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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1959
Page
19
A bobcat was killed by Bryan Nichols near his Keene home. Nichols, 18, collected a $20 bounty for the animal and plans to use the money to fund his education as a freshman at the University of New Hampshire.
Glenn A. Betzer Jr. 22 of North Easton drowned while diving for an outboard motor in Winnecunnet Pond Norton. His father and Michael Powers anchored the boat and aided in a lengthy underwater search before the body and motor were found about 30 feet from where the dive began.
Pittsburgh report says 25 year old James Carlson shouted at a black sedan, was detained by two patrol officers, brought before a magistrate, and fined 10 dollars for using vile language in public.
Radio and television schedule items feature Brig Gen Hester and Dr Reissig with a current events discussion, musical panorama with Paul Weston and NBC Orchestra, news and weather blocks, sports and game shows, and multiple hourly news segments including World and Local coverage.
A fragmented listing outlines radio segments including new recordings, policy notes, a Netherlands report, and an American Republic program. Other items mention music from miscellaneous wood tones and turnpike classical music with unclear times and stations.
A scrambled TV radio grid lists a full day’s schedule with programs such as News and Weather, Sign On, Sports Headlines, various game shows, comedies, dramas, soap operas, and late night talk. Programs include Burns and Allen, Queen for a Day, Blondie, I Love Lucy, Love of Life, Guiding Light, and The Edge of Night among others.
A scrambled TV listing shows various programs and times such as Naked City at 9 30, Alcoa Hour, Weather segments, Pantomime, Day In Court, Gale Storm Show, Beat The Clock, Who Do You Trust, American Bandstand and Micker Mouse Clue.
Berkshires remembers Abel Buell a Stockbridge silversmith and polymath from Kill ingworth Conn who lived 1742 to 1810. The Wesleyan University Press volume by Lawrence C. Wroth outlines Buell many roles from counterfeiter to mapmaker and engraver amid Financier troubles and a late life religious conversion.
Johnson named chairman of the Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce Fire Prevention Week program for National Fire Prevention Week October 4 to 10. He will lead a committee including Clarence B. Anderson Berkshire Mutual Fire Insurance Co. chief James P. deCoste GE plant protection force Donald P. Gerst Pittsfield School Department John A. Massimiano Gordon H. Reynolds Reynolds Barnes Hebb Lt. Alexander D. Sturgeon Pittsfield Fire Department.
Alfred L. Frechette state commissioner of public health will urge a rehabilitation center for drug addicts and depart mental action to push the measure before the legislature. He says current laws lack treatment options and the plan would allow holding the addict by compulsion until cured.
American type founder Buell established his Killingworth foundry about 1784 and produced the first map of the United States as an engraver and mapmaker. A 41 by 46.5 inch wall map bore the legend Published according to Act of Assembly. Dr Wroth calls it one of the earliest copyright claims printed in the U S. Dr Weath's biography seeks to restore Buell’s reputation in Berkshire history.
Congressman Silvio Conte praises support from Massachusetts colleagues in pushing to lift oil import quotas. He warns quotas threaten New England fuel supply and could raise costs for hospitals, apartments, and power plants while straining relations with oil exporters.
Kaman Aircraft Corp reports new highs in employment sales and earnings in the first half of 1959 at its Bloomfield Conn plant.
Columbus reports Patrolman Beggrow acted as judge when three boys pressed to let air out auto tires. He issued a tire pump and ordered them to work, while the article notes figures on sales value and full employment rising across 1958 production periods.
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