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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1959
Page
8
The School Committee named Kathleen McDermott director of adult education at Searles High School. Americanization classes will be taught by Margaret Kelly. A Girl Scout Town Association meeting is planned for tomorrow at the youth building, not tonight.
GREAT BARRINGTON Berkshire County outdoor archery team shoot championship will start at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Buckhorn Bowman range behind the local VFW. The Buckhorn Bowman hosts. The top five men on a team win the county trophy now held by Berkshire Hills archery club. The top male archer receives a trophy and second and third receive medals. The three top women receive prizes. Competing clubs include Northern Berkshire Bowmen Williamstown Berkshire Bowmen of this town Lee Bowmen of Lee and Central Bowmen of Pittsfield. In case of rain the shoot will be Oct 4.
Selectmen last night awarded Charles Freadman and son the steel beams contract to repair Beartown Mountain Road bridge. Freadman bid 240.24 for four 12 inch, 24 foot beams, underbidding A Leo Nash Steel Corp which asked 450 for site delivery and 278 for mill delivery. Delivery was included in Freadman bid. Berkshire County Selectmen's Association sets its annual meeting for October 8 at Hinsdale Country Club with Judge F Anthony Hanson of the Berkshire County Probate Court as speaker.
Adame shows open weekends only with Happened to Jane at 8:35 and 8:00 listed. Coury’s Drive-In operates weekends only with Devils Disciple shows at 7:00 and 9:00. Muahale presents Devil s Disciple at Paramount. North Adama screens It s a Wonderful World at 1:00 4:05 7:15 and That Kind of Woman at 2:35 5:40 8:50.
GREAT BARRINGTON Among Searles High School graduates entering college are four boys and three girls. Harvey Broverman will study electrical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. William Cummins departs for Boston to attend the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy to become a laboratory pharmacist. James P Dohoney attends Holy Cross College to study law. Francis Malaily at Boston College majors in accounting. Cornelia Flanagan attends Otto Wesleyan University and was editor in chief of the yearbook. Mary Nugent studies at Oberlin College to teach piano. Elizabeth Sullivan enters Trinity College to teach. The students held various leadership and club roles such as Student Council, Spectator Club, band, orchestra, glee club, and yearbook staff.
The Berkshire Inn in Great Barrington hosts a packed fall schedule with the Quota Club International fourth district conference opening Friday. Delegates include Mrs Henry G Horn and Mrs Cora Gleason, among others from Pittsfield and Western Massachusetts clubs. Additional events: Electrical Council of New England gathering Sept 30 to Oct 2, joint fall meeting of paper industry groups Oct 23, and Municipal Auditors and Tax Assessor conference Oct 36 with speakers from state government. Rentals and classifieds intersperse the notices.
GREAT BARRINGTON An open meeting with a covered-dish supper will be held Thursday at Walker Hall to install officers for Grange Betkehire Heights four room unit. Deputy David MacWinne and Will buy a three bedroom house within 12 miles of the new officers in Great Barrington.
GREAT BARRINGTON Mr and Mrs Herbert E Race Jr announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Lynn Beverly Race to John Charles Thomas son of Mr and Mrs Myron Thomas of Otis. Miss Race is a Searles High School graduate and Berkshire Business College student in Pittsfield. Thomas is a senior at Westfield Trade School and works for his father a Otis building contractor. A fall wedding is planned.
Stockbridge Men’s league opens Wednesday night at 8 in the Lee alleys with Wheeler’s, Benjamin Pharmacy, Insurance, Pymen Gores, Callar, Mart, Cabineta and others listed. Schedule names Wheeler’s 8, Benjamin Pharmacy, Insurance, Wine Cellar, Main Street Mart, Stewarts Capinete, plus more teams and players.
Martha Koloski led last week's Women’s League with a high single of 109 and a high series of 299. Pine Glen posted top team scores, 433 in a single game and 1267 total. Match results include Hall's 3 Coal & Gram 1 Pine Glen 3 Curley’s Beauty Salon 1 Pillings 2 Beac’eco 2. Team standings show Pine Glen and Coat & Grain near the top with Pillings and Hall’s beneath them. This week Pillings faces Hall’s Beacon and Pine Glen meets Coat & Grain. Assessors meet tonight from 7:30 to 9 in the town office. Real estate ad seeks a three-bedroom house within 12 miles of Great Barrington, around $25,000, box LLC Eagle Office Pittsfield.
Middlefield Boy Scouts elected officers at the Elementary School session with Joseph White as senior patrol leader and William White among assistants. The group hiked to West Hill Saturday for a woods dinner under Assistant Scoutmaster James Provost and urged attendance at the Berkshire Council Camporee. Miss Mary C. Smith returned to Boston after summering at home.
Mount Everett Circle of the Daughters of Isabella has been invited to the Pittsfield Circle 33rd anniversary banquet on October 17 at 6 pm at the Wendell-Sheraton Hotel. Richard Cardinal Cushing will speak. Reservations should be made with Mrs. Edward T. Larkin.
Three local stores host Boy Scouts displays this week for the annual fund drive. Heights Clothing at 276 Main St, the focal office of the New England Telephone Tele co, and Ye Men's Shop feature exhibits. A rummage sale at St James Parish House Saturday 10 to 1, sponsored by the church's senior choir.
LEE-Glenford Bouchard, 45, of 41 Castle St., Great Barrington, fined $135 in District Court after a one car crash near the Let-Lenox line on Route 7. He pleaded guilty to driving without a license and registration, and to drunkenness and DUI charges. He testified he tried to avoid a head-on collision as his headlights faced oncoming traffic. The car, registered to his sister, was damaged and involved guard rails and posts. State troopers Erdeski and Nelson investigated.
Lenox Berkshire Country Day School reports 106 students enrolled at start, about double two years earlier. Principal Donald T. Oakes notes emphasis on reading with grade level upgrades from kindergarten through eighth grade, plus earlier reading habits training. Students advance faster, with many reading above norms on Stanford Binet tests.
DALTON Stanley Zaleski elected president of the DHL senior class. He is a Berkshire football player sidelined this season due to a summer broken ankle. Bruce Smart is vice president, Palma Mauro secretary, Ann Cooney treasurer. Leah Shepard and Joan Dion cochairmen of the yearbook. Other senior council members include Robert Johnson, Ann Kleabonas, Susan Callahan, Wayne Cronnell, John Reid, Irene Pease.
Lanesboro School Committee says the Courtesy Cab Company will transport vocational and parochial students for the rest of the week. A Thursday vote will decide whether to continue with Courtesy or resume Bareshire Street Railway service. If BSR resumes, tickets will be issued through schools prior to service. Regular school mine transport unaffected. Grange Spelling Bee slated for tomorrow at 8:30 in Grange Hall with Inez Ostrage handling petty cash and refreshments by George Buckley. Boy Scouts plan future meetings at Town Hall under Scoutmaster Rob er Wyble. gatherings set for Wednesday at 7 9 with all Dove 11 years old or older invited.
Final arrangements for the Columbus Day dinner dance will be presented to the Father Davitt Council Knights of Columbus tomorrow at 8 in the council rooms. The dance is set for Oct 19 at the Curtis Hotel. Mia Toramie DiConza of National Telefilm Associates will transfer to Beverly Hills on Sept 20 as the company is acquired by National Theaters, a 20th Century Fox subsidiary, with operations from Beverly Hills. she expects to stay three to five months with her mother Mrs. Joseph A. Die Conza. Bela J. Gulyas has enrolled in Moravian College forestry program as a sophomore from Windsor Mountain School. The Lenox Horticulture Society will hold its postponed meeting Thursday at 7 pm at Town Hall.
Sgt Richard C Masiero who led the US Army convoy detained in East Germany and refused Russians access will be honored in West Stockbridge with a reception and dinner on October 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the State Line Restaurant. Tickets are available townwide. Congressman Silvio Conte, who urged Masiero’s promotion to sergeant, will speak.
WEST STOCKBRIDGE PTA officials announce a meeting tomorrow at 8 pm in the local school to discuss continuing the hot lunch program. Attendance and the meeting outcome may determine whether the program continues.
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