Becket Mill Seeks New Berkshire Tissue Ownership
Becket Mill in Becket to change hands with Berkshire Tissue Bills Inc forming to operate the Becket plant. New owners aim to close by November 15 after a $60,000 auction purchase by Norman Eber and Clarence O’Neil. Daniel S. Cohen to serve as president, with Gertrude S. Cohen as treasurer and Chesney as clerk, as talks with the papermakers union progress toward a new contract.
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Bancroft Tissue
Becket
Atty
Abraham W. Chesney
Pittsfield
Mr. Chesney
Atty. Chesney
Daniel S. Cohen
New Rochelle
N.Y
New Corporation
Lis
Gertrude S. Cohen
New York City
Cohen
Carolina Paper Mills Corp
Rockingham, N.C
Resolute Paper Product Corp
New York
Carolina
North Carolina
Crippled Killer Executed in Conn
Frank Wojculewicz, paralyzed by a gunshot in the spine, was strapped into an electric chair in Connecticut and executed with 2000 volts. He was convicted of murder for killing Police Sgt. Walter Grabeck during a robbery shootout in New Britain. A bystander also died during the incident.
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UPI
Frank Wojculewiczy
United States
Wojculewicz
New Britain
Walter Grabeck
Grabeck
Wojculewice
Maffuccio Named Planning Engineer at Texaco Lockport
Daniel J. Maffuccio of Lockport, formerly Pittsfield, was named planning engineer for Texaco Inc a Lockport refinery. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Maffuccio of 247 Robbins Ave a St Joseph's High School graduate. He attended Williams College and Brown University earned a BS in engineering and served in the Navy V-12 program. He has twelve years with Texaco.
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Daniel J. Maffuccio
Lockport, UL
Pittsfield
Lockport
Texaco Inc
Maffuccio
Joseph Maffuccio
Robbins Ave
St. Joseph’s
Maffuccia
Williams College
Brown University
Providence
Texaco
Traffic lights plan moves forward with 5000 item
City Council Public Safety panel backs about five thousand dollars for semi actuated traffic signals at Brown and Cherry Streets with Tyler Street, and at Dartmouth and Dalton Avenue. Brown Tyler priced at 2638 and Cherry Tyler at 2635 while Dartmouth Walton would add 2952.75. The plan includes a third signal that faced opposition and petitions for a stop sign and a loading zone were rejected.
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City Council
Committee On Public Safety
Brown and
Cherry Streets
Wilson
Calumet
Edward F. Nilan
Nilan
Sir Tyler St
Church Notes Pastor Attends Eastern Regional Meeting
The Rev. Harold L. Neyers, pastor of the Second Congregational Church, is attending the three day Eastern Regional Congregational meeting at Asylum.
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Second Congregational
Harold L. Neyers
Asylum
Russian Doctor Plants Hearts In Live Dogs
Soviet experimentalist Dr Vladimir Demikhov says he has successfully grafted hearts into two dogs at Moscow’s Medical Institute. The dogs showed functioning hearts with patches on the left side. He aims to graft a supplementary heart into a human before year end using a heart from a deceased donor revived by electrical shock. He also plans a leg transplant from a dog to a woman who lost hers in a train accident though the limb later died after X-ray exposure.
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Moscow
Vladimir Demikhov
Demikhov
Revival Meetings Announced at Elm Street Pilgrim Holiness Church
Hill Congregational Church notes revival services today tomorrow and Thursday. The Rev Donald Meyers of Fox Hill New York conducts daily meetings at Elm Street Pilgrim Holiness Church pastor Rev William E Clive says services begin 7 30 each evening through Saturday and 11 o clock Sunday morning.
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Pilgrim Holiness
Donald Meyers
Fox Hill
N.Y
Elm Street
Pilgrim Holiness Church
William E. Clive
Mrs Kirkpatrick Supports Open Campaign Meetings
Mary A. Kirkpatrick, Ward 1 candidate for the School Committee, praised sponsor groups hosting events where voters hear opposing candidates. Speaking at the Kelleyhouse home she urged judging by face to face dialogue and on floor questions. She and her opponent Charles F. Bunnell were set to speak at 7:30 tonight at Crane School PTA.
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Mary A. Kirkpatrick
Norman H. Kelleyhouse
Crane Ave
Handicap Award Goes to Woman A Top Secretary
Miss Lorraine Burke, 26, though 38 inches tall from lifelong bone ailments, will be honored as The Handicapped Woman of the Year in Massachusetts. She battled 150 job rejections before landing a two week temp gig at Ace Electronics Associates in Somerville, where she has become a top secretary.
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Boston
Lorraine] Burke
Massachusetts
Burke
Industrial School For
Ace Electronics Associates, Inc
Somerville
Number of Georgia Negro Voters Registers Soars
Atlanta UPI reports about 186000 more Negro voters registered in Georgia this year than last, according to the Georgia Voters League estimate.
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Atlanta
UPI
Georgia
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Berkshire County
Berkshire Gas Company
England
Ives
Pittsfeld, Mass
Pitesfield
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