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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1963
Page
20
Great Barrington Mount Everett Council No. 513 plans installation of new officers tomorrow at 7 pm at Bridge Street council rooms. District deputies Arthur A. Vuillemot Jr. of Pittsfield and Armand L. Ferron of Great Barrington will preside with their staffs.
Great Barrington police probe who was driving a car found damaged in the railroad station lot late Saturday. The vehicle owner is Dr. William Gulick of South Main Street. police say the car was not stolen despite rumors. Authorities seek the accident driver and crash location details.
Movie timetable notes show screenings of 3 Stooges Around the World in a Daze at Paramount North Adams and several other theaters during weekends. Also listed siege of the Saxons with showings, and drive-in venues with limited weekend operations in Manalwe and surrounding counties.
Peter P. Pickle 43 of Richmond was fined 75 in District Court after a one car crash on Stockbridge Road near Tracy's service station. Testimony said his car left the road, hit a tree, and ended up north of the tree. he was found drunk outside the vehicle. He pleaded guilty to drunken driving and operating under the influence, with a 73 fine for the latter and a week to pay.
GREAT BARRINGTON Ne negotiations are under way for the sale of Mahaiwe Motors Inc the Main Street Ford agency to Fred Vorck of Wellesley and William Brundage of Stockbridge the present owner Robert K Wheeler announced this morning Er nest B Blood who has headed the business since January 1958 will remain with the firm for a short time The sale involves only the corporation Wheeler will keep the real estate title The two buyers have already taken possession
Hinsdale’s Peewee football squad defeated Dalton Sunday in Daleton Leigh Turner scored two touchdowns and Charles Lennon added another as Hinsdale shut out the White team 20-0, improving to 2-0 in the Dalton League.
A Wahconah menu lists daily offerings: Tuesday features hot pork and gravy sandwich with corn and apple. Wednesday serves chicken noodle soup carrot pennies raisins ham salad peanut butter and jelly with pumpkin pie. Thursday offers a cold grinder with potato chips and a pear half. Friday includes tuna macaroni salad sheets and fruit cocktail.
About 1,000 adults received the first of three oral polio inoculations at a Town Hall clinic. The event drew participants from Dalton and 13 surrounding communities including Hinsdale Windsor and Peru, with 263 diphtheria tetanus shots also given. Br Daniel Carlin led the clinic for the Berkshire County Medical Society with nurses Rosemary Crosier Marguerite Fox and many volunteers. The next inoculation is scheduled for November 3.
Dalton The First Congregational Men's Club opens season with a 6 15 supper then a panel on race relations. Nelson Hines chairs the Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimination and NAACP leaders Floyd Jean Lincol n Jones Lawrence Caesar Horace Cauffman participate. Moderator Rev Patrick Finleon leads. All parish men invited. OES inspection scheduled Berkshire Chapter OES 8 Tuesday Union Block Masonic Rooms business meeting 6 30 dinner 6 30.
Dr P J Sullivan will attend the Red Cross bloodmobile visit at the Community House on October 7 from noon to 545 PM. Mrs Gil bert D Kittredge and Mrs Henry H Williams Jr chair the event with recruiters under Mrs Richard W Kerans. Appointment sheets will be circulated in local mills. one pint of blood helps the donor's family for a year. CRA Group Tomorrow executive committee meets Tuesday at 730 PM in the Community House.
Stockbridge Teachers Association elected Jack Spencer as president and Mrs Anthony G Rud as vice president at a recent meeting. Miss Judith Lahey was chosen secretary and Charles H Pope treasurer. Ralph Collins Mrs Rud Mrs Ralph Gilroy and Sherman Hall named to the salary committee.
The Sheffield Garden Club hosts a bar sale on October 12 at the Ivanhoe Country House on Under Mountain Road to raise funds for an herb garden to be planted next spring at the Col Ashley House Museum in Ashley Falls.
Piping Rock Pro at Piping Rock Club Locust Valley NY offers practice tee tips for developing an inside-out swing. The guide recommends using red striped balls and aiming at a marked target on the ball to train the swing and improve distance and accuracy. A scrub brush technique is also suggested to aid focus on the intended path.
Sheffield intermediate bridge is one class in the full session of adult education announced by James A. Shiminski. Registration runs tomorrow to Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Mount Everett Regional High School for Oct 1 and 3 start.
Berkshire County Red Cross opens its annual fall winter water safety program Oct 9 at the Boys' Clubs pool in Pittsfield with evenings from 8:39 to 10:30 through May 1964. Adult swimming runs Oct 9 to Dec 11 under Leo J. Fiorini Jr. and a team of Pittsfield instructors. A senior lifesaving course starts Jan 8, a water safety instructor course in March, and a girls synchronized swimming team may be organized with registrations at 63 Wendell Ave.
Anthony M. Pastore, running as a city at large candidate, urged at Linden Street VFW for a training program to prep men for the new sewage plant and more diesel mechanics at the City Yard. He warned that delays raise costs and called for leveling unaccepted streets with city road graders.
Fire records show a second floor blaze in a vacant building at 43 Clapp Ave likely started by vagrants, damaging flooring and ceiling. A rear damp fire at 740 Crane Ave tied up crews for about three hours. A broken sprinkler pipe at 230 North St caused water damage at Bridge Billiard Hall after boys swung on pipes, with further water damage to nearby businesses. A dump fire on Audubon Street. and an air burner issue at 34 Franklin St caused no fire.
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