THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, SPRINGFIELD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1966 39 PITTSFIELD BANK ROW HILLerest 5-5111 Mayor to Ask Federal Action On Housing PITTSFIELD Mayor Del Gallo said Thursday he would take immediate steps to contact Robert H. Weaver, secretary of the federal Dopt. of Housing and U'rban Development, to would establish allow procedures the local housing authority 10 start on plans to obtain scattered housing sites needed for relocation purposes. No Operating Procedure Assistant Pittsfield Housing Authority, code executive William enforcement E. commission members that some $2.9 million has bron allocated PHA no method nt operation has been set up for scattered housing concept.
Ho lth Commissioner Dr. o'1 pin has said he will not' condemnation of presso substandard housing until To AS the people vacated provided suitable standard hou 'ng. Cry Planner Bruce as authorized to prepare enforcement program ani application fo for federal 10 a requirement for fication of the workable immunity program, deadline for which is Nov. 1. Clark said tr.
deadline would not be met ar 1 that recertification would be de ayed at least a month. Need Certification Lack of certification, he said. would mean that no federal funds would be allocated for the second urban renewal, Columbus project. or planned lowrent housing development off Dalton Division Rd. Stein demanded a clarific ion or retraction of statemade by Clark in a outlining the need for A 'orcement.
He obpected parks alleging that health bork in the housing inon field was "pitiably and that a workable 1 amunity program could not certified because of the health: department. Clark did not retract, stating that this was and continues to be his own opinion. Mayor Halts Bickering The mayor broke up the bickering session. He said he wasn't interested in but wanted to get the job 1 ne. pointing out that it would 4 the 20 years to get the necessury inspections done at the rate health department was gOing DelGallo aid many of the suppoo 0500 substandard dwelling in the city could be reh.
biliated at little cost, bu: inspections must be made. Del Gallo said that the governis generous in providing ment, of the cost of the program but wants to be assured that the city is also doing its share. In Probate Court PITTSFIELD Administration of the $9500 estate of Lillian M. Cady of Pittsfield was ailowed in Probate Court Thursday. her heirs at law being a son and daughter.
Carlton Cody and Doris Clay. Other administrations allowed were the estates of Arthur J. Goodrich of Williamstown. Rose A. Johnson of North Adams and George W.
Johnson Sheffield. The will of Irene LeVitre of PI id 13 allowed. Her en- A tile estate was left to her hush: nd. Joseph H. LeVitre.
Also' Mowed wore the wills of Fred odrich of Williamstown nd Harry Hansen of Engle14 od. d. N. all estates of unknown amount. Surley A Docker was granted 2 divorro from Richard F.
1): ker. hoth ot Li nox. unds of cruel and abusive They were married at Lee in October, 1958. and have two children who we re n'aced in custody of the mother. filed terms.
decree, Decker is I'ndor of an agreement pay $25 a week toward support of the children and maintain insurance for them. A cross action was dismissed. LOSES PLAN DIRECTOR PITTSFIELD The city has lost its planning director before his name was made known 10. the public. Chairman Charles Crimmins said Thursday the commission's choice had informed it that a more lucrative position had been offered to him and he will accept.
The commission will again seek a man for the $16,000 post. FIRE CODE OFFERED PITTSFIELD Fire Chief John E. McDonough has submitted to City Council a new fire prevention code. The chief said the code was designed to protect the lives and property of residents and to increase the chances of getting a better in-' surance rating in the city. In! 1963 the National Board of Underwriters recommended the es-1 tablishment of such a code.
"BRAIN DRAIN' IN INDIA NEW DELHI The "Brain Drain' has hit India's atomic energy commission, Prime Min-! ister Indira Gandhi reports. She told Parliament some senior scientists have taken posts abroad but none of those who left "at the top level." Fire Damages Business Block In Bennington BENNINGTON, -Fire undetermined origin and resulting water and smoke caused! considerable damage a threebusiness complex "on the North Bennington Rd. late: Wednes-1 day Fire Chief' -Norman Turgeon said the blaze presumably started the second floor of -the two-story, cement block building, causing fire damage to second story and roof and supplies of Benningion Tile which is on the first floor. Chief Turgeon also noted siderable smoke and water damage 10 the tile company, N' Pack Grocery store "Buds" Submarine Shop all; the first floor. No loss estiniate was given.
Some: 70 firemen and pieces of equipment responded to the 11 p. m. alarm and stayed on the scene until Thursday at 2:30 a. m. One fireman, William Dunican, 29, of South Branch injured his leg when he tripped over a hose.
He was. taken' Putnam Memorial Hospital, treated and released. An investigator from the state fire marshal's office was quested to come here to probe the cause of the fire. HINSDALE United Fund Seeks Support HINSDALE-A United Fund organized in Hinsdale to eliminate the many drives for charitable funds. It has as members ily Americana Service, Boy the Red Cross, Scouts, Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundations, SPCC.
Berkshire Mental Health, Salvation, Army and Hinsdale Youth GenLethe goal is $5000 for the second annual drive, now under way. Charles De Angelus, president, said last year's drive short of its goal. "Many worthy organizations did not get amount that was promised them." he said. A few organizations have fused to join the fund, and continue individual drives. Officers of the fund committec are David I.
Hubbard, chair-' man; Charles DeAngelus, president; Cornelius Sharron, treas-1 urer; Mrs. Catherine Kirchner, secretary; Howard Terry, canvass chairman; Frederick Pomeroy. men. Canvassers will call at homes in October. Hinsdale Briefs HINSDALE-State auditors arrived Tuesday to begin the audit of audit the town books.
The last state. was made in February, 1964. Harper Holbrook is IN charge, with headquarters in the selectmen's office at Kittredge School. Philip Collins, son of Selectman and Mrs. Garrett F.
Collins, left Tuesday for Meriden. where he will be in that town's school guidance department. Collins, who for two years was teacher-principal of Richmond School, received his degree in guidance at the summer. versity of Massachusetts this, Garrett F. Collins.
left; Saturday for Quirquiri, Venezuela, where he will teach as he did last year. The annual family outing of the local Lions Club will be at Camp Taconic. Reservations must be made with George Turner by today. The outing starts at 10 and continues ail; day. The next supper meeting the Lions will be Tuesday the Iome Club.
OTIS BRIEFS OTIS The Otis ConsolidatSchool faculty are Mrs. Lora Anderson, primary teacher; Mrs. Wendell Moulthrop. third and fourth grades, and Raymond Amnott, principal and teacher for the seventh and eighth grades. Allen Wood, a June graduate of Berkshire Christian College is the new teacher for Grades five and six.
Wood, a native of New Hampshire, did his practice teaching in Lenox. He will East the Otis Rd. Crittendon house on Mrs. Henry. Somes has returned from the Berkshire Hills Nursing Home.
Miss Ellen Crandall of Hartford, has been a guest. of her brother, Donald. Mrs. Lester Hood has returned after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Harry of Westfield.
7 Mr. and. Mrs. Lorn Crandall; and family have returned from a trip to Maine. Accompanying them were Jock Amnott and Billy Crandall of Cheshire.
Miss Lila 'Crittendon, of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crittendon, has returned after spending the summer in Han-: son, Mass. SHEFFIELD MR. NOTES FUNERAL SHEFFIELD The funeral of William L.
Noyes, 23, formerly, lof this town, who died Saturday in San Francisco, from injuries received in a motorcycle accident, will be held today at 12 at Stevens funeral home, Great Barrington. Rev. Walter K. Miller, pastor of Old Parish Congregational Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Center! Cemetery.
Meeting Proposed On North Berkshire Sewage System ADAMS--A regional meeting of Northern Berkshire officials will he set up in the near future 10 discuss the feasibility of establishing North Bork. shire regional sewerage district. Selectman Anthony P. Me. Bride, who noted that several communities face problems of sewage freaiment, said he be.
lieves officials should jointly discuss problems as well as the possibility of regionalizing to gain an extra 10 per cent in federal aid. Greylock Hotel To Continue In Operation ADAMS--The Greylock Hotel, long a Center St. landmark and in the past few days the subject of rumors that it will close down operations Oct. 31, will continue (in operation until the Adams Redevelopment Authority over the building. Russell Bissaillon, one of the owners in the hotel, bar and restaurant business, has changed his mind about a planned closing which had been announced during a meeting of the ARA.
Now, Bissaillon plans to continuc in business. Boiler repairs have been made, he said, and the the fact hotel the can operate, despite whole business money, he said, at a rate' of $400 a month. Bissaillon said that, since the ARA announced the eventual taking of the hotel building, predicting "next spring" in each the past two years and now again this year, WILLIAMSTOWN George W. Bryant Succumbs at 92 WILLIAMSTOWN George Wallace Bryant, 92, of 102 Water one of the original three mail carriers in this town, died Thursday at North Adams Hospital. Mr.
Bryant was a native: life-long resident of WilWalter Button and Margaret liamstown and was the son of (Locke) Bryant. He attended the Hopper School and was graduated from Williamstown, High School with the class of 1891. In 1909. he left the construction field to become a mail, carrier and in 1936 was the last group to retire. World he served with the Massachusetts State Guard, and later as commander of the guard's veterans organization.
He was a member of Williams Lodge of Masons, and in 1963' was awarded a 50-year service medal. was a 50-year memof Elles, was member of North Adams Lodge of Elks, Williamstown First MethodChurch. He leaves a son, 'William C. Bryant, with whom made his home. Calling hours the Hopkins funeral home will from 7 to 9 tonight and from to 4 and 7 to 9 Saturday.
The "funeral will be held Sunday at in First Methodist Church, Rev. Walter K. Buckwalter' officiating. Burial will be in Eastlawn Cemetery. NORTH BERKSFICE 50 Main North Adams MI0 3-7000 Foliage Festival Plans to Host Lucky Visitors NORTH ADAMS A special tire hunt has been set up for persons from outside this Theodore C.
Dydowicz, chairman of the Fall Foliage Festi-' val's "Phantom tire hunt," announced Thursday. To Review Parade Finder of special orangecolored tire will overnight guest for the windup of the fezItival, Dydowicz said. But he to come from out of the arca to' qualify. Accommodations for the im-; mediate family of the finder will be provided at the Chimney Mirror Motel in Williamstown on Saturday, Sept. 24.
The findand his family will also have La free dinner Saturday at Howard Johnson's Restaurant and free Sunday dinner at the Colonial Restaurant. The family will also be given a spot on the reviewing, stand from which to parade. Army Band to Play Dydowicz pointed out that the accommodations are for members of the finders immediate family, including all children. One of the highlights of the foliage festival will be the appearance of the history-laden 18th Army Band, it was an-! nounced Thursday by SFC Weltner J. Broome, Army recruiter for Berkshire County, and Joseph Dolan, cochairman of the festival.
The 40-member musical unit stationed at Fort Devens the command of Chief Warrant Officer Marcus Callender, will present a frec concert on urday, Sept. Drury High School auditorium, North Adams, beginning at 7.30 p. m. Parade on Sunday Sunday the band will march in the mile and one-half long parade which starts at 1 p. m.
The band, which observed its 49th anniversary last June, took an active role in combat in France during World War for which it received many awards and decorations. Alexander Durant Dies at Age of 91 NORTH ADAMS Alexander Francis Durant, 91. who made daughter. "ith a and son-in-law Mrs. and William Q.
Perras of 69 F. died, Wednesday afternoon in an Adams nursing home. A native of Eagle Bridge, N. he the son of the late Mr. amas Mrs.
Alexander Durant. He had lived here and in Willianstown most of his life and was a retired textile His wife, the former Beaver, died in 1950. seven children, Mrs. Mrs. George Gregory George Bushey, all Adams, Mrs.
Earl Welch liamstown and George Clarksburg, Alexander city and Edward J. Ormand Reach, children and 19 great-grandchil- dren. The funeral will be held Saturday at Notre Dame Church with burial in Southview Cemevery. Calling hours at Flynn Roach funeral home will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. 156 Freshmen Arrive Today At State College NORTH ADAMS Freshmen, 156 strong, will throng the North Adams State College campus this morning beginning the 1966 orientation weekend and markthe beginning of a college career for 88 coeds and 68 men students.
Will Get Beanies Prof. George H. Jarck, director of student personnel and services at the college, said that the frosh will receive their beanies and handbooks early this morning, then the upper classmen will take charge. Gail Kennedy, senior from West Springfield, is chairman' of the orientation committee and will be in 1 charge of the social events planned for the freshmen. Following the opening session, the frosh are scheduled to pay tuition and register for courses.
After lunch the class of 1970 will undertake a placement test in French. This afternoon, al 3 freshmen will assemble in Hoosac Hall Theater where President Andrew S. Flagg and Dean John J. Komorek will welcome the entering students. The orientation committee explain the future events scheduled for the frosh.
Hike and Picnic A supper in Taconic Hall followed by A coed mixer ends today's activities. A Saturday afternoon hike and picnic lunch has been scheduled at Windsor Lake. hi highlight Saturday of the night weekend marks, the the faculty reception and dance. A qucen, selected from the freshmen, will be crowned. An art demonstration byi President Flagg will be conducted on the Taconic' lawn Sunday followed by a movie: in the Hoosac Hall Theater.
uled for Monday afternoon An school picnic is schedwhere the final session the traditions court will be held. Freshmen must wear their Beanies until Sept. 15, when, at a welcoming assembly in Hoosac Hall Theater, upperclassmen will officially welcome the freshmen and the class of 1970 offi-1 cially becomes recognized. 48 New Lights To Illuminate Noel Field Games NORTH ADAMS Forty-eight powerful beacons have been erected on Noel Field. The lights, installed at cost to the city of $6625.
arc believed be the best in Berkshire Counofity, George A. Fairs, chairman. of the Park and Recreation Commission. said Thursday. Fairs said the beacons are the NORTH ADAMS -Robert Curry, who is seeking to unseat Rep.
Roger Sala in the state House of Representatives, Thursday night scored the Democratic incumbent for his alleged absenteeism on Beacon Hill. Charges Neglect Speaking to a group of campaign workers, Curry said Sala was touring Italy in 1965 when the sales tax issue was being fought in the Legislature. vote could have decided the issue, turned it either way," the former City Council pre-i- is dent said, "yet Rep. Sala preferred to roam the highways and the independent union at Cornish byways of Italy." Curry, head of, Wire said Sala spent at least six weeks in Italy, when he should have been tending to his duties. said Sala's continued claims of assisting in getting appropriations for the expansion of North Adams State College was no more than any representative would have done.
"The city's elected representative would be indeed derelict in his duties if he did not do everything possible to help the college grow and Campaign Pledges The Democratic challenger for the district seat, which covers only North Adams, said if electcd he would hold meetings with his constituents at least every other weekend. "It is difficult to determine if Sala is in this city or even the country at times," Curry said. He said district's most pressing needs include more 10- cational school facilities, with state and federal funds assisting. to turn out the skilled workers necessary to get industries here. Sala has held the position for 14 years and has seldona been seriously challenged.
Curry Chides Sala for Trip to Italy New Planners To Organize Action Sept. 29 PITTSFIELD The Berkshire' County Regional Planning Commission will meet Sept. 29 to' name temporary officers, adopt' a planning agenda, prepare a budget and take steps toward: hiring of a planning director. Experienced Speaker Philip C. Aherne, executive director of the Berkshire County Industrial Development Commission, who spearheaded the move to set up the planning commission, said the speaker at the meeting will be Duncan Graham, former Pittsfield city ner.
Graham now heads the! Naugatuck Valley Regional Planning Commission in Connecticut, termed one of the most successful in the country. One of the first chores of the' new an commission original will county be, to planning upstudy completed in 1959, and take under its wing the water resources study done by the state Department of Natural Resources in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts, which is expected to be published by that time. The IDC will hold a directors meeting Sept. to inspect the "Berkshire Portrait" brochure, a full-color presentation of the county's assets. Bypass Session Set Friday By Warner PITTSFIELD The meeting of Associate Commissioner John D.
Warner of Westfield and 13 women from the Partridge Rd. section will not: be a public! hearing, the commissioner said. As it will be held in a room at the Lenox highway building Friday af 3 he ex-! pressed the hope only those 13' will attend. the meeting Warner said, technical men will give the women reasons why the proposed bypass is to he built in their arca. The group has been before the council on the matter and Mayor Pomo Del Gallo arranged today's meeting with Warner.
A number of other people who feel the bypass will damage their property are expected to be on hand. 35-Cat Princess Forced to Move CHICAGO (UPI Princess Red Feather and 35 pet cats were evicted from a three-room apartment on the North Side Wednesday. It took two trips by a special police department animal wagon' plus a moving van to remove the pets and other belongings of a 50-year-old American Indian woman. A court ordered the' eviction on the grounds that so many cats in so small a space create an unpleasant atmosphere for other tenants. Stable Coffee Prices Promoted by Pact WASHINGTON(P The State Department has expressed great satisfaction over the international agreement reached recently in London 10 help stabilize world coffee prices.
State Department press officer Robert J. McClosley said that particular interest in the agreement reached by the 581 nations of the International Cof-1 fee Council was "the decision to introduce the now system of selective quotas permitting an adjustment of the market supply of the four main types of coffoc in response to changes in market demands." GREAT BARINGTON Driver Fined $100 GREAT BARRINGTON-John Asklipious, 32, of Commonwealth was fined $100 Thursday morning in District Court on a charge of leaving the scene after causing property damage. A second charge of driving to endanger was dismissed by Judge George R. McCormick. Asklipious was charged by! Deputy Chief Thomas C.
Reed after an accident at Main and Cass Sts. on the night of Aug. 28. He was charged with striking a car driven by Miss Donna' L. Blodgett of Canaan, Conn.
He pleaded innocent to the charges. He said he may haver dozed off prior to the impact. Theater Schedules CAPITOL "How to Steal a Million," 1, 3.30, 6.05, 8.40; short subjects, 3.05, 5.40, 8.10. PALACE "The Alphabet Murders," 1, 4.10, 7.20; "One Spy Too 2.30, 5.50, 9. UNION SQUARE "Frankie and Johnny," 1, 4.15, 7.30; "Duel at Diablo," 2.30, 5.45, 9.
LITTLE CINEMA Short subject. 7, "McGuire, Go Home!" 7.15, 9.20. BERKSHIRE DRIVE-IN "Rasputin and the Mad Monk," 9.15: "The Reptile," dusk; "The Curse of the Fly," 10.30. PITTSFIELD DRIVE-IN "'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," 7.45: "Butterfield 8," 9.45. SUNSET DRIVE-IN "This Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World," 9.15; "A Hard Day's Night," 7.45.
-ru A different view of the world is Argentine, painter Julio Lefor the distorting spectacles he designed himself. lie showed off the weird eyegear at the Venice, Italy Biennale Art Show where he won the $3200 first prize in the worldwide artists' competition. Federal Grant Gives Indigent Legal Services PITTSFIELD- Public Defender Andrew Campoli announced Thursday that Mrs. June Calder; of Richmond has been named. secretary in the new public de-! fender's office to be opened in downtown North St.
The quartors are being readied Campoli said he could not reveal the location until it had been approved in Boston. Bar Votes Service Under the half million dollar grant from the Office of Ecoomic Opportunity, Campoli, Assistant cDfender Leonard Cohen and an investigator to be named will conduct the operation. Mrs. Calder is a former secretary of Campoli's and will work out of his personal office until the defender's quarters are opened. The Berkshire Bar Association by a 14-8 vote has approved a free legal service for low income families in the city as proposed by a special committee headed by Dr.
T. Edward Quinn, at a cost of $46,000 a year. Some members of the association contend that its own legal aid policy is adequate and that if federal finances are to be used they would be used to better advantage through the judicare program, which provides the same service by designated attorneys working out of their regular offices. Under the antipoverty plan, two lawyers would set up offices in low income neighborhoods and be paid $7500 a year each for putting in 20 hours a week in noncriminal work. Each office would have a full-time secretary at a maximum of $75, a week.
Mobile Home Site Chosen PITTSFIELD-A zone change petition has been filed with the City Council to allow establishment of a mobile home park on property cast of Pontoosuc School on North St. and Burke Ave. Bernard Carnevale of Pittsfield and Francis Cultrera of Stepncy, request that the zone of the nine acre tract be changed from Residential 2 to Industrial MI-1. Carnevale says that the trailer would be a "model court" containing 25 to 30 spaces at the outset. The first action by the council will he to refer the matter to the Planning Board for a publie hearing.
After the Planning Board makes a recommendation, the council will then hold hearing of its own. Mekong Flood Toll 14, River Is Still Rising VIENTIANE, Laos PI The Vientiane death toll from the Mekong River flood rose to 14. Thursday with the recovery of nine bodies. Officials said 11.877 refugees now are being fed and sheltered by the municipality and the number is swelling. Three-quarters of the town under water and though rivor dropped a little in the two days, hard rains started again Thursday and the Mekong once more is rising.
SHELBURNE FALLS SHELBURNE FALLS BRIEFS SHELBURNE FALLS Souvenir Night will be observed Friday at 8 p. m. when the Rebekahs Lodge meets in the Oddfellows Hall. Each member will display a memento fromiter a recent trip. The committee is Mrs.
Elcanor Baker. Mrs. Jane: Boyd and Mrs. Olive Cardwell. Tickets for the Franklin, County Fair are now on sale here in several local stores, but will be picked up tonight by local chairman Phillip R.I Joyce.
To obtain tickets immediately call Phillip Joyce of High St. before tonight. Youth Day will be observed at the Franklin County Fair on Monday this year. Schools will be recessed for one day, resuming regular schedules on Tuesday. At Iquique, Chile, no rain fell for 14 years.
most modern ball field lighting equipment out today. The majority of them, 38, were only recently invented. These rectangular lights wil provide more illumination for less money, he said. The other 10 lights are the orthodox incandescent variety. round in shape.
They are focused on home plate because they are glarefree. The field has insufficient space or baseball. and the football field is only 80 yards long. But Drury High School's Blue Devils will be able to use the night lights for practice, and it is expected that the Old Timers, the City, Softball League, and many other leagues will be attracted to the field. The lights are on seven poles varying from 40 to 60 feet high.
It was necessary to employ the use of equipment owned by a tree service to erect them. Theater Timetable Alicel He leaves Perras, and Mrs. of North of Wil-Ito F. P. of this; Durant of 10 grand- MOHAWK "Lady 1.05, "Where the Spies 2.50, 6.35.
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