Lanesboro Plans Special Town Meeting for Fire and Highway Building
Lanesboro selectmen set Sept 29 at Town Hall for five articles. Major item authorizes 15000 to buy about 5.3 acres with house and garage off Route 7 for a facility to house highway and fire equipment. Page details include land owned by Hazel Sherman and Henry Whiting, plus 1250 for legal fees and surveys. Also appoint a five person committee to study needs and costs, with report next annual meeting. Additional articles transfer funds for maintenance and a cab for a new front end loader. Other business to be addressed. Plus church notices: St Luke’s Church holds Holy Communion tomorrow at 10 am with service details and Sunday school registration next week, Berkshire Chapel services at 8:45 am.
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Lanesboro
Selectmen
Route 7
Hazel Sherman
Henry Whiting
Lanesboro Volunteer Fire Association
Highway Department
Haly
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Cortland Rf. Pusey
James L. Passmore
Nelson W. Winman
Arthur Williams Sr
Charles S. Clemons Jr
Great Barrington Seeks Experienced Teletype Operator
Advertisements list a morning teletype and afternoon filing duties at Eagle Office Great Barrington. 35 hour week with open salary. mail responses to Box A. Also notes of local pharmacy, farm produce, lipstick sale, drug help, tire service, and auto dealership Saturday hours change at Lee Auto Sales.
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Eagle Office
Great Barrington
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Lee Auto Sales
Sandisfield seeks Eagle correspondent position ad
The Berkshire Eagle invites typed applications for a Sandisfield Eagle correspondent. Send typewritten requests to the County Desk in Pittsfield Massachusetts as advertised.
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Sandisfield
County Desk
Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield
Mass
Dalton Finance Committee Meeting Agenda Preview
The Dalton Finance Committee will meet Tuesday night at the Town Hall to review subcommittee reports and discuss transfer of funds along with the 1970 budgets.
Berkshire Hills Regional to study district coordinator specs
Berkshire Hills Regional School District plans a regular meeting on October 9 to act on job specifications for the District Elementary Coordinator position held by Norman Boyer who assumed the post this summer. The specifications outline the coordinator's functions and responsibilities. A copy was presented last meeting but the board tabled action to review the details. The district calendar notes 186 days in the 1969-70 year with holidays including Columbus Day Veterans Day Thanksgiving Christmas recess and spring break among others.
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Great Barrington
Berkshire Hills
Norman Boyer
Berkshire County Teachers’ Conference
West Stockbridge Grange to Visit Hinsdale Grange
West Stockbridge Grange members will visit Hinsdale Grange on Monday. They are to meet at the West Stockbridge Grange Halls at 6 45 for the trip to Hinsdale. Adv. 8 to 12.
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West Stockbridge
Hinsdale
Lebanon Valley Garden Club Plans Meeting News
The Lebanon Valley Garden Club will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Winthrop Foss in Canaan. Mrs. J. V. De Porte will discuss Perennial Carry On. James E. Renne chairs Pantry Shelf at the Harvest Festival October 4 at Berkshire Garden Center Stockbridge MA.
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Garden Club
New Lebanon
N.Y
Lebanon Valley Garden Club
Winthrop Foss
Canaan
J. V. DePorte
James E. Renne
Pantry Shelf
Berkshire Garden Center
Stockbridge
Mass
New Staff Members At Austen Riggs Center
Stockbridge welcomes two new staff members at the Austen Riggs Center Dr Jeffrey B Hersh and Dr Marc I Lubin. Hersh earned a PhD in psychology from Indiana University and a City University of New York graduate, living on East Street with his wife. Lubin holds a BA from Brandeis University and a PhD in psychology from the University of Chicago, residing on Main Street with his wife. Both will train by seeing patients, attending seminars, and administering psychological tests at Riggs.
Chester students tour high school and air base trip notes
Chester reports a Thursday visit by Mexican students from Westfield State College to Gateway Regional High School in Huntington, and a Friday tour for Chester Grade 4 students to Barnes Airport to view Air National Guard facilities, followed by Gateway students attending a Pygmalion performance at Amherst College.
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Westfield State College
Gateway Regional High School
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Canaan Food Firm to Close Area Plant
Republic Foods announces end of House of Herbs processing in Canaan during the week of December 12. Twelve workers will lose processing jobs as operations move to the Greenville New Hampshire plant on January 1, with Salisbury staff offered transfers or paid termination. Reasons include building deterioration, remodeling challenges, transportation shortages, and lack of skilled labor.
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Republic Foods
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House of Herbs
Sanford
Republic
Greenville
N.H
Salisbury
Congregational Church Sunday School Resumes Activities
Middlefield residents learn Sunday School resumes tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. at the home of Mr and Mrs Wayne A Sumner with senior and junior high activities starting soon. Delegates to the Oct 5 area meeting in Holoke should mail registrations to Berkshire Associations Service by Sept 24. Contributions to the Church World Service clothing drive may be sent to Mrs Ralph Johnson by Oct 19, seeking blankets and lightweight clean clothing for all ages, especially children.
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Congregational Church
Church World Service
Ralph Johnson
Depot Street
Dalton
House Hunters Rush Lindsay On Retirement
Scores of New York apartment seekers flocked to a misleading ad claiming 175 East End Avenue rent controlled six room units in a newly renovated building. They found Gracie Mansion, John V. Lindsay’s 170 year old colonial home, at 175 East End Avenue by misaddressed in a false listing.
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New York Times
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Gracie Mansion
John V. Lindsay
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89Th Streets
Ave
Beatles Cut Musical Toast To the Queen
The Beatles pay homage to Queen Elizabeth II in a new LP due Sept. 26. Paul McCartney sings a line declaring intentions to marry the Queen, with a press agent noting the group is monarchist and sending a copy to Buckingham Palace. A Buckingham Palace spokesman doubted the Queen listens to pop music.
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London
Paul McCartney
Paul
Buckingham Palace
Palace
South Korea Floods Worst in Ten Years
Seoul reports indicate the Naksong River disaster near Namchi left about eight drowned when a ferry capsized. Radio Dong A said twenty swam ashore as floods in Cholla Namdo and Kyongsang Namdo caused at least 273 deaths and millions in damage with 114 missing.
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Naksong
Namchi
Radio Dong-A
South Korea
Cholla South
Kyungsang
Catholic Order Invites Bartenders for Weekend Chats
The Redemptorist Center in Clinton Iowa invites bartenders and cafe lounge workers of all faiths to visit the center the weekend of Sept 28. Father John Morton says bartenders hear personal issues and confessions, and may do much good through conversations with the order.
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Clinton
Iowa
Redemptorist Center
Fathers and Brothers of the Redemptorist Order
John Morton
Father Morton
Maine Pot Crop Burned After Detectives Discover Wild Grow
Maine state police seized and burned more than 2000 marijuana plants found growing wild on an East Bethel Road farm in Bethel. Detective William G. Bickford said owners did not know the weeds’ nature until a lab test in Augusta confirmed the cannabis.
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Maine
Bethel
East Bethel Road
William G. Bickford
Augusta
St Tropez myth and crowd pull contrasts with pious priest
In St Tropez, France, locals juggle devout parish duties with a booming tourist trade. Father Baud defends the town against sensational rumors of vice while noting high prices and busy cafes. Tourists, drawn by myth and spectacle, seek reassurance they remain connected to modern life and even attend Mass in growing numbers.
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ST. Tropez
France
Lucien Band
Nero
Pisa
Father Baud
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