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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1965
Page
7
The legislature repealed a law that required local tax offices to recover exemptions granted for age infirmity or poverty, expanding assessor discretion on property tax relief. Affected cases include exemptions up to 2000 dollars on properties not assessed above 8000 dollars for needy widows, orphans, and seniors with long occupancy. Officials warn repeal may trigger more applications as estates may lack recovery funds.
Police say two church windows on First Street were smashed Saturday night, one valued at 380. Six local youths aged 10 to 12 were later apprehended after placing stones on the Boston and Albany tracks near the Common. A vehicle collision on Merriam Street caused over 200 in damage to Flora Tabor’s car.
Montreal police crime laboratory has built a remote controlled caterpillar tank like robot for bomb disposal. Detective Lt. Leo Plouffe announced the device at the International Criminological Congress. The model uses telescoping arms a camera and microphone and can enter buildings while the operator stays outside.
Andrew Fetler of the UMass English department released his first novel The Travelers set in prewar Germany. The work, released August 23 by Houghton Mifflin, is in a second printing and praised by The New York Times Book Review and The Saturday Review for its simple unadorned style and vivid characters. Fetler studied at the University of Iowa and joined UMass in 1964 after Loyola University Chicago.
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