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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1969
Page
5
GREAT BARRINGTON First Resistance Chapter DAR entertained 40 members and guests at luncheon at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge Monday.
Great Barrington reports the Southern Berkshire Community Fund has surpassed the halfway point with $28,495.70 raised toward a $48,500 goal. GE's $1,700 gift under the Employers Neighborhood Fund boosts overall receipts. Event honored the chapter’s 45th birthday with corsages for charter members and remarks by state regent Mrs. Hamilton Sweet of Falmouth. Western Massachusetts attendees came from Greenfield, North Adams, Pittsfield, and Westfield. Entertainment featured the Four More quartet and the Christman family.
Arthur L. Green, director of the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, will address the Southern Berkshire Human Relations Council at Clinton AME Zion Church Sunday at 7 p.m. His talk, The Role of Human Relations Councils in the Community, invites public attendance. The notice also includes local ads for Dempsey's Tire Center and Maloney's Indian Summer Sale with discounts and payment terms.
Mrs James McGuire of Reed Street becomes president of the North Canaan PTA succeeding Mrs Henry Schlect who is moving from town. McGuire has served as vice president since 1968. Adele Streiclum named refreshments chair. Budget for coming year discussed. November meeting to decide on 8th grade trip. Floral centerpiece won as a door prize. DVM Vincent J Peppe spoke on family pets. Public notices include church events and a rescheduled 1970 budget hearing.
Mrs Henry Dunster Howe of Belmont, a Consumers Council member and vice president of the New England Citizen Crime Commission, will address the Southern Berkshire Women's Republican Club Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Barrington House. Members and guests invited. refreshments will be served.
NEW LEBANON NY Fair Weather Farm entered Jersey cow bred by Craig Chittenden placed second in the national milk production contest at the All-American Dairy Show in Columbus Ohio. Chittenden and Thomas Evans had multiple entries. The junior banquet featured entertainment by daughters of the late Oliver Cook, former Fair Weather Farm employee. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Stanley N Chittenden and son Carl, and Mr and Mrs Harold E Evans.
Public hearing in Hudson on extending the Erwin highway aid plan for 10 more years. The plan, started in 1952, would end in 1971 unless renewed. Details show Columbia County totals and town aid, with notices urging written remarks for the record. Republicans vote advised for November 4.
ALBANY NY Southern Zone deer hunters gain free extra hunting by permit in Area W covering parts of Columbia and Dutchess counties during the November 17 to December 2 big game season. Permits include private land Area W specials, bow hunting at Lake Taghkanic State Park, and regular Area W at Taconic State Park Copake Falls. Daily limits 100 permits. Applications to the state Conservation Department Albany NY 12226 or to the Stamford regional game manager. Second item notes East Greenbush Church antiques show with 41 dealers Friday and Saturday, and Scout Troop 123 paper drive proceeds planned for April or May. Miss Sharon A Moon, Brockport teacher and hockey team captain, nominated for Who's Who.
Stephentown joins 15 district system under one man one vote ruling. Voters in the 10th district pick between Hoosick Falls candidates John A. Murphy and Earl R. Goodermote for county representative. Murphy is a longtime Hoosick Falls supervisor and former councilman. Goodermote runs Goodermote Fuel Service and has 13 years on the school board. Also, Taconic Valley branch will promote its Holiday Fair on Channel 10 Dialing for Dollars Monday from 9 to 10 am for Berlin Community Hall event on Nov 8.
Lenox selectman John J. Pignatelli forwards Palmer's offer to Berkshire Christian College president Ernest Palmer for a town fundraiser concert. The college chorale would perform at the Town Hall between December 11 and 18 to raise money for a proposed Laurel Lake beach house, with all expenses covered by the college. The chorale has performed across 14 states and appeared on radio and at notable venues in Florida and New Jersey.
Ronald J. Halpin of Halpin's Service Station says he will give up the Mobil dealership once a replacement is found. He has run the Main and Franklin gas station for 10 years, succeeding the late Oscar R. Hutchinson, to devote himself to R. J. Halpin, Inc. trucking headquartered beside the station. He will continue wrecker service from his garage, offering backhoe loader snow plowing fill sand and gravel. Joe Parczyk 637-2782 after 5 pm Ad.
Lenox officials will open bids and award the contract for demolishing the Laurel Lake beach house on Nov 12. Plumbing fixtures will be salvaged separately. Norman Day sketches a new beach house while prior bids exceeded $20,000, prompting a rejection last month. In other business, planning-board permits issued for Lenox Savings Bank addition and a building demolition.
William D. Roche executive vice president and treasurer states Lenox Savings Bank will install a drive-up and a walk-up window at the rear of the Main Street building. The additions, expected to be finished by mid December, will streamline operations.
Lenox Memorial High School class of 1971 will sponsor a car wash and food sale on Saturday to benefit the class. The car wash runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lenox Savings Bank with the food sale at Loeb's Foodtown during the same hours.
The Cooperative Extension Association of Rensselaer County will hold its annual meeting at Germania Hall in North Troy on Thursday, November 6. A family style roast beef dinner starts at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Carol Green and Wallace Koenig will present a program on the Hudson River Sloop with pictures and songs. Elections will cover board directors and committees in the agricultural 44 and home economics divisions.
In Stephentown New York both Republicans and Democrats stagedublic rallies last week as voters prepare for next Tuesday's general election. Key focus was the 10th County Legislative District supervisor race with Democrats touting their largest rally in 30 years attended by Earl R. Goadermore and county officials, while Republicans led by John A. Murphy held a covered-dish supper style event with local candidates and several for county offices.
Windsor will host standard and advanced first aid courses. Men and women interested should contact Fire Chief Hugh Ferry before Monday to enroll.
Wynantskill NY The state Extension Service will hold a November 20 to 22 conference at Cornell University Ithaca for owners operators and developers of camping areas. Special sessions aid beginner operators with topics including bank keeping systems campground landscaping cost accounting interpretive trails and standards.
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