The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • Page 20

(From Eagle) It's "a day-today battle" trying to get Plttsfleld women to adopt the longer skirt length, according to several of the better local dress shops, which said today that women here haven't balked at higher prices, but rather have continued their Easter buying at almost wartime levels. Suits--more of the classic type than dressy--are going like hot- cakes, most of them with peplums, fishtail backs and bustles and most in gabardine. They're buylmg dressy things and prints in dresses, according to one buyer. (From Monday's Eagle) HI ASS GRAB: More than 600 children yesterday participated at Clapp Park in the Parks and Recreation second annual egg hunt. Scene above shows the large field in one of the younger divisions.

Breakage of eggs was slight, but the snow fence, which separated the playing field from the spectators and waiting entries at the north end of the park, broke about midway in the program. However, there was very little disorder, and the competition continued on a fair basis. More than 1000 colored eggs and 50 chocolate were claimed. Most older participants found at least one egg, but many of the two-year-old class were just out there for exercise. Fishing Derby For Children To Be April 19 TFrom Friday's Eagle) The Parks and Recreation Department came up with another today.

It announced that the first annual fishing derby will be held on the shores of Pontoosuc Lake Saturday morning, April 19. at 10 The contest will be open to children under 16. Competition will last for an hour and a half. Prizes will be a a to the entry who catches the most fish and the one who hauls in the first. Members of the Pittsfield Sportsmen's Club and area conservation officers will be asked to assist in the event.

(From Monday's Eagle) GOOD EGGS ALL: Here the best juvenile egg and the who played important in making the second annual Easter hard-boiled derby click yesterday afternoon at Clapp Park. Four-year-old Rosemary Ferry of Warren Terrace won first honors. She found 26. Runner-up was Nelson Maxfield, 2, of 48 Francis Avenue. He had 19.

They received live rabbits, did Bernard Savery, 87 John Street, for finding a golden egg; Robert Pollard, 89 Hollister Street, for finding a silver egg; and Shirley Gaston, 123 Danforth Avenue, for finding a bronze egg. Easter were awarded to Carmen Caropoli, 110 Third Street; Anthony LeFebvre, 2 Curtis Street; Jimmy Russ, 36 Tamarack Road; John Manship, 209 Linden Street; Dominick Kellogg, 329 Columbus Avenue; Charles Gaetani, 105 Fenn Street; Linda Hickey, 68 Pine Street, and Donald Chorey, 33 Edwin Street, for coming up with the first four chocolate and chocolate eggs. Assisting Jackson Perry, Parks and Recreation Department director, were Perry S. S. Jackscn, Boy Scout executive; Monroe B.

England, chairman of the Park Commission, and John Massimiamo and Miss Corrinne Duval, recc ntly-appointed CI supervisory S. W. BaUey Named Warden At Cobble Committee Makes Plans for First Supervised Season (From Friday's Eagle) 8. "'VfcaWo Bailey, Pittsfleld naturalist and former warden at the Pleasant Valley Sanctuary, has appointed botanical warden Jor the first season of Bartholo- weather permitting, Mr. Bailey will be at the Cobble from 10 AM to 5 PM.

His duties will include laying out paths where the flora is most prolific, keeping the paths open, greeting and showing visitors around the area and, in general, keeping the reservation in good condition. The committee voted to help defray the season's expenses by charging 25 cents for each car parked. The exact location of the parking space has not yat been decided. A four-foot stone wall will be erected for 10 feet on either side of the entrance stile. One of the regular reservation signs will be hung at the entrance and another at the junction of Route 7 and the road leading to the Cobble, if permission can be secured from the State Department of Public Works.

After an inspection, the committee decided that one of two cottages on the property can be used as a picnic spot and as headquarters for the warden. A second building, not in good condition, will be removed. S. Waldo Bailey fnew's Cobble since It was taken ever by the Trustees of Public Reservations. Mr.

Bailey was named at a meet- Ing of the local committee which met in Sheffield. Present were Chairman Walter Prichard Eaton Miss F. Catherine Andrus of Sheffield; Mrs. W. Taylor Day of Great Barrington; Mrs.

Lawrence K. Miller of Pittsfield; Laurence B. of Boston, executive secretary of the Trustees of Pub- Uc Reservations; and Charles A. Weatherby, associate in botany at the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. Between April 15 and Oct.

15, Miss Basinait, Miss Puleri Tie For High Total (From Tuesday's Eagle) LEE--Miss Ann Basinait of the Tigers and Miss Mary Puleri of the Giants tied for high total last week in the Women's Bowling League at 302. Mrs. Margaret Mitchell of the Braves had 295. Miss Basinait had the high single of 123, and Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs.

William Sernbon- etti were tied for second place at 111. The schedule for this week: Thursday at 7 Dodgers vs Yankees. Red Sox vs Cardinals, Browns vs Senators; at 9, Indians vs Phillies Braves vs Giants, Tigers vs White Sox. Louise Hartigan, Joseph Ducharme Wed at St. Mary's (From Monday's Eagle) In a 10 o'clock ceremony at St.

Mary the Morning Star Church, Miss Louise Patricia Hartigan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Hartigan, 84 Williams Street, became the bride today of Joseph Marcel Ducharme, 70 Lincoln Street, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Ducharma of Montreal, Canada. Rev. Eugene F. MarshaM, pastor, officiated, Mrs. Mary Walsh was at the organ.

The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore duchess white satin with pearl-trimmed sweetheart neckline, full skirt and long court train. Her full-length veil with Chactilily lace insertions was attached to an orange blossom tiafra, and her bouquet was a cascade of white roses with sweet peas. Miss Helen A. Kelly, maid of honor, wore aqua organdy and a headband of pin's carnations. She carried pink carnations.

Ernest Faucher, the bridegroom's uncle, was beat man, and William F. Hartigan, bride's brother, and Arthur Ducharme, the bridegroom's brother, ushered. The couple left on a wedding trip after a reception at the Sheraton HoteL The bride's traveling costume was a brown gabardine suit with pink and brown accessories. Upon their return, they will live at 28 Curtis Terrace. Mrs.

Ducharme is a graduate of St. Joseph's High School and the Bishop Memorial Training School for Nurses, and is a registered nurse. Mr. Ducharme attended schools in Montreal, Canada, and is an apprentice carpenter. An overseas veteran of the Army Air Corps, he was a tall gunner and aerial photographer.

Easter Greetings Collide With Spring Bargain Mail (From Friday's Eagle) Clerks were running around like so many wild rabbits at the Post Office today as an avalanche of circular mail order advertising spring bargains crashed head-on nto the usual heavy Easter ame. vol- Noting continuance of the recent marked upswing in use of circular mail, which practically was a dead ssue through the war, officials stated its surge ties in with an ever-increasing flow of greeting cards, parcels and even flowers. As a result, each earner's bag is loaded almost to overflowing, and the special delivery section is being hard-pressed to live up to its name. No statistics were available at noon, but is is expected that the holiday handle probably will set an all-time record. The volume for the year to date is running far ahead of other years in all types of mail.

Sewer Rental Fee Plan Discussed Harry J. Burns Elected Head Of Commission (From Saturday's Eagle) The possibility of a sewer rental fee, in addition to the existing assessment for sewerage Installation, was posed last night when the mayor's new sewer commission met for organization. It was brought out that tha city would not only derive more revenue from such a procedure, but It would be a more equitable way of paying for sewer maintenance. First, it was said, a sewer rental plan would be more equitable to home owners. As It Is now, all sewer maintenance and Installation costs come from the general fund.

It means that largo industrial and business places, hotels, rooming houses, which are a heavier load on the sewer mains get the same benefits as the man who has a single home. Also, it was pointed out, there are property owners who are not connected with the sewer mains but their taxes help maintain sewers just the same. Burns Named Chairman Harry J. Burns, former president of the City Council, was elected chairman of the commission and Attorney Francis J. Quirico is the clerk.

Other members are Councilmen Walter S. Marsden, Leonora Goerlach and Patrick E. Callaghan and Commissioner of Public Works Canfield S. Dickie and Leon H. Reed, former commissioner of public works.

On motion of Mr. Reed, Philip Ahern, taxpayers' secretary, was added to the commission and on motion of Councilman Callaghan, Councilman Marsden was named the commission's representative to the City Council. The commission's job is to make a study of the city's sewerage facilities. One of its first will be to set an equitable assessment for sewer installations. The cost now is 90 cents a lineal foot.

Mr. Dickie says the average cost of installation ever since a sewage plant was installed has been $3.50 a lineal t. Today, he said, it would cost anywhere from $6 a lineal foot to $15 or $20, depending on physical conditions of the land. The group must also decide what sections of the city shall get sewer extensions. Tanglewood To Have New Press Quarters (From Tuesday's Eagle)' Plans for 1 erection of new press quarters as well as an additional stage for the use of student orchestras at Tanglewood, were discussed at a meeting of the Tanglewood advisory committee at the Hotel Sheraton yesterday afternoon.

George E. Judd, manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, explained to the local group, which represents the local steering committee of the Berkshire Symphonic Festival, that the press quarters will be separated from the office. He added that newspapermen and radio representatives will have an "exclusive section" when the Festival opens next summer. About $7000 has been earmarked for the rehearsal stage to be constructed. Last year the Festival officials found that at timea one of the two student orchestras had to either wait or lose its turn for rehearsals because of inadequate facilities.

"We have come to feel the need for a sizable stage so that both orchestras can hold renearsals without having to interfere with one another," Mr. Judd Loral Shops Report Heavy, Easter Buying, Mostly Suits Thought are up from last year, local chops aren't meeting with any price resistance-in fact, shop owners say they are looking for the better clothes. Stater clothes buying' has dropped slightly from 1946, according to two proprietors, but the past week, despite today 1 weather, was greater than in the previous year, anoth- Th. Onmty Wednesday, Leads in Lee Players 9 Show er said. "It's very bard," said "to convert women to the longer skirts--they claim they won't wear them." Some insist on "butchering them" by shortening them to the knee.

But salespeople expect they can't hold out much longer against the trend. Jobless Benefit Requests Increased 1029 in March (From Saturday's Eagle) March saw a 1029 rise In unemployment benefit applications at the Massachusetts Employment Service. According to Raymond A. Warnock, manager, there were 2573 active applications at the end of March compared to the 1542 on file at the end of February. These figures are borne out in the Chamber of Commerce monthly survey of 18 Pittsfield industries, only a part of the industries Included in MES results, which shows a loss of 574 In employment for the end of March compared to the end of the previous month.

A break-down of unemployment benefit figures shows 372 veteran readjustment claims, the so-called 52-20 claims, and 756 non-veterans claims for March. Mr. Warnock emphasized the sharp drop in 52-20 veteran applications. The 372 claims for March compared to the 574 a year ago, and the 205 for February compared to the 1001 claims for the same month last year. Last month 215 applied for employment and 79 were placed.

Eight of the 79 were handicapped persons, and five of eight handicapped were veterans. Of the 79, a slight increase over the 63 placed in February, 34 veterans and 24 women. Veterans comprised 61 per cent of males placed last month. Placements for the first quarter of this year were 214, almost tht 118 placements for tht first quarter last year, Mrs. Foot, Third Oldest Citizen, Dies Funeral To Be Held To aiorrow Afternoon at 2 (From Friday's Eagle) Mrs.

Fannie Adelaide Foot, 98, Plttsneld's third oldest citizen, died last night at her home, 378 South Street after a long illness. Mrs. Foot, the former Fannie Strong, was born in North Egremont Dec. 9, 1848. daughter of Mrs.

Fannie A. Foot Cyrus Strong and Adeline Westover Strong, and had lived in Pittsfield 85 years. She came here as a young girl and worked at dressmaking. Later she was employed by the Renne's, Magic Oil Company. She married Sa'nford A.

Foot Sept. 8, 1874, and they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1924. Mr. Foot died in August, 1932. Mrs.

Foot was a member of the First Baptist Church, joining March 19, 1866. She was also a member of the Granga and Collina chapter. Order of Eastern and was active in the affairs of the societies. Survivors are four nieces. Miss Foot, Mrs.

Mabel Hall, Mrs. Thirza Bradway and Mrs. Frank Brown, and a nephew, Homer all of PHtsfleld. body rests at the Wellington Funeral Home where services will be tomorrow afternoon at 2. Rev.

Christian B. Jensen, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will in the Pittsfield Cemetery. Friends may ceJl at funeral this evening. Matilda Wrona Wed This Morning To John Ostaski Miss Matilda Wrona, -Daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Wrona, 29 Jones Avenue, became the bride today of John J. Ostaski, son of Mr." and Mrs. Zigmund Ostaski, 24 West Houstonic Street. The double-ring ceremony took place- at 8.30 at Holy Family Church, with Rev.

Valentine S. Teclaw, pastor, officiating. John Sumy was organist. Miss Bertha Wrona, sister of the bride, was maid: of honor, 'end Edward Ostaski, best man for Ms brother. Stanley and William Os- taski, brothers of tha bridegroom, ushered.

Mr. Wrona gave his daughter in marriage. The bride was dressed In white taffeta faille with swallowtail sleeves and cathedral train. Her finger-tip illusion veil was caught to a Juliet cap, and her bouquet was of white roses and sweet peas with of baby's breath. The maid of honor's gown was aqua taffeta faille.

She wbre a matching Juliet cap with French illusion veil and carried yellow daffolila. A reception for 60 was held at the Bradford House, before the couple left for New York and Washington. For traveling, Mrs. Ostaski wore a grey topper with navy blue accessories and an orchid. Mrs.

Ostaski, pay roll clerk at the General Electric, was graduated from Pittsfield High School. Her husband is manager of the Checker Cab Company. He was graduated from Pittsfield High and served years In the European theatre. Youth Dunked In Park Pool By Playmates (From Monday's Eagle) While firemen extinguishing a grass at side Park yesterday afternoon, 10-year-old Philip Prentice was thrown into the chilly water of the park pool, according to a report made to police headquarters. Officer Royal A.

McGulrt In his report stated that the Prentice boy's mother, Mrs. Marion Prentice, 56 Grove Street, complained to police that a group of boys tossed Philip into the pond. He learned that the Prentice boy and two or three other playmates "were pushing each other around while firemen were putting out a grass fire," and learned that Philip ended up in tha pond. Elito 9. BongwrwiM (From Monday's Eagle) LEE Ell to J.

Bongarzone an5 Mrs, Kathleen Bongarzone will have the male and female leads in the Lee Players' Victorian melodrama, "Angel Street," which will be presented tomorrow night at the Lee High School auditorium. Mr. Bongarzone will play the part of Mr. Manningham, who employs subtle devices to bring SMs terrified wife to a certain fate. Mrs.

Bongarzone will portray Mrs. Manningham, a lady at her wit's end. The supporting cast Is: Elizabeth, housekeeper, Mrs, Cora Car- Mrs. Kathleen ring-ton; Nancy, the Maid, Rena Dalbarco; Inspector Rougn, Fred Schuck. The two leading players husband and wife off the stage as well, but, they report in unison, under considerably more amiable circumstances.

Mrs. Bongarzona that although, it has seemed at times as if her husband were trying to drive her batty when he for- geta the groceries, she's sure it's just absent-mindedness. Play Leads in Searles High Comedy A Mind of Her Own 9 Fr. Cillis To Lecture Here Oct. 7 Catholic World Editor, Others To Give Lectures (From Eagle) The first in the series of lectures of the Critics Forum sponsored by the New Alumnae, Elms Alumnae, St.

Book Club, Catholic Daughters and FMTA win be held Tuesday evening, Oct. with Rev. James Glllls, C.S.P., internationally known editor of the Catholic World as speaker. Two other fall planned. Speakers for November and December and dates of their appearances will be announced soon.

The purpose of the forum is Catholic thought on best sellers and problems of national and international importance. Miss Mary Rita Coakley was elected general chairman of the forum program at a recent meeting. Sha will be assisted by the i committee chairmen: Publicity, Miss Gertrude Haynes; tickets, Miss Eileen Daly; arrangements, Miss Louise Flynn; reception, Miss Frances Farrell. Rev. Henry Finnegan will act as director and Miss Elizabeth Hurley, as secretary.

Trinity Men To Hear Rogers. (From Friday's Eagle) William M. Rogers, manager of tha Berkshire Safety Council, will speak at the supper meeting of the Trinity Brotherhood, Monday, April 14. Mr. Rogers'will talk on safety, and will show a movie on community accident prevention.

Local Man Collapses, Removed to Hospital (From Monday's Eagle) Elmer Carter, 75, of the Savoy Hotel, was taken to the House of Mercy this morning after he collapsed near the yard of the Berkshire sar th Company, Columbus Avenue. informed police that he has been suffering from fainting attacks for the past few days. Hospital Break Probed (From Eagle) Police are investigating a break made about 1.30 this morning in the sub-basement of House of Mercy Hospital. Police Sergeant Raymond F. Coakley found that entrance was gained by forcing a door into a room where pipe ariU cement are stored but it is not believed anything was taken.

Ann (From Eagle) GREAT BARRINGTON The Searles High Dramatic Club, under the direction of Miss Bertha M. Ferguson, will present the annual senior play in the school auditorium April 11 at 8 PM. It will be a three-act comedy, "A Mind of Her Own," by Anne Ferring Weatherly. The cast: Jim Bartlett, Frederick Lord; Delia Bartlett, Carol Hinds; Bunny, Ann Tripodes; Tommy, Leonard Mello; Nettie, Joan Robert Turner Dellea; Lizzie, Antoinette PTredda; Jessica Atwood, Beverly Munger; Delphine Lindley, Nancy Wyman; Steve Henderson, Robert Turner; Hugh Randall, William Cleary; Carol Russell, Isabel Samul; Miss Flora Fenwick, Betty Melvin; Mrs. Phelps, Charlotte Longdyke.

Prompters will be Jane Markham and PrisciQa Sparks. Other seniors not in the play will be ushers. Tickets are on sale by tha seniors. Judge Finds Against Woman In Lightning-Accident Case (From Monday's) Eagle) Mrs. Blanche Charon of Adams, who claims she was totally disabled as tha result ol fright in a lightning storm working in a textile plant, lost Her fight for compensation today when Judge William A.

Burns ruled against her in Superior Court. Tha case, one of tha rarest in the annals of Massachusetts industrial accident compensation, was heard by Judge Burns in January, when he was a to decidie whether Mrs. Charron was dis- Easter Cheer Prepared by Junior Red Cross (From Friday's Eagle) Easter cheer will be taken to veterans' and civilian hospitals in the form of tray favors made by members of tha Junior Red Cross in the schools. The Red Cross motor corps has delivered to tha VS. Veterans' Hospital in Northampton decorated napkins, Easter cards and nut cups filled with peanuts, with 14 cartoon scrap books.

Patients art St. Luke's and the House of Mercy will receive a supply of favors, menu covers and bookmarks. The Great Barrlngton and Monterey schools have mads matching duck and rabbit menu covers, napkins, tray favors and nut cups; the Williamstown Junior Red Cross hundreds of tray favors, Easter cards, napkins and bookmarks, and the Sheffield and Ashley Falls students have made nut. cups. Soft toys, made by Great Barrington students, will be sent to tha children at St.

Luke's and the Pitfc- fleld Day Nursery. Broudy To Speak (From Tuesday's Eagle) Harry S. Broudy, director of graduate and extension study North Adams State Teachers College, will address the Pittsfield Junior League monthly meeting Wednesday evening at 8 at the home of Mrs. Jay a Rosenfeld, 173 South Mountain Road. Berkshire Magic To Be Shown In Bigger and Better Ways (From Saturday's Eagle) The Berkshire Calendar, 1948 edition, will keep up with American ideology by being twice as large and twice as beautiful as its predecessor, the present J.947 number.

Haydn Mason, director of the Berkshire Hills Conference, described the coming book with adr mil-able self-control when he said: "The likes of this has never been seen before." wfiM be pictures opposite full length appointment sheets instead of this jreara divided page. The Excelsior PrintinjK Com- pany in North Adams, the firm contracted for this year, will again handle the job, but the picture reproduction will be an entirely new process placed in the hands of "skilled European craftsmen." Mr. Mason would reveal only that this process will use paper of different texture from that upon which the buyer may write. When asked the of the artisans hired for tha tack, Mr. Mason admitted they of Spanish origin.

"To tell you more," he said, "would be the same as giving you my right as the result of fright or "from the flash caused by an explosion in a mill machine during the electrical storm. Mrs. Charron was an of the Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates and claimed she was disabled when the bolt of lightning hit the plant roof on the afternoon of June 19, 1945, and followed through to her machine. The Industrial Accident Board, which first heard the case, once with a single member and later by a reviewing board, awarded her $14 in weekly total disability compensation, and the insurer, the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, was ordered to pay the accumulated amount between the -day of the accident and July 11, 1946. The insurance company took the case to Superior Court.

Donnelly Raps Proposed Gas Tax Increase Automobile Club Secretary Seeks Measure's Defeat (From Strong objection to proposed increase In the state tax was registered today by E. Donnelly, secretary of the Automobile Club of Berkshire'County. In a statement issued at club headquarters, 26 Bank Row, Mr. Donnelly said: A few legislators are altogether too prone to look on the automobile owner as a "bag of gold" ready to be tapped whenever more spending is planned. The fact is the average motorist is just an average citizen trying to raise a family on an average income.

The old idea that car ownership is a sign of wealth, is out- of-date by 30 years. Today a car is a necessary piece of transportation equipment. It is used in business and industry, in going to work, for shopping, taking children to school, i to church and all sorts of evety-day errands. Those who are agitating lor a higher rate on gasoline have overlooked the taxes the automobile owner now pays, federal, state and local on motor vehicle owners amount to more than aiamally. Surely there would nothing fair about another I predict that GtaMMl Court will reflect state-wide opinion and put all tax proposals quietly to steep..