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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1965
Page
13
Pittsfield voters face a high stakes choice as Harris argues the winner will shape a new expandable high school for about 3,250 students. He criticizes rivals for vague alternatives while lauding the commission plan as sound, urging educated turnout in Wednesday's primary.
The Planning Board told the Zoning Board of Appeals that Coltsville has about 25 signs larger than permitted with no variances. It urged the building inspector to enforce the sign ordinance and asked the Appeals Board to study violations and variances. Chairman John J. Donn is scheduled to meet Wednesday night.
Listings show numerous birth announcements to families in New York and nearby towns. Daughters and sons are born to Fay A. Rieben Nacht, Alien P. Harris, James Ching, Peter Kelly, Jeremiah Parker, Francis Volpi, Sanford Smith, Richard Rawson, Daniel Brown, Kenneth Desmarais, Robert Dextraze, Robert Blakeney, and others. Also listed are grandparents and great grandparents, with locations including East Chatham, Chatham, Union Street, Pomeroy Avenue, Stephentown, Connecticut Avenue, Richmond, Lee, Dalton, Kellogg Street, West Stockbridge, Lenox, and nearby addresses.
A welcome reception for Rev. Carrol A. Turner, pastor since June, is set for October 24 at 4 p.m. at Morningside Baptist Church. The public is invited. Sponsored by the board of deacons and deaconesses to introduce Turner and his family, with Joseph Sehmicker as arrangements chairman.
Apenhunter bagged the first bird of the partridge season in Massachusetts as it opened today. Mrs. Mary Laurent of 1203 North St awakened Saturday to a crash, found a dazed grouse among broken glass. The bird fled, broke another window, and in its escape broke its neck and died near the kitchen table.
The Housatonic River School begins at the former David Beecher Stowe property in Glen dale as a nonprofit. It opened this fall with 12 students and five staff under headmaster founder Alan F. Winslow, previously of St. Johnsbury Academy. The town denied a for profit charter, but tax obligations will be met via annual town taxes. The plan includes up to 33 students, no formal classrooms, and informal teaching in the library dining hall and outdoors with a barn workshop and arts area under development. Housing is provided in the main 17-room house and a divided farmhouse.
Windlard Advertising of 73 Fourth St. received a $15,000 loan from the Small Business Administration. E Willard Winslow, the agency’s president, said the funds will finance expansion and modernization of the offices.
Postmaster Robert B. Dillon issued guidance for sending Christmas parcels to overseas servicemen. Surface mail should go Oct 21 to Nov 10, air mail Dec 1 to Dec 10. Use sturdy boxes, wrap fiberboard, tie with cord, pack contents slip and sender name, declare customs, and type or legibly write addresses. Prohibited items include matches lighter fluids cigarettes coffee.
City voters face three ballot questions on November 2. The major item proposes an at large six member School Committee with the mayor, replacing ward elections. A second question seeks charter changes on vacancies, replacing conventions with a direct method for mayor, council, and school board seats. A third questions considers creating a centralized purchasing agent to save money through modern procurement practices.
Gordon D. Hall told the New England UWF assembly at Curtis Hotel that extremists on both the Communist Marxist left and the radical right damage national discourse. He urged clear distinctions between liberals and conservatives to see fringe groups in true perspective. About 175 attended, with Dr. Hudson Hoagland introducing, and Bellon Copp elected president of the New England UWF. Some 20 Berkshire County UWF members joined the convention led by Mrs. Hichard Clement of Pittsfield.
A compact reader page lists multiple local ads and promotions. Roofing by Al Gaviorne with 40 years experience, Berkshire Roofing and Insulation, Swinger at Connor Pharmacy, Yellow Coach Lines weekly limo service to fairs, Zinfandel Grapes arriving mid October, band instruments repair by Roger Hall, Bates shoes at Sukel's, Skiorama event, Draperies by Berk Curtain Shop, Jung's Glass replacement service for cracked auto glass.
The Pittsfield Downtown Association schedules a meeting Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Stanley Club to discuss local planning and events.
Representatives of Calvin DeFrenes Corp in Philadelphia started three day shoots in Pittsfield for an FAA promotional film on night operations at small airports. The crew filmed at the airport focusing on new runway lighting and interviews with city officials, ABC leaders, and GE, with sequences later at Tanglewood and The Berkshire Eagle offices.
Welfare Commissioner Charles Hodecker urged Pittsfield area hospitals to begin daily counts of care given to public assistance cases starting October 1. He noted questions about the authority of the Division of Hospital Costs and Finance to raise per diem rates more than once a year and said the department will pay only the rates in effect January 1 until the legal basis for any increase is established.
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