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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1959
Page
16
Mrs James H Woodger has been named temporary town clerk and treasurer in Lenox to fill the vacancies created by the death of Mrs William H Gorman. Gorman’s term would have ended in 1961 and both offices will appear on the February election ballot. Woodger had assisted Gorman in her duties.
Williamstown Pine Cobble School will hold its 16th annual open house Sunday at 4. Dwight Little dr. directory announced. Work by children from three-year-olds to ninth grade will be shown in paintings plaster arithmetic papers sci ports ballads and other English compositions. Nursery and kindergartners will have a special display. Teachers will meet with parents. Refreshments will be served. Both buildings will be open for inspection. All interested persons are invited.
The Becket Sportsmen's Club plans its 22nd annual banquet on Tuesday at Bonny Rigg Inn Becket. Tickets are sold at Becket General Store Harold Miner Hinsdale Hebert Bowen and the Open Kitchen in Washington. A turkey shoot by Becket firemen is scheduled for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Heppyland Routes 20 and 20.
In Lenox 87 parishioners including 39 boys 37 girls and 4 men of St. Ann's Church plus 7 Cranwell School students will be confirmed at 7 30 by Most Rev Christopher J. Weldon bishop of Springfield. Several pastors chaplains and diocesan clergy assist with the ceremony and benediction. A choir directed by Adeline Johnson with organist Mrs Alfred J. Marchand will sing proteins during the service and an informal reception follows.
Trinity Church youth group will attend a rally at St John's in North Adams announced by Rev David P Elless. Departure from St Helena's chapel is 2:15 pm with soda and dessert provided and box lunches advised.
Salvation Army in Lee keeps twenty percent of drive funds for local service. Mrs. Franklin Sturgis, drive chairwoman, says the retained money supports local needs while the rest funds regional camps, servicemen clubs, correctional work and disaster services. Volunteers are calling on homes to meet a $1170 town quota. donations may go to treasurer Raymond C. Pecon or Mrs. Sturgis.
Charles F. Johnson chair of the Tyringham School Committee told the Lee PTA that the Conant report and Sputnik panic have unsettled schools. He urged tighter curriculum standards and outlined qualities for an ideal school committee member. He recalled a National Education Association inquiry into Wi Haven Conn and noted local governance issues affecting teachers’ salaries.
SQUINGHAM England United Press International says a car hire operator in McClelland's Rexall Store is offering a telephone chat service day or night to ease loneliness distress or boredom. Other items include a rummage sale at Congregational Church parlors and an anniversary sale on aluminum windows and doors at Lee Furniture and Window Co. Ads list two room furnished apartment for rent and a transportation wanted notice for Pittsfield with contact details.
Berkshire Extension units resume meetings Monday at 7 30 pm at 453 Maple Street home of Mrs Laura Bchcock. Topic Finding Time for Housework and Living Mrs Jacob F Schles of East Lee will assist.
Lee High will play Williamstown at the Athletic Field. Lineup lists Lee players Gangel and James Collins as ends, Dick Brighenti and Joe Ford as tackles, and Steve Blac Feltre as a back.
The Double or Nothing Club of the Congregational Church will host the Couples Club of the Methodist Church for its monthly meeting Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Congregational Church parlors. Square dancing is planned. Ger Scouts formerly of Troop 81 join under Mrs. John A. Abderhalden Jr. and Mrs. John J. Nicholas in the Girl Scout room Tuesday at 7.
Lenox graduates Gordon Walker Peter Costi and Kenneth A. Decelles enlist in Navy and Coast Guard. Walker attends electronics technician school at Great Lakes while Costi studies radar. Decelles serves four years in Coast Guard at Cape May. Dalton resident Moulton Jr. joins Coast Guard after Marine Corps service, rated eA. man first class and commended for 38 percent Armed Forces test. plans electronics work.
Chicago based National Distillers Products Co. vice president Emmet J. Fleming predicts holiday imbibing will push 1959 liquor consumption close to the 231 gallons per capita record set in 1946. High demand during holidays could push annual totals near the long standing peak.
Dalton Yates heads the Red and Gun Club elected at its annual meeting in the club house. Clarence Bud Yates is president and Robert Snyder is vice president with David Bowers as secretary Eugene Clark treasurer and an executive committee of Ralph Kendall Julian Sadlowski Charles Wellspeak and Gilbert Rudd. Wayne Schnepy spoke of his experience at the state conservation camp and the club will sponsor another youth next summer.
Josef Piekos of Windsor Road told the Jecmen meeting that his cows stray when fences fail and that a neighbor complained. He was told the fence lies with him to repair as cows roam. Mrs. Angea Penno refused a registered letter from Selectmen demanding she stop employees on her brother Frank Pytko’s property, else court action. Chairman Skowron noted she knew the contents and no further action would be taken. Also announced were community church events including a Monday Evening Circle playlet at the Baptist Church and Busy Bees meetings with assigned leaders.
Robert C. Bennett will be installed master of Unity Lodge of Masons in Dalton at a public ceremony in the Masonic rooms Union Block at 8 15 after a reception for Theodore R. Sherpey district deputy grand master and his suite of the Fitterfield Masonic District. An open lodge precedes at 7 13 for officers and master masons. Readied officers include Bernard W. Frost senior warden Alvah P. Emerson junior warden John W. Wring treasurer J Fort Cocklin secretary Douglas Knickerbocker chaplain Heoneint A Hathaway marshal William H Manning senior deacon Guy B Streeter junior deacon Kinsley AM Governor steward Russell N Hathaway junior steward Joseph C Emerson inside sentinel Samuel H Bailey and Arnold J Obreza organist. Members of the installing suite headed by Sherpey master will be Douglas N. Knickerbocker installing chaplain J Earl Cocklir marshal Arnold J Obreza organist Mark Sasso soloist. Assisting them will be former masters Roswell W. Smith Sr Jr Norman L. Elser Charles F. Messenger Nelson Cande and Gilbert E. Adams.
The Windsor Town Hall hosts a record hop by Crane Community School eighth graders tomorrow from 6:30 p.m. to midnight to raise funds for the students trip.
Daltons St Agnes Rosary Society will open its harvest food fair in the school on Tuesday at 11 am with a card party from 7 30 to 10 pm. A wall cornucopia theme Thanks Be to God, full menu and prepared foods, cookbook sale, handwork table and bargain counter, bake sale and prizes. PTA Executive Group Met To Plan Programs at Community House.
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