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open-meeting law still to lack penalties Sen. Alan D. Sisitsky, D- Springfield, said today that a new. law, "tougher" is nearly open meeting Gov. compromisature, represents a that it doesn't provide for penalties for public officials who violate the law.

simply wouldn't have been able to get any kind of remedial legislation through if we had insisted on a section which punished those who flout the law," the Springfield legislator said. I still think we have come up with a more meaningful open meeting law and one which gives aggrieved persons more redress, added. Under the Sisitsky bill, which has been passed by the House and awaits routine enactment in the Senate before going to the governor, persons have until 14 days after the alleged violation has become known to begin legal proceedings. is not 14 days after the alleged violation has occurred," Sisitsky explained. is 14 days after it has been made public.

The distinction is significant, Sisitsky said, because under current provisions, court action must begin within 14 days after the incident occurs. "Given the nature of meetings held behind, closed doors, the public not even know about it until long after the 14- day period has expired," Sisitsky said. One of the bills compromises is in the court-action aspect of the bill. Reformers wanted Ianguage which said that a court, upon evidence that the open meeting law had been violated, "shall invalidate action taken The at such law a a court "may" invalidate; the new bill retains The new bill takes particular aim at abuses of executive sessions, a device permitting governmental bodies to go behind closed doors. Under the bill, a government body must first go into public session.

To go into executive session, a majority of the body must vote in favor. The chairman or president must state the purpose for which the executive session is being held, and must state whether the body will reconvene in open session. The law applies to boards, councils, commissions and their committees and subcommittees. The new law also sets forth legitimate reasons for going into executive session: -Discussion of one's reputation or character, not his professional competence, which must be public. -Allegations of criminal conduct.

-Disciplinary action or dismissal of a public employe, but not if the employe demands an open of collective bargaining strategy, -Discussion of employment or security personnel. -Consideration of real estate transactions when public discussion might have a detrimental effect on the negotiating position of the public agency. -Compliance with laws dealing with federal grant-in-aid regulations. Obituaries and Funerals Mario A. Allessio, Allessio, Mario A.

Mrs. Wallace Mottor superintendent of GE maintenance Mario A. Allessio, 60, of Longview Terrace Extension, superintendent of maintenance the relations and utilities department of General Electric died yesterday at his home after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield, he was the son of the late Michael and Delphine Allessio. He had been employed at GE for 38 years.

He and his wife, the former Florence Solera, celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary last September. He was a communicant of All Souls' Church and a member of the GE Quarter Century Club, the Foremen's Club and Lakewood Sportsmen's Club. In addition to his wife, he leaves a son, Lawrence P. Allessio of Pittsfield; five brothers, John B. of Dalton, Eugene Michael and Ferdinand E.

Allessio, all of Pittsfield, and William S. Allessio of Richmond; five sisters, Mrs. Norma Balardini, Mrs. Josephine Testa, Mrs. Anthony Carnevale and Mrs.

Michael Principe, all of Pittsfield, and Sister Mary Camille, Sisters of Mercy, of York, and a grandchild. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 8:30 at the Dery Funeral Home with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 9 at All Souls' Church. will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Calling hours at the funeral home will be tonight from 7 to 9 and tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

Mrs. Irma W. Nelson Memorial services for Mrs. Irma W. Nelson were held this afternoon at First Church of Christ, Congregational, with the Rev.

Quentin Peacock, pastor of Westfield Congregational Church, officiating. Burial was in Pittsfield Cemetery. Honorary bearers were 'Howard D. Sammis, John R. Tobey, Earl F.

Robbins, Stephen B. Hibbard, Churchward Davis Sr. and Benjamin J. Sullivan. Leonard A.

Whipple Memorial services for Leonard A. Whipple of Richmond were held this afternoon at First Church of Christ, Congregational, in Richmond with the Rev. Robert Knowles, pastor, and the Rev. Cortland R. Pusey, assistant rector of St.

Stephen's Episcopal Church, Pittsfield, officiating. Burial was in Pittsfield Cemetery. Philip Janchuk Funeral services for Philip Janchuk will be held tomorrow morning at 9:15 at the Berkshire Funeral Home with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 at Holy Family Church. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery.

Calling hours at the funeral home will be today from 2 to 04 and 7 to 9. Donations in Mr. Janchuk's memory may be made to the Franciscan Fathers, Becket. Mrs. Lucy Gage Funeral services for Mrs.

Lucy Gage of East Lee will be tomorrow at 11 at the Kelly Funeral Home, Lee, with the Rev. Robert A. Freeman, rector of St. George's Episcopal Church, Lee, officiating. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery.

Calling hours at the funeral home are today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. Mrs. Eleanor W. Walkam Funeral services for Mrs. Eleanor W.

Walkam, formerly of Lee, will be tomorrow at 9:15 from the Kelly Funeral Home at Lee with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 at St. Francis' Church in South Lee. Burial will be, in Fairmount Cemetery in Lee. Calling hours at the funeral home are tonight from 7 to 9. Dog officer warns of crackdown City Dog Officer Edward R.

Clevenger said today that after May 30 residents with unlicensed dogs will be taken to court. Licenses re on sale the city, clerk's office City and should have been purchased by May 1. But traditionally the city gives residents a grace period before enforcing the censing laws. Plan to repay inn creditors to get hearing The corporation that operates the financially troubled Berkshire Motor Inn in Great Barrington will appear at a hearof ing a creditors' tomorrow for confirmation repayment According to Atty. Paul V.

Donahue of Pittsfield, counsel for the inn and originator of the financial plan, a majority of creditors who had filed claims against 9-20 which does business as the Berkshire Motor Inn, have assented to the plan. Assent of the majority, said Donahue, is required for confirmation. Judge Paul W. Glennon, referee in bankruptcy, will hear the plan at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the Superior Courthouse.

The corporation filed a petition in U.S. District Court in Boston in January under Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act. requesting an "arrangement with creditors" so that it continue to operate while devising a plan to pay its debts, Donahue said. Included in the plan is an agreement to pay the inn's two principal creditors, the Berkshire Bank Trust Co. and the Community Savings Bank of Holyoke, $704,271 and $239,446, respectively, by July 1.

Donahue is proposing to pay the unsecured creditors in four installments beginning Sept. 1 this year and each Sept. 1 thereafter until fully paid. Two entered from THS in state contest Two Taconic High School vocational students, Gary Virgilio of 202 Merrill Road and Michael Golin of Route 41, Richmond. will compete Friday in statewide auto-mechanic trouble-shooting contest, according to Raymond Rosier, their instructor and coach.

Virgilio and Golin form one of only 13 pairs of students in Massachusetts vocational schools who have qualified for the Friday contest, to be held at the Keefe Regional Vocational Technical School in Framingham. "Rosier is putting his team through its paces in preparation for the event," said Louis J. Diamond, assistant director of vocational education. Sponsors The contest is sponsored annually by the Plymouth division, Chrysler Corp. and the competing students are sponsored in turn by Plymouth dealers in their areas.

Pete's ChryslerPlymouth, of Pittsfield is sponsoring Virgilio and Golin and will provide a 1975 automobile for them to work on in Framingham. The winning team in each state gets an expenses-paid trip to the national competition in Detroit June 16 18. Skating party raises $78 for Heart Assn. Receipts from the roller skating party at the Broyles Roller Rink on Monday totaled $78.60, according to Mr. and Mrs.

Donald E. O'Brien, chairmen of the event. The party was held to benefit the Berkshire division of the American Heart Association. Tickets were sold by members of the Berkshire Roller Skating Club and the Pittsfield Centre Lions Club. Question session set for temple service Rabbi Harold I.

Salzmann, spiritual leader 1 of Temple Anshe Amunim, will conduct an the question-andanswer session during Sabbath evening services Friday at 8 at the temple. The pew-and-pulpit dialogue session, which lasts approximately 30 minutes, will replace the sermon. Baha'is to observe' 132nd anniversary Pittsfield Baha'is will observe the 132nd anniversary of the birth of the faith tonight at 10:15 at the home of Michael E. Andross, 95 Bossidy Drive. The day observes the declaration in Persia by the Bab, the faith's first prophet, predicting the subsequent arrival of the sect's chief prophet, Baha'u'llah.

The celebration, according to custom, begins two hours after sunset. The public is invited. I The Berkshire Eagle, Thursday, May 22, 1975 17 Doyle fears Western Mass. will lose out on highway aid City Public Works Commissioner Gerald S. Doyle says Pittsfield and Western Massachusetts are being left out of a major highway -funding program, and he doesn't like it.

mean to tell 'me they can't put a little bit of the work in this area?" he asks. The program Doyle I is talking about is the $11 billion in impounded federal highway funds that have been released by President Ford and Congress to stimulate the nation's economy, Massachusetts is currently deciding how it is going to use its $463 million share. Doyle says that the feedback he is getting from state officials, including DPW Commissioner John Carroll, indicates Pittsfield is to get only $450,000 for an East Street project that would have been tackled this year anyway. But George Joseph, one of the state highway officials deciding how the money will be spent, says Doyle's evaluation is "premature." Joseph states that on the governor's orders all projects submitted for funding are being revalued. Projects Doyle believes have been killed could still win approval, he says.

The reconstruction jobs Doyle wants funded are: -South Street from the end of the TOPICS reconstruction project to South Mountain Road. -North Street from the south Hearing tomorrow on psychiatric unit The Berkshire County Health Planning Advisers will hoid a public meeting tomorrow at 4 p.m. on a petition from the Berkshire Medical Center requesting a permit to change 20 medical beds in the BMC Jones Wing to an inpatient psychiatric unit. Jeanne Massimiano, executive director of the planning group, said the hearing will include a presentation by BMC officials on what is planned for the unit. She said the informal hearing will be open to the public in a move to get some community feeling on the project.

end of Springside Park to the northern intersection of North and Wahconah streets. -West Housatonic Street from South Street to the river. All three were designed by the city engineering staff headed by Samuel Slack. Time factor A stipulation of the release of the impounded funds is that the money go to projects ready to get under way by July 1. In order to meet that deadline, the Pittsfield City Council appropriated $2,000 so city engineers could work overtime on them.

Doyle says that the plans for all three roads were submitted to the state before May 1. He contends this allowed "plenty" of time for the necessary state reviews. One state employe, however, suggests that the review process takes far longer than allowed for by Pittsfield. In addition the employe speculates that in a late-winter meeting state officials may have given Doyle the false impression that there was still time to process projects that weren't on the drawing boards yet. That meeting, involved state DPW Commissioner Carroll and Transportation Secretary Frederick Salvucci.

"Now it looks like only projects that were in the planning process stood a chance, Doyle says. Joseph, the state's federal. aid engineer, says that of Massachusetts' $463 million will go to the interstate system. A portion will also go to Boston, he adds, to compensate for past impoundments of road funds there. But when it comes to noninterstate projects, Joseph says, think it's easier to get approval for the western part of the state than any other section and they will be getting their His reasoning is that Western Massachusetts projects tend to be smaller and therefore less costly.

Doyle remains unconvinced. Time, he believes, will prove his contention. He has written Joseph asking for an explanation. He has also written area legislators. Baddy L.

Denison will receive dental degree Buddy L. Denison, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Denison, 56 Pollock will receive the degree of doctor of medical dentistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Dentistry, Hackensack, N.J., on Sunday.

A 1968 graduate of Pittsfield High School, Denison earned his bachelor of science at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, Conn. He will open an office for general dentistry in Agawam. He is married to the former Phyllis A. Pietruszak of West Springfield. Sarah Hatch to aid refugees at Florida base Sarah S.

Hatch of Lenox, assistant director of the Berkshire County chapter of the American Red Cross, 1 left today to spend a month at a Florida air base relocating Vietnamese refugees. One of two staff members from New England picked for the assignment, Miss Hatch will work with other. Red Cross workers processing more than 800 refugees arriving at Eglin Air Force Base. Miss Hatch, 29, joined the Red Cross chapter here last October. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967 and during 1972 and 1973 taught English to Ethiopian students in Addis Ababa, the nation's capital.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hatch of Lenox. During the 1930s, her mother worked with Mabel Boardman, the Red Cross official who established the organization's system of volunteer workers.

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Roys, Mrs. Reginald Siok, Marcel M. Mrs. Carol A. Daniels Mrs.

Carol Ackhart Daniels, 35, of 36 West Housatonic St. died Tuesday at Hillcrest Hospital after a long illness. She was born here and was educated in Pittsfield schools. She was a lifelong resident here. She leaves her mother, Mrs.

Catherine Ackhart of Pittsfield; and a brother, Robert G. Ackhart of Santa Clara, Calif. Private funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 10 at Devanny Funeral Home. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery.

There will be no calling hours. Maurice W. Nealon STEPHENTOWN, N.Y. Maurice W. Nealon, 85, a lifelong resident of Stephentown, died at the St.

Luke's unit, BMC, in Pittsfield, yesterday following a long illness. He was born in Stephentown, son of Bernard and Mary Connelly Nealon. He was a former employe of the General Electric Co. in Pittsfield and a communicant of St. Joseph's Church here.

He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Mahoney of Schenectady and Miss Bessie Nealon of Stephentown. Funeral services will be Saturday at 8:30 a.m. from the Hall Higgins Funeral Home here with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 9 a.m. at St.

Joseph's with the Rev. John Klebie, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Calling hours at the funeral home will be Friday from 7 to 9.

Mrs. Reginald Roys STOCKBRIDGE Mrs. Carrie P. Roys, 84, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Lund of 21 Nielsen Drive here.

She was the wife of Reginald Roys. The former Carrie Porter, she was born in Poultney, Aug. 3, 1890, daughter of the late Charles E. and Charlotte Porter. She was a graduate of the Troy Conference Academy in Poultney and moved to Hoosick Falls, N.Y., in 1910.

She worked for many years for the Walter A. Wood Co. there and moved here with her husband in 1973. She was a communicant of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Hoosick Falls and a member of St.

Hilda's Guild. Besides her husband and daughter, she leaves three grandsons. Graveside services will be Saturday at 2:30 in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Hoosick Falls. There are no calling hours. The Roche Funeral Home in Lenox is in charge of arrangements.

The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations in Mrs. Roys's memory be made to the Altar Guild of St. Mark's in Hoosick Falls. Mrs. Eva W.

Brock Funeral services for Mrs. Eva W. Brock will be held tomorrow morning at 8:30 at the Dery Funeral Home with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 9 at Notre Dame Church. Burial will be in 'St. Joseph's Cemetery.

Calling hours at the funeral home will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. David C. Milne Memorial services for David C. Milne will be held Saturday afternoon at the Wellington Funeral Home at a time to be announced. There are no calling hours.

Mrs. Doris H. Mottor, 56, of 12 Chester the wife of Wallace J. Mottor, died yesterday at Pittsfield General unit, BMC, after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield, she was the daughter of the late Jesse and Margaret Orr Haskett.

She was graduated from Pittsfield- High shire Business College. She had School and the former. 'Berkbeen employed as a secretary by Shearson Hammill Berkshire Mutual Insurance Co. and Pittsfield National Bank until her retirement in 1965. During World War II, she worked at the former House of Mercy hospital, now the Pittsfield General unit of the Berkshire Medical Center.

She was a member of South Congregational Church. She and her husband were married in 1942. He is her only survivor. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at a time to announced at Wellington Funeral Home. Calling hours at the funeral home will be tonight and tomorrow night from 7 to 9.

Marcel M. Siok HOUSATONIC Marcel M. Siok, 84, of Pine Street died Wednesday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Poland on Nov. 11, 1890, son of the late Felix and Agnes Potash Siok, he came to this country in 1906.

Mr. Siok was employed as a beater engineer for 25 years at the Rising Paper Co. After that he was a carpenter for 20 years, tractors until his retirement in working for a local building con1960. Mr. Siok was a communicant of All Saints' Church and a member of the Holy Name Society.

He also belonged to the Polish Falcons and the Polish National Alliance of Housatonic. He leaves his wife, the former Marianna Zdun; two sons, Chester S. Siok of Housatonic and Joseph P. Siok of Danbury, and a daughter, Mrs. Victoria Coleman of Burlington, eight grandchildren and 12 great Calling hours at the Birches Funeral Home will be tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

The funeral will be held on Saturday at 8 a.m. from the funeral home, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 8:30 at All Saints' Church in Housatonic. Burial will be in St. Bridget's Cemetery, Housatonic. The Rosary will be recited at 8p.m.

tomorrow. Frederick Bushwinger Funeral services for Frederick J. Bushwinger were held morning at St. Mark's Church with the John A. Roach, curate, officiating.

Burial was in St. Joseph's Cemetery, where Msgr. Joseph I. Johnson, pastor, offered prayers at the grave. Bearers were Michael T.

Quinn, Joseph T. Duffy, Armand L. Charland, Paul S. Delmolino, James R. Morrison and Guy J.

Crawford. Caprio to speak at Calif. forum Alphonse E. Caprio of 32 West Housatonic St. has been invited to speak at the International Parent Effectiveness Training convention in Monterey, June 27 through 29.

Caprio is a licensed teacher of parent effectiveness training and has been teaching courses for the past year at Berkshire Community College, McCann Vocational Technical High School and at area churches. On June 2, he will discuss the church-oriented course in a public lecture at St. Mark's parish center at 7:30 p.m. The talk will be sponsored by St. Mark's and Mount Carmel parishes.

County House of Correction authorities found no drugs yesterday in a "shakedown" search prompted by discovery of narcotics in a woman's cell last week. Sheriff John D. Courtney Jr. said the morning search probably did result in destruction of some contraband by inmates themselves. The cell-to-cell hunt was accompanied by the sound of few toilets flushing" as items may have gone down the drain, he said.

Courtney said the search, one of the tupe conducted about once a month by jail personnel, was brought about this time by discovery of prescription drugs and a hypodermic syringe in the cell of Constance A. Bigelow, a 22-year-old Pittsfield woman awaiting sentencing on a number of forged check charges. Courtney said that, although conditions are far worse at other correctional institutions, some drugs, mostly marijuana, and alcohol are smuggled into the House of Correction. A number of other attempts are foiled, he said, by guards who inspect the Second Street building's yard each morning before the prisoners are allowed outside. The guards regularly find drugs and alcohol thrown through the fence, apparently in hope they will be picked up later, Courtney said.

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