Del Gallo Says Post Office Building May Be City Use
Pittsfield mayor says federal government ready to release the current Post Office for city use. A five member committee led by Aliy Randolph Wilkinson will study uses, including City Hall or library expansion, with possible sale or swap discussed but not favored.
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Pittsfield
Remo del Gallo
del Gallo
Aliy
Randolph H. Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Friends of the Berkshire Athenaeum
Berkshire Athenaeum
Federal General Services Administration
GSA
Post Office
Wendell Avenue
Athenaeum
Park Square
Harvard
Ile
Vel Gallo
Jerome Sullivan
Richard Drive
Samuel Sass
Crane Ave
Thomas C. Wojtkowski
Ridge Ave
Peter Francese
Dawes Ave
Ernest G. St. Peter
Berkshire Life Eyes More Wendell Corner Land Deal
Berkshire Life Insurance Co says it may acquire about five acres of Jubilee land west of the Wendell Hotel site as part of urban renewal plans. The push includes a motor hotel, shops, a bank and offices with potential residential space, contingent on bypass route and tax issues impacting downtown Pittsfield. Negotiations with Pittsfield Housing Authority are underway, and the company weighs how extensive redevelopment should be.
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Berkshire Life Insurance Co
Jubilee
W. Rankin Ferey
Berkshire Life
Pittsfield Housing Authority
Patel
Pittsfield
Compe
China quits Afri can-Asian summit in Algiers
Informants say Red China withdrew from the African Asian summit planned in Algiers after failing to stop Soviet invitation. A formal declaration of nonparticipation was read to the conference preparatory committee citing unsuitable conditions for the meeting set to begin November 5.
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Algiers
China
Soviet Union
Red China
Connecticut Angers to Press Northeastern Utilities Merger
Hartford AP The State Public Utilities Commission will monitor the proposed Northeastern Utilities merger of Connecticut Light & Power Hartford Electric Light and Western Massachusetts Companies for efficiency gains and potential rate cuts. The three utilities serve over one million customers and would post assets above 800 million dollars with annual gross revenues over 228 million. Federal approval remains required.
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Hartford, Conn
State Public Utilities Commission
PUC
Northeastern Utilities
Connecticut Light & Power Co
Hartford Electric Light Co
Western Massachusetts
Pittsfield
Central Berkshire
Western Mass. Electric Co
CLAP
HELCO
Cl&p
French skipper fined for flag duty during De Gaulle visit
A Maritime court in La Rochelle fined fishing boat skipper Guy De lattre twenty dollars for failing to fly a flag during President Charles de Gaulle's visit to the region earlier this year.
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LA Rochelle
France
UPI
Guy Delattre
Charles de Gaulle
Springfield Board Clears Policeman Of Any Brutality
Springfield Police Commission dismissed all brutality and misconduct charges against Patrolman George P. Diehl in the July disturbance at the Octagon Lounge. Hearings for the other six officers continue as evidence is gathered. 18 people were arrested and 12 convicted of disturbing the peace, fueling civil rights protests in the city.
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Springfield
Springfield Police Commission
George P. Diehl
Dieni
Anthony Bonavita
Springfield District Court
Cith Hall
Failure of Untested Rocket Needn't Delay Moon Steps
NASA pressed ahead with Gemini 7 plans while engineers probe Agena failure that derailed Gemini 6. The blast disrupted rendezvous rehearsals, prompting discussion of testing rigor, with four to six months before the next attempt. Shipments of Gemini 7 to Cape Kennedy proceed as crews eye a two week orbital mission.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
NASA
Robert Seamans
Space Agency
Robert Gilruth
Manned Spacecraft Center
Earth
Moon
George Mueller
Manned Space Flight
Gemini
Berkshire Life outlines Wendell Hotel plans and taxes
Berkshire Life Insurance Co. released a full statement on plans for the Wendell Hotel property noting current taxes would be prohibitively high for an in town motor hotel. Former Pittsfield mayor Robert T. Capeless is assisting in exploring legal avenues while Berkshire Life would lead and participate in financing and management but not own the entire project. A spring timeline for definitive answers is anticipated with plans to present to the community. In a separate item, identical West Texas triplets were enrolled in a Job Corps project in Le Flore County Oklahoma, the Hernandez brothers David S Daniel A and Dionicio A.
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Berkshire Life
Pittsfield
Robert T. Capeless
Furey
Austin, Tex
UPI
Office of Economic Opportunity
West Texas
le Flore County
Oklahoma
David S
Daniel A
Dionicio A. Hernandez
Jesus B. Hernandez
Kress, Tex
Plei Me under siege as U S troops bolster defense
U S Army 1st Cavalry reinforcements join defending advisers at Pleiku area outpost Plei Me in the Central Highlands. Communist forces including North Vietnamese regiments press a weeklong assault with mortars, rockets, and death by own action charges, while U S air and artillery strikes hammer back the attackers.
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Plei ME
U.S. Jet Cavalry Air Mobile Division
Plei Ya Dran
U.S
Associated Press
Saigon
UPS
1St Cavalry Division
Piei Me
Central Highlands
Binh Long
Air Force
North
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Pleiku
Pleike
Laos
2Nd Army Corps
U.S. Special Forces
Navy
Kennedy Party Escorted as Helicopters Fire on Reds
In the Mekong Delta near Cai Cai Kennedy and four other Congressmen were protected by rocket firing helicopters while snipers fired along a tree line. No shots hit the helicopters but nearby fire occurred as the group left a contested village. Two Special Forces troops were wounded in separate patrols during the trip.
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Saigon
UPS
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Joseph Tydings
D-Md
John Culver
Iowa
John Tunney
California
Cai Cai
Mekong River
T Rips
Five Common Market partners agree terms with France
In Brussels five common market members reached a provisional framework to end the four months of French-provoked crisis. They fixed broad outlines for an agricultural policy and proposed how political differences would be discussed, sending the terms to Paris for an answer.
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Brussels
UPI
France
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Wilson Smith Agree on Treaty Talks
In Salisbury British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Ian Smith moved to keep Rhodesia talks alive. Wilson summoned Sir Elvin Jones to discuss a treaty that would secure a firmer African majority constitutional position. Jones arrival is planned for Wednesday to advise on the legal framework amid Smith’s push for independence.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
Harold Wilson
Ian Smith
Jones
Wilson
London
Smith
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