Welfare debate: Cohen criticizes administration in state program
In Dalton the State Senator Beryl W. Cohen urged the Dalton Taxpayers Association that a "third-rate administration" fuels Massachusetts welfare woes. He outlined four programs Old Age Assistance 30,000 recipients General Relief 11,000 12,000 ADC 175,000 and Disability Assistance 16,000, noting misperceptions about ADC recipients and calling for reforms including a higher qualification standard for welfare officials and new oversight bodies. He warned of rising frustration since 1967 and described proposed changes to budgets centers and enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Beryl W. Cohen
Brookline
Dalton Taxpayers Association
DTA
Massachusetts
Cohen
ADC
General Court
State Welfare Department
State Department of Welfare
McGarry
State Administration
Anthony P. McBride
Adams
Charles N. Norcross
North Adams Taxpayers Association
Restaurant Wins Beer and Wine License in Dalton
Dalton Selectmen awarded a beer and wine license to Michael's Restaurant on Main Street. Owners Michael J. Fresia and Michael P. Coco, of Pittsfield, bought the business over three years ago from James Shepard. The eight year old establishment was started by John T. Brennan at the current site. Golden Agers meet Thursday at 2 at the Community House followed by a country store program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Selectmen
Michael
Main Street
Michael J. Fresia
Michael P. Coco
Pittsfield
James Shepard
John T. Brennan
New Style Mission Set at St Thomas Aquinas Church
A new liturgical mission style by the Passionist Fathers will be presented Oct 12 26 at St Thomas Aquinas Church under Rev Jude Mead. The program runs four four day sessions for men women young adults and children with the sermon integrated into the Mass per Rev Timothy J Champoux pastor.
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Adams
St. Thomas Aquinas Church
Jude Mead
Timothy J. Champoux
St. Thomas
Light Treatment Ending for Halloween Vandals
Dalton Chief of Police Robert R. Powell warns parents to watch their children after dark as Halloween vandalism continues. He promises no warnings and states further acts will be turned over to the state juvenile probation officer under the new law holding parents responsible for their children's damages.
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Dalton
Robert R. Powell
Powell
Adams ANNE LOUISE MILLET Tel. 743-5722
Two automobile collisions occurred here over the weekend with minor injuries reported. On Park Street Friday night a 17 year old driver, Gene Gancarz of Burlingame Hill, crashed into Ernest Schwarzer’s car. Gancarz was cited for operating to endanger. Damages were $400 to the Gancarz vehicle and $150 to Schwarzer’s. Sunday at 6 p.m. on Commercial Street a rear collision involved Ernest Rondeau and Roger Atwell. Leonard Boudreau, 10, a passenger, sustained cuts and bruises. Damages were $200 to Rondeau and $175 to Atwell. no charges were filed.
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Atwell
Rondeau
Juvenile break in at Ide McAleer Distributing Co.
Three juveniles charged in a Grave Street burglary had cases continued in District Court to October 13 for one defendant and December 22 for the other two. Police recovered two cases of beer and a case of wine near the store. A 15-year-old Springfield youth tied to a car theft spree ending in Harford County also saw his case continued to December 22. He faces unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and operating without a license after allegedly stealing cars in September and abandoning one at First National parking lot.
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First National
Florida
Lenox Meeting Approves Five Warrant Articles
Lenox voters at a two hour session passed five of six warrant articles within 20 minutes and set the stage for a ballot today. Articles transfer funds for a sewage plant study and for temporary borrowing, with two articles requiring a two thirds vote for watershed boundary and a regional school district question to be decided by ballot. The meeting marked the retirement of Mrs Aline R Woodger and noted the absence of School Committee chair Robert L Plageman due to illness.
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Lenox
aArticle
North Lenox
George C. Campbell
and Blys
John E. Foster
Richmond
Lee
Otis
Tyringham
Thomas Tf. Cooney
Wendell Stearns
Pauline Sievens
John J. Pignatelli
Selectmen
Aline R. Woodger
Pignatelli
Robert L. Plageman
Plageman
Becket 9 Candidates Seek Nomination For Selectman
Becket hosts a public coffee hour at Becket School at 8 p.m. to hear nine candidates for selectman slated for the caucus ballot next Tuesday. The field includes Leonard Spencer Hubert Salvini Charles Ryan Arthur Johnson George Weehter Robert Mason James Delaney Lawrence Trudeau and John Young as potential nominees to fill vacancies after resignations of Albert Palmer and Peter Trudeau. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Becket
Becket School
Selectman
Tove
Board of Selectmen
Albert R. Palmer
Peter L. Trudeau
Leonard R. Spencer
High Street
Hubert S. Salvini
Charles Ryan
Sherwood Drive
Arthur L. Johnson
Benton Hill Road
George A. Weehter
Main Street
Robert A. Mason
James A. Delaney
Route 8
Lawrence RR
Trudeau
John H. Young
Brooker Hill Road
All End
Lenox Students Split on Regionalization Polls
Lenox Memorial High School polls at a special meeting show 8 percent in favor of a regional school district, 12 percent opposed, 13.7 percent favoring an academic regional district, 10.2 percent favoring a vocational regional solution, and 70.5 percent backing both vocational and academic regionalization, while 3.9 percent had no preference.
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Lenox
Lenox Memorial High School
Regional Planning Committee
Wendell Stearns
Stearns
Thomas F. Cooney
John J. Pitha
Tyringham Votes to Fund Town Hall Garage and Transfers
Tyringham voters at a special town meeting approved transferring five thousand two hundred sixty seven dollars from the postwar rehabilitation fund and four thousand seven hundred ninety three dollars from available funds for a Town Hall garage to house highway equipment. Voters also OK’d three routine transfers including one thousand dollars for snow removal and sand account five hundred dollars from machinery earnings to maintenance and seven hundred dollars for lander maintenance. About forty people attended.
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Tyringham
Four Towns Debate Regional School District Plan
Lee Lenox Otis and Tyringham held separate meetings on forming a four town regional K-12 district with an eight member board. Voters will decide today with polls open noon to 8 pm in Lenox Lee and Tyringham and 7 pm in Otis.
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R Cone High School
Lee
Lenox
Otis
Tyringham
Lee and
Lenox, Lee, Otis
Palls
George F. Dillman
State Department of Education
Dillman
Europe
Maxwell Pyenson
State Board of Education
Planning Board
Charles F. Johnson
Regional Planning Board
United States of America
Johnson
Regional plan spurs talk of vocational high school
Lee School Supt Maurice J Boulanger favors a regional vocational setup over a comprehensive high school for Lee Lenox Otis and Fyringham area. He notes Berkshire districts would need cooperation and state aid. a vocational regional high school appears five years away regardless of the vote.
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Boulanger
Lee and
Lenox
Berkshire
Berkshire Hills
Boston
Department of Education
George P. Lane
DeVarennes
Missionary Glenn Ogren to Speak at First Baptist Church
The Rev. Glenn Ogren missionary to Brazil will address First Baptist Church in Stephentown on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. He is a Chicago native, Bethel College and Bethel Theological Seminary graduate, and has served as pastor and teacher in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He and Mrs. Ogren, Hamline Nursing School graduate, were appointed by the Baptist General Conference’s Board of Foreign Missions in 1960.
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Stephentown
N.Y
Glenn Ogren
Brazil
First Baptist
William Hunsicker
Chicago
Ogren
Bethel College
Bethel Theological Seminary
St. Paul
Minn
Hamline University School of Nursing
Board of Foreign Missions of
The
Baptist General Conference
Bible Institute
Sao Paulo
Four Amendments On Ballot For Nov. 4 Election
Four amendments appear on the New York State ballot for the November 4 election. The first allows state loans to private hospitals, the second raises the Job Development Authority borrowing limit from 50 to 150 million dollars, the third defines state powers over noise water and air pollution and natural resource conservation, and the fourth bases Senate and Assembly district apportionment on total population. The LWV offers Facts for Voters pamphlet with full arguments, available from LWV of Rensselaer County in Troy, New York.
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Stephentown
N.Y
New York State
Job Development Authority
Senate
Assembly
New York State League of Women Voters
LWV
Rensselaer County
Second St
Troy
GOP Club Plans Forum at Taconic Valley Grange Hall
Republican Club will sponsor two meet the candidates nights on Monday October 20 at the Taconic Valley Grange Hall. All local candidates will be present and several county-level candidates. A covered dish supper at 7. Mrs Rudolph Knaack is chairman. The public is invited. Rosary Allar Society of St Josephs Church will meet Thursday at 7 30 p.m. at the fire hall.
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Stephentown
N.Y
Republican Club
Taconic Valley Grange Hall
Rudolph Knaack
Rosary Allar Society of
St. Joseph’s Church
Fire Belles Variety Sale in Stephentown NY
The Fire Belles plan a variety sale in Stephentown at the fire hall on Saturday October 18 from 10 am to 5 pm. Items include toys plastic ware clothing and jewelry for early Christmas shoppers. Booths available via Mrs David Cornel lunch sandwiches and cake coffee free.
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Stephentown
N.Y
Fire Belles
David Cornel
Hinsdale Fire District votes on four articles
Sixteen voters at a Hinsdale Fire District special meeting at Kittredge School approved all four warrant articles totaling 6569.33 dollars. A 5000 dollar water main extension on Curtiss Street was funded. District clerk Elizabeth Lott submitted her resignation. moderator J Edward Pelkey will appoint a new clerk. Card party winners at the Grange and Pilgrim Fellowship officers at First Congregational Church are named. Lillian J. Carpenter returns to Brooklyn after summers at Munch cottage.
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Hinsdale
Kittredge
Curtiss Street
Elizabeth Lott
J. Edward Pelkey
Lillian J. Carpenter
Munch
Peru Road
Brooklyn
N.Y
New York City
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Loeb’s
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Lenox Meeting
Dick's
Lee Meeting
Central School
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Joseph
Savery
Charles G. Tucker
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Port Savery
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Lee High School
Edward F. Murray
Henry Piekos
Andre W. Jaouen
Abraham Gair
South County
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Southern Berkshire
Lee-Lenox-Otis-Fyringham
Stephentown, N.Y
GOP Club Plans Forum
Kay Kirchner
Grange
Ladies’ High
William Westcott
Alice Converse
Everton Parker
Iinsdale
Thomas Butler
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Converse
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