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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1969
Page
24
Ann Arbour reports on a University of Michigan sociologist Marcello Truzzi unveiling "Cauldron Cookery" with medieval recipes. The book promises tricks to become invisible, summon werewolves, and curse rivals, using coffins nails, cat fat, and moonlit rituals.
Dr Charles Richter, creator of the modern earthquake scale, says the recent small temblors in California show no sign of spawning a major quake. Two quakes Monday measured 4.7 near Hollister and 4.3 near Laguna Beach, with no damage reported. California had seven quakes of 4 magnitude or higher that month.
Providence AP report quotes Brown University geologist Dr Michael A Chinnery noting 60 to 160 sizable quakes since 1600 in the region and a potential good size tremor once per century. He cites an Atlantic coast quake belt from New York to Boston, mentions micro quakes, and describes planned use of three portable seismographs in a triangle 10 miles apart.
Madrid reports Franco has approved talks for Pablo Picasso to return to Spain and for the purchase of his anti-regime work Guernica. Spain is building a 28.8 million dollar Modern Art Museum at Madrid University to house the Civil War masterwork and other Picasso paintings formerly in New York.
At the Pan African Cultural Congress in Algiers, Dr Seth Cudjoe of Ghana urged pride in indigenous African practices, arguing polygamy reflects African traditions and criticizing European monogamy as hypocritical. The 4000 delegates from about 24 countries welcomed the views, signaling a shift away from colonial-era values.
In Frankfort Kentucky the administrative officer of the Court of Appeals must announce God save the commonwealth and this honorable court at each session. Chief Justice Morris Montgomery reportedly altered the line to God save the people from this honorable court.
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