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The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 8

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R-The Berk.hi re Faglr, Vednesdar. Mar JS, 10S7 BPF I I IHHBHIIHllll I I IIHBE Mayor Asks Jaycee Support or Lee-Pittsfield Bypass Lake Kxprees Fear That it ill Become "(ihot lonn If Proposed Route 20 -location Not I miertakrn Sen. Kennedy Lends Support To MS Drive Honorary l.hairman Speaks at Session Of Stale Organization Gas Station Permit Given Laschky Xipton Realty Application Sent To Safety Committee Over the objections of abutters, the City Council last nigljfcranted one permit for a gasoline service station, and, sent.jnother to its Committee on Public Safety for in- doctor informs him that he is physically fit. The mayor allowed as how he might be willing to run again if the demand for a repeat Mayor Harvey F- Lake last- urged the Junior Chamber jf Commerce to press for construe-! of the soWdBouje 20 by-; pass from Lee to Pittsneld. Edmund Noetzel, chairman of the Berkshire County Multiple; Sclerosis Society branch, has re-' turned from Boston where he at-! tended a kickoff meeting for the! state MS campaign.

It kU'i Joint! session of the state chapter and the women's division of the pe norma nee appeared strong enough. New Mfmtwn Welcomed Fifty Jaycee members attended the dinner meeting last night at the Stanley Clubhand welcomed two new members into, the organization Francis A. Dastoli and Atty. Anthony Lagrorteria. he granted pei rlt is not pie in the sky, as in-, difated by your senior counter-j parts afew months ago, and unless you ahdJ do something about we may ftntkourseives border-1 on 'he title nrHsolationists or, the of! ued 'political phase 'ghost saidjthe mayor.

The Route A Bypass or retec.a-j non referred to by the mayor would run from the Turnpike inter-j change at Lee to about the Yellow Aster location on Routes 7 and 20 ga id sell TW00 and other Skogibrri -lit to PI vas nresenteil last ni ma hie fluids at th section, of Lebani Wesfc Housatonic angular piece of 4i mm (Avenue and Street, tri-' land-near the Vest Pittsfield. 10-YEAR SERVICE ar.l A. McCarthj of Whiting of Lanesboro. South Egremont, right, by Henn Mr. McCarthy has been the techni nr-ive-in movie in Mrs.

Laschky wij. lease the prop en. principal speaker was -Sen- John Kennedy, honorary campaign chairman. He told of the work of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness from which MS has received some research grants. Sen.

Kennedy, advocated a partnership relationship between government and private agencies as the most effective method of solving national health problems. He said each has its place and that the private agen erty to the Gaff Oil On She was representejKby Atty. Charles R. in Pittsfield and then cut across to Route 20 at the foot of Lebanon Mountain. iHQmttjmm 'Pie-ln-the-Sky' Charged The senior Chamber of Com Alberts Atlantic Photo Struct TWO CHAIIOIEN connected with the Massachusetts Multiple Sclerosu lrie pose in Boston with the campaign ban- cian for the South Berkshire area of the Berkshire County Selective Breeding Assn.

since, the organization was founded in 1947. Air. Whiting is a director of the Massachusetts Selective Breeding Assn. and vice president of the county affiliate. The presentation wa made at a meeting of the local management committee, liehLin the Fxtension Service office.

ner. I hev are I en. John r. Kennedy honorary chair- Sent to committee for study was the application of the Lipton Realty Co. for a permit to store 9,520 gallons of gasoline and other flammable fluids at 458 South St.

The fijm already has a gasoline jerv kire station permit but wants addi man of the state Berkshire chain Irive, ami Klmiini Y. Noetzel of I'ittstieltl, an for the Hope campaign in Jane. The three winners of the recent Jaycee teen-age driving, contest Anthony Asci William Mason and Peter Gamwell-also attended and were presented their prizes. A-r, the first-place winner, received a GE rrtock radio. The other two winners received gift certificates.

Co-sponsors of the contest were' the Association of Independent Insurance Dealers. Sullivan ft Farr Insurance. Jimmy's Motor Shj' Sammy Vincent and Capitol Theater. John F. Bresnahan, pasf president of the PiTtsfi'eW Jay cees.

announced last night that he will be a candidate for one of the state vice presidential posts in the election at the Massachusetts Jaycee convention May 24 to 26 in Boston. Edward H. O'Keefe was presented an award last night as the outstanding freshman member of the Pittsfield Jaycee organization in 1956. cies are especially needed to keep' the public aware of its problems. merce last year termed the Yellow Aster-to-Lebanon Mountain part of! the bypass as pierin-the-sky and! charged that ir is-son neither state nor federal planning boards.

Mayor Lake maintained that un-: less the Lee-to-Pittsfield Route-20 1 relocation, is undertaken the The Th rev Rs May Be Doomed Piaisea Chapter ct tonal storage. According to Simon Kennedy congratulated the r.m i rwtf itate MS chapter on its achieve- A lifi.i, I Tnttr-Unrsi Housing Bias Group Bows Out With Report, Library Display Lipton. wno representen trie owners, an existing store building and an old house will be removed: and a npw modern servicp station uilt i nd j. m. iiiitlllt ClliJ I III llf 9 ments and wrirThe" was.

pleased to be associated with it in the coming campaign. Tne Passing of -the Three Rs Chairman NiMtAl nheorvorf the educational scene wai whom still teaches, were honored i erected for outstandine contnbunons to A report to the community orijappointed the Committee' on Dis -v-" turnpike iil carry potential tourists through rather than to this Touching on the fact that this is a nty election year, the mayor-hinted that he might be a candidate for re-election. He. said that despite his recent six-week illness his -ismrrested as not nnllv their communities. WanN Trees Spared discriminationin- housing is being offered through May 27 in the main i immation or a vrar p-enoa.

rain ws most mat sen. work will be carried on by twojKennedy, Author of "Profiles in iCourae." should he rnnnpetoH with i Wipnai Assn. last mgnt They were Mrs. Mary Martin of Great Barrington; Elmer G. Bridg-ham of Pittsfield, former Pomeroy dinner marking'lhe 100th an- showcase on the fi loor of the cili the Committee on Social MS Hope Chest oarfipaisn "be Mrs.

Kenneth J. McDonough, 487 Lebanon appealed to the Council "not to allow the new station operators on the Laschky property to cut down trees on the iiversary of the KEA. principal: and Mrs. Florence Chit tion and the Committee on Race cause courage is the hallmark. OiHVurredlifty-member ofancoclc, the county's In Wet Pill ttitM Relations.

patients, and without nvtheir the Berkshire County Teachers' oldest active teacher. future would be hopeless. Assn. attended the program at the Lehanon Avenue sine ot tne pro-posed establishment. She was told Theodore Herberg of Pitt'sf ui.

jonn r. cruel oi ou. chairman of the county salary com- "ithat if the trpe wpre on the T.at. Mrs. r.

M. Crane III Elected Head Museum Auxiliary mjttee. reported on 'he status oflfhky property eould be Berkshire Athenaeum. The exhibit include material on the subject published during the last year by the local press and national magazines, as well as books and It -is--being sponsored by the Pittsfield Area Council' of Churches and is. in effect, the swan song of ihe Council's Committee on Dis-crimination in Housing 1 nit- nr i rvt-ui-i rv.

xvusl ui the Neurological New) England MedicaT Center. alsoKAutomatlon Responsible spoke. He sartT that the MSSo- Mr. Starie, New England -field ciety hadjielped in hnnging neu- representative for the NEA, looked rologyitfto its own field -bf medi- to future-when automation will caljfervice. He noted-a i-hanm.

tho mi nf tho Mayor Initiates Action m. For Possible School Mayor Lake today asked. City to Plunkett and Grade 5 pupils Solicitor Edwin E. Reder to draft Pomeroy at an annual cost of Williamstown presided. were on city property tne station operators would be subject to legal Cub Pack 69 increase in tne number oi Three Rs.

Electronic business i enls "Aw art I 1 1 limn MI MP EBaB .1 a i- CCT doctors in reiaiea nelds of neu iiidciiiiif cniiiiiMie ine neces sity for teaching present-day math rology attending the recent neu Several members of Cub Pnck rological -meeting in Boston. Committee Dinhamling The committee, headdd. Rev. Raymond Gibson ematics, the iranklin, N.H r'esi-r69 were presented awards at pack by the castor dent said. meetings held recently in the gym procedures as to removal octree.

Nicholas Sanginitti, also aLebanon Avenue resident, objected to granting the permit; "Ymi wouldn't want a gasoline station in your front yards." he aid. "why should one be allowedin mine." Thomas HBennett. 4 Underhill opposed the Lipton application on grounds of safety. He said many accidents have occurred at that section of South Street and the of First Congregational Joseph A. McVeigh, state commander of theVeteras of Foreign Wars and chairman of the state MS campaign, spoke on plans for the fund-raising drive.

More than 250 attended the meet- Radio and television eommuniea- nastum of South Junior High School, tion will reduce the amount of They were: Bobcats, Jeffrey-letter writing, so that penmanship Ha 11 and James Litter; wolf, Pres-will play a smaller role in the 'on Hough, Jeffrey Morray. Kevin disbanding after a year of study and activity. A temporary committee, it was appointed to point up the need for action in this field. In addition to the library ex 'scHonl curriculum, he uU And I O'Donnell. Charles Stokes.

Paul an amendment to the ordinance re i-tt-t i the Engelhard report recom- -overmng the activities of the Hbandonmem of tnp JSchooL Building Commission, tOStearns school because neither the permit the commission to make building nor the site have any-preliminary studies on the con-j thing to recommend them." -r-truction of a new elementary The proposed enrollment for school in West Pittsfield. Stearns this September is 230. The mayor said his request is not jfhP mavor is asking the School in contradiction to the report of the! Building Commission to base 'its Capital Outlay Committee which studies on the construction of an last week recommended that no eight-room facility plus a kin-new schools be built until census (ergarten. big enough to accom-figures are thoroughly reviewed modate 245 pupils. He savs he and until the School Committee jwants IO makp thi, schoo blg reaches a decision as to future use enough to avold tne problem of of abandoned buildings.

constructing additions as has The City Council last night adopt- arlsPn at nPJ Highland. A1-' ncluding representatives ofjwjth more oral communication, Tagliaferro: gold arrows, William 'V and Jewish War Veterans; there will be less reading. population or tne area nas in- Babbitt, Steven Korkin, Marc Michel, Peter Burrows, Peter hibit, he committee has prepared assist with the house-to eased substantially. He aid a solicitation Walsh; Silver arrow. Peter Wats The four-day week will conflict with the five-day school week, especially When the family wants to spend a long weekend at some Hear and gold arrow.

WUliatn Colt; bear. Timothv Stratrher Correction aJbrochure on its activities toiois-tribution locally and nationally, and is also providing apermanent shelf of hooks and other material to be kept in thejffiiary. The committee grew out of ef- proposed station1 woujd be a hazard to school children. William T. Rice was concerned that the proposed new station might be illuminated by "high, garrish" light which.

mieht annoy the neieh-borhood. Mr. Lipton assured him that the lights would be reflected resort thousands of miles away, "Gregory Frahn. Barry Sandrew; Mr. Starie said.

silver arrow. Jonathan Mahanna. Jewett 30. He expressed confidence that the "2 and Peter gold arrow nation's teachers would meet the Pevton Townes, Steven Browne A local man, Shirlev of 27 Paul was identified in Monday' Miss Shirley Jewett. mistakenl; Eagle a houta year ago by the So lendale and Egremont elemen taries-.

'He also suggested that a site foi llin Whitman. Mr. Jewett challenges of the future, il Action Committee of the rust ntft Church to find nonsegre-ted living quarters for a Negro William Hall was presented his downward and he would not object vas slightly injured in a one-car they met and mastered the -rash on I-ebannn Mountain Sun- lems of the last 100 vears. the new school be selected jointly; i lion badge with7 gold and silver; to a specific restriction which ni a capital ouuay program iop ir57 which will cost $160,000. Of lhat amount, $149,000 is for the De partment of Public Works.

New equipment, sewer and water in installation on 10 streets are the major expenditures. Mayor Kvplains Position "My feelings on a West Pittsfield Three veteran educators, one of arrows. would prevent annoying lights. General Elvtric engineering assistant. Through its efforts and those of members of other churches the move was successful.

The Council of Churches then by the School Committee and I School Building Rubbish Ignites BIG SAVINGS AT TEXTILE Mrs. Winthmp M. Crane III Winthrop M. Crane III of Dalton this afternoon, was' elected president of the Berkshire Museum Auxiliary, at its annual meeting in Clothes, Woman Badly Burned school," the mayor explained, "does not mean that I disagree with the ideas of the Capital Outlay Committee. It means that I am fori lie replacement of the exist ingj Out of Jail, Man Faces Charges Here A Connecticut man who was Stearns elementary, school which is inadequate, obsolete and outmod- A 75-yeat-qld Lanesboro woman I suffered extensive second and third the Ellen Crane Memorial Room.

i.She succeeds Mrs. Rudolph A. Lfv is. Others taking office were: Mrs. Lewis, vice president in charge of programs; Mrs.

Ulrieh Gay, vice I president in charge of "products" Mrs. Edward M. Demick, corre- At present, the mayor said, degree burns this morning when Stearns accommodates 130 pupils I rubbish she was burning set her four grades. Kindergarten and I clothes Grade fi children areL-transportedi -retarv Mrs. Robert secretary': treasurer; The severely huined woman, Mrs, Cora Hinman oj Putnam Road, was running around her back" yard, clothes aflame, when she was spotted by a neighbor.

The neighbor called Pittsfield police, who relayed the emergency call to the state police. Troopers Richard J. Clemens G. Young, recording Mrs. Jack V.

Kinsey, Mrs. -Alexander Euston Mi s. Frederick A. Peas public-itv; hospital- OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF HoiyoKe oroaK was arraigned in! 'District Court bere today onj charges of breaking and entering jat night and larceny in Pittsfield. The 40-year-old defendant.

Ed-i ward Uniewicz of Windsor, I was bound over to "the dcand Jury Judge Charles R. Alberti. Bail itv; and Mrs. Robert H. Colton.

membership. Mrs. Crane is the former Kalha-line L. Wesion. She attended Hall's School and graduated- from Miss Porter's School in Farming-ton, Conn.

M'ltlM, COATS and Albert C. Alben, who took the victim to Pittsfield General Hos- pital. said Mrs. Hinman was hurn- ing papers in an outdoor fireplace. 8173 DUIWIV I 6 Pass.

Sedan $2595.83 I 1 hurnstcovered her entire body, troopers said. ind a set rd Biiick 51. The as re- Values to 59.95 In. 163 South, in li property, valued at 5350. lust out c.f Jail Democratic Dinner Ticket Committee Meets Tonight mm including delivery andH handling charges andH Federal taxes.

Trans- portation charges, lo-B I cal and state taxes, at HH Hj cessones and optional SH equipment, including Dynaflow, radio, heat-B er, additional. Immediate delivery mi las 90 21 A final meeting of the ticket and I committee and ticket chairmen Auto Driving School Sold by Mrs. CapareUft To Thomas Reynolds Mrs. Caroline Caparella announced today the sale of the Ca-parella Auto Driving School, 91 East to Thomas y. Dalton, a Caparella teacher for the past six years.

Mrs. Caparella took over the school early in 1955 after her husband, Anthony R-, founder of school, died. After schoels "rlose. in she and her children wiil vacation in Miami, with her brother. Charles J.

Barbarotta, a former Pittsfield resident. ithe Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner Monday. night at Eastover will be hold at the Lenox Town Hall to-night at ft'- Thomas J. Callahan of Dalton, chairman of the Berkshire County-Democratic Committee, asks that all ticket chairmen lend so that Detectives Edwin J. Blair and Carmel W.

Russo arrested Unie-wic'z on a warrant yesterday. The defendant was released from Wethersfield State Prison in Connecticut in March after serving a five-year burglary sentence. Police saidUniewicz left his car on Wendell Avenue shortly after midnight Aug. Jfl. 1951.

He went to the car dealer's, made two trips to his car with the tires and. then be-canie suspicious lhat he was being watched, police said. Irniewicz abandoned his car and took a bus to Schenectady. N.Y.. police said.

He was later returned to Connecticut for prosecution in Hartford. You can buy these newly styled Spring beauties and save. Be sure to see them. e're open tomorrow night till 9. arrangements lor BIRCHARD BUICK jean be made.

Gov. Furcolo and other -state Stitutional officers- will attend" The dinner will be held in IMAL 2 1536 am barn at Kastover. where ther tfahan IB j-ample pat king Mr. Car seaman announced today that George L. iSimei Hugh is also the town's chief of po- lice, will be in charge of a car- parking detail.

Our Entire Stock -V A llou ntou Plans Sajk-x Specials Thursday SIM(I. SI ITS The 35fetail stores in the Down LI town will hold a special Thursday night, sale promotion to HI 7 morrow, Ralph J. Baldasaro. man of the association's advertis- 90 committee announced today. 19 Values to 79.95.

Your choice of plush Fopstmann, Anglo-and Shamokin fabrics. New styles, choice Spring colors. AH sizes, He said the stores ill offer spe cial sales prices from 6 to 9 every Thursday evening until further no-j Found Fpgcrprint Police connected I'niewicz with the break after a fingerprint at the scene was identified through FBI Police said the 'tar was registered to a Michael Roy. one ofcihe defendant's aliases. He has also used the names Edward Watson and Edward Roy police said.

The defendant has a record of burglary convictions dating back to 1932." The Pittsfield case is the ninth time he has faced breaking' and entering rharee. if Two Local Women In Doctor's After Accident Two local women werp placed under a doctor's care yesterday after the car in wnich they were riding was involved in an accident, at Fenn and North streets The police traffic bureau reported that Mrs. H. Gordon Donaldson of 25 Harold who has a heart condition, was a passenger in the, car struck by Miss Sandra Wilkinson of 140 Pomeroy Ave. Miss Nan L.

Shay of the same address complained of a headache and lameness in the neck following the rear-end collision, police said. I Driver of tbe car was Miss Frances E. Shay of 25 Harold St tice. 11 Mr. Baldasaro said the promo tion is designed to stimulate shop A Larjje Selection of ping traffic in the downtown area "Mrs.

Ferrante Re-elected Head of :i.9 RCE. 5.9 NEW SPRlXfii SKIRTS GATHER IN THE SAVINGS DOWNTOWN EVERY THURSDAY Read the Berkshire Eagle for DOWNTOWN SPECIALS 6 PM to 9 PM Only Sponsored by the Downtown Association I CPA Parents" Group Mrs. S. J. Ferrante was re-elected temporary chairman of the Parents' Group of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Berkshire County at its final meeting of- the season last night at the Women's textile store Club.

Sessions will be resumed iw September. Refreshments were served after the, business mcernu.

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