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By JIM BRIDGMAN
The first two days of the Northampton Winter Festival were blessed with excellent to adequate weather and large crowds. The eight-day festival continues today with a day-long George Washington’s Birthday sale in the Downtown Business area and a sports luncheon at the Hotel Northampton featuring the area’s two college men’s basketball teams, the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
E. S. Phelps, treasurer and collector for the town of Northampton, hereby gives notice to delinquents that all taxes must be paid by the first day of March. “Those who call and pay their taxes before that time will do well for themselves, as I do not intend to make but one call more!”
By JIM BRIDGMAN
Northampton police are investigating a break and theft at the Pro Brush Division of Vistron Corp. in Florence early Monday morning. A little more than $2,000 was taken, Charles A. Gaudry, Pro Brush personnel manager, said. The money was taken from a filing cabinet in the plant’s main office.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
Hampshire County is locked in a deep freeze. A combination of light winds, fresh snow cover and an arctic air mass sent temperatures plummeting last night and early today. A low of 22 degrees below zero was reported at the Mill Valley Grist Mill in Amherst.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
A number of professors at the University of Massachusetts are convinced that doctoral (Ed.D.) degrees have been given out too easily and in too great a number in recent years at the School of Education. Graduate students and faculty are actively debating whether a diploma mill has been operating within the school.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
Nationally known women, including Katharine Graham of the Washington Post, feminist Betty Friedan, physician-author Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and actress-dance Maya Angelou, will be among the participants in a winter centennial observation at Smith College in late February. The events revolve around the annual observance of Rally Day, an all-college celebration which began in February 1876, when the class of 1879 held a reception in honor of Washington’s Birthday.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
On Friday last, the House of Representatives gave leave for a bill to the petitioners for a college charter for Amherst Institution – yeas 114, nays 96. In the five western counties, Worcester, Hampshire, Franklin, Hampden and Berkshire, there were 29 yeas and 51 nays.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
In a massive shakeup at the University of Massachusetts School of Education, Dean Dwight Allen has resigned, and Associate Dean Atron Gentry has been fired, the Gazette learned today. The resignation and dismissal come in the wake of several weeks of reports that funds at the School of Education may have been spent on purposes other than those for which they were intended.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
Members of the Easthampton Consumer Action Committee (ECAC) will issue a letter of invitation to President Ford to visit this area to explain his recent energy proposals. The local group received nationwide television coverage Friday after a Thursday evening meeting with utility company representatives and elected officials drew a crowd of over 600 people to Park School Auditorium.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
The facade of the Hampshire County Courthouse has begun to crumble. Some eight chunks of stone varying in size, a few as large as six inches square and one at least one and a half feet long, have fallen this week from the front of the courthouse. The stones are falling from above an archway on the eastern end of the front porch facing Main Street.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
On Tuesday of last week, the question respecting Amherst Institution was brought up in the House of Representatives and referred to Tuesday of the present week. The committee of investigation suggest in their report that a college should be immediately incorporated at Amherst, and provision made for uniting Williams College with it, should the trustees of that college deem such union desirable.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
A Northampton banker, William A. Burke, was elected president of the board of directors of the Northampton Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Burke, consultant at the Pioneer National Bank, was elected at the chamber’s annual meeting, held during a luncheon at the Hotel Northampton.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
Twenty-four employees at Pro Brush Division, Vistron Corp. were notified this week that today is their last day at work there for an indefinite period. The figure brings to 146 the number of fulltime employees who have been laid off since the plant began a trial cutback Dec. 1, personnel manager Charles Gaudry said today.
By JIM BRIDGMAN
50 Years Ago ■Two students from Hawley Junior High School have been selected to perform in the 17th Annual Western District Concert Festival of the Massachusetts Music Educators’ Association. The students are Patrick Sheehan and Patricia Tyler....
By JIM BRIDGMAN
50 Years Ago ■Western Massachusetts Electric Co. customers of Northeast Utilities will be paying 19.2 percent less in the fuel charge on their electric bills in January than in December. The main reason for the reduction is the return to service Nov....
By JIM BRIDGMAN
50 Years Ago■The Northampton National Bank became the first in the city to sell gold bullion to the public, following new regulations that allow United States citizens to own gold bullion for the first time in more than 30 years.■Ryback’s Pastry...
By JIM BRIDGMAN
50 Years Ago ■Gerald Newell has sold the Vermont Store on Main Street to Neil A. Soutra, owner of Dwyers’ Florists, located two doors down from the Vermont Store, and his wife, Marion. The sale marks the end of 31 years on Main Street for Newell, one...
By JIM BRIDGMAN
200 Years Ago ■On Monday evening the dwelling house and shop of Mr. Hosea Goodale of Amherst were destroyed by fire, with 200 chairs and many other articles. Most of the furniture in the house was saved.■Died in Northampton on Sunday last, Daniel...
By JIM BRIDGMAN
50 Years Ago ■Judith J. Golub of Northampton has been appointed director of medical nursing service at the Medical Center of Western Massachusetts in Springfield. Mrs. Golub will have full responsibility for the patients and staff in one of the...
By JIM BRIDGMAN
50 Years Ago■By 8:30 this morning more than 100 people were lined up, stretching around Pleasant and Armory Streets, waiting to sign up for unemployment checks. These were some of the 2,000 Hampshire County workers who have been temporarily or...
By JIM BRIDGMAN
200 Years Ago■Jonathan Smith, agent, respectfully informs the inhabitants of Northampton and vicinity that he has taken the shop opposite the house of the Hon. Samuel Hinckley, where he will keep constantly on hand a complete assortment of school and...
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