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Canaan to vote Sharon Audubon Center tonight on to hold annual festival f.jw"iimniiiiiiiiiinijiiiui,. 'ijm njxmmmij.iii.i..j) iiiuiwwiiMwwwWW 30 The Berkshire Eagle, Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Adams recycling committee requests three shed sites periods will begin at 9:30, 11 a.m., 1:15 and 3:45 p.m. on the trails, lawns and in the buildings. Exhibits will include snakes a i Ai- y. ana lurues oy uie wMuicuutui Herpetological Society, toads and frogs, hawks and owls.

Other activities will include bird observations and identification, and talks on ferns, mushrooms, herbs and wild plants and their sheds in its recycling program. Last week, Williamstown sent 13,200 pounds of glass to recycling plants in" Connecticut, the largest single load to date. Meanwhile, the Adams Housing Authority gave the recycling1 program Its support last night, voting to cooperate with committee by donating a site for the initial sheds at the Columbia Valley housing project uses. Also, there will be i color-slide presentatio "The Swamp," prepared by the late Ward Hutchinson; explanations of the significance of the geology of the center and its history; pointers on tree identifica for the elderly. The committee hopes to save school addition j- CANAAN, Conn.

Selectmen have called a special town meeting tonight at 8 in the North Canaan Elementary School to act on the proposal of the Elementary School Building Committee to construct an addition to the school at an estimated cost of $479,000. Previous town meetings have approved preliminary sketches and authorized the committee to Obtain detailed plans. Related items will ask voters to authorize the Selectmen to eqter into construction contracts in behalf of the town; to authorize the Board of Education to apply for and-accept or' reject state-aid grants in the name of the town; to appropriate for the construction; to consider, and if deemed advisable, authorize an issue of bonds of the town, not to exceed $479,000, and to work out details of the bond issue; and to authorize any other action considered necessary for the town to construct said addition. School officials have sought an addition for several years. Two classes are currently housed in portable buildings, the hbrary is in a converted storeroom and officials have said that space is not adequate for ADAMS College students who have formed the nucleus of the new Adams Recycling Committee met last night to draft a proposal for a solid-waste recycling program for the town.

The proposal, which will be put before the Selectmen at their regular meeting Wednesday night, will include a request for permission to use town land and money for the construction and maintenance of three or more recycling sheds. They would be used for the collection and storage of solid-waste material, including glass, paper and metal. The committee will ask for the use of sites on Renfrew and Quality streets and at the wastewater treatment plant on How-land Avenue. It hopes to establish additional sheds after the program begins. Chairman Michael Dziadzio cited the fact that Williams-town, which is smaller than Adams, currently supports five 1 the town a considerable amount of money through its recycling efforts, by cutting down on the amount of landfill space used.

The town spent $24,000 last year in transportation and maintenance costs at the East Road landfill site. The proposal that the commit- tee will submit Wednesday states that "we are paying twice for the goods we use everyday; once for the original purchase, and again to dispose of the waste." SHARON, Conn. The fifth annual Audubon Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday, July 29 and 30, at the Audubon Center on Route 4. Two-hour field trips will allow participants to explore in depth the ecology of the center. Trip leaders Returning as trip leaders are Phyllis Busdh, Hal Flanders and Daniel Sffllley.

New leaders are Bob Moeller, center director; Richard Barnett, associate professor of biology at Dutchess County (N.Y.) Community College, and Frank Knight, coordi-nator of environmental education for the New York Botanical Gardens. Trips will begin at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. each day. A variety of l-hour activity Swimming lifesaving.

classes offered CANAAN, Conn. Free swimming lessons for teen-agers and adutts began at the Community Pod yesterday. The lessons are designed for novices and people who wish to (improve their Interested persons are asked to call or sign up at the pool. The classes begin at 4. Junior and senior lifesaving courses also began yesterday.

The classes will be held from To be -eligible for the junior course, participants must be at least 11 years old or entering 6th grade. For the senior course, participants must be at least 15 or entering 11th grade. All must be in good health, according to pool officials. A fee will he charged to cover instruction and use of the pool. tion; color slides of wildflowers; a talk on "Insects and their Environment' a discussion of mammals; and pointers on nature photography.

Programs for children from 5 to 11 years old will be supervised by educators. State Commissioner of Environmental Protection Dan W. Lufkin will speak Saturday at 1, and Gary Soude, writer on environmental topics, will speak Sunday at 1. Adult and children's tickets will be available at the gates, which will open at 8:30 a.m. rain or shine.

Participants must obtain free passes for the events of their Dorothy Chapman BARN RAZING on he former Warner farm in Cummington is being done piecemeal fashion by Guy Mason of Blandford" for Judge and Mrs. Jon Wiig of Worthington, who plan to use the materials in building two new homes. Nearly 200 years old, the barn was deemed unusable by its owner, a church- group. North Berkshire school Old barn in Cummington readied for reincarnation Ordinance passed on slaughtering facilities choice irom tne acuvmes ooom. Chicken, hotdogs, sandwiches and beverages will be available at a food cart Property transfers recorded recently by the North Canaan town clerk include property on Ashley Falls Road from Leroy Ranolde to Bruno deProdocini et ux, and propert yki Green-acres from Arthur A.

Wentworth to Clarke 8. Wood et ux. Head yoke oxen pull set in Cummington CUMMINGTON The Association of New England Ox Teamsters, win hold its annual draw at the Cummington Fairgrounds this weekend. Officials for the event say that this will be the first time head yoke oxen have competed in this area. The elimination draw will begin Saturday at 9 a.m.

The five classes competing are 2,400, 2,800, 3,200, 3,600 and over 3,600 pounds. The distance pull, with a time limit of five minutes per pair, will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday. The three classes for the event are 2,800, 3,200 and over 3,200. Weigh-in time for Saturday's event will be held from 7 to 9 a.m.

and for Sunday's, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. A dinner will be served at noon on Saturday and a baked bean and ham supper at 5 p.m. On Sunday, a turkey dinner will be served at noon. who has residency rights on the property, decided to have the structure razed.

But Mrs. Jon Wiig of Worthington heard of the decision and offered to have the bam removed, piece by piece. Although there was no ridge pole in the structure, it had remained sturdy. Its dovetailed beams had been held together by wooden pegs. The roof was slate.

Judge and Mrs. Wiig say t3at two houses will be built with the barn materials, one here and one in Worthington. Materials that they cannot use are being offered to townspeople for kindling. One observer notes that the workman doing the dismantling is long-haired and bearded, just as the original workmen for the barn probably were. CUMMINGTON The old Warner family barn at Porter Hill and Fairgrounds roads is being disassembled with an eye toward using ite parts in the construction of two new homes.

Built around 1779, the year Cummington was incorporated, the barn was deeded to the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ several years ago, but the organization had no use for it and found it costly to maintain. Mrs. Lambert L. Jackson, Hinsdale Mr. and Mrs.

Club will meet Monday, July 24, at the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Mosegard of Skyline Trail. A covered-dish supper, picnic style, will be served at 6:30.

South. CjSams SAVINGS BANK iNcomutui CANAAN, Conn. Approximately 200 voters Thursday passed an ordinance regulating the location Of slaughterhouses and livestock processing plants at a special town meeting. The ordinance, which became effective upon passage, prohibits the establishment of a commercial livestock slaughtering or processing operation on a parcel of land of less than four acres or whose boundaries are not al at least 200 feet It further stipulates that such facilities must be at least 500 feet from any dwelling. The ordinance was brought before a town meeting by petition of 25 East Canaan residents.

The petition was circulated after Joseph Miele of College Hill Road proposed to establish a processing plant in a building on a half-acre lot on Route 44, East Canaan. The law does not effect Miele's existing operation on College Hill Road. It exempts private slaughter of poultry or livestock for immediate family use. Warren Foley of East Main Street was elected moderator for the 65-minute meeting. Lanesboro American Legion Post 446 will meet tonight at 7:30 at the post home to elect officers.

IT BUILDS UP QUICKLY! Farmer's complaint prompts Sheffield to enforce 1937 clean-river ordinance Regular amounts put -into a savings account here, where maximum interest is compounded daily and paid quarterly, add up in no time to a nice little nest egg. Open an account with us today! MAIN OFFICE: 2 CENTER ADAMS 743-0040 BRANCH OFFICE: SOUTH CHESHIRE 743-0270 Housatonic, requesting them to install holding tanks for waste petroleum. Dwight O. Ford, chairman, said he expects the ban on dumping oil onto the banks of the river to take effect immediately. Mousatoiiic Miss Mary Morrison, daughter of.

Mr. and Mrs. George Morrison of North Plain Road, was given a bridal shower Sunday night at the Macano Inn. She was also given a shower recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

John Clark of Great Barr rington. She will be married to James Del Grande, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Del Grande of East Main Street, on July 29 in Corpus Christi Church. the bed or onto the banks of any river which flows through the town.

The Selectmen's decision followed a complaint from Neil Fletcher, a dairy farmer who owns 112 acres of land, much of which abuts the Housatonic. Fletcher said the recent flooding of the river had deposited oil on much of the land that he uses for a hay crop. He said the actual damage to his business has not yet been determined. Fletcher said the oil is thrown onto the banks of the river by garages. Although he conceded that garages in other towns also pollute the Housatonic, he suggested that the Selectmen enforce the 1937 bylaw to eliminate a portion of the problem.

The Selectmen agreed to write a letter to all the service station and garage operators along the Groundbreaking date for mall uncertaitn NORTH ADAMS Developer James R. Schochet, head of the firm chosen to build a new Main Street shopping mall, said Friday that he had little hope of starting work on the project next spring. He had originally set that time for the groundbreaking, but he says he cannot foresee the construction being planned until he knows when the site, particularly that of City Hall, will be turned over to him. Schochet said, however, that a twin-cinema building will be started earlier on the corner of Ashland and Main streets, and that a tenant for it should be arranged within two weeks. North Adams Inn contract awarded NORTH ADAMS The contract for construction of the planned North Adams Inn was awarded last week to J.

L. Marshall Sons of Pawtucket, R.I. The sale of the land for the seven-story hotel and restaurant complex was completed by Arthur E. Spencer, acting director of the North Adams Redevelopment Authority, and developer Fred Lieberman of Philadelphia. The groudbreaking date for the hotel, the first major project in the redevelopment area, is still uncertain, according to project manager Edward Gravitz.

Massachusetts Fischer recalled as brat, gentleman FITCHBURG (AP) Bobby Fischer is remembered as "a spoiled little brat" and as "a perfect gentleman" by women who played him in 1964. In March 1964, Fischer played for a $250 honorarium at the Wachuett Chess Club, where he defeated 49 competitors, lost to five and had two draws. Robert Fortier of Fitchburg, president of the club and one of the 49 who lost, said Fischer lost a brown paper bag containing his chess pieces. "You wouldn't believe the temper tantrum he threw," Fortier said. Clarence A.

Barber of Holden, one of the five who won, said that when it became apparent to Fischer that he was going to lose, he "took a long look at the board, looked at me, then said. shook my hand and went on to the next board." UMass fellow named dean in Hong Kong WILLIAMSBURG Walter B. Johnson has been appointed dean of American studies at the Chinese University, Hong Kong, for the summer session. Johnson i a graduate of Clark University in Worcester and holds graduate degrees from Assumption College, Worcester, and the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at Seton Hall University, Orange, N.J. A former instructor at Becker Junior College, Worcester, Johnson has taught in West Africa and served as director of development programs for International Voluntary Services in Malaysia and Laos from 1965 to 1970.

He is currently a fellow in the Center for International Education at UMass, Amherst. City may take state to court over taxes NORTHAMPTON The city may go to court to force the state legislature to bring county tax assessments up to date, according to Mayor Sean Dunphy. The legislature adjourned this month without taking final action on a bill that would have brought the outdated county land assessments up to more recent levels. "All the towns and cities are asking is for the assessments to be brought up to date," Dunphy said last week. "The fact that they haven't provides an ample basis for a suit:" Changeover to metric system predicted AMHERST (AP) A University of Massachusetts engineering professor predicts he will be buying beer by the liter within the next decade.

Prof Klaus E. Kroner is forming a faculty resource group at UMass to cope with problems a changeover to- the metric system of measurement may bring. "The chances appear fairly good that some kind of legis-. lation calling for a resolute plan for this country to convert to dominantly metric unit usage will be passed by Congress no later than the next session," Kroner said. Two bills that are an outgrowth of a 1971 metric study are now before Congress, calling for an orderly, voluntary conversion over the next 10 years.

An engineer whose European background gives him firsthand knowledge of the metric system, Kroner said the average person's adjustments to the metric system will (be simple compared to the task that lies ahead fof industry. Connecticut Ground broken for new Middlesex campus MIDDLETOWN Gov. Thomas J. Meskill and former Gov. Wilbert Snow participated here Friday in groundbreaking ceremonies for a new $4.3 million building for Middlesex Community College.

The ceremony took place at a 38-acre site of a new campus on a prominence above the Connecticut River. Since its founding six years ago, the college has used rooms at Connecticut Valley Hospital. i Montville Selectmen cut school budget MONTVTLLE The Selectmen have cut $75,000 from the board of education's budget request for fiscal 1972-73. The school board had submitted a request for $4,860,494, an increase of 6.7jjer cent over last The members will modify the budgefand present it to the public July 27. DePaoIa released from federal prison DANBURY (APWoseph DePaola, 5, of Meriden left federal prison yesterday after serving more than half of a one-year term for accepting kickbacks for authorizing loans from a barbers union pension fund.

DePaola, formerly president of the International Barbers and Beauticians Union, was sentenced in federal court in Chicago last November. He pleaded guilty to one count of a 36-count indictment charging, him and two other men with conspiring to arrange $14 million in loans from the barbers union pension fund. DePaola entered the FederaTCdrTectioff Institute Jan. 5 and has been working in the prison barbershop, prison officials said. SHEFFIELD The Selectmen voted last night to order persons who operate automobile agencies or repair shops adjacent to the Housatonic River to stop dumping used petroleum into the stream.

The directive would enforce a 1937 bylaw which prohibits the dumping of "any refuse" into N.C. nursery nurses fawns taken illegally HOFFMAN, N.C. (AP) -Twice a day Sam Wiseman plays nursemaid to 16 orphan "babies." Feeding time at the Wiseman home is like watching a magician make milk disappear. Each of the frisky tots can empty a 10-ounce bottle in 30 seconds. The "babies" are tiny fawns.

Many were confiscated from North Carolina families which found them and planned to keep them as pets. State law prohibits persons from taking deer illegally and keeping them in their homes in captivity. The 16 fawns, ranging from two to five weeks old, are at the commission's plant nursery near Hoffman in the Sandhills area. One of the 16 is an albino. All are tame and have white spots which will disappear when they become about six months old.

Some of the deer were found by farmers while cutting wheat. Wiseman explained that wheat fields are a favorite place for doe deer to give birth to their offspring. Does produce once a year, usually in May or June. Wiseman, plant nursery man: ager, formerly was refuge manager of state game lands. He said the fawns will be kept at the nursery until after the hunting season which begins in October in most counties and runs until Jan.

Then they will be released on game refuge lands, free to roam until the 1973 hunting season. STORIES! STANDARD FURNITURE As Successful As It Is Different No other store like Standard anywhere. Note their store policy: 1. STRICTLY ONE IOW PRICE TO Ml 2. SAVE MORE SY TAKING II AWAY YOURSELF 3.

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TILL 9 SAT. TILL 5 CLOSED MONDAY 66 Summer ADAMS QUALITY FURNITURE FOR LESS SINCE" 1 Ml By your friends and neighbors! Very Special Sale The Berkshire Anthology, published by the Bookstore Press in Lenox, went on sale this week. It's a collection of works by Berkshire writers and artists. Deluxe DAYSTROM DINETTES it Included are works by William Shirer, Alice Brock, Sushil Mukherjee, Joel Librizzi, Gerald Hausman, Paul Metcalf, William Herrick, Beverly Pabst, Jarvis Rockwell and others. It is a beautiful book, an event in the cultural life of Berkshire County, and the Sunday Sampler is taking full note.

Joan JL has written a cover story on how the anthology came about, and selections, both graphic and written, will be spread across three full pages of the Sunday Sampler. IT'S IN THE SAMPLER! Drive A Little Ways To ADAMS Small Town Prices Largest Furniture Store in Northern Berkshire Selling Quality Furniture for Over 97 Years Police check Office ripoff, turn up mice B0WD3, Md. (AP) ranza Corzon suspected that the frequent tampering with her typewriter was the work of so she installed a new alarm system inside her office. When. that, failed, the Bowie Police Department assigned two detectives to spend the night inside the store.

-Mrs. Corzon called the police and complained someone again bad ripped off the ribbon of her --r -Detective Richard Harf found a field mouse and her three -babies nestled in the typewriter. Tel. 243-0173 Open Friday-Til 9 p.m. A.

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