The North Adams Transcript from North Adams, Massachusetts • Page 3

MONDAY, MAY 8, 1950. THE NORTH MASSACHUSETTS. High Winds Spread Rescue Man Fell Wires, Bring Cold Here' Overcome by Smoke Gusts Fan Brush Fires to Threatening Proportions-Break Power Lines at Three Places in Adams 1 Unroof Buclcland Barn--Force Mercury Down 52 Degrees--Sub-Freezing Cold Tonight. and Moore Save Man Affected by Burning Stew Fumes. By MAYNARD LEAHY (Transcript Staff Reporter) Fanning brush fires that raged throughout the county, disrupting power service in Adams, and forcing the mercury down to near-record 'depths, strong winds yesterday flipped the calendar back two -pages and gave the Northern Berkshire area a taste of March weather in May.

Cold TonljfM The winds were diminishing today and '-will die out entirely tonight according to the U. S. weather bureau at Pittsfield which predicted that below-freezing temperatures tonight will be followed by sunny and warmer weather Temperatures which had climbed to a humid 80 on Saturday flopped 52 degrees in the-next 48 hours as the cold winds hammered the area, and the 2S-de- gree low registered by the city hall thermometer last night was only three degrees short of the all-time record minimum for May, set on May 3. 1941. Even colder readings were reported from nearby communities, with observers at North Pownal, telling of temperatures as low as 16 in that town.

Trees Break Wires The only real damage caused by the winds in this section was at Adams, where power service was interrupted by falling trees. 'Primary circuits serving about seven customers on Notch r.oad in that town were broken when a big elm toppled, and service on the West Mountain road was cut off from" 5.30 to 7.10 o'clock last night when another tree fell across the lines. The winds also felled a tree on Alger street, near the Adams town farm, at 7 o'clock last night, interfering with, service in that section. Manager Richard F. Pierce of the Northern Berkshire Gas company said service was back to normal this morning.

The winds, however, hampered the work of firemen-who battled brush fires -throughput Western Massachusetts yesterday, and at times threatened to fan the flames to major disaster proportions. Wind Kiuis Flames The local department spent most of the afternoon trying Jto' control a fire that swept over an acre of land on the slopes west of the Curran highway, about a mile from the Adams town line. The blaze was sigsted by police on traffic duty at a funeral at Southview cemetery, and they radioed an alarm to headquarters, where Capt. Francis C. Anderson notified the fire department.

A detail headed by Capt. W. Edgar Dalmaso weift to the scene, whsre they found that broom's were the only practical equipment with which to flght the blaze, since the hillside was too steep 'for the use of Indian pumps. The fire, however, caused no serious damage and the. department today still had not been able to learn who owned the property.

The winds also contributed to the progress of a fire that swept over 30 acres of farmland in Dai- ton, and acted as a spur to five fires in the Greenfield area yesterday, some of which threatened homes in farm areas for a lime. Windy In Pittsfield At Pittsfield, trees and television antennae were blown down by the winds, and motorists passing Pontoosnc lake reported that the highway was drenched with spray whipped from the lake by the gusts. And at Buckland, in Franklin county, damages estimated at $2,000 were caused when the winds carried away "the completed framework of a new roof on a barn. The storm's effects began to be felt here shortly after noon yesterday. Temperatures at 8 o'clock yesterday morning stood at the 52-degree mark, but had dropped to 47 at 1 o'clock, skidded down two notches at 5 o'clock and reached a low of 28 before morning.

The weather bureau said' tonight's low will be in the. 20's, but.that tomorrow will find temperatures rising as high as 55. INCARNATION WOMEN IN COMMUNION EVENT First Annual BreakfastHeld by Guild The Women's guild of Incarna-' tion church'in Elackinton held its first annual communion breakfast yesterday, morning in 'the church hall. Guest speaker was Rev. William Healy, S.

former president of Holy Cross college, now at Shadowbrook in Lenox. Approximately 100 members and guests attended the affair, which was held after S.30 o'clock mass at the church. Miss Margaret Zimmer, presi-" dent of the guild, gave the welcome and Rev. Daniel F. Daley, pastor of the church and of St.

Patrick's church of Williams- Mrs. Lawrence Crowley Mrs. Catherine 79, widow of Lawrence Crowley and a North Adams resident for many died yesterday at an Adams nursing home. The obituary appears in the Adams news section. Eugene Moulton Mrs.

Susan J. Moulton, wife of Eugene Moulton of.Pownal Center, died yesterday at Putnam Memorial' hospital in Ben-' nington. She was born in Wisconsin, June 14j 1S70, daughter of the late Ishmael and Almeda (Elwell) Waite. She had lived in Pownal Center since 1921, mov- towri. spoke briefly and intro- ing there from Bcnnington.

She duced Fr. Healy. land Mr. Moulton were married Fr. Healy spoke on the sub-1 in Hoosick Falls, May 10, 1902..

ject "Peace." and the need "she leaves her husband; two prayer as a means of obtaining sisters, Mrs. Eliza Mattison and peace in the world today. He told Mrs. Harold Weaver both of the story of Our Lady's appearance to the three children at Fatima, and said that prayer will accomplish peace where nothing else will. He congratulated the women on their large attendance at the breakfast since the club was newly organized last September, and he urged them to keep up The good work and remain active.

At the close of his talk. Fr. Healy was presented a gift by Miss Zimmer. The tables for the breakfast- were decorated with bouquets of spring flowers and each member was presented a prayer card with a miraculous medal attached. Miss Helene Barrett, church organist, played for the group singing following the breakfast.

Mem-. bers of the Junior choir served woman was as waitresses. Mrs. Thomas Doyle served as general chairman of the affair, assisted by Mrs. Francis Royal, Bennington: a brother, Sidney Waite of Albany, N.

and several nieces and nephews. The body is at the Mahar funeral home in Bennington, where friends may call--at their convenience. Funeral services will -be held there Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. Hugh A. Gillis, pastor of the Second Congregational church, officiating.

Burial will be in the Pownal Center village Brother of Mrs. Shays Killed in Vermont Crash The brother of a North Adams instantly Sat- Florence Maxwell. Mrs. Joseph Murphy. Mrs.

Lloyd Keating, Mrs. Edward Gannon and Mrs. Fred Little. urday afternoon when a trailer- truck he was. driving over a 30-foot embankment near Rochester, Vt He was Timothy Durant, 43, of Whitehall, N.

-whose sister, Mrs. Alice Shays, now makes her home at 400 River street. Mrs. Shays, who attended the funeral this morning in Whitehall and The oldest existing maps we the burial at Fair Haven Vt 3v dating from said her brother'never lived here but was a former resident of Bennington. According to Vermont state po- lice, the victim' was driving a truck owned by the Robert Wood Trucking company of Fair Haven, carrying a load of veneer wood, they believed struck a soft swerved off' the Alert police officers rescued a from possible smoke suffocation from a burning stew yesterday CHESHIRE GIRL WINS STATE CONTEST PLACE Others Score at 4-H County Girls' Day Nancy Martin, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. -Everett L. Mai-tin of I Cheshire, was one of three county high school girls who won the North Adams, Adams Ministers Returned Stamford Methodists Without Pastor as Rev. C. R.

Sumner is Reassigned. 53-year-old Luther street man senior dress review Saturday during the annual 4-H Girls' day at Pittsfield high school. afternoon when they broke into I The winners will compete in his apartment. The man was Joseph Laplante of 12 Luther street. Patrolmen Andrew L.

Pasier- biak, Thomas B. Moore, who were in" the' neighborhood, noticed smoke seeping out of the windows in the Laplante apartment. They heard a man cough inside the place and trying the door they found it locked. They broke down the door to get inside the smoke-filled apartment and found Laplante asleep on a bed, partially overcome'by the smoke. The officers found one burner on the gas stove lighted and a pan with burning food in it.

Laplante told them he had put a stew on to warm 'and apparently fell asleep on the couch. The stew, Jjurned to a crisp, filled the entire apartment with smoke. Police said Laplante quickly recovered from his cxperi- Visitor From Japan Finds Old Friends Here Dr. who was guest speaker at the May Fellowship day service which was held last Friday evening at the First Congregational church of Williamstown, met two of her old friends while visiting here in the Berkshires. Dr.

Kan spent 'the week-end in Lenox with director of Miss Helan Toole, the North Adams Child and Family center, with whom she studied at the Yale graduate school in 1927, and she also visited with Mrs. David St. John of Wflliamstown whom shej the state dress review at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst June 30, for the right to go to the National '4-H day. The Martin 'girl, a student at Adams high school, modeled an evening gown, and-was given an "outstanding" rating. The Ovenbirds 4-H club of Cheshire, of which Mrs.

Charles Geoffrion is leader, was-awarded a rosette for having outstanding exhibit among the 16 clubs entered in that contest The Ovenbirds also received an "excellent" rating for their scrapbook entry. The Cheshire Cloverbuds. with Mrs. Neil Fletcher as The pastors of the, North' Adams Adams Methodist churches were returned for another year but a change was made at Stamford, in assignments yesterday by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the New York 'area as the annual meeting of the Troy Conference of Methodist churches closed at Albany, N.

Y. Rev. Elmer N. Haley, pastor of the First Methodist -church- of North Adams, and Rev. Percy L.

Pierce, pastor of Trinity church in Adams and also of the Methodist church in Cheshire, were reappointed. The First Methodist church of Williamstown, left vacant April 1, 1949, when Rev. Ackley Police are investigating the removal of, several bolts from the transmitter tower of Tadio station last night. The incident was reported by J. Gordon Keyworth.

station manager, 'who told that about'6 o'clock last night em- ployes saw a man at the tower, behind the station. When they went out to investigate the man ran off through a field. The em- ployes found on the ground, several bolts, which apparently had been removed from the tower. ceived a "verv good" for their was transferred to Hudson Falls, 6 N. remains vacant.

Rev. Dr. John A. Hutchison of the Williams college faculty, is supply scrapbook. In the junior food demonstea- tion', Elsie Parkington of Cheshire reveived an "excellent," while two Cheshire teams won "very good" ratings.

Team members were Lois Fields and Claire Kruszyna and Charlotte Getman and Kathryn Girard. The junior clothing exhibit saw "excellents" awarded LoraineBie- dell and and Doris Pan-j Doris Scholz, both of Cheshire. Receiving "very good" ratings were Shirley Cardonnell pastor. The church at Stamford, Vt, was left temporarily without a pastor, and'will be supplied. Rev.

C. R. Sumner, who has been pastor of the churches at Stamford, Pownal, Vt, and Petersburg, N. was named pastor at South Shaftsbury. Rev.

J. M. Mitchell was assigned to Petersburg, North Petersburg! and Grafton. Rev. David -Reid, a native of Unscrews Bolts Of Radio Tower Remember Mom with flowers from Quadland's.

Call Would Train Aides For Clinic Service pective members oL the class who telephone to Members of the nurses aide corps trained in previous Classen at the North Adams'hospital have been assisting at X-ray, dental, chest and other public health clin Special Red Cross Nursesi i sc nduct edlierein tne last few Aide Course Proposed- Seeks 10 Member's. A Red Cross class to train nurses aides especially for duty at public health clinics, may be formed here. Mrs. Harold V. McSheen of 450 Church street, local nurses aide director for the Red Cross, said the special-purpose training class had been suggested by Dr.

Antonio P. Milone, city health officer, and that it would be started if 10 applicants enrolled. She said be glad to make appointments to meet any pros- but it was believed that the I training of a special class for this service would reduce the calls on the present corps and add to it I a group especially trained for the in sort of duty involved in the duty health clinic work. A regular course was started at the hospital last week, the 18th to be organized there, with 18 women and girls enrolled. Mrs.

McSheen said the new class would require principally women who could give morning time as nurses aides, since many of the clinics tak? place in the morning. Every Mother loves flowers. Call viu a. jicLb.1. i.

of Adams and Elizabeth Hasten Adams, a former pastor of the of Hancock. Maureen Burzimati of Cheshire placed fourth in the junior clothing judging contest; Local N. E. O. P.

Members Attend Boston Session First Methodist church of North Adams and brother of Police Chief Edward W. Reid of Adams, was assigned to St. Mark's church in Troy. Mr. Reid, who has been serving at Burlington, was a chaplain in World War 1 and has held pastorates at Weybridge.

Salisbury, Vt. has known for many years in heri toda for Boston where they, will native Japan. Mrs. St. John, who! a te the supreme session of returned to the United States in 1941, served for 23 years as dean of nurses at St.

Luke's Interna- Mrs. Russell E. Atwood i loversvme and Valle Falls of Meadow street and Thomas G. I Henderson of Bryant stueet left! Rev Dr James A Pen Pi'o- tection at the Hotel Statler. Mr.

and Mrs. Atwood will serve tional medical center in 0 this Dr. Kan, school of Japanese Women's university in Tokyo, has just completed courses at the New York school of social work, Columbia univer- city and Union Theological seminary, and she plans to return to Japan in September. L1UCU. V-UllLCl 111 UIV i i i who is ciean of thp evemn at a mght-before "party, sodal welfare of ho and the wil1 be ined Miss social welfare of the Janet Henderson of Bryant street who spent the week-end in Pawtucket, R.

as the guest of Mrs. Jarnes McKenna. Miss Henderson is past supreme chaplain, while Mr. Henderson is a member of the executive board. Mr.

Atwood, past grand warden, is a state representative. FUNERALS Bronlslaw Drozdowicz Funeral services for Bronislaw Drdzdowicz of East road, Stamford, World War 1 veteran who died Wednesday in Gushing Veterans hospital at Framingham, were'held this morning at 8.30 o'clock in St. John Bosco chapel in Stamford, The pastor, Msgr. Charles officiated. Miss Mary Beninati sa'ng the offertory solo, with Mrs.

William L. Curran at the organ. Burial was in Southview cemetery in North Adams, where Msgr. DelNotaro officiated' at the grave. Bearers were Ernest Garafano, Henry Blanquart, Leo Chaput and Philip Puccio, all of North Adams.

Memorial Day Plans Advanced at Meeting Plans for the annual Memorial day 'parade and observance are progressing favorably, Dr. Es- mer local pastor, was transferred from Montpelier, Riverton and Worcester. to Middleburg, Huntersland and Franklinton, N. Y. Rev.

Frederick F. Adams, former pastor at Adams, was transferred from a four-church pastorate at East Middlebury, Ripton, West Salisbury and Salisbury, Vt. to Essex Junction and the" Williston. (Vt.) Federated church. Rev.

North Frank Adams Sevan, former boy, was reappointed district superintendent in the Albany district. Rev. Ernest Tripp was superintendent of Troy district which includes Northern Berkshire. Rev. H.

P. Leap Melrose and- Schaghticoke, N. was assigned as assistant, a new position, at the First Methodist church. Pittsfield. monde R.

Sullivan, chairman of Sydney T. Maunder, a member the permanent Memorial day of that Pittsfield church, was committee-, reported -today. The committee met morning at the American Legion home but plans still are in the formative stage, Dr. Sullivan chosen district lay leader in the Troy district. Rev.

F. R. Tarling of Saranac Lake, N. a former Pownal pastor, was retired upon reach- Florin! Funeral services were held in St. Anthony's church yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock for John Florini, 66, restaurant proprietor and poultry farmer, who died Thursday night at his Home, 10 Hodges crossroads.

Rev. Richard Roccapriore, pastor, officiated at the lib era service, assisted Rev. Nicholas Mongiello of Fitchburg, a former pastor, as deacon, and Raphael Posco, curate at St. Anthony's, as sub-deacon, Joseph Marino' sang "Miserere Mei." and Mrs. Mary Ronco was organist.

Burial was in Southview cemetery, where Fr. Roccapriore officiated the grave, assisted by Fr. Mongiello and Fr. Posco. Bearers were Joseph Brusatori.

Francis. Millis, Felix Vono, Angelo Gazzaniga. Louis Farinon and Dominick A. Tassone. This morning at 7:30 o'clock.

Fr. Posco officiated at'a solemn high mass of requiem in St. An- pJunged thony's church. He was assisted said. At the same time, he report- ing the age of 65.

ed that co-operation of all veterans' organizations has been assured, and that the program has encountered no obstacles yet. Another committee meeting is scheduled for Monday evening. May 22, at the Legion home. Prices-on the new Indians have not gone up. Buy one on easy The new Indian Chief, and the Warrior are hero at 2,500 Remember Mom with Carnariom on Sunday, May 14.

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Besides- his North Adams sis- sang the offertory, and Pietro Yon's mass was sung by the Iter, he leaves his 1 6 Dai 2 included TM Bonvouloir, A by Fr. as deacon and Rev. Armando Russo as sub- deacon. Anthony Abuisi sang "0 Meritum Passionis" and Mrs. Ronco played the organ music.

Miss Anna Grcgoire Funeral services for Miss Anna Gregoire of 109 Cliff street who died Friday afternoon at her home, following a long illness, were held this morning at 9 o'clock with a solemn high mass of requiem in Notre Dame church. Rev. Clarence Forand was celebrant, Rev. Leon Nadeau of Adams, deacon, and Rev. Jules Betourney, The choir mer Norma Bailey; a son, James Francis; his parents, Mrs.

Henry Durant of- Bennington; a brother, Omar Durant, also of Bennington; and three other sisters, Mrs. Hartnagle of Troy, and Mrs. Charles Taylor and Mrs. Viola LaPlante, both of Bennington. Chouinard-and William Walden.

Dr. Hector Pclletier was organ-, ist. Burial was in Southview cemetery where Fr. Forand officiated at the grave. Bearers were David Tremblay, Albert Tremblay.

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