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Almanac Six days a wtk, Tb'e Earle for Into more than JO.doO home to inform a readership nttimated at 120,000. in Oct Oct The BiiMliS Eagle Pittftfiekl, Saturday, October. 12, 1974' I Tim Second Section Pel5 Old Vietnam hand sees failure 3 defendants in FortFs amnesty program are indicted REA says figures prove that GE wasn't cheated on 68 charges could only have gone to ASEA. no matter what special adjustments are applied." 'Evalaatiag pracess' MacDonald said the official bid Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, is the margin by which ASEA underbid GE for the contract. Conte put the bid prices at W.7Q2.J32 for GE and $54,228,500 or roughly 4 per cent less -for the foreign ASEA prices were the result of an firm.

Because of "buy "evaluating process" that was American'' provisions of federal conducted by Commonwealth regulations, the congressman Associate Michigan argued, the ASEA bid should consulting engineering firm, to have been adjusted upward by take into account the differences The widespread police investigation into burglaries and check-stealing in the county yesterday resulted in 68 indictments against three defendants in Superior Court. In addition, it was disclosed at her second arraignment in two days that the grand jury had added 1 1 more indictments to the 27 already brought against Constance A. Bigelow, 22, of 6 Robbins Ave. The list of other indictments included 31 against one defendant. A reading of the break-in and checks probes have been indicted, but are not scheduled for arraignment until next week.

The two are Paul G. Ouellette 19. of Westview Road Lanesboro, and Anthony Whiteside. 22. of Pittsfield.

Released without bail Therrien, Villanova. Bigelow and Ouellette were first arrested after an Aug. 21 burglary at the Norman Gaylord home in Lanesboro. Another man who supposedly accompanied them also was indicted yesterday, but for that break-in alone. He was Joseph A.

DiFillippo. 22. of 7k By Peter Scfceer The Rural Electrification Administration released adjusted btd prices yesterday that showed "unequivocally." according to the agency, that General Electric was not cheated out of a million, federally financed power contract. But Pittsfiekl Congressman Silvio O. Code and GE officials were skeptical about the government's figures, and said they would reserve final comment on them until they had examined more carefully the agency's stated reasons why ASEA a Swedish firm, had been awarded the contract forA power-transmission equipment on a major new coal -burning power project in Minnesota and North Dakota.

How big a difference At issue in the dispute, which began last week when Conte wrote a letter of protest to By fUakcr Buck President Gerald Ford's amnesty program for Vietnam war draft evaders was described yesterday as "a failure that has only brought a trickle of American boys home from Canada." Don Luce of New York City, president of Clergy and Laity Concerned, claimed that the program has failed because "it has relied on humiliation and impugned the patriotism of Vietnam era war The President's program calls for a pledge of allegiance and two years of alternative service as conditions for repatriation, conditions that Luce said made the situation of the draft dodgers in Canada "worse than before the President announced his plan." Luce said that draft resisters wishing to return to this country before the amnesty plan were either paroled or given a suspended sentence after being under Selective Service laws, punishment that involved less personal hardship for the draft evaders than the present plan. Americans still there per cent and the contract awarded to GE. However the Rural Electrification Administration, in a memo prepared by its legal staff this week and made public yesterday, put the official, adjusted bid prices at $68,094,019 for GE and (S7.9S3.0S3 for ASEA. The agency's figures represented a spread of more than 12 per cent between the two companies' bids, "which shows unequivocally," in the two companies' bid-proposals. "The basic bid prices are not comparable on a dollar for -dollar basis," he said.

have to be adjusted to reflect the fact that one company may have a more expensive cost-escalating clause in the bid, or that one company's bid includes the cost of training personnel and the other's does not." MacDonald said GE's initial, base bid on the contract was charges showed that in many of the cases, more than one of the defendants was charged with the South Onota who pleaded not same crime. guilty. Judge Raymond R. Cross State and local police released him without bail, investigators had said previously Villanova and Therrien also they believe many of the theft were released without bail, cases under investigation in the provided they attend the EPIC four-month probe in Central and drug rehabilitation center here. Northern Berkshire County were Gamari's bail was kept at committed by a group of $1,000.

an amount he already according to Thomas R. MacDonald. the agency's chief engineer. "that the contract reported last week by Conte. He taker Buck' persons acting together.

has posted. Mrs. Bigelow is being Luce speaking at BCC held on $250 bail. Defendants listed Those arraigned yesterday The public defender's office said that Conte's figure was for a second GE bid that was disqualified during contract negotiations. "But even if the smaller GE bid had been acceptable," he continued, "it was still more than Slow-starting winter is foreseen by almanac pleaded not guilty to all charges represented all the defendants These included a pocket comb BCC to write Conte encouraging made for him by a Vietnamese the congressman to work for the villager from the magnesium monk's release.

siding of a crashed bomber, and Answers questions lines are as follows?" the ar 12 per cent higher than the ASEA against them. They were: who were arraigned except for Gwen F. Villanova. 20. of 531 Gamari, whose attorney is South indicted on the 31 Leonard H.

Cohen, counts of burglary, receiving Public Defender Andrew T. stolen property, larceny, forgery Campoli told Judge Cross, and passing forged checks, and however, that a rule of the ticle gives passages from Nath- bid after the evaluation process. aniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet No matter how you cut it, GE Letter." Herman Melville's loses on the bid." Massachusetts Defenders' illegal possession of "Moby Dick" and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes' "Elsie Turning to the fate of the country where the draft evaders refused to fight. Luce held a piece of shrapnel in the air and said. "The American presence in Vietnam is far from over, and the effects of our war there have not diminished." Luce, a journalist who specializes in Asian politics, was forced to leave Vietnam in 1971 after his visa was withdrawn because he showed two American congressmen the tiger cages where political prisoners were kept on Con Son Island off Wanted 2 adjustments The 12 per cent differential cited by MacDonald is significant because one of Conte's secondary arguments last week was that the preferential treatment accorded Country Curtains ad Among the full complement of advertisements which give the Almanac its 19th-century cata GE in the bidding should have The 1975 Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting a mild, early with more severe weather after January.

The weather prediction for New England goes on to say that spring will be warm and wet, but June through October will be dry and hot, except for August The Almanac also speculates that in 1975 hurricanes will be possible on Sept. 8 and 19 and on Oct. 23. When the Almanac was founded by Robert B. Thomas of West Boylston in 1792.

be advertised it as a publication of "new, useful and entertaining matter:" So, in the 183rd edition, in addition to the traditional weather forecasts and the astrological calculations, there are articles recognizing the na- tkmal Bicentennial and the logue charm is one that begins, included two 6 per cent "Curtain Charm: Ball Fringe on adjustments one in accordance Luce met ith members of the Pittsfield area Council of Churches and BCC professors after his lecture and answered questions on other aspects of American foreign policy in Asia. He described the effects of the American policy of defoliation which he says has ruined Vietnam's agrarian economy. He also described the fields of land mines laid by the United States Army, many of which he claimed were not removed. These two vestiges of the American military presence there. Luce said, "have made a defoliated booby trap of thousands of acres of what was formerly a rich, agricultural nation." After his noon talk at BCC.

Luce was driven to Williamstown. where he addressed an audience at Williams Unbleached or White Muslin," hypodermic syringe. Kevin P. Therrien. 21.

of Woodbine Avenue, charged with 22 counts of burglary. Robert F. Gamari. 38. of 21 Imperial indicted on 15 counts of larceny and receiving, stolen property, all related to allegedly stolen checks and other securities.

The 1 1 new indictments against Mrs. Bigelow were on stolen-property and bad check charges, the same type charges alleged in most of her previous indictments. It also was revealed in court by the district attorney's office yesterday that two other men bound over to the grand jury from district courts in the Committee barring its attorneys from representing codefendants in cases will make court appointment of other counsel for all but one of the indicted persons necessary. Arrow. Hathaway Cant Shirts.

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Adv. a basket woven from electrical wire removed from American radar-detection computers. Peasant ingenuity Luce said the implements demonstrate the ingenuity of the Vietnamese peasants, "who would return to the successful agrarian life their nation once enjoyed if only the American presence there were completely withdrawn." American aid still accounts for 90 per cent of the military budget of Vietnam. Luce said, adding that the aid program "is the sole prop for the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu." Luce said that American aid also has been used to maintain prisons in Vietnam, and he described the cases of several political prisoners whom Clergy and Laity Concerned is working to free. His organization has each.

United States congressman one of these political prisoners, and Luce said that if constituent pressure is applied in each congressional district, the congressmen may be with "buy American Saigon, regulations, and a second Clergy and Laity Concerned is because much of the GE an anti-war group that also equipment involved in the addresses itself to the issues of contract would have been amnesty for American draft from Country Curtains in Stock-bridge. There are quick remedy advertisements for prepared substances that will remove foot corns, ingrown hairs and facial wrinkles and more eccentric commercial ventures asking readers to send away for red suspenders, a corset apparatus for both sexes called the for per' manufactured in high evaders and the release of unemployment "economically political prisoners held by the distressed" areas. government of South Vietnam. Conte was not available Luceisona New England tour yesterday to on the to gain support for Clergy and federal agency's figures, but Laity Concerned projects for war Paul Krietzer, the refugees and political prisoners energy crisis. fume, Scandinavian scissors and congressman's attorney in in Vietnam.

He showed his a txined-treasure finder. Washington, said that Conte "is audience of about 150 persons at The Almanac has been edited not satisfied with the agency's BCC several souvenirs of the explanation. American military presence in "He hasn't had time yet to Vietnam, some of them domestic i it in recent years by Rob Trowbridge and Jud Hale, "known collectively as 'Abe Weath-erwise. of Yankee. in DubliivN.H.

study it in detail, but he clearly tools fashioned from abandoned the matter American intends to pursue further," he said. VAUE.QflRT machinery. 111 Name in the News. weapons and moved to lobby the State Department and the South Vietnamese government to free the prisoner. He complimented Pittsfield Congressman Silvio O.

Conte, who Luce said has demonstrated "an unusually high" interest in South Vietnamese prisoners. Luce has assigned a Buddhist' Back from Afri ca monk, Phan van Xinh. who was arrested in 1972 for refusing induction in the South Vietnamese army, to Conte's-district. He 'asked students at TREASURE VN DAILY S- DOOR BUSTERS 4 At King's Furniture The Great Gatsby Festival is this Sunday. Oct.

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A Better Roof by Berkshire Roofing Co. Call Harry Vincent 443-3100. Adv. A Friendlv Breakfast The sections intended1 as aids for readers during the energy' crisis are articles entitled "The Forgotten Art of Building a Long-Lasting Fire," and an article on producing methane gas from cow manure. The article recognizing the national Bicentennial, which begins in 1975, is an eyewitness account of the Revolutionary War battles of Lexington and Concord written in 1776 by the Rev.

William Gordon of Roxbury. Another section of the Almanac, "Six Questions for Rainy Day Amusement." has passages from the works of three Berkshire authors After "can you name the novel and author of the books whose first Pom Poms to lead Springfield parade The Berkshire Pom Poms drum and bugle corps. from winning the 1974-1915 American Legion state championship here in June, will lead' off the 16th annual Columbus Day parade in Springfield Sunday. Members are requested to report to the First National Store parking lot on North Street at 10:30 Sunday morning. CORRECTIONS A headline in Wednesday's Eagle incorrectly stated three men I charged, with receiving stolen property had been arrested.

The men. Earl G. Persip Thomas Cassavant and Ferdinand J. Raye. actually came to Pittsfield District Court Monday on their own after-receiving summonses.

Real estate tax exemption certificates for Richmond taxpayejjnaybe obtained at Rfclimohdr Tax Collector Mar- garet H. Bristol's office at her. Yokun Road home. An article in yesterday's Eagle gave the wrong location. Joseph E.

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Adv. Sarah Stokes Hatch had a sandwich snatched from her hand by a kite bird with a five-foot wingspan at a picnic in Uganda. She was active in the first days of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley. And she went on fox hunts at the Foxcroft School in Middleburg.Va. These are a few events in the life of 29-year-old Miss Hatch, who began work Oct.

1 in the new post of assistant executive director of the Berkshire County Red Cross. She was born June 17, 1945. in Albany, N.Y. and grew up mostly in Norfolk, where her father, John Davis Hatch was director of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. Her summers were spent with her family in Stockbridge.

Because Norfolk public schools were closed in the i fall of 1958 by the state to protest federally ordered integration. Miss Hatch stayed in the Berkshires that fall and attended 8th grade at Berkshire Country Day School, then on Walker Street in Lenox. Ironically, she lived that year in the bouse on Route 183 in Stockbridge at the Lenox- line that eventually became Berkshire Country Day School's main building. At that time it belonged to her grandmother, the widow of Canon Anson Phelps Stokes. The rest of her high school education was received at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, where, in 1 addition to academics, she participated in required military drill, taught by US.

Marine sergeant from Quantico Marine Base, and in tox miming. "I never was on a kill because the foxes in that part of the country are gray foxes, which can climb trees," she recalled. She graduated from Foxcroft in 1963 and spent the next four years at the, University of California at Berkeley where she majored in anthropology. She served on a picket line supporting the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in its early days. "I was active at the very beginning because the police had come on campus and removed people from the administration building.

1 didn't think it warranted police action. They should have left (hem there." she said. The students removed from the building had been sitting in to protest a university decision banning leafletting at the campus entrance. "I stopped supporting the Free Speech Movement when I found that some of its leaders were denying people of opposing views the right to speak," she said. "McGeorge Bundy was booed by some of the movement's leaders when he came to Berkeley to defend America's war policies in Vietnam." After Berkeley and after working as director of volunteers at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston she set off around the world, getting only as far as Africa.

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She doesn't recall the type of 'sandwich it was. She does recall that she and her friends had to throw stones at the big bird during the rest of their picnic to fend it off. "It had big daws and a dangerous beak," she 1 said. Several of Miss Hatch's ancestors would undoubtedly approve of her serving the Red Cross, which, in addition to providing domestic blood needs, also provides assistance to foreign countries in times of disaster. Her great-great-grandfather, Daniel Lindley.

was a missionary to South Africa before the turn of the century and started Ananda Seminary for black people. While in Africa, Miss Hatch visited the seminary and was treated as an honored guest. Her mother, the former Olivia' Eglestoo Phelps Stokes, worked in Washington. D.C., in the 1930s with Miss Mabel Boardman, who set up the Red Cross's volunteer structure. Mas Hatch is living in Lenox and in her spare time will begin the job of sorting about 3.000 color slides taken mostly in Africa.

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