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6 The Berkshire Count? Eagle, Wedaeaday, Aug. 8, 1951 News of Cummington II Eisli Help Dallas Fight Mosquitoes il flip Industry Barons Of U.S. Hailed As Historymakers PALO ALTO, Avast change in the historical interpretation of America's Industrial revolution, with "the heroes of our Sgt. McCarry Ends Army Hitch il CUMMINGTON Sgt Charles EEr CO: Est. 1920 McCarry i son of Mr.

and Mrs. A. C. McCarrv of this town, was dis material growth the Rockefellers, DALLAS Small, darting flan, a I ipectes which geti credit.Ior aiding the building of the Panama Canal, have entered the Dallas flght against mosquitoes. The Dallas Aquarium has pro-I thousands of mosquito' mln- rows, Gambusia afftns, for scores of Dallas' private 'fish ponds, to keep down the breeding, of mos- qultoes.

I The Gambusia afflns, a species Carnegies, Hills and Morgans" charged from the Armyfearly this Homo of Better Plumbing and Heating receiving much more appreciative week after three: years' service. sect "before It becomes dangerous. When the United States Army faced the problem jof wiping out malaria in order to complete the Panama Canal, hundreds of thousands of Gambusia afflns, also known as mosquito mlnhows, were shipped to the canal area and released in fresh water streams, lakes and swamps. I Theiittle fish has another distinguishing note, according to the director. It was the first domestic fish sold In the United States as a tropical fish.

In the late 1800s a treatment was forcast by Professor Sgt. McCarry It the brother of i- Miles McCarry of, Pittsfield, Berk Allan Nevins of Columbia" University at a Stanford University history conference. shire County Extension Service agent. '-V Men like these, he told several hundred college, university and I McCarry enlisted in the Army from Pittsfield in 1948. He took basic and advanced training with the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bennlng, and graduated from high school teachers of American history, would "stand forth In their true proportions as builders of an indispensable might" 1 t4x.

Gambusia afflns sold at about $2, and granddad was probably surefthe paratrooper training school common In Dallas 'and Texas, says the Dallas Times-Herald, Is known as the fish that helped to Build the Panama Canal because of the part It played in wiping out malaria-bearing mosquitoes on the tropical Isthmus. 1 The tiny surface-feeding -fish maximum size for females is one and one-half inches in length and males one inch feed largely on "In the-past Professor Nevins there. late 1948 he was as he was getting an imported pet. i asserted, "our historians tended to signed the European, Command, and served In Germany as editor of an Army newspaper for 21 The little warrior against mosquitoes is alive-bearing fish. The female will bear 25 to 75 young at one tjme and she bears every 28 a feminine idealism.

They were apologetic about our dollars, ou'r race to wealth, our materialism; they mentioned deprecatlngly our worship of size and deplored our During his overseas tour, Sgt. McCarry was awarded the Nurse's Report CUMMINGTON MrV Ethel Packard, nurse for the Hilltown Public Health District, has announced her July ffeport- Forty-seven visits were made for bedside care and treatment and 21 patients were taken to the hospital or doctor's office. Dr. Arthur Maislen of Pittsfield was medical examiner at the well-child conference at James. Memorial Hall in Goshen.

Assisting were Miss Lois Mollison, Mrs. Charles Sears, Mrs. George Barrus and Miss Anita Barrus. Twenty-nine children attended. Robert Carpenter was consultant In Plaihfleld, with 19 children being examined.

Assisting were Mrs. William 'Packard, Mrs. Floyd Thatcher, Mrs. Ralph Rice and Miss Beverley. Thatcher.

Dr. Ruth Hemenway of Williamsburg held the last of the series of three immunization clinics in Cummington for preschool children. The advisory committer Included Mrs. Philip Arnold, 1 Mrs. Carl Wells, Mrs.

Robert Pratt and Miss Helen Wright and were assisted by Miss Esther Hamlin, Miss Thelma Packard, Mrs. Noble Hadley, Miss Mary Arnold and Miss Virginia Robbln. Mrs. Raymond Dunlevyof Worthington (phpne 2986) is substituting for Mrs. Packard during August.

y'- Mr. and Mrsi. Lawrence Montgomery and son, Kent, left Thursday for al0-day vacation at Lake Winnjpasaukee, Wolfeboro, N.H. Mr. and Mrs.

Stephen Williams purchased the West Cummington school house at the public auction Saturday. They plan to move the building later. mosquito larvae, destroying the In- days, the director said. boastfulness about steel tonnage -X Army Commendation rlDDon, in addition to the conduct medal and the occupation medal for Germany. A year ago he returned to this country where he has been SHOP MEYER'S FOR GREATER RADIO VALUES and wheat production They spoke scornfully of the robber barons, they intimated that America had grown too news editor of the Camp Pickett, Now all this had changed, he public Information office.

Set. McCarry attended grammar school In Pittsfield and -Cumming declared. A great injustice, he continued, had been done to "our business history, our industrial leaders," by writers who had "for COMMERCIAL and RESIDENTIAL FLEET OF 8 TRUCKS' AT YOUR SERVICE ton and was graduated from Dal-ton High School. He will live with his parents Cummington. gotten we might have lost the First World War if we had not Repair Work a Specialty fi.

Av 1 Ball-Lyons Reunion Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur developed so rapidly." He offered a guess that "this great development by which OA Garceau have been Mrs. jacK I II SEN IV fWt Steele and sons, Jeffory and Peter, America has been projected into DIAL 7358 of Washington, D.C. They made 42 PEARL STREET Near Post Office the trip to attend the Ball-Lyons world leadership, with all the exhilarations and perils, "the opportunities and cost of that position, will be In some fashion connected, by future interpreters, with the family reunion Sunday at the Com munity House.

Mrs. Garceau wai advent of the age of mass action, Mltf lLJILJjIIII 11 Jjl named president, and Mrs. Jason King, secretary and treasurer. A committee from the Grange served dinner to 33. i Advertise Your Wants in The Eagle O' J.

mass production and mass psychology in American life." OPEN THURSDAY EVENING UNTIL 9 Grange Meets Tonight I The program for tha Grange meeting tonight will be youth night in charge of the youth 'committee, PORTABLE RADIOS Doris Loud chairman. SUMMER rt jrr I KA A I 1 Dr. and Mrs. M. T.

Vittum and children, Alan and, Patricia, arrived Thursday from Geneva, N.Y., to spend some time with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Giles. They will visit relatives in Haverhill before returning home. Mrs.

Milton Howes, and Mrs. Herbert Mongue accompanied Mrs. Charles Ward of Ashfield on atrip to Sharon where they will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Goldsmith.

Guest of Anne Drake this week is Mrs. 'Anna Streeter of Dal-ton. I Dr. Mary E. Lyman has been entertaining her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.

and Mrs. Lindol M. Scott, of Johnsbury, Vt. This week she has with her, her niece, Mrs. Harold F.

Brown, of Norwalk, Conn. Patricia Vittum, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. TVI. T.

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i I 'l i i Chester Blueberry Festival In Chester Tonight CHESTER A blueberry festival will take place this evening at 5.30 at the First Congregational Church at Chester Center. The cooks of this hilltop. village will prepare blueberry cakes, -muffins, pies for the buffet supper. Sandwiches, ice cream and beverages will also be available. An auction of household articles and farm produce will be held at 7.30.

Joseph Sherwood is general chairman. The public is invited. Chicopee Hera Friday The Chester All-Star Baseball team will entertain the Chicopee Colonels here Friday evening at 6. SUITS and TOPCOATS Back Again NOW So far, the local team has five Better Than Eve NOW yins, five losses and one tie. 39.85 51.85 59.85 68.85 49.50 65.00 75.00 85.00 NOW AUNT NOW Miss Barbara Lyons, daughter 61 Mr.

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