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The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 20

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New Ashford' New Candidates 20 Th Berkshire Evenin Eaaif, Friday. Jan. 6. lSt 200 Young Adults Coming Here for Two-State Conclave Big Defense Cuts Dangerous Baxter Warns Rotary Meeting Compelled To Run on Stickers District Court "Edward H. Chapman of Holmes Road pleaded guilty to two overtime parking counts and was fined $3 on each this morning in District Court.

officially at a town meeting sev NEW ASHFORD The confu The third annual conference ofj the Two-State YMCA Young Adult sion caused here yesterday by tne petition of two new men to nave Council will be held this year In Fair Deal Needs May Take Money Which Should Be Spent jn Cold wwrr -wr rk a Francis Regan of 27 Howards Pittsfield, it was announced today) by Wendell Stickney, who has their names put on the ballot ior the coming elections was cleared up somewhat today. eral years ago, he said. That vote confirmed an election policy which had been in effect for 25 years, said. White said that Kearsey and Steinhoff could run for office under this same policy. He said that the town had preferred this type of ballot because there are not enough ar.

Street entered a nolo plea to go-jng through a stop sign and pie case was filed. Williams President Says been named general chairman of the affair. The week-end sessions will take place Jan. 28 and 29 and The announcement or tne candi dacy of Walter Kearsey for a school committee post and Daniel H. Stelnhoff for selectman temporarily stumped town officials, who people in New Ashford to make it Meetings Jewish Young People Jewish Young People will meet tomorrow evening at 7.30 at th Jewish Community Center.

worthwhile to use a more expen Indian Head Hotel LEBAVQV. SPRINGS, H.I, Stapientown Rd. DANCING Tusday, Saturday and Sunday Nights- Vine Belleville and His Combo Feature Vocalists Dancing 9 to 3 Ajf had forgotten now to aaa a new name to the ballot which has hardly been changed once In the past 13 years. sive and complicated selective process. Any change in the elective policy, he said, would have to be put before the coming town meeting.

Changes could not take place ijefore the 1951 election. Salaries of the school commit teemen were increased for 1948. The chairman gets $25 a year and the other two men $20 each. much- too soon," and Baxter applied the same conviction to the cold war as a whole. Saying that socialized medicine, farm relief and other policies of socialism" (Mr.

Baxter added, "You can see I'm a will be competing for funds Crtngress with defense needs. Mr Baxter warned that the outcome would depend on advice that Congress gets relative to the needs. then continued to describe the new groups in the defense setup whfch will advise Congress or. the needs of over-all strategy. Mr.

Baxter said these groups made the armecf services much better able to deal with Congress than they were when "we lacked any umpiring." Specifically he named the Joint Chiefs of the National War College which he called a "great idea" giving "much better integration" between th armed services Forrest C. White, selectman and town treasurer said today that under the present town policy there was no provision for printing the bring about 200 young people here. Mr. Stickney recently was reelected to a second term as president of the coed group that is concerned with extra curricular activities of young people from 18 to 30 years old in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. That age bracket and the coed policy are relatively new.

fields to be represented in organization work. The Young Adult Council is looking to Pittsfield residents to provide overnight accommodations and one breakfast for the delegates who will attend. Miss Betty Wade, president of the Outing Club, is chairman of the committee 6n housing. She already has begun to seek help from homeowners through churches and other organizations. the Most of Your Life" is the conference theme.

Its purpose, said Mr. Stickney, is "to inspire young adults to realize their best selves and to think through some of their most puzzling personal concerns and current social issues." The topics for discussion were decided upon in November when representatives of each participating YMCA met in Newton. names of new candidates on the ballot but that they could use stickers or be "write-ins." A sharp warnjng that Congress can go too far fn cutting defense and European relief appropriations in order to make up a budget deficit and support all the proposals of the Fair Deal was given by President James Phinney Baxter 3d of Williams College yesterday noon to one of the largest Rotary Club gatherings here many years. While he gave no specific recommendations as to how much money Congress should allot to each need, Mr. Baxter said during the talk and in a later interview that an unbalanced budget was Vcrazy" and that some cuts would be necessary in all appropriations.

Some economy must be made he said, but "it is more important to save our own skins," than to support national welfare projects too much. The great danger, Mr. Baxter felt, is that the Fair Deal needs will Set too much attention because of their "vote catching" qualities. If that happens and 'defense needs are cut too much He believes Europe will "slide into Russia's lap." Uses Bush's Book for Text Mr. Baxter took the basis for his talk from a sentence in Vannevar Bush's new book "Modern Arms and Free Men." Bush says that the preparedness race can be lost "by doing too little or by doing too The citizens' ballot now being Harley P.

Phelps, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, cpuld not be reached for comment this morning on the petitions of Kearsey and Stelnhoff to get on the ballot. Package Store Files Damage Notice Coughlin's Package Store at 441 North Street served notice on the City Council today that it plans to seek reimbursement for damages sustained by its delivery auto in a collision with a Public Works Department truck Tuesday morning. used in New Ashford was adopted Assessor Vincent Starting Jan. 15 Amateur Hour Prizes Wendell Stickney the State Department; and the Mr. Stickney.

a graduate of the Staying on Job, Mayor Says Mayor Capeless today discounted University of Maine, is a me DANCE -TONIGHT-JERRY ALTES And His Hammond Organ and Vibrachord Added Attraction JOANN Songstress chanical engineer at the General In a letter filed at the city clerk's office, Robert E. Coughlin, treas Electric Company. He is associated witti the YMCA's Buck and Doe Research" and Development Board which he said insures that "we don't waste scientinp talent like we waste money." Mr. Baxter reminisced for a few moments while discussing Vannevar Bush. "He's a genius," Mr.

Baxter said, adding "in some ways the ablest man I ever knew." Mr. Baxter called his book "the most important book an American has ever reports that Roy A. Vincent of the Board of Assessors will be dropped Club and the Young Adult Fellow of the First Methodist Church, from the City Hall staff when his current three-year term expires Jan. 20. Catering to Banquets, Weddings, Parties "There no thought of replac urer of the store, said that the auto was "considerably damaged," although he added that he does not yet know what the repairs will cost.

The letter will come before the City Council at that group's next meeting Tuesday night, and will presumably be referred to the Committee on Claims for further investigation written on the relation of science ing Mr. Vincent at the present time," the mayor said. "Nobody and war." else is under consideration for the job." This statement also appeared to Draught Beer and Ale SHUFFLEBOARD PIZZA TONIGHT Catering to Parties answer rumors tnat Mr. Vincents job might fall to Archie K. Sloper, SPCC Annual To Be Held Here Wednesday who is not being reappointed as commissioner of public works when his term expires Jan.

16. DANCE The mayor did not Indicate, however, that he plans to take action on Mr. Vincent's job before the veteran assessor's term expires. Fortune Turns On Gl Who Said He Found Fortune Near Here A U.S. Air Force private, who claimed he found a small fortune in $10 bills between this city and Albany, was sentenced to two years in the federal penitentiary yesterday after he pleaded guilty to possessing 11 counterfeit bills.

Thomas J. Bullock of Robbins, 111., attached to Westover Field, was arraigned in Boston Federal Court yesterday. He claimed he found a bundle of 50 bills along the highway between Pittsfield and Albany. When arrested in Albany after visiting his home, Bullock had only 11 of the bills on him. He said he had passed some in Chicago and others in Bmgham-ton, N.Y.

Joan Rosa Takes Lead in Queen Contest Total Sales Hit 7858; Hudson Contest Described Miss Joan A. Rosa has jumped from third to first place in the fifth winter carnival queen contest, it was announced at last night's meeting of the winter carnival sports committee in the City Hall Council Chamber. Both the former first and second-place holders have slipped back one notch with Miss Jo-Ann Cally in second and Miss Talent Show Rehearsal Here Sundav at 2 A rehearsal for Dalton's Si Olds' benefit talent show will be held Sunday at 2 PM in the Shipton Building next to the Palace Theatre, according to Tony Costello of this city, chairman of the committee. More talent is being sought for the show, which will take to the stage in February, and prize money has been upped to $25 for first, $15 for second and $10 for third place. A committee of nine has been This may mean that he intends to keep him as a hold-over appointee, at least for the time being.

Mr. Vincent has been a member of the Board of Anessors since 1932. The job pays $3600 a year. Round and Square UNION ALTON BLOCK Every SATURDAY Night Music That Satisfies by the MOUNTAIN-AIRES RLSS ARTHUR, Prompter A Good Place for a Good Time AT ALL SUPER MARKETS MARVEL BREAD formed to get advertising for Death Notices Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam Notices Anniversary Masses Will be scccpled at Tfif Berkshire Er nine Etrl dsllj (or th 'ollowint ctrbllcatlan with th exception of derth notices which will be eecepted to Door far mm day's pobllcaUoo. Cud In ad vane I repaired.

IS eentt per Una, muitraam eharf Joan F. Callahan in third. The button-sale total is about program. Ray Hart, operator of a dancing studio in North Adams, has pledged his ainV In the quest for talent, which will include persons from Dalton, Pittsfleld and North Adams. 0 125 Enroll In Red Cross Nutrition Course One hundred twenty-five persons one-quarter of the way to the goat set for Jan.

27. A total of 7858 buttons have been sold at 25 cents each by the eight Contestants. That is about the same relative Fire Record SQUARE DANCE TONIGHT JIM WILLIS' ORCHESTRA Jim Willi, Prompter Portuguese-American Hall Cor. Curtis and Winter Sts. S.S0 to 11.8 PM Sponsored by Dept.

of Parks and Recreation Admission: 60c tax inc. standing on total sales as last year when 7000 buttons were sold in the Death KRUGER. at Marblehead. Jan. 4.

Charles (0. husband of Louise (DeWoltl. Funeral service from his home. Peach fa-land Marblehead, Saturday at 2 SO PM Burial at Norwich Bridge Cemetery. Huntington, Mass.

Sunday- Other survivors Include four children. He was a who are either too fat, too skinny or just feei they aren't eating cor first week. The present sale is: about nine days old. rectly have enrolled in nutrition 218oz. 07 loaves I classes which will start Monday at member of N.

O. Er A. lodge Roya Arcanum. Pittsfield. Robert M.

Mulford 5.37 PM Chimney fire in home of Dortald Simmons of 787 Peck's Road. Firemen advised Mr. Simmons to clean the stove. They also recommended that the owner, Marcel Pemble, have the chimney cleaned. The house is located approximately 200 yards off the road and the fire truck could go only short distance because of mud conditions.

No damage. 10.13 PM Minor fire in taxicab owned by James Spring and oper the Red Cross chapter house on Wendell Avenue. Mrs. Andrew J. Underwood, county Red Cross nutrition chairman and an authorized Red Cross nutrition instructor, will be in charge of the six-week program.

Scheduled for Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 2 to 4 and Robert M. Mulford, general secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty- to Children, will speak at the annual meeting of the Berkshire district and South Berkshire branch of thel WsBbBsbV -a Monday, Wednesday and Friday A speed-up in sales is needed it the queens are to hit their total which is 12,000 more than last year. Only the standings of the top three contestants will be announced following last year's precedent. It was announced that Hudson, N.Y., is following Pittsfield's lead with its first winter carnival queen contest this year. Seven candidates are vying for the title with a goal of 5000 buttons to be sold.

Their contest started Jan. 5 with the Lions Club and City Department of Recreation eo-sponsoring a kick-off dinner. The Hudson contest was the result of a talk Pittsfield's Park Superintendent Jackson J. Perry gave to the Hudson Lions Club two months ago when he described the local contest. Two weeks ago representatives ofthe Lions Club visit ated by Tullio Cimini.

The burning started as the vehicle was in front of 375 West Street. Insulation was MbUND and SQUARE DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT 9 to 1 BRIDGEWAY HALL CHERRY PLAINS, N.Y ROUTE 22 JOE POWERS' ORCHESTRA PROMPTER GEORGE FITZGERALD Open All Year Round ignited as the result of a short or-cuit. Damage was slight. SPCC Wednesday afternoon at 12.15 at the South Congregational parish house. Mr.

Mulford is a graduate of Syracuse University and the New York School of Social Work. He worked with the Rochester (N.Y.) SPCC from 1938 to 1537, at which time he joined the Massachusetts organization. In addition to his duties with that society, he is on the faculty of the Boston University School of Social Work and is vice-chairman of the advisory committee on Service to Youth in conjunction with the State Youth Service Board. He also serves on many committees of the State Confer evenings from 7.30 to 9.30, the classes have been; divided into ive groups and will meet once a week for six weeks. Sample menus will be given and weights and measurements will be taken to determine the gain or loss in each individual case.

(The honor system, of course, will be followed by each student in adhering to the menu.) The classes will include instruction on calorie values and general nutrition. According to Mrs. Underwood, the course is entirely free, there being no expense to either the chapter or the students. Classes are filled and no further enrollments may be made. Persons registered for the course are requested to attend the class specified on their application.

If arty change is necessary, they are asked to clear through the Red Cross office. ed Pittsfield where they were given A .1 a 1 WLH Our Own Fresh Baked BREAD 2 Large Loaves 27' SPEND YOUR lOll Iklkl CENTER SQUARE WEEK END AT 101 I lilR CHATHAM, N. Y. TEL. tit EXCELLENT FOOD TASTY LATE SNACKS Fine Full Line Domestic-Imported Wines, Liquors a description oi ine event oy rucn-ard W.

Danckert, chairman of the winter carnival committee, and John A. Massimiano, director of athletics in the Park Department. Mr. Perry was out of town due to the death of a relative. MIKE'S On Route 8 HINSDALE DAMP" Tonight ISABELLE at the piano Playing and Singing All Your Favorites ence, the United Community serv Rllington Funeral Home "Within the Meant Of AW 220 East Street Phone 4064 ices of Boston and the Boston chapter of the American Association of Social Workers.

At the meeting election of officers and voting on the adoption of the constitution will take pjace. Luncheon will be served. EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT Dance to LES HAIGHT and His Orchestra 10 to AM TRANSIENTS SPECIAL RATES TO PERMANENT GUESTS Obituary Dixon, John, Stockbridge Ellsworth, Mrs, Jfeannetta A. Pulver, William Great TOMORROW NIGHT Truck Recovered; Police on Trail Of Thief The Modern Laundry truck stolen from this city last week was recovered by Connecticut State Police yesterday in Danbury. Police here said that a juvenile picked up for questioning last night had confessed riding in the truck to the Connecticut city and had also implicated another city resident.

Officer Edwin Blair, of the night detective force, took the juvenile into custody and his case has been WILSON'S LEAN SLICED The OLD HOMESTEAD New Lebanon, N. Y. HAZEL ANDREWS and her orchestra Junior High Dance Is Tonight at 7 The Teen-Age Club and Seventh Haven will have their first combined dance of 1950 tonight at 7 in the Spiingside House, it was announced by Miss Yvonne P. Worrell, supervisor qf girls' and women's activities. A program of dancing and" games is planned.

Chairmen of the club, JoAnne Goddard and Ronnie Dean, stated that selections will be made for a larger governing group, with at least two members selected from each school for a total of 12. At present the club is run by a five-man governing "body. Route 20 Pittsfield-Albany Road Pizza BACON DANCING Television Nightly Mrs. Elmer C. Ellsworth Mrs.

Jeannetta A. Ellsworth, 61, died following a long illness this morning at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ellsworth at Glen-wood Fana, Becket. Mrs.

Ellsworth was born Nov. 9, 1888 in Glasgow, Scotland, daughter of Martha Canning and Thomas Lasares. She came to this country at the age of five. She was educated in Springfield where she spent most of her life. Besides her husband, Elmer she leaves two daughters, Mrs.

Jeannetta Foss and Mrs. Dorothy Slusser. both of Lima, Ohio; a Son, Douglas Elmer Ellsworth of turned over to the county juvenile Beer Wine Liquor officer. The man who allegedly stole the truck is still at large, and police said his name is being withheld until he can be taken into custody. and SATURDAY RED SOLDATO Funerals DINE and DANCE BONNY RIGG INN PIZZA EVERY FRIDAY Fall Course Dinners Specialising In Italian-American Dishes All Legal Beverages Henry Morrissey Services for Henry Morrissey will ROUTE 2 BECKET, MASS.

Springfield; also five grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth moved to Becket from Springfield last November. Mrs.

Ellsworth was a past noble grand of the Scottish be held tomorrow morning at 8.15 TEL. LEBANON SPRINGS 49F5 from the Dwyer Funeral Home and at 9 in St. Mark's Church. Burial 1 KELSEY'S Every Saturday Nite Music by FREDDIE SAVINO'S ORCHESTRA Featuring TORINO at the Piano ALL LEGAL BEVERAGES We Cater to Weddings and Banquets LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK uroer oi uaa Ladies. She was a member of the Golden Rod Lodge of Springfield and held the Purple Degree of the order.

The Graham Funeral Home of Springfield is in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in Becket Center Cemetery. JOHN 4nd IDA'S LIBERTY RESTAURANT DINE and DANCE TONIGHT r-O SPECIAL will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 today.

Allen E. Phelps Services for Allen E. Phelps were held at 2 this afternoon in the Lebanon Springs Baptist Church with Rev. John Hatch, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. Raymond Gibson.

Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery, New-Lebanon, N.Y., with Masonic services. Bearers were Norman and Wayne D. MacVeigh, Jo; seph Patterson, Earl E. Hemenway. Harry Nash and Joseph Sails.

Mrs. Gladys E. Hindle David L. Hindle Services for Mrs. Gladys and David L.

Hindle will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 at the Wellington Funeral Home with Brother iX P. Loomis of East Rutherford, N.J., officiating. Burial will be in the Pittsfield Cemetery. Besides the survivors listed yesterday, there is Mrs. Hindle's father, Max Newtort of 55 Revilla Terrace.

Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. For Members and Their Friends EAST LEE CLUB Nick and Lena, Mgrs. DANCING SATURDAY NIGHT EDDIE THOMAS HIS ORCHESTRA AND SOLOVOX Vocals by Frank Sturgis We Serve Sea food Every Friday Night SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNERS At Your Grocers Until Jan. 14th SPINACH 21 Chopped or Whole Leaf Isabelle Andrews At the Piano Playing and Singing Yofcr Favorite Tunes Home Cooked Food Assorted Sandwiches Beer Wine Liquor Served We Cater to All Types of Parties Far Reservation Call 2-74 or 831 ROUTE SS PITTSFIELD-ALBANY ROAD dine ana uamlk TONIGHT and SATURDAY Music by DIXIE SERENADERS Fights Tonight on TV MIXED VEGETABLES Mrs. Marguerite- Robbins Funeral services for Mrs.

Marguerite Robbins, widow of Edward JH. Robbins, were held at the Kel-ley Funeral Home in Lee Wednes LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK 23 12 oz. LAKEYIEW RESTAURANT day morning at 11. Rev. John Grat-r ton, pastor of the First Congregational Church, officiated.

Several Catering to Part lea and Banquet Advertise Your Wants in The Eagle Says That Man From Seabrook Farms "We Grow Our Own So We Know It's Good and We Freeze It Right on the Spot" I from Pittsfield attended the serv- ices. Burial was in Fairmount Cemetery, Lee, ALL LEGAL BEVERAGES DIAL fStS 1.

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