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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1969
Page
10
brief publication record states daily schedule except Sundays and holidays under Eagle Publishing Company at 33 Eagle Street Pittsfield Massachusetts indicating a local edition cadence and publishing firm details.
The piece argues Nixon seeks to pacify campus activists with troop withdrawals and limited draft reforms, while protesters demand broader policy change. It links timing to the new college year and UN speech, noting Kennedy and others see only cosmetic moves without substantive disengagement from the war.
A critical piece argues that railroads have conspired to cut passenger service, undermining ICC authority. It notes vending machines replacing dining cars, urges Congress to empower the ICC, warns of further cuts, and predicts inevitable reductions if action stalls. It cites Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited case and urges swift regulatory reforms.
In brief notes the region shifts include GE plans to remove most transmission towers in Lenox, a merger of Episcopal and Congregational Sunday schools, and active local figures like School Superintendent Whalen. Other items note Berkshire School admitting girls, the Merrell Tavern’s younger age, and the Williams yearbook’s 1969 box edition.
The Cape Codder argues that Sen. Edward W. Brooke, once a highroad politician, showed a haloes slip by urging a Westover Air Force base meeting over its economic impact. The item calls for cutting wasteful military spending to reduce the federal budget burden and stresses leadership to shift communities away from war industry interests toward self interest.
Looking Back notes the Tillotson Manufacturing Co in Silver Lake giving each employee a life insurance policy ranging from 500 to 1500 dollars, with total coverage valued at 400000 dollars and potential increases. Also mentions local alumni and other historical items including a Williams College student, art exhibit at Berkshire Museum, GE cost savings, and a woodchuck hunting incident in Richmond.
Mae Castella, 73, longtime Rainbow Restaurant waitress on First Street, recalls her paper route from Lenox station to Lenox Dale and Beecham gum gifts from Pittsfield customers. Stockbridge librarian Polly Pierce shares Henry Hudson’s 1609 visit and Mohican history. Borden Dairy reports six months net income 29.5 million and Shaker Village feature. Anonymous Cummington correspondent notes ongoing atmospheric wobble and storms. Office philosopher quips about women in slacks.
Readers comment on Up With People concerts quality of turnout for a mayoral rally and on political campaigns. They critique spending on defense and discuss civic issues including sex education, packaging waste, bottle deposits, and local fire department concerns in Pittsfield Dalton and Hinsdale Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Audubon Society writer Polly Bradley laments Santa Barbara oil leak despite slower flow. Public frustration grows as drilling proposals and industry profits persist, while residents and readers consider broader lessons for New England and coastal pollution questions.
Quotes criticize television as the imposition of a social minority on the majority. Alexander Kendrick’s biography of Edward R. Murrow is cited, while John E. Sawyer warns that impersonality may extend to rural life, even cows may lose names and pace.
Buckley argues that public sex education debates are ideological with the John Birch Society and SIECUS influencing opinion. He cites Ernnest van den Haag on trivial concern over explicit sex teaching and contends practical knowledge helps prevent disease and pregnancy, urging focus on reading and writing in schools.
A Hebrew Watchman writer claims President Nasser attends synagogue each day and prays for another Moses to lead the Jews out of Egypt, as reported by the Nashville Banner.
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