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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1959
Page
20
Washington with House passage of a penny per gallon federal gas tax rise to 4 cents for 22 months to fund the 41,000 mile interstate system. The bill, 243-162, heads to the Senate amid expected opposition and potential changes.
Connecticut reports four polio deaths, with James F Beamon Jr 17 of Waterbury dying at St Marys Hospital about 24 hours after admission. Earlier fatalities included two six month old New Haven boys and a 51 year old East Haven man. State Health Department notes 83 cases this year, the worst year since 1955.
A 15 year old in Passaic New Jersey confessed to authorities that he stole fifteen cars over three months. He said he was car crazy and usually returned vehicles before owners noticed. He was held for juvenile authorities as lawmakers debated a bill.
WASHINGTON AP The Labor Department seeks a 16 million dollar appropriation to start a large corruption policing unit under the labor control bill. Secretary James P. Mitchell plans to recruit agents to pursue tips and bring violators to court, with subpoena power and records access. A Senate watchdog group may be formed to monitor effectiveness.
President Eisenhower midweek cancelled planned October talks at Harvard Law School and Brown University Providence Rhode Island due to an overbooked schedule. He had been slated to dedicate Harvard's International Legal Studies Wing and open Brown's three day convocation on Man's Contracting World in an Expanding Universe, though Brown's event proceeds as scheduled.
In Victory Vermont the last two hamlets without electricity invite visitors to view life as real Vermonters live it. Forty nine residents of 2 Ft Towns and sixty from nearby Granby will demonstrate daily living without plumbing paved roads or other modern comforts. The Vermont Recreation Department says residents are fiercely proud and independent in the old Vermont tradition.
Rhode Island Governor Christopher Del Sesto lauds Massachusetts pollution controls for Mount Hope Bay. Fall River officials announce a 3 million dollar sewage project to reduce contamination of the Quequechan River feeding Rhode Island shellfish areas. Del Sesto met with Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo and Fall River Mayor John Arruda to discuss cross state cooperation on pollution and highway programs in the Fall River region.
Police were called out Wednesday as a posse of teenagers armed with rifles pursued a supposed mountain lion sighting. Officers said they joined to ensure teens did not harm one another while the situation was resolved.
Newton Mass UP I Rich ard Cardinal Cushing warned delegates that war between Russia and the United States is a basic doctrine of communism and could happen in your lifetime. He urged readers to view peace rhetoric as world conquest and noted a nation wide prayer wave during Khrushchev’s visit.
Boeing Airplane Company received official go ahead for production of an advanced version of the Strat fortress bombers. The decision follows UPI reports from Wichita, confirming the military program move.
Massachusetts tax receipts rose in July and August to 55.7 million dollars, but remain short of the amount needed to fund expenditures. State Tax Commissioner Capeless said 20 million came from the new withholding system, leaving the state about five million ahead of last year’s pace. If the trend continues 16 months, the state could be about 14 million short of the 431 million dollar budget. Inheritance, gasoline, cigarette, and corporate taxes rose, while liquor and racing taxes fell.
Local party column recounts a child named Jackson Ezekiel Da James Nathaniel Sylvester Wild Ward Demosthenes Henderson on his eighth birthday. The tale notes the elaborate moniker given by parents to honor nurses, plus a humorous claim the only result was a pair of pants from one uncle.
Democratic governors led by Lawrence of Pennsylvania telegrammed President Eisenhower urging a White House meeting to press a swift settlement of the steel strike. They cited 717,000 idle workers in Pennsylvania alone and warned the industry faces record delays. The governors urged a prompt settlement rather than Taft-Hartley enforcement and a back-to-work order after the truce. The signers include Brown, Freeman, Meyner, Furcolo, Nelson, Tawes, and Williams. Ohio’s DiSalle was not among them.
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