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Obituaries and Funerals Cleffi, Ms. Sylvia Julian Huxley dies; Debacher, Nicholas J. Head, Betsy scientist, humanist, writer Head, Head, David David G. Jr. LONDON, England Sir Ju- Scholar and Balliol College, Ox- Huxley, Sir Julian lian Huxley, scientist, humanist ford, where he won poetry Knowles, Mrs.

G. and author, died here Friday at prize and was awarded the col- Pecor, Steven M. the age of 87. lege's highest grade in zoology. Percy, Infant He was the grandson of At the start of his career, he Shepard, Mrs.

Jennie He was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, famous Darwinian scientist of the, 19th century, and the older brother of novelist Aldous Huxley. (A half brother, David Bruce Huxley was former attorney general and chief justice of Bermuda who lived for a time on Cliffwood Street in Lenox, Mass.) Sir Julian became a world figure when he was named the first director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). One of -his last public acts was his condemnation of UNESCO two months ago for its ostracism of' Israel. Among his scientific theories, the most controversial was evolutionary humanism, from which he derived a set of behavioral, ethical and religious tenets. The evolutionary system: he proposed also involved eugenics, the selective breeding of humans, as a way of controlling population and of improving the race.

In respect to the latter aim, Huxley once wrote, undoubtedly man's genetic nature changed a great deal during the long protohuman state, there is no evidence that it has been in any important way improved since the time of the cave men. during this period it IS probable that man's genetic nature has degenerated and is still doing Huxley was born in 1887 and attended Eton as a King's Mrs. Jennie Shepard Mrs. Jennie A. Shepard, 80, of St.

Petersburg, a longtime. resident of Lanesboro and Pittsfield, died last Friday at her home after a short illness. She had been a resident of Florida for the last 15 years. The former Jennie A. Williams, she was the widow of Lloyd A.

Shepard, who died in 1971. While in the Berkshires, Mrs. Shepard was a member of the Cheshire and North Pomona granges and a communicant of Morningside Baptist Church. She also belonged the St. Petersburg Grange in Florida.

Mrs. Shepard leaves one daughter, Mrs. Esther M. Hall of Pittsfield; three sons, Kenneth S. of Lanesboro, Wilbur W.

of St. Petersburg and Everett B. Shepard of West Stephentown, N.Y., seven grandchildren and five great -grandchildren. Funeral services will be in St. Petersburg.

Burial will be in the family plot in West Stephentown Cemetery in the spring. Memorial services will be held at a later date in Morningside Baptist Church here. In lieu of flowers, donations in Mrs. Shepard's memory may be made to Morningside Baptist Church. Infant Percy Brigid Percy, 2-month-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Vernon Percy of Hartford, died Saturday morning at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Mark Mitchell of 49 Crane Ave. The child was visiting here for the weekend with her family. Besides her parents she leaves three sisters, Michelle, Jean and Sheila; three brothers, Vernon, Eric and Eamonn, allof Hartford; her maternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Francis J. Hayes of Pittsfield, and her paternal grandfather, Vernon Ettienne of Tobago, Trinidad. Funeral services were held today at the Dwyer Funeral Home with the Rev. John J.

Foley, pastor of St. Charles' Church, officiating. Burial was in St. Joseph's Cemetery, where Father Foley offered prayers at the grave. Miss Alice Kassimer Funeral services for Miss Alice Kassimer will be tomorrow at 1 p.m.

at the Berkshire Funeral Home. The Rev. Gordon E. Hohl, pastor of Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Pittsfield Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 09. Albert D. Bondini A Liturgy of Christian Burial was held this morning at St. Mary's of the Assumption Church, Cheshire, for Albert D. Bondini.

The Rev. Frederick J. Moore, pastor of the North American Martyrs Chapel in Lanesboro, officiated. Burial was in Cheshire Cemetery where. Father Moore offered prayers at the grave.

Members of the Lanesboro Volunteer Fire Department formed an honor guard at the church and cemetery. Bearers were Bingio Albertazzi, Preston G. Tracy, Rudy D. Sondrini, John H. Keating, Robert A.

Mullaney and Edwin J. Kozik. Nassau woman killed in New York accident NEW LEBANON, N.Y. One of two women who were bring. ing firewood to a third woman was killed when the two were struck by a car on Route 22 at about 8 p.m.

yesterday. Sylvia Coffi, age 18, of Nassau, was pronounced dead by Berkshire County Medical Examiner John T. Cinella at the Pittsfield (Mass.) General unit of the Berkshire Medical Center, where she was taken following the accident, which occurred about 75 yards south of the Route Churchill south Road of intersection on 22, Also taken to the hospital by the Lebanon Valley protective Association ambulance was the second women Lynne A. Davis, age 41, als. Vassau.

A BMC spokesman today described her condition as fair. According to state police at the Claverack barracks, the two women were alighting from their car, parked on the shoulder of the road. They were about to visit Mrs. Dee Skinner, who lives nearby, when they were struck by a car driven by David Gamwell Head, two children perish in fire David Gamwell Head; the son of a former Pittsfield couple, and his two children died in a fire last Wednesday in Holliston, Mass. According to the police in Holliston, which is just southwest of Boston, a faulty wood stove was the cause of the blaze, which swept through the Head family's small, two story house in the early morning.

Head, 26, was pronounced dead on arrival at Framingham Union hospital, as were his children, David, and Betsy, 4. Mr. Head's wife, Mrs. Betsy Head, 25, of Stowe, escaped by jumping from a second-floor window, the police said. She was later treated for smoke inhalation.

Mr. Head was the son of John J. Head and Barbara Gamwell head, who were born in Pittsfield and attended local schools. The family moved to Stowe in the mid-1940s, before Mr. Head was born.

His only surviving relative in the Berkshire County area is an aunt, Mrs. Dixon Daniels, of Adams. Memorial services held Saturday at the Unitarian Church in Stowe, Burial took place in Stowe Saturday afternoon. Conte to speak before CBCC on energy bills Congressman Silvio 0. Conte will speak on and the Economy" on Friday, Feb.

28, as the Central Berkshire Chamber of Commerce resumes its Berkshire Forum series. Conte will speak at the breakfast meeting that will be held in the Berkshire Room of the Colonial Hilton Inn starting at 7:45 a.m. The CBCC disclosed earlier this month that it was resuming the breakfast session in response to demands from members. Conte is expected to discuss a number of legislative proposals that center around energy. Reservations may be made by members at the CBCC Red Cross gets 24 donors here Twenty-four people donated blood here Thursday night as part of a statewide drive to relieve a shortage in the Boston area.

Alice R. Holtzinger, Berkshire County chairman of the Red Cross blood program, said the response to yesterday's spe-. cial appeal was On a typical day, she said, only about 10 units of blood are donated at the Red Cross office at 53 Wendell Avenue. The shortage of blood in the Boston area was caused by Wednesday's snowstorm, she said. Ordinarily, the Massachusetts Red Cross receives about 1,300 units of blood a day.

But poor weather conditions on Wednesday kept many regular donors away, she said, with the result that only 500 units were collected. Der FUNERAL HOME J. EDWARD DAVID A. DERY 54 Bradford Street, Pittsfield 890 East Main Street, Dalton North State Road, Cheshire BMC receives $5,513 for research fund The Berkshire Medical Center research and education fund received $5,513.12 in contributions during 1974, Dr. Edward W.

Knight, BMC oncologist, said in report on the organization's first year of activity. All contributions are used for local cancer work, and administered by a committee appointed by the BMC president, he said. Dr. Knight reviewed several local projects which are supported by the cancer research and education fund. He said that two research projects are under way at BMC: study on dose comparison of adramycin, a new drug effective in treating some types of cancer; and a study on a new experimental drug, hydrazine, used in treating cancer of the colon.

Plans are also under way for a cancer detection clinic for Berkshire County to be started in the fall of 1975 using some of the cancer research and education funds. Local research funds also will be used to purchase a lymphangiogram pump, as a memorial to a patient who died recently. This apparatus is used in X-ray studies of lymph nodes in the pelvis and abdomen. These studies, are needed in treating patients with Hodgkins disease, lymphomas and other malignancies. The funds were also used bring two lecturers to BMC to talk on research projects, and to sending resident physicians to nearby research meetings to increase their knowledge of cancer therapy.

Dr. in Knight said the fund was opened December 1973, when employes of the New England Telephone Telegraph Co. in Massachusetts and Rhode Island gave $1,154 to establish a memorial for Mrs. Jennie DePasquale, a 25-year employe of the company in Pittsfield who died of cancer in 1973. "Memorial and other gifts have kept the fund growing all through 1974 to its present level." Dr.

Knight explained. "Without this fund, many important projects would never be Massery named vice chairman of area GOP Donald E. Massery of Pittsfield was elected a vice chairman of the Berkshire County Republican Association to succeed Louis F. Minafra, also of Pittsfield, who was elected president Friday night at the annual BCRA election. All other officers were reelected.

They William H. Dudley of Williamstown and Angus T. MacDonald of Egremont, vice chairmen; Mrs. Mary Rosasco of North Adams, Secretary; and Holice Belding North Adams, treasurer. John C.

Marchesi of Pittsfield, outgoing chairman, was named chairman of the annual BCRA recognition night to be held March 14. That's the night the association picks its of the Year. $1,000 stolen from GEAA More than $1,000 was stolen from an office at the General Electric Athletic Association on Crane Avenue in one of a number of weekend break-ins in the city. Police detectives said a total of $1,029 was taken from the GEAA, apparently by thieves who broke in through a door overnight Friday. In other city burglaries, about $325 in office equipment was taken from the office of Atty.

John A. Bernardo at 73 North St. in a break-in discovered at 8 a.m. Sunday. The office was also ransacked, police said.

The law office of Rudolph -A. Sacco, also a Probate Court judge, located in the same building was also broken into. It was not known if anything had been stolen. SEE LYNCH What MURRAY You Buy Nothing you buy will ever be as permanent as a family monument. Its purchase warrants thought and guidance.

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In later years he was visiting lecturer number of American universities. After his stint in Texas, Huxley taught at New College, Oxford, and King's College in London. During that period, he also did extensive research in the field of animal growth. That research was the basis for writings which, from the 1930s on were directed at philosophical, social and political theories. Among his works were "Religion Without Revelation," Wonderful Work of Evolution in Darwin Really Said" and of a Research for one of his books, "Biological Aspects of Cancer," was presented by Huxley in the first Alfred P.

Sloan Lecture at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City in 1955. He was knighted in 1958 and held numerous honorary degrees and medals for scientific research and writings. He leaves his wife and two sons. Gertrude C. Knowles LENOX Mrs.

Gertrude C. Knowles, 85, mother of Robert Knowles of 10 Hutchinson Lane here, died Saturday at the Pittsfield General unit, BMC. Mrs. Knowles had lived with her son since 1967, when her husband, William Knowles, died. She was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and moved to El Paso, following her graduation from Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, Pa.

She lived in El Paso until 1952, when her husband retired and they moved to Silver Spring, Md. In addition to. her son, she leaves a daughter, Mrs. Raymond L. Gillard of Silver Spring, and three grandsons.

Private funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Wellington Funeral Home in Pittsfield with the Rev. Edwin F. Taylor, associate pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Pittsfield, officiating. Burial will be in the Parklawn Cemetery in Rockville, where graveside services will be conducted by her grandsons, Rev.

James W. Knowles and the Rev. Gary L. Gillard. There will be no calling hours.

The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Mrs. Knowles's memory to the Heart Association or CARE. Theodore J. Strzepek ADAMS Theodore Joseph Strzepek, 54, of 17 Myrtle St. died Saturday at Albany (N.Y.) Veterans Hospital.

He was retired employe of the town Highway Department. Born in Adams, son of the late Stanley and Angela Janiga Strzepek, he was educated at St. Stanislaus Kostka School and was a communicant of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church. He was an Army veteran of World War IL, having served in the New Guinea and Luzon campaigns.

He leaves a brother. Frank W. Strzepek of Adams, and two sisters, Mrs. Stella DiNaleo and Mrs. Helen Wojtusiak, both of Adams.

Funeral services were this morning at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church following a prayer service at McBride Funeral Home. Burial will be in the spring in the St. Stanislaus Kostka Cemetery. Mrs.

Minnie F. Caden A Liturgy of Christian Burial was held this morning at Sacred Heart Church for Mrs. Minnie F. Caden by Msgr. Henry M.

Burke, pastor, and the Rev. Frederick L. Heberle, assistant pastor. Burial was in Southview Cemetery, North Adams, where the Rev. John P.

Richard, pastor of Notre Dame Church in North Adams, said prayers at the grave. Bearers were Thomas F. Corbett, Roy J. Vosburg, Jay Vallone, Paul P. DiVirgilio, Terry M.

Caden and Jeffrey P. Caden. Miss Geraldine Linnehan A Liturgy of Christian Burial was held this morning in St. Mark's Church for Miss Geraldine Linnehan. The Rev.

Thomas: S. Hanrahan, pastor of Anne's Church in Lenox, officiated. Seated within the tuary were Msgr. Joseph I' Johnson, pastor of St. Mark's; Church; the Rev.

Leonard J. Perreault, curate of St. Anne's Church, Lenox, and the Rev. John Curtin, retired of St. Patrick's Church in West Stockbridge.

Burial will take place in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Bearers were Valmore E. Alcombright, John V. Geary, Raymand H.

Greenwood, Harold E. Hennessy, Lawrence V. Toole and Robert H. Minkler. Arlene Solomon, 49 West 96th New York.

The visitors had firewood they were bringing to Mrs. Dee, an elderly shut-in. Mrs. Solomon told police she did not see either of the two women in the road, or their car. The Hans Funeral Home in Albany is handling funeral arrangements for Ms.

Cioffi, Troopers Louis' Hatch and Daniel Flynn, both assigned to the New Lebanon barracks, investigated the accident. Collapse of lean-to kills Clarksburg boy CLARKSBURG A 13-yearold boy died of apparent suffocation yesterday afternoon, when a snow covered homemade lean-to collapsed while he was inside it. Steven M. Pecor, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Gerald Pecor of West Road, was pronounced dead on arrival at North Adams Regional Hospital Clarksburg, and North Adams firemen and policemen had tried to revive the boy with an inhalator. Clarksburg Fire Chief Howard A. Tanner said the boy and his brother and sister apparently were playing around the lean-to, which they had made in the backyard, when it collapsed. About 10 or 15 minutes later, Tanner said, they told their parents the boy was inside. Chief Tanner said the boy's father reported seeing the leanto collapse but that he was unaware that the boy was inside.

The lean-to apparently was made of pieces of canvas or blankets, some lumber and a Christmas tree, officials said. Born in North Adams, the boy was an 8th-grader at Clarksburg Elementary School. Besides his parents, he leaves two brothers, Joseph, his twin, and Jeffrey; his sister, Kimberley; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dolphus J.

Pecor of Clarksburg and Mrs. James Gregory of Williamstown. Funeral services will be tomorrow at 11 at the Flynn and Dagnoli-Montagna Funeral Home, North Adams, where the Rev. John Dusenberry, pastor of First United Methodist Church, North Adams, will Burial will be in Clarksburg Cemetery. Calling hours at the funeral home will be tonight from 7 to 9..

Less confirmed in city post City Health Commissioner Louis A. Bolduc is naming Joel Less to a permanent position as the city's code enforcement director, a post he has filled in an acting capacity since late 1972. Less qualified for permanent status on the basis of a Civil Service examination which he took last spring. Bolduc said the results of that test have just been announced. Less was the only person who took it.

The job carries a salary range of from $234 to $260 a week. As director, Less heads the city's effort to bring housing up to minimum state standards. The inspections are carried out by off-duty firemen. Three injured in 2-car accident Three people were slightly in injured Wednesday afternoon in a two car accident at Merrill Road and New York Street. Police attributed the collision to snowy streets.

Linda A. Martino, 26, of 89 Imperial the driver of one of the cars, and two of her passengers, 2-year-old Robin Martino and Adalina Foley, 53, both of the same address, were treated and released at the Pittsfield General unit, BMC. Police said the Martino car slid through a stop sign on New York at about 1:25 p.m. and collided with an auto driven by Albert Jurczak, 63, of 7 Leh's Lane, Adams. City Councilman Angelo C.

the city to set up a three member Board of Health to assume "full responsibility for all public, health within the city. The board would include doctor, who Stracuzzi suggests be chairman. All three members would be appointed by the mayor and would be paid $1,200, Stracuzi is presenting the proposal as a substitute for the Herklots Commission's recommendation that the city's health functions be headed. by doctor serving as medical director. "My proposal would only cost 10 per cent of this," Stracuzzi said in explanatory material submitted with his petition.

Nicholas Debacher, president of greenhouse group Nicholas J. Debacher, 69, retired meat manager of the store on North Street and president of the Springside House Greenhouse Group, died Friday at Highland General Hospital in Sebring, where he was vacationing. Mr. Debacher and his wife, the former Jeannette Moening, lived at 90 Connecticut where their beautifully landscaped Cape Cod house caused motorists to jam on their brakes and pause for a moment to admire. A well-known amateur gardener, Mr.

Debacher became interested in growing roses 38 years ago. Last summer, during an interview with an Eagle reporter, he disclosed that he was tending 200 rose bushes of some 40 varieties in a 225-foot long bed in his backyard. Shortly before retiring from the in 1967 after 40 years' service, he built a greenhouse attached to his garage where grow a little bit of everything, but I must admit I'm succulents and Mr. Debacher had been an active member of the Springside House Greenhouse Group since it was formed in 1969 and last September was elected president of the group. Mr.

Debacher was born in Adams. He had lived in Pittsfield for the past 44 years and was a communicant of St. Mary's Church. Besides his wife, to whom he was married 47 years, he leaves: son, Donald E. Debacher, geheral manager of General Electric's plastics business division in Pittsfield; a daughter, Sister Mary Christa of Precious Blood Convent, Shillington, brother, Max 0.

Debacher of South Hadley; two grand children and one -grandchild. The funeral will be tomorrow morning at 9:30 from the Dery Funeral Home, followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 at St. Mary's Church. Burial will be in Bellevue Cemetery, Adams. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

The family requests the omission of flowers. If friends desire, donations in Mr. Debacher's memory may be made to the Springside House Greenhouse Group. Mrs. Ann L.

Bailey Funeral services for Mrs. Ann L. Bailey will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the Wellington Funeral Home with the Rev. William F.

Baughan, pastor of Unitarian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Pittsfield Ceretery. Calling hours are tonight from 7 to 9 at the funeral home. Mrs. Paul V.

Burchard Funeral services. for Mrs. Paul V. Burchard were held this morning at St. Joseph's Church with Msgr.

Paul D. Riedl, tor, and the Rev. Peter A. Grepas- gory, assistant pastor, officiating in the Liturgy of Christian Burial. Burial was in St.

Mary's Cemetery, Lee, where the Rev. Sean Horgan, assistant pastor of St. Mary's, said prayers at the grave. Bearers were R. Beach, Peter T.

Choiniere, Bruce A. Hurlburt, William J. Lewis, Craig A. McClintock and William 0. Walto.

Miss Mary E. Musgrove Funeral services for Miss Mary E. Musgrove were held yesterday afternoon in the First Methodist Church with the Rev. Edwin F. Taylor, pastor, officiating.

Burial was in Pittsfield Cemetery. Bearers were Emile L. Rollet, Edward W. Lyman, Robert L. Wills Warren Bouchane, Bernard A.

Koscielnak and Edgar I. Scace. In addition, according to survey by Stracuri, the health commission approach seems to be the one taken by the majority of Massachusetts cities. or 40 cities he, wrote to, Stracuzi said he received response from 2. of these only two, he said, do not have a board of health.

The two are Brookline and Quincy. Among those with health boards, he said, are Worcester, Framingham, Norwood, Fall River, Chelsea, Watertown, Natick, Revere, Holyoke, Peabody, Weymouth, Somerville, Chicopee, Northampton, Lowell and Taunton. "Medical guidelines and medical responsibilities are necessibecause in the city's haste to restructure the Health Department it justifiably struck out the M.D. requirements for our public health commissioner," Stracuzzi said. At the same time, he added, the department was left with the responsibility for medical programs for the city as well as medical programs in the School Department.

The change in control could be effected, the atlarge councilman said, by adopting a section of the state laws. BMC will record cancer patient care Berkshire Medical Center is organizing a new tumor registry to keep records on all cancer patients under its care, according to an announcement by Dr, Edward W. Knight, BMC oncologist. The BMC registry is affiliated with the Albany Medical College Community Tumor Registry, which consists of seven member hospitals in the Albany area. The aim of the seven-hospital registry is to keep accurate lifelong records on all of their cancer patients so results of various forms of therapy can be readily compared.

These records are computerized and kept on file in Albany Medical College which sends regular to member hospitals. BMC receives reports on Berkshire County patients, comparing their treatment with that given at other hospitals in this country and worldwide. BMC was formerly affiliated with the Massachusetts Tumor Registry, which lost its federal grant last BMC was without a registry until last. month when it joined the Albany group. Marjory Carr of Dalton is the registrar for the new tumor registry.

She has recently returned from a training session for tumor registrars at Albany Medical College. Two men face -use charges Two men were charged Friday with unauthorized use of a Wahconah Street man's auto, and with causing malicious damage to the car. Raymond L. Drake, 19, of 2 Student Lane and Richard A. Renauld, 21, of Route 8, Washington, were arraigned in Pitts-field District Court after police arrested them Thursday night at Drake's house.

The car, officers said, was reported stolen at 5:30 a.m. Thursday from Henry Newton of 233 Wahconah. In addition to the other charges, Drake is also charged with illegally attaching plates. Special Justice Clement A. Ferris appointed Atty.

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