The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 15

Obituaries and Funerals Louis Schweitzer Dies, Father Founded Paper Co. LEE Louis J. Schweitzer, 72, a member of the family that founded what is now the Peter: J. Schweitzer Division of Kimberly-Clark. died Sunday aboard the liner France while returning from Europe.

The Schweitzer Division operates paper mills in countries throughout the world, including several in this town. Louis Schweitzer had been active in the division in recent years only as a consultant since suffering a heart attack a few years ago. He was best known for his work with the Vera Institute of Justice, which he founded. The institute was instrumental in obtaining reforms of the bail-bond system and other court procedures. Mr.

Schweitzer and his wife Lucille Lortel, the off-Broadway theatrical producer, had spent several weeks off Antibes, France, aboard a boat owned by his brother M. Peter Schweitzer of Lawrence, L.I. Mr. Schweitzer was born in the Ukraine on Feb. 5, 1899, and was brought to this country at the age of 4.

His father founded Peter J. Schweitzer, which manufactured cigarette paper. After buying the Smith Paper Co. in Lee, a subsidiary of the Brown Williamson Tobacco the Schweitzer firm operated 18 cigarette-paper machines at its plants 1 throughout the world. The firm was merged with Kimberly-Clark in 1955.

The Lee mills of the division no longer manufacture cigarette paper but rather several other kinds, in- Howard W. Bertine WEST STOCKBRIDGE Howard W. Bertine, 85, formerly of this town, died Sunday night at the Valley View Nursing Home, Lenox. Born in Westport, on June 17, 1886, Mr. Bertine was the son of William W.

and Mary Wyllie Bertine. He had lived here most of his. life and was associated with the late Marshall E. Gaston in the plumbingbusiness. Mr.

Bertine was member and former deacon of the Village Congregational, Church and for many years sang in its choir. He was also a member of the Grange. Mr. Bertine leaves son, Howard. V.

Bertine of West Islip, N.Y. The funeral service will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Village Congregational Church. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, Great Barrington, Calling hours at the SearingsStevens Funeral Home, Stockbridge, will be tonight from 7 to 9. Those who desire may make contributions to the Village Congregational Church memorial fund.

Mrs. Louise Taggart The funeral of Mrs. Louise Taggart will be held Wednesday morning at 8:30 from the Dery Funeral Home, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 9 at St. Joseph's Church. Burial will be in St.

Mary's Cemetery, Troy, N.Y. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. Charles Reverd The funeral of Charles Revord will be held tomorrow morning at 9:30 from the Dery Funeral Home, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 at Mount Carmel Church. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. Mrs. Anna M. Barry The funeral of Mrs. Anna M.

Barry -will be: held tomorrow morning at 9:15 from the Meehan Funeral Home, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10. at Sacred Heart Church. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening from 7 to 9.

Martin Poplowski Services for Martin Poplowski were held this morning at the Bloniarz Funeral Home. The Rev. Eugene Ozimek of Holy Family Church officiated. Burial was in St. Joseph's Cemetery.

Bearers. were Anthony Lake, John Ziemba, John Skowron and Frank Carlon, Alexander Guden Funeral services for H. of Monterey were held Sunday evening at the Stevens Funeral Home, Great Barrington. The Rev. Virgil V.

Brailler, pastor of the United Church of Christ, Monterey, officiated. Burial was yesterday in Corashire Cemetery, Monterey, where Rev. John A. Kirk of Southern Pines, N.C., offered prayers, Everell L. Downs The funeral of Everell L.

Downs of Tyringham will be held in the Union Church there Wednesday at 11, with the Rev. Franklin Couch, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Tyringham Cemetery Friends may call at the Kelly Funeral Home in Lee today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. Bertine, Howard- W. Hemenway, Mrs.

Irene Schweitzer, Louis Mrs. Irene Hemenway, Leader in DAR Mrs. Irene Robertson Hemenway, 77, wife. of Harold D. Hemenway of 100 Kenmore Drive, Longmeadow, died Sunday at the British Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, where she was vacationing.

She was a former Pittsfield resident. Born in Kent, Conn. the daughter of James S. and Lena Watson Robertson, she lived in this city for a number of years. She moved to the Springfield area in 1948, when her husband, now.

a retired executive of the New England Telephone was transferred from the company's Pittsfield office to the Springfield headquarters. Mrs. Hemenway was very active in DAR circles, including the Peace Party chapter of Pittsfield, the Mercy Warren chapter of Springfield and the state DAR. She was a past treasurer of the state DAR and also served as state chairman and councilor on the state advisory board. She was past treasurer of the Peace Party chapter and was past vice regent of Mercy Warren chapter.

Mrs. Hemenway, who attended Sargent College in Boston, was employed by the Agricultural National Bank here for some years, She was a member of Christ Church Cathedral of Springfield and, when she was Pittsfield, was a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Her husband is her only survivor. The Wellington Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Advanced Pilot Course Slated for Boaters An advanced pilot course for boaters will be offered to members of the Berkshire division of the Mohawk-Hudson Power: Squadron of the United States Power Squadron. The course, beginning Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 243 at the Pittsfield High School, will consist of lessons in course conversions, compass corrections, positioning by bearings, soundings, tides and current strengths. Teacher will be Jack H. Paley.

In the advanced plotting of charts, John B. Cooper will act as assistant in teaching the use of the Napier diagram and the tide and current tables. Robert O. Beverstock of Dalton will teach a course in engine maintenance. The 12-week program will consist of lessons in operating principal, gasoline and diesel engines, repair of engines and their associated systems.

This new course will begin Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Western Mass. Electric Co. City Note -Mrs. Jerry J.

Parker of 3 Evelyn Park recently passed the state examination for certification as a registered nurse. A June graduate of Berkshire Community College, she is the mother of three children, Dawn 13, Darlene 9, and Jay 5. She is employed in the recovery room at Hillcrest Hospital. Dennis O'Brien PEACE SYMBOL OF PLANTS lends a quiet note to the grounds of the Berkshire County House of Correction. The little formal.

garden is shown as viewed through fence that runs along Second Street sidewalk. District Court Tuesday Two Pittsfield men and a Dalton man were fined total of $50. Robert G. Andross, 22, of Dalton, was fined $25 for speeding: William M. Chase, 52.

Birch Grove Drive, $10 for making unnecessary noise with a motor vehicle, and James R. Hanna, 20, of 308 West $15 for speeding. Monday The cases against four Hampden County youths charged by local police with being minors in possession of both marijuana and alcholic beverages were continued until Oct. 16. Judge Frank W.

Cimini ordered the continuances provided that the four boys' parents procure medical evaluations to see whether the youths are drug dependent. The four charged are Robert L. Meister, 17, of Agawam; John A. Guiel, 17, of Feeding Hills; Steven A. Demastos, 19, of Feeding Hills, and Charles L.

Dore 16, of Feeding Hills. In other drug-related action in District Court, Judge Cimini continued until Oct. 18 the charges against Deborah E. Colla, 18, of 54. Cleveland Joseph N.

Lawriw, 17, of 15 Morin each accused of illegal possession of marijuana. Also continued until Oct. 25 was a like charge against Eugena Hubley, 20, of 114 Dewey Ave. A charge of illegal possession of heroin against Ricardo Gonzales, 20, of 54 Howard was continued until Dec. 20.

Gonzales also has been charged with breaking and entering to commit larceny. John J. Fallon 20, of 82 West Housatonic had 8 charge of illegal possession of narcotic drugs continued until Oct. 18. Ralph Crandall, for whom no address was listed, was fined $50 for operating under the influence of alcohol and $35 for operating to endanger.

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Schweitzer cluding paper that serves as insulation in electrical capacitors. Mr. Schweitzer graduated from the University of Maine as a chemical engineer in 1919 and continued his studies at the University of Grenoble, France. He established $20,000 fund to endow the Meyer Berger Awards in journalism, honoring his friend who was a New York Times reporter and columnist until his death in 1950. In New York Mr.

and Mrs. Schweitzer lived in an apartment at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. They had no children. In addition to his brother, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Herman Leffert of Palm Beach, and Mrs.

Sidney Licht of Hartford. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney and an associated of the Vera Institute, and Rabbi Edward Sandrow will be speakers at a funer. al service Thursday at 10 a.m.

at Frank E. Campbell's, Madison Avenue at 81st Street. The Russian-born philanthropist was once described as having "a love affair with the Bill of Rights, especially the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits excessive bail. Backed by a family fortune made in the cigarette-paper business, Mr. Schweitzer contributed some $2 million to experiments designed to break bottlenecks and reduce: case loads in the criminal courts.

The emphasis was on avoiding long waits in jail for the accused, especially petty offenders, before their cases were brought to trial. President Lyndon Johnson invited Mr. Schweitzer to witness his signing of the Bail Re form Act of 1966, calling the work of the Vera Institute an example of what "one man's outrage against could do. Mr. Schweitzer bought the Theatre de Lys in Greenwich Village In 1954 as a 24th- wedding anniversary gift for his wife and with her created the White Barn Theatre on their estate in Westport, Conn.

In 1957 he bought radio station WBAI in New York because he wanted to hear the kind of music he enjoyed and because he disapproved of commercials. He donated the station to the Pacific Foundation in 1959 but continued his financial support. Along the way, Mr. Schweitzer acquired a reputation for whimsical as well as significant giving. He paid 000 for a New York City taxi medallion for a gray.

MercedesBenz, splitting the daytime profits with cab driver, also named Louis Schweitzer, to guarantee his wife late-night transportation from the theatre. He also bought her a gondola in Venice and a houseboat in Florida and purchased for his favorite barber the shop where he worked so Mr. Schweitzer could have his fringe of hair trimmed after hours. "Sure, I'm he once said, with a smile and shrug. "If you're poor, you're only crazy." Mr.

Schweitzer first set up the Vera Foundation, named for his mother, in 1961 after a friend told him there were "2,000 boys who had been in a Brooklyn jail 10 months or more just waiting for trial." Mr. Schweitzer didn't believe it and went to see for himself. "When I saw that jail, I was appalled," he said later. He wanted at first to lend bail money to those too poor to raise it. But with the help of the New York University Law School, and with Herbert Sturz as executive director, the Vera Foundation began the Manhattan Bail Project, supplying judges with facts about defendants and recommending for or against their release without bond.

Of the thousands released during a three-year experiment, only a small number failed to appear for trial on schedule. In 1964 the city took over the procedure from Vera, extending it to all five boroughs. The foundation became the Vera Institute in 1966 when Burke Marshall, former assistant a attorney general for civil rights, became chairman of the board to administer a $1.1 million grant from the Ford Foundation. 1950 The Berkshire County Courthouse's Superior Court room was filled this morning with spokesmen for the 30 towns and two cities of the county seeking a whopping increase in highway construction and maintenance funds from the state and the county. It was the annual Chapter 90 hearing, conducted by the state Department of Public Works.

Under Chapter 90, the state pays for half of the cost of highway building and maintenance, the county pays one quarter and the local community the other quarter. The two cities, Pittsfield and North Adams do not get maintenance assistance, however. Last year, the total Chapter 90 program amounted to 109,000 in the Berkshires, 000 of it coming from the state, $307,875 from the county, 125 from local communities. By the time this noon that all communities had presented their needs to Robert Foster, associate commissioner of public works, the total Chapter 90 program for the coming year in the county would amount to 500,000, an increase of about 40 per cent. Pittsfield Asks $280,000 By A.

A. MICHELSON However, Commissioner Foster pointed out, that if towns are going to commit themselves to more expensive road programs in the coming year they will have to use additional state-aid, money that should be forthcoming next year from a recent increase in the gasoline tax. The tax went up a penny a gallon to 7.5 cents a gallon and the increase will yield $24 million. This is all to be apportioned to cities and towns, which can use the money for construction, maintenance, and something new policing highways. But as for Chapter 90 itself, the commissioner said, the same $8 million that was available last year is available this year.

The biggest increase in Chapter 90 requests this morning came from Mayor Donald G. Butler of Pittsfield. He is asking for a total of $280,000, almost double the 1970 allocation. He said the city would finish a reconstruction and widening of Crane Avenue at a cost of $186,000 and relocation of the northern end of Valentine Road at a cost of $93,000. The latter project would actually be a relocation of the existing Lakeway Drive so as to take that road away from the eastern shore of Onota Lake, where the city intends to effect extensive recreational facilities.

Last year's total allocation for Pittsfield was $144,000, $72,000 from the state, $36,000 from the county, $36,000 from the city. Commissioner Foster was accompanied here by James P. Dunne, state-aid engineer, and Edward Schwartz, assistant state-aid engineer. Butler Sees Discrimination They and the representatives of all the communities -were guests after the hearing of the County Commissioners at a Stanley Club luncheon. Mayor Butler told The Eagle this morning that Pittsfield could make a case for double its Chapter 90 assistance because Chapter 90 is "grossly discriminatory" against the city.

He said that last year's Chapter 90 allocation of $144,000 to the city actually cost Pittsfield more than it received. He noted that Pittsfield is hit for 44 per cent of county expenditures. That means that Pittsfield's share of the $307,875 county contribution to the highway program was $135,465. "Add to that," he noted, "the $36,000 we paid as our share in the Chapter 90 formula and the total cost to the city was 465. We'd be better off if Chapter 90 were a state-local relation instead of ringing in the county on the program." Morrison Operating Getty Service Station James H.

Morrison of 68 Brombach formerly proprietor of Morrison's Flying A Service Station, 168 Wahconah has taken over management of the Getty Service Station at 519 North he announced today. Morrison operated the Flying A station for four years before going to the Pierce Machine Shop in Dalton two years ago. He will do minor repairs, engine tune-ups and lubrication work at his new station. lett was fined $25 for disturbing the peace. Fred D.

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