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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1963
Page
18
The notice states a daily publication schedule by Eagle Publishing Company, based on Ecole Street in Pittsfield Massachusetts, with exceptions on Sundays and holidays. It identifies the publisher and location without listing additional details.
Editorial notes that the summer negotiations between General Electric and the International Union of Electrical Workers ended upbeat with union approval of the offer. It argues the outcome was never in serious doubt, given antistrike sentiment and the union’s limited leverage, highlighting GE’s single-offer strategy as vindicated.
From GE’s view the performance was successful yet the strength of Boulwareism rests on weak union leadership led by James B Carey. He mishandled a three week walkout three years ago and again blocked settlement this year. Union members’ mood hints at reassessing his judgment as GE communities brace for three more years of relative labor calm.
The piece argues for liberalizing East West trade, noting Soviet interest in $200 million worth of American wheat. It cites Canada’s $500 million sale as proof Soviets buy abroad, urges lifting nonessential trade barriers to ease tensions and improve the balance of payments by selling surplus wheat to the USSR. It emphasizes benefits over risks and calls for starting with wheat sales.
Yellow Coach lines plan a October 10 start for the North Street shuttle bus serving Pittsfield with noted potential for ridership gains. George Gloster of North Adams State College leads a Saturday mathematics program for county high school students, showing regional colleges’ supportive role. Lee merchants seek a large billboard along the Turnpike, echoing wider roadside advertising growth from Boston to the Berkshires. John M. Deely Jr. reports Russia impressions to the Lee Rotary, offering a candid contrast to typical traveler bias.
Comment author Louis E. Lomax calls for organized study-ins to boost vocational guidance and academic prep for Black students. He argues they must be experienced as soul meetings, a covenant with teachers, and pursued with disciplined militancy to advance in industry and government in 1963.
A compact look at early radio careers, word origins, and trivia. John Pickard recalls a failed New York audition in 1939 after a baseball misunderstanding. Spoonerisms trace back to Rev. William Spooner, while others note Old Lag Cabin lore and the ice cream sundae’s fiery Sunday ban. The piece closes with highway safety tips and a Broadway profit note for The Sound of Music.
Thirty five attended the country club dance hosted by Mr and Mrs H D Brigham and Miss Dutton in honor of Miss Carmen Martinez and Dr Thomas F Flournoy. Lenox society supported a fancy dress charity at the Aspinwall Hotel for Miss Ethelred F Folsom’s Mountain View home convalescents. George E Bastow, son of Charles H Bastow, promoted to general sales manager of Mayflower Boughniut Corp Bay. Carl Van Anda, ex managing editor New York Times, paid 25600 to buy The Mount estate of Mrs Mary Shattuck in Lenox. Robert Wasson, RPI senior, flew 18000 miles to South America in a 1937 Cessna with companion Herbert Hope.
A humorous essay contrasts the male dominated politics of New England with African Adele Women’s Day. It describes women’s festive parade, male withdrawal, and revelry while noting Western mothers' day lack of united action. The piece laments women’s political independence and imagines an Adele like day in New England.
A cornucopia of reader letters covers race and discrimination, transit ticket costs, and the Department of Public Utilities scrutiny. Cassie Cowan urges anti hatred, Mary Connolly questions bus ticket sales, and Emil Wainee Jr. and Evelyn Grotencall for an investigation into New Junction Water Co. rate increases and DPU performance.
Marquis Childs profiles Edward P. Neilan, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, as a combative reformer challenging big federal spending and political influence over contracts. He urges curbing subsidies, notes the $41 billion federal highway program, and plans future speeches to press business independence from government. Neilan faces congressional backlash but remains committed amid a broad critique of centralized spending and influence.
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