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The Berkshire Eagle. Monday. Nov. 21. 1977 29 Ivlassacfiiisetts Hampshire president inaugurated aEEIJST Adeie Smith Simmons, the former dean of "Jnveraty.

was inaugurated as the third president 0011686 35 1200 Aden's and faculty looked on. taer inaugural address, Mrs. Simmons said Hampshire' 11131 mic progress and quality can be acsewai without grades and that students can assume re-Jasasty for their own educations. Mrs. Snrnms.

a graduate of Radcliffe. holds a doctorate tostory from Oxford University and has served as tSasrnsiii of the Advisor- Board of the Higher Education Re-scuree Service for Women. UTestoTw to become Job Corps center CEXDPEE Eleven buildings at the former Westover Air Fare Base here and 24 acres; of land will be turned over to tie CS. Department of Labor for use as a Job Corps center fcrS disadvantaged youths. Labor Secretary Ray Marshal? anrored last Thursday.

Tie Westover center is one of four additional centers the depsrsisea is opening in the nation as part of a government efiat to double the size of the Job Corps during the current fscil year Tbe resdential centers will offer entry-level training for1 wsfe tanety of occupations. Trainees will be both men and -1. Tt VfO- -X. x3 Mark Mitchell School lunches made available to elderly NEW LEBANON, N.Y. Officials of the New Lebanon Central School have launched an experimental program under which school lunches will be made available to senior citizens.

Under a pilot program lasting until the end of the year senior citizens, for 75 centsC can obtain the same lunch served to the school children. They will eat in the cafeterias and only on days when school is in session. Lunches will be served on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. in the elementary school and on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:15 to 1 p.m. in the high school.

School officials plan to determine the future of the program after seeing how it is accepted between now and Dec. 31. 52 Chester elderly at holiday dinner CHESTER The Thanksgiving dinner served recently at High Folly Inn for local elderly-residents was attended by 52. The town's Senior Center has announced that the movie, "The King and will be shown Nov. 30 at 1:15 p.m.

Coffee and other refreshments will follow at the Senior Center. fledmen pick winners CHESTER Acqiritamaug Tribe of Redmen has announced the winners of its raffle of Thanksgiving turkeys. Chester winners are Hazel Van Wert, Diane Sakaske, Char-leen LaMontagne and Wayland Harrington Jr. Others are Ken Waite of Huntington; Kenneth Carrington, Pio Collins, Mrs. David Williams and Tony Mason, all of Westfield, and Cindy Brundrette of Springfield.

Chester Grammar School Grade 2 and teacher Miss Hazel Van Wert went to tour the Drie-korn Bakery in Holyoke, Friday. Grade 3 and teacher Mrs. Nancy Allman went with Grade 4 and teacher Mrs. Virginia Morrissey to Plymouth, where they visited the Plimoth Plantation, the Mayflower, and a wax museum. Rod and Gun club has announced it will have a spaghetti and meat ball supper on Friday.

Nov. 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Longhorn Saloon on Main Street. Tickets will be sold at the door for $1.25. A raffle will WINNER of the Pat Leahy Memorial Award in Lanesboro is William J.

DiLego, right, of Old State Road, who is shown here receiving the award from school Superintendent George V. St. Pierre Friday night. William DiLego wins Lanesboro Leahy award l.tr 1l mma a. mcuiniu SCORCHED INTERIOR of the Lawrence J.

Wick home in Lanesboro surrounds the wood stove which is believed to have started the blaze Saturday night Lanesboro fire believed started by wood stove OtJaer new centers win be opened in Illinois, Maryland and tiae Etetrsel of Columbia. Marshall said: There currently are centers operating elsewhere in the nation. Christmas tree prices to rise BOSTON (UPI) The cost of natural Christmas trees wO he higher this year, according to Walter R. Lewison, president of the Massachusetts Christmas Tree Growers Lewison told the Boston Herald American it will cost abodt one dollar more for a room-sized tree because of increased transportation costs and real estate taxes paid by Mew Mamphire Crawford House destroyed by fire CRAWFORD NOTCH, N.H. (UPI) The historic Crawford Bocse.

a once-exclusive New England resort visited by presi-denx. dignitaries and affluent Yankees for a century, has bees destroyed by tire. Tae 3E5-room. four story building, which closed two years ass. was nestled between peaks in the heart of Wste Mountain National Forest.

Cscse of the fire is under investigation, byt the fire chief kaioted arson was possible. He said the electricity in the hotd was turned off and said, "There was no way it could bci by natural means. Small oil dealers going out of business PCfTTSMQUTH. N.H. (UPI) The Better Home Heat Coun-eS szvs nearlv 60 New Hampshire oil dealers have been forced act of business since the Arab oil embargo four years ago.

EsecJEve Director Wilfred Hall said Saturday by the first of year the Figure could top 100. He said small dealers are being forced to the wall by unpaid bfiHs. snaHer profit margins, declining sales, red tape and ewernraent pressure to keep prices down. He said as a result. Jansr companies are taking over the small ones.

New York Fire destroys judge's home second time LIVINGSTON. For the second time in two years, Ere TIsursday destroyed the Livingston home of state Supreme Court Judge Roger J. Miner. The loss was put at 3000 5ner. his wife and two children escaped unharmed from bias by climbing onto a second-floor balcony.

Two years ago. a fire destroyed the Miner's earlier house at tiae ske. The present one was built on the old foundations. Tie cause has not been determined. PTA scores Rev.

Moon; seeks pact role GROSSINGERS. Y. The New York State Parent-Teachers Association has approved resolutions opposing the Rev. Ssi Myung Moon and urging parent participation in teacher contract negotiations. Tie group also called for an end to the teacher tenure system.

About 1.000 delegates attended the meeting. Tbe association approved a resolution for a study com-cstse to look into how to publish the "true facts on Reverend Moon." The Korean-born to destroy school and family life," has a negative influence on youth and HsJernsnes the influence of the family and the school, the PT A said Tbe PTA also called for a change in collective bargaining to aSow parent representatives in contract negotiations between school boards and teacher unions. Aacther of the 40 resolutions called for elimination of the teacher tenure system and suggested substituting five-year renewable contracts. able player, Jeff Novo; offensive player, Pat Bondini; defensive Del Keyes, and rookie, Kevin Guinan. Junior football, most valuable player.

Bob Dufur; offensive lineman, Jeff Newton; defensive player, Mike Bun-ess; most improved. Chris Hoffstedt. Hockey, most valuable player. Rick Guinan: second. Mike Bur-ress; best offense, John Yost, and best defense, Yves Beau-champ.

Richard E. Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hillard of Balance Rock Road, Lanesboro, recently returned from an extended deployment in the Mediterranean Sea.

A seaman apprentice who enlisted last July, Taylor is serving as a crew-member aboard the dock landing ship USS Pensacola. home-ported in LiUle Creek. Va While deployed, hi? ship oper ated as a unit of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The Pensacola is 553 feet long, carries a crew of 397 officers and enlisted men and can accommodate more than 350 combat troops.

It is designed to carry pre-loaded landing craft aboard and offload them during amphibious operations. LANESBORO William J. DiLego of Old State Road, Berkshire, director of the town football program, was awarded the Pat Leahy Memorial Award at the Lions Club annual sports night held Friday at the elementary school. School Superintendent George V. St.

Pierre, who was master of ceremonies, was named coach of the year. The Pat Leahy award is presented annually to the person who has contributed the most to further the athletic and competitive spirit in the youth of Lanesboro. DiLego, a former Adams High School and serra professional player, has been part of the town football program for 15 years, first as coach and for the past six years as program director. He has been the town's representative to the Berkshire County football league, for ages 9-12. for all 15 years.

Last year, the town team, the Tigers, won the league championship. DiLego is an equipment installer for the New England Telephone Co. About 250 persons attended the dinner. John Allen, director of the athletic program at Mt. Greylock Regional High School, and John Green, district governor of the Lions Qub.

were guest speakers. Team members given awards for first and second most valuable player were: Babe Ruth baseball. Richard St. John. Shaun Grog an and (third) Dennis Maloy; Little League, Braves, Pat Malloy, Doug Mid-dlebrook and (sportsmanship) firemen responded to the call and battled the blaze until 1 a.m.

He said that the firemen laid three-quarters of a mile of hose to draw water from a brook, since there is no hydrant near the Wick house. Very little damage was done to the Upper floors of the raised ranch house, and that only from smoke and heat, he said. Because the damage is still to be inspected by insurance adjusters, the spokesman was unwilling to definitely attribute the fire to the stove. But he called it "one of the stronger possibilities," noting that the stove was going in the cellar at the time the fire broke out, and that only that part of the house was damaged. LANESBORO A fire thai officials think may have been started by a wood stove caused considerable damage Saturday night to the remodeled cellar of the Lawrence J.

Wick Jr. home on Miner Road. A Fire Department spokesman said that the fire had about a 10-minute start when firemen arrived about 8:45 to find the cellar ablaze. Peter Wick, 13, was alone in the house when the fire broke out, but was unable to use the telephone because it had been damaged by the heat. He was driven by a neighbor to the Fire Department building, then to the police station, without being able to find anyone.

He finally called the report in from a pay telephone. A department spokesman said that three trucks and about 25 Semi one home. OurFTD Thanksgiver' Bouquet. CB radios worth $1,000 said stolen ADAMS Fred Menty, owner of CB World at 84 Summer reported $1,000 worth of citizen band radios stolen from his store sometime Thursday night or early Friday morning. Police said the thief or thieves entered at the rear of the building through a cellar hatchway.

Police are investigating the Hopkins Forest to be closed to public WILLIAMSTOWN Officials at the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College are reminding deer hunters that the Hopkins Memorial Forest in Williamstown will be closed to the public from Dec. 5 through 11, the deer hunting season. Access to the forest will be available only to the 100 persons who hold deer hunting permits issued by the center. also be held after the supper. Christmas penny social of the United Church of Christ on Main Street in Chester will be held Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The doors will open at 7 p.m. and refreshments will be sold. Donations of prizes can be left at the church on Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m., or with executive committee members, Hewitt Pease, Helen Carrington, Wayland Harrington, William Spradlin, Will-ard Pease, Lynn Bull or George Corbin. Realty sales Robert J. Grill to David P.

and Patricia A. Butler, property at Sherwood Forest, Becket. Joseph and Lucy DeAndrade to Patsy A. Murcherino, property at Sherwood Forest, Becket. Leroy E.

Gordon to Gladys M. Szenda, land on Pond Kill Road. Becket. Lucille G. Peterson to Stephen P.

and Doris L. Grenier, property at Shaw Pond. Otis. Charles A. and Patricia EL Alliss to Carl I.

and Gloria A. Williams, house and lot on East Center Street. Lee. Richard and Marilyn Lampron to James R. Washburn, property in Lenox.

Crane Company Fund to Francis J. and Maurice F. Morrison, house and lot on Warren Avenue, Daltoa William S. Scott to Jerome J. Walsh, house and two parcels of property on Longview Avenue, Hinsdale.

Ronald J. and Mary Ann Marcella to Dennis W. and E. Diane Hoag, house and lot on Main Street, Dalton. Edward E.

and Jean V. Reynaerts to Gary J. Thomas and others, property in Otis. vh r) Order one for Thanksgiving Thursday. November 24! A harvest of fresh fall flowers in a woven basket, for your folks back home.

Show them your thoughts are with them. We send flowers, plants almost anywhere, the FTD wav. Maine Brian Marauszwski; White Sox. Chris Harrington. Jeff Nova and (sportsmanship) Eric Shogry; Yankees.

Kirk Leslie and Scott Brock; Indians, Brad Manning. Scott Tinkham and (sportsmanship) Tom Mierzjewski. PeeWee football, most valu- Dalton sportsmen plan hunt, contest DALTON The Rod and Gun Qub will hold a rabbit hunt Dec. 17. open to all hunters.

Registration will be S2 per dog. Supper will be served following the hunt. Chairmen are Richard J. Callahan. Michael C.

Mason and Arthur Dietlin. The club also plans a contest in which prizes will be awarded to the hunters who bag the largest buck and the largest doe during the archery and gun seasons on deer, including the season during which black powders may be used in firearms. Registration, which is open until Dec. 4, will be SL ion leads nation in beer consumption Regie Call or stop in today. Whether it was the hot weather or Gasland attendant is robbed by gunman first night at work ADAMS An 18-year-old North Adams man had a rough debut as a gas station attendant here Saturday night when a gunman brandishing a rifle stole some $69 in the station's receipts from him.

Joseph Morse, who was on his first night as an attendant at the Gasland station on Columbia Street, told police that the lone masked gunman walked into the station shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday and demanded the cash. Morse told police that the robber was about 6 feet tall and was wearing a long Army coat and a hood with a stocking mask under the hood. He said there was on one else in the station when the man walked in and displayed the rifle underneath his coat. The attendant said the robber took the receipts and walked away across some nearby railroad tracks and behind some buildings at the adjacent Hoo-sac Valley Coal Grain Co.

Police are still investigating the reported robbery. tie BiHv Carter influence, something caused New Englanders to rofl "out the barrel almost four million times during the Erst six months of this year. Ronald C. Desjarjdins, regional wee ptesiAnt of the United States Brewers said that Etc New England states quaffed nearly 3.7 million barrels of beer during the period and led the nation in increased beer The region recorded a 15.6 percent increase in sales oser tbe 12 million barrels sold during the first half of 1976 asrf mere than doubled the national increase of 7.6 percent. really gel ariHjnd for you! LAKEVIEW FLORIST 684-0400 Vermont LEE NATIVE Nancy Grabow, Suzanne, left, and Troy.

Lee native cited in Oneida, N.Y. nw mm Hundreds of patterns hundreds of styles! DRAPERY WOOLEN SLIPCOVER UPHOLSTERY all at unbelievable, remnants 21 yd. low, low prices! start Streei, a native of Lee and now resident of Oneida, N.Y., has been named "Clubwoman of the Year" by the Oneida Daily Dispatch. The newspaper awarded Mrs. Grabow the title in recognition of her community service as the creator and coordinator of Help Unlimited, a 24-hour-a-day volunteer phone referral service started in 1975.

Mrs. Grabow, a graduate of Lee High School, will be visiting her parents in Lee for the Thanksgiving holidays with her husband Barry and their two children, Suzanne, 8, and Troy, 6. LEE Nancy Grabow, daughter of Edwin and Rosemary Abbott Grady of Pleasant Lee tryouts are tonight for basketball LEE The Lee Community Junior Basketball League will hold tryouts for all interested seventh- and eighth-grade boys tonight, at 6:15 in the Central School gymnasium. The coaches do not require members of last year's team to attend the tryouts. Sngarbush ski area being sold WARREN Yt One of Vermont's poshest ski resorts is hesar soW to a Washington.

D.C.-based company that oper, laundromats throughout much of the eastern United The Suearbush Vallev Corp. announced that it is selling its ski caSSa here to Solon Automated Services of Washington fcxSiscilEon. The sale the second in recent months of a major Vermont area, is seen as an optimistic sign for the ski industry tee. wfekn has been beset by bad weather, rising labor costs scd soaring insurance rates. Several months ago, the Mt.

Scow sfci area in Dover was sold for $5 million. nbodeDsland Utility seeks to give discount to aged i PROVIDENCE. R.I. Narragansett Electric poor eiJerh- customers in Rhode Island soon may be getting a sig-nScark rate beak Company spokesman Louis DeAngelis con-Ersaed Fridav the firm is working on a discount plan. It will Public Utilities Commission hearings on fsMav 27 request for a $6.9 million rate increase The proposal would be similar to a special discount proposed fey ssaSsetts Electric another affiliate in the New EsacrfCectric System.

Airman Brian W. Grande, son of Mrs. Marie Grande of 138 North Summer! Adams, has graduated from the Air Force training course for food service specialists at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado. Grande, a 1975 graduate of Hoosac Valley Regional High School, was trained to plan, prepare and serve food and maintain kitchen and dining hall lequipment. He will be assigned to Upper Heyford Royal Air Force station in England for duty with the Air Force in Europe.

He also earned cf edits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. Thanksgiving centerpieces, Thanksgiving centerpieces, $4.00 and up. The Maskandiser, HOfl and up. The Marskandiser, florist greenhouse. 243-1364.

florist greenhouse. 243-1364. Adv. Adv..