is set for 8 p.m. at Berkshire Life Insurance Co. Names include Mrs. FE Kenneth Bancroft Mrs. George Connors Miss Frances Martin Mrs. Donald E. Mayo Mrs. William Russeaux and Mrs. Raymond A. Warner.
North Adams Hospital trustees announce a two per day increase in all room rates as administrator George A. Serrigo calls it a necessary step to meet rising costs. The new schedule ranges from two dollars for ward rooms to one dollar for a private room and toilet. Williamstown professor James MacGregor Burns welcomes Kennedy book flood praising rapid, responsible works. He says public gains outweigh any embarrassment to officials.
Alvin D. Silber, a Pittsfield accountant, acquires the late Russell V. Lanoue's accounting practice at 35 Bank St in North Adams and will maintain his Pittsfield office. Lanoue's staff will stay on at the North Adams office. Dr Jacob Bronowski to speak at Bennington inaugural ceremonies for college president Dr Edward Blousten. Bronowski, Polish native and longtime England resident, is deputy director of the Salk Institute in San Diego.
Stockbridge displays photos from Clara Bow collection donated by John L. Pell. The exhibit includes stills from Down to the Sea in Ships and items relating to whaling and early cinema. Pell, a Westport Point resident, supported by memories of Allen Treadway, connects to President Coolidge era and Churchill notes.
The Valley Club sponsors a Tyringham clothing show at the Community Center tomorrow at 8. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.
Trustees report a deficit of 1,201,088 for August in New Haven Railroad affairs. The eight month total shows a shortfall of 12,364,180, compared with 10,650,794 in the prior year period.
Connecticut's constitutional planners and political leaders plan to omit the one man, one vote rule for the General Assembly in a proposed new state constitution. The draft will tie assembly structure to federal standards while preserving potential future change if the U S Constitution allows.
Governor Dempsey calls for a state wide team to tackle water pollution and present a pollution control program to the 1987 General Assembly. The task force will be led by Dr. Thomas F. Malone of Travelers, plus two meteorologists and National Academy of Sciences Water Committee members. In Torrington a federal judge ruled the company cannot be forced to provide paid time off for workers to vote, overturning a prior arbitrator ruling.
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