The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 14

SBHREBi 14 -The Berkshire Eagle. Friday, May 24, 1974 City's diseased elm trees get 'intravenous3 injections New county agency for the elderly elects Charles Whiteman president North at Summer St. Downtown Pittsfield TENNIS EQUIPMENT APPAREl FOR MEN, WOMEN JRS. HMMMMWVI OOTOOV B- OJ OP VI 1 The board of the Berkshire Home Care Corporation, which will commence activities June 1 on behalf of the county's elderly citizens, held its first meeting Wednesday night and elected Charles R. Whiteman of Wil-liamstown president.

The meeting took place at the North Adams Regional Hospital in North Adams. Miriam A. Kimball of Richmond, copy editor of UpCountry magazine, was elected secretary of the board, which also voted to formally apply for incorporation with the secretary of state. Other board members In addition to Mrs. Kimball and Whiteman, who is Social Security administrator for Berkshire County, the board members are: George H.

Jarck of Cheshire, dean of students at North Adams Sate College; ers, who have also screened the current members. The board will vote to approve or disapprove of nominations it receives, Whiteman explained. Staff of five The board will soon be hiring a staff of five, using $80,000 worth of backing from the state the county and local organizations, Whiteman said. Up to $500,000 a year in state and federal funds may eventually be spent by the corporation on contracts for services to elderly citizens of Berkshire County, he said. About 25,000 Berkshire residents are more than 60 years of age, according to state figures, and will therefore be eligible for the corporation's programs.

Services planned include housekeeping, nursing, food-serving and other programs to help keep elderly people in their own homes and out of nursing homes, Whiteman explained. Prfhfwkfi Complete Store For HARDWARES HOUSEWARES ELECTRICAL FIXTURES APPLIANCES HOME TOOLS "Headquarter For The Home Handyman" PITTSFIELD SUPPLY CO. By Nick Peck An experimental program aimed at curing city elms of their Dutch disease has begun its second season in Pittsfield Tuesday with the installation on a Park Square elm of a tank of Ceratocide. an apparently promising remedy. It is named after the Latin name of the disease, cerato-cystis ulmi, and is fed "intravenously" into the base of the tree at several points.

A total of 50 elms will be involved in the program for which the City of Pittsfield is paying $2,500. according to Kingsley Fall, chairman of the city Shade Tree Commission. It's safe Arthur C. Costonis, director or research and development of Lowden Inc. of Needham, which is conducting the program, declined to reveal the exact formula of Ceratocide.

He explained that his company has a patent pending on the antibiotic substance. However he did say it was safe and that if a child were to drink, some no harm would follow. In fact, according to Costonis. an almost identical medicine has been used by humans since 'he early 1950s This is because elm trees and humans are subject to yeast infections so similar that Costonis calls them kissing cousins" to each other. Charles R.

Whiteman Tel. 445-4589 tiiHj 501 North St. Thomas F. Condron of Pittsfield, assistant principal of Hoo- Huntington, a teacher at Berk-sac Valley Regional High shire Community College; A. School; Merritt W.

McBride of John Tuller of Great Barring-Tyringham, a selectman; the ton, a selectman; Joseph F. Rev. Martin L. Ball of Lanes- Banas of Adams, a selectman; boro, pastor of Berkshire Full and Theodore Herberg, re-Gospel Church. Pittsfield; search director for the Pittsfield Msgr.

John McPhearson, re- School Department, tired, of Williamstown; and Pa- The board, once officially es-tricia Jones of Amherst, direc- tablished by the secretary of tor of the Northern Berkshire state, will increase its member-Home Health Project based in ship from the current 12 to 15 North Adams. Nominations will be made by Also. Edwin 0. Clark Jr. of the County Commission and oth- District Court Nek Heck Dutch-elm disease is Experimental remedy for fed intravenously' into this Park Square elm.

Hose seen below tank sheath delivers antibiotic solution to tree, base Natural forces carry medicine up into the tree. The Ceratocide being used in and restore to a "visibly healthy Pittsfield is gravity-fed into the condition" trees that are not al-tree base, from where it is ready too diseased. In elms, the yeast, cerato-cystis ulmi. clogs the water-con 141 North St. -1 wWWS DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD Shop daily Y.

rtzlXl Thursday 1 SMsw 19 North St. Beautiful New JjJ5 MOewelk sale SUMMER ZTk boriof No Sidewalk LONG PARTY Hy rt OFF "tfll eoetywiing GOWNS -1 ducting system, killing the tree Wednesday i drawn up inside the tree by the Costonis said the ex- That is Dutch-elm disease ikHUldi lulled uui UdlDUUIl uci uirciiwu UHX Ul IM3 UIU- and battery on his wife. Celia. had his case continued to May 29. His lawyer is Asst.

Public Defender Ralph Cianflone. 1.. A George G. Demary. uunku groundwater to leaves similar yeast can infect kid- gram may end by 1975 or 1976 Hillcrest Ave.

was fined $55 for when the process may have nooAma huao Frank a. Sin iinmiimTaluui commercial potential neys, skin or vaginas. Both medicines are based on Elms can be cured, but not -We are field-testine now." Tyson K. King. 18.

of 76 Bos-sidy Drive had charges of speeding and excessive noise continued to May 25. nystatin, an antobiotic devel- immunized. through this he said, adding "we want to oped in 1951 Humans generally process. Costonis explained, ad- make sure that the stuff in the apply it in an ointment form ding that his company's treat- jug will do all that we say it Elm trees take it as a liquid. ment can reduce the infection ma," mini.

Michael Valenti. 25. of 824 East St. and Marian Serelis. 18.

of the Music Inn. Lenox, pleaded not guilty to possession of marijuana. Their cases were nomas A. Hynes. 59.

ot 63 Dickinson Ave. withdrew ap- run 1c s( tiuA ffnrst innc TKr continued to June 27. MOCkbndge Student judge allowed a $50 fine for Nicholas Swann. son of Mr. and driving to endanger against un(jer the influence He also Flood-plain map ready for upper Housatonic ana Mrs.

JOnn swann oi uuueii c. rox ui iwi fjne(j Wynne $25 for failure to cr I c- I Tne results of a one-year, maps show both flood hazard Cherry Hill, btockbndge. has Nortn uaiton. were comin- use ''care in turning, flood-plain mapping project by areas and flood profiles and are graduated from Goddard Col- ued to May 29. L.

George Reder fawyer was Edward the federal Sod Conservation accompanied by photographs of lege. Plainfield. with a B.A. is Fox's attorney. Pointe Service (SCSI on the upper major floods and flood destruc- degree in education.

He is a -i i Housatonic River will be dis- iwnof the past. graduate of Monument Moun- David N. Carlo. 19. ot 20 Dal- closed at an informational meet- The project was undertaken tain Regional High School.

ton charged with assault tng May ju ai p.m. ai ine by the nver basin and wa Berkshire Gas Co. building on tershed planning staff from the SPECIAL ftK2LQh I. Nrol; uum MF mwWmmmm ..1 StiU'C MM 7. Uxmtiy tnArhct.

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Resides staff leader; Harvey ftichard-son. hydraulic engineer; and Donald Haley, civil engineer from the staff are scheduled to be at the May 30 meeting. A similar study has just been completed for the river communities of Lenox. Lee. Stock-bridge and Great Barrington by Robert Brown Associates of Lee under joint sponsorship of conservation commissions in those towns.

Cheshire Road. Ronald Thompson, district conservationist for Berkshire County, said leaders and staff members of the mapping team will be present to explain the project's findings and recommendations to residents of Pittsfield. Dalton. Hinsdale and Lanesboro. Surveys have led the team to mark flood-plains for storms of differing magnitude.

Thompson explained, and to suggest regulatory and corrective measures the communities can adopt. A HUD requirement YMCA names Flood areas for 10-year and looo areas ior lu-year ana i 100-year storms and for the rare leader JOr AUCTION PERSIAN RUGS deluge that could exceed ceed a iw- been deli glHs Camp Wilt year storm have hes-iid ON TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1974 AUCTION AT 7:30 P.M. VIEWINO FROM 6:30 7:30 P.M. THE HOLIDAY INN PITTSFIELD ROAD U.S. HIOHWAY 7 AND 20 IINOX, MASS.

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Thompson said. Susan D'Alessandro of Cone is a result of federal Housing Hill. Richmond, will head the and Urban Development Act re- newly formed girls' unit of the quirements 4er flood-plain zon- YMCA Camp Sumner, Robert ing and insurance. D. Morris, chairman of the the flood zones set forth on camp committee, announced.

the SCS maps can be the basis This is the first season the of community flooopiain zoning camp has enrolled girls. ordinances. Thompson said. The Mrs. D'Alessandro has lived in Berkshire County since 1969 when she arrived' from Fort Second hearing Mked Pierce.

Fla where she attend- nn Flfuwnn rnailnrL ed Indian River Community Colon Llberon roadwor currenty enrotled at A heanng before the full City the State University of New Council should be held on pro- York in Albany posed reconstruction plans for Counselors in the girls' unit Klberon- Avenue, according to will include Kathi Kemp of 70 Councilman Peter G. Arias East Acres Road, who is firush- The Council's Public Works ing her freshman year at North-Committee held a hearing on eastern University in Boston; the project Monday night. At Christine Clark of 54 Dutchess that time residents indicated Ave. and Judith Taylor of 198 that they want road improve- Bartlett both seniors at ments but fear these would lead Pittsfield High School. Coun- PLANNING A COOK-OUT OR A FAMILY GATHERING THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEK-END? ADAMSBURG II CONTAINS: III S-- jSf Mm sl 7m GKOUNO BEEF I 1 1 1 -'Ju SOCMAN MHAL I I 1 oOUT o.r; OUB USUAL FINI QUALITY I I FBJSNtY OtOV All DAY LONG ''55' MSI FOB ANY tidPf THAT I 1 SLBS.OtMOH I to heavier traffic on that street sekrs-in-trairung will be Beth paralleling Dalton Avenue.

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