The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 13

1. unit reaches consensus that it still wants consensus A subgroup of TAG, the Transportation 1 Advisory Group, came to a consensus last night that consensus the art of making decisions without formal vote-taking is still the best way for the loosely structured citizens' group to operate. At the same time subgroup, called the procedures subcommittee and headed by John W. P. Mooney, agreed to tighten up TAG's membership requirements and to insist that only authorized TAG delegates and alternates take part in the "formulation of consensus" at future TAG meetings.

Dobelle dissents The related actions came at the end of a meeting that saw Mayor Evan S. Dobelle, a critic of TAG's flexible decision-making process, register the only major dissent. Dobelle urged the group to abandon censensus, which he said was just a euphemism for a "clumsy kind of voting," and adopt instead a policy of formal, democratic balloting. "Only with voting are you going to know where your members stand." Dobelle declared. "and only with voting are you going to be able to act on controversial issues where you won't be able to achieve Responding to Dobelle's ments, committee chairman Mooney said he could the advantage of "dispatch and efficiency" afforded by formal vote-taking, but he maintained that such a practice would be at the expense of TAG's and open-endedness, the qualities that distinguish it and make it better than other similar Example of efficiency Voting.

when compared to the procedure of consensus. "is swift and smooth, and you can get things done in a hurry," Mooney continued. "But a guillotine is swift and efficient, too." "There is a trade-off here." agreed Thomas C. Litwiler, a committee member and veteran delegate to TAG. "The trade -off is between efficiency and substance.

and if I had to choose between the two, I would stay Mooney, who was also critical of the Curran selection at last month's meeting. said, "The manner in which Curran was picked was a failure of consensus. not example, of its proper functioning. In a related discussion. the committee took up the question of whether TAG's role is legislative or strictly advisory.

If it is legislative, "if we are really charged with making final decisions," TAG chairman Samuel W. Smith said, then there is a stronger case for introducing voting at TAG meetings. that the legislators are account- To seek clarification The committee members agreed to seek clarification from the state Department of Transportation on that point. Meanwhile, the procedures group decided to make its reaffirmation of consensus a temporary, one, and to review the question again at the beginning of next year. As for the tightened membership rules, the committee will recommend that at future TAG meetings all speakers identify themselves as either TAG delegates or alternates and name the organizations they represent.

Two candidates file for Hinsdale seat Two candidates have filed nomination papers for the one Hinsdale seat on the Central Berkshire Regional School Comcial election mittee to be chosen at the speActing Supt. Denis J. Duquette said that Elias J. Varanas of Lower Main Street and Robert M. Hall of George Schnopp Road.

Hinsdale. indicated they will be candidates for the three-year term. Wednesday night the regional committee unanimously agreed that if no more than one candidate filed papers, the election would be canceled and a representative would be named by the full committee. Obituaries and Funerals Memorial service set Brownell, James Merritt F. H.

Anthony Marhefsky Connolly, for plane-crash victim NORTH ADAMS A memorial service for Mark Terance Gigliotti, 26, who was presumed killed April 2, in an airplane crash in Nantucket Sound. is at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Anthony's Church. Mr.

Gigliotti, son of Peter and Coral McAnemy Gigliotti of Clarksburg and formerly of North Adams, was a three-vear resident Harwich Port. Born in this city, he attended local schools and completed his high school credits while in the Army. He served in Korea for one year. In December 1968 he received an Army citation for quick reaction and aggressiveness while on a night ambush patrol. After his discharge in 1970 he served in the Army Reserve until 1973.

He was a carpenter and was studying electronics. Besides his parents, he leaves his wife, the former Catherine Robin Garran: two sisters. Paula Gigliotto of Hillandale. and Cindy Ann Gigliotti at home, and a brother, Jeffrey, at home. Donations may be made in his name to St.

Anthony's building fund or the Northern Berkshire YMCA building fund. Merritt H. Brownell HINSDALE Merritt H. Brownell. 87.

of Taylor Street died unexpectedly at his home yesterday afternoon. Born and educated in Cambridge. N.Y.. he had been a resident of Pittsfield until moving to Hinsdale 24 years ago. His wife, the former Gladys Wilson Woods Brownell died in 1969.

Mr. Brownell attended the Hinsdale Congregational Church. Mr. Brownell leaves a son, Douglass C. of Pittsfield: two daughters.

Mrs. James D. Wooliver of West Springfield and Mrs. Thomas R. Librizzi of Westfield; six grandchildren and three great -grandchildren.

Calling hours will be at the Bartlett Wellington Funeral Home tonight from 7 to 9. Funeral services will be tomorrow at 2. with burial in the Maple Street Cemetery in Hinsdale. The omission of flowers is requested. Mrs.

Charles Smith Services for Mrs. Charles Smith will be held tomorrow morting at 9:30 at the Newton Barnfather Funeral Home. with the Rev. John A. Hathaway, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church, officiating.

Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery in Lee. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 09 p.m. The Berkshire Eagle, Friday, April 26, 1974 13 District court judges attending conferences Most of the state's 163 district court judges are scheduled to attend one of two conferences this weekend and in early May to brush up on rules of evidence. The conference that began today and ends tomorrow in Worcester, is expected to draw about half the state's lowercourt judges, according to District Court Chief Justice Franklin N. Flaschner.

The second conference, for the rest of the judges, will be May 10 and 11 in Braintree. Both conferences are separate from the conference of superior court judges currently going on at the Red Lion Inn of Stockbridge. Judge Irving Younger of 1 the New York City civil court will conduct the reviews of rules of evidence. A key concern In a news release. Judge Flaschner said keeping up on changes in the rules is important, because "in a court of law.

no one but the judge can decide if certain evidence will be admitted; the outcome of a civil or criminal suit often rests solely upon the judge's rulings as to the admissibility of evidence." A contingent of six Berkshire County judges attend this weekend's conference. They are Judges Frank W. Cimini of the Pittsfield court. John A. Barry of the Adams court and Bernard Lenhoff of the Williamstown court.

and three special justices. Charles R. Alberti Registration under way for YMCA camps Registrations for boys and girls of ages 6 through 13. or entering the 1st grade are being taken at the Pittsfield YMCA for attendance at Camp Sumner. Brochures for the day camp are due shortly from the printers and will be mailed YMCA members and to those who attended camp last year.

The camp will operate four sessions. running from June 24 until Aug. 16 at the Ponterril Family Center. Boys and girls may be registered for two or more weeks at the camp. Special events Two special events are being planned by YMCA officials i in an attempt to familiarize local families with the YMCA's camping program.

On Saturday. May. 11, at 10 a.m. in auditorium at the YMCA building on North Street F. Lewis Brown.

director of the day program, will present movies a and slides on the camp. Those attending will also see Walt Disney films at no cost. Questions about the camp program will be answered. The camp. will hold an open house Sunday, June 2 from 1 to 4 at Ponterril Family Center, giving parents a first-hand opportunity to see the facility.

Brown said that parents who are interested in receiving brochures and application should call the Y. All campers who sign up by May 30 will receive a Camp Sumner booster patch and any camper who gets a friend to register before June 8 will be eligible to win a free two weeks of at the free camp. week, A second prize one third prize of two camp T-shirts are also being offered. Legal aid offered to participants in railroad hearings The public counsel assigned by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to help persons prepare testimony to. be given at rail hearings in Berkshire County next week, will be available at Congressman Silvio O.

Conte's Pittsfield office next Monday and Tuesday. Allan Kaulbach is the ICC attorney, who will give general legal advice to persons, or organizations who will testify at the hearings May 1, 2 and 3 at Pittsfield City Hall on the federal government's plan to abandon 20 miles of the Berkshire a Division between South Lee and North Canaan, Conn. Kaulbach may be reached next Monday and Tuesday by contacting Conte's local office. The rail hearings will- be conducted by the ICC in the City Council chamber next Wednesday from 9:30 to 5 and 7 to 10 and May 2 and 3 from 9:30 to 5. Double GRAND BLUE STAMPS UNION SUPERMARKETS WEDNESDAYS (No minimum purchase required) Allendale Open until 9 p.m.

Shopping Center Monday-Saturday East and Fourth Sts. Dobelle now believes Nutman wants to continue project Jr. of the Lee court, James J. Scullary of the Williamstown court and Benjamin A. Apkin of the North Adams court.

Scheduled for the Braintree meeting are judges Ernest H. Rosasco of North Adams and John J. Dwyer of Lee, and Special Justice Clement A. Ferris of the Pittsfield court. Burton tries again for state post Ron Burton Ron Burton of Framingham, 36.

an American football player at Northwestern University in the late 1950s, is making a second bid for the Republican nomination for secretary of state. He was in Pittsfield yesterday to visit the news media and to round up support for his candidacy at an informal convention be held by the Republicans in Boston June Burton ran for same office in 1970 but lost the Republican endorsement to Mary B. Newman of Cambridge. He is now opposing Sen. John M.

Quinlan of Norwood for the GOP nomination for secretary of state. Burton Massachusetts in 1960 as first choice of the Boston Patriots professional football team. He had been an All-American halfback in 1958 and 1959. After retiring from professional football. he joined the John Hancock Insurance where he is now a marketing executive.

Burton said that this is an election year that calls for "new and new candidates of integrity" to restore public confidence in elected officials. He said the first task on election would be to introduce efficient methods of recordkeeping and reporting. which is the principal function of the office. Thereafter." he said. "I will suggest legislation to attract business to Massachusetts and thereby cut the disgracefully high unemployment He said he would push for legislation which would encourage business and industry to stay in Massachusetts.

Burton has' been active with youth corps and has been a member of the Framingham Park Commission for several years. He and Mrs. Burton have five children. Eucharistic vigil The Apostles of Mary, Queen of the Eucharist. of Stockbridge will hold a Eucharistic vigil Friday, May 3, at St.

Agnes' Church in Dalton at 7:30 p.m. The vigil will begin with the First Friday Mass of the Sacred Heart and will include Stations of the Cross, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, hymns, the recitation of the Rosary and a silent meditation. The vigil will conclude with the midnight Mass for first Saturday. By Grier Horner In light of developer George H. Nutman's initiative yesterday, "one has to assume that he wants build his project," Mayor Evan S.

Dobelle commented today. Dobelle and Nutman yesterday, in a meeting requested by the developer, agreed to try to resolve legal complications in a new effort to float Nutman's $20 million North Street shopping mall. Prior to Nutman's move yesterday there had been some speculation here both in governmental and private circles that Nutman might really be looking for a way out of the project. But Dobelle indicated in his comments yesterday and today that there now appears to be no basis for such speculation, The City Council, frustrated by the delays plaguing. the project, earlier this month severed the city's lease with Nutman.

At the same time. the Council invited Nutman to go forward with the project, utilizing. conventional financing and working the Pittsfield Housing Authority, the city's downtown renewal agency. But Nutman said yesterday that the project wouldn't be financially feasible without the. cost break he would get through the lease with the city.

Under that lease the city. in effect, would lend Nutman $6. million. The advantage of arrangement to Nutman is that the city's interest rate is less than half what he'd have to pay in the private money market. Nutman said this morning that the loan arrangement is largely misunderstood.

people are under the misconception that we would be giving Nutman something." Dobelle said. "We're no The city would be guaranteed repayment of the $6 million, even if Nutman went broke, under a bond he would have to post before the project started. LWY unit plans public discussion of land-use woes The Central Berkshire League of Women Voters will hold a panel discussion for the public on land use problems Thursday, May 2. at the Western Mass. Electric Co.

auditorium on West Street, at 8 p.m.. according to an announcement made today by Mrs. Freda Sass, head of the league's Land Use Committee. Mrs. Sass said panel members will represent various points of view and will include developers.

ecologists. professional planners and town and city planning boards. Mrs. Sass said the league elected to have an open discussion on the problem in view of current controversies relating to land use in the Berkshires and proposed building moratoria and opposition to apartment house projects. She said the committee believes that the meeting will offer an opportunity for an exchange of ideas so that differences can be reconciled.

Comments and questions will be encouraged. There will be no charge. Participants will be announced next week. Meeting Monday for SJH parents Parents of South Junior High School 7th and 8th graders have been invited to a meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the school library.

Robert M. Cancilla, 8th grade counselor, said the purpose of the meeting is to discuss the curriculum. for next year's 8th and 9th grades. B.A. FUR co.

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Council OK needed Even if Nutman's and Dobelle's lawyers work out the legal complications to their satisfaction. bringing Nutman back into a contractual agreement with the city will take City Council approval. Council President Philip J. Tully Jr. today pointed out that since the vote severing the contract was 6-5, it would take only one switched vote to put Nutman back in the ball game.

But Tully, who had voted against continuing the Nutman lease, said he has seen no justification for changing his vote. Tully took issue this morning with Dobelle's position on future negotiations with Nutman. The mayor said yesterday that if Nutman is granted a lease extension he wants to be designated by the Council as the sole bargainer. The Council president said he couldn't go along with that proposal because in a balance-ofpowers situation the legislative branch of government still its responsibilities. Dobelle argues that negotiations on a one-to-one basis would be less cumbersome and that the administrative branch.

should be able to do as, the cannot work that way." Tully commented. Paul Rocheleau John W. P. Mooney with consensus and move more slowly and judiciously." "If that's the case." Dobelle replied, "then why didn't TAG take more time to select a consultant" to do the Route 7 environmental impact study? The mayor was referring to a divisive TAG meeting last month at which Curran Associates, a Northampton-based firm with close ties to the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, was picked to do the state-funded road study by a consensus that, at most. amounted to about 70 per cent of the membership.

Wanted interviews The minority, of which Dobelle was an outspoken member. wanted Curran and several other consultants to appear before the full TAG membership for a mass-interviewing session. As it was, the Curran choice was made on the recommendation of a special selection committee that interviewed all the candidates for the job and then reported its preference back to TAG. "If the justification for conTAG's slowness and deliberations. Dobelle asked.

why didn't the group take the time to call another interviewing session before all of TAG?" Ingram, Rendell W. Sr. Marhefsky, Anthony Rendell W. Ingram Sr. Rendell W.

Ingram 46. of Seven Pines. N.C., a former Pittsfield resident. died this morning at Seven Pines Hospital after a long illness. Born in Seven Pines, he came to Pittsfield in 1949 and lived here until 1954.

when he moved to New York City and then back to Seven Pines. He worked at the E.D. Jones then on Depot Street, and later for the City of Pittsfield while living here. His son. Rendell Jr.

Pittsfield died in November after suffering an automobile accident. Besides his wife. the former Flora Mazyck of Pittsfield. Mr. Ingram is survived by two daughters.

Mrs. Jacqueline Pride of Pittsfield and Miss Tilipha Ingram of Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina; one son, Juan J. Ingram of Pittsfield, one brother, one sister and two grandchildren. Services' and burial will be in North Carolina. James F.

Connolly James F. Connolly, 88. formerly of 90 Hawthorne Ave. died last night at the Pittsfield General unit, BMC. after a long illness.

He had been a resident of Ashmere re Nursing home in Hinsdale for many years. Born in New York City, he moved to Pittsfield as a young man and lived here most of his life. He was employed as a steamfitter for several area contractors for many years and retired in 1951. He was a communicant of St. Mark's Church and a member of its Holy Name Society.

He is survived a daughter, Mrs. Jessie Mersinger of Pompano Beach. and one grandson. Services will be Monday morning at St. Mark's Church.

Burial will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery in West Stockbridge. Friends may call at the Devanny Funeral Home Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mrs. Sarah P.

Ragsdale Services for Mrs. P. Ragsdale were this afternoon at the Dery Funeral Home with the Rev. Daniel S. Weir, assistant minister at St.

Stephen's Church, officiating. Burial was in Pittsfield Cemetery where Mr. Weir offered prayers at the grave. The bearers were Harold Lewis; Marvin L. Davis, and uncle; Peter Anderson and Frederick Bowman, both nephews, and Robert W.

Search. Educational innovator will speak to teachers Albert Cullum, an assistant professor of education who is noted for devising innovative teaching methods. will speak Wednesday at Taconic High School at a meeting for Berkshites County appearance educators. has been arranged by the Pittsfield Teacher Center, according to Martin L. Perlmutter.

a member of the center's board. The center is a teachers' organization that develops informational and educational programs for teachers and related professionals in the city school system. Teaches at Stonehill Cullum, an assistant professor at Stonehill College in North Easton, is an author of books on teaching methods, for both elementary and secondary students and is known particularly for a work entitled "Shake Hands with Shakespeare." in which Shakespearean plays are adapted for elementary school presentation. Other books by Cullum are Back the Desks." "Greek Tears and Roman Laughter" and "Aesop in the His talk at Taconic High will begin at 7:30 p.m.. Perlmutter said, and will be open to teachers and administrators from all Berkshire County school systems.

Cullum will use audio-visual aids in discussing atmosphere" in which teachers can be creative. Perlmutter said. Cullum was formerly an assistant professor of Education at Boston University and at Herbert H. Lehman University in the Bronx. N.Y.

He has also taught at the elementary and junior high school levels and has been a director of language arts. where the elite meet to eat" OLD IRONSIDES formerly South St. News 148 South St. -FRI. SAT.

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64. of Torrington, father of of Pittsfield. died Wednesday night at Charlotte-Hungerford Hospital in Torrington. Born in Avon. he lived in the Torrington area most of his life.

He was employed as department manager at Sears Roebuck Co. in Torrington and Waterbury for more than 30 years. Besides his wife, the former Camilla Graboski, and his son here, he is survived by another son, one brother, three sisters and three grandchildren. Services will be Saturday morning at 9 at St. Francis: Church in Torrington.

Burial will be in St. Francis' New Cemetery there. Bartolo Barbarotta A Liturgy of Christian Burial for Bartolo Barbarotta was celebrated this morning at Mount Carmel Church by the Rev. George Ecker, curate. Burial was in St.

Joseph's Cemetery where Father Ecker offered prayers at the grave. Bearers were Alfonso Barbarotta Joseph and Charles Barbarotta, Bruce D. Gans and Anthony R. Caparella all nephews. Members of VFW Post 448, forming a color guard were Alan Scott.

William McCarthy and James Goddeau. The buglers were Richard Lacey and Miss Bonnie McCluskey. Christopher C. Rocke Funeral services for Christopher C. Rocke of Otis were held this morning at the Kelly Funeral Home, Lee, with the Rev.

Earl Heck of Otis, officiating. Burial was in the Norwich Bridge Cemetery, Huntington. A delegation of Lee High School seniors and Becket and Otis town officials attended. Bearers were Donald Cawfield, Leon Cowell, David. Moxon, Robert Bartow, Clifford Clark, all of Otis, and George Bagnaschi of Lee.

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