- Betsey Fisher continues to make all kinds of bonnets and caps. Also, ladies’ coats, pelisses, cloaks and ladies’ dresses of every description, in the neatest manner and latest fashion. She has removed to the chamber over Mr. Snow’s store, near the house of Mr. Timothy Graves, in Northampton.
- Elisha Babcock continues to carry on the business of pump making. Those persons who may wish for work in this line are requested to leave a letter for him at Oliver Warner’s or Abner Hunt’s tavern, and he will wait on them.
- A citizens’ posse, state and local police, newspapers and the powerful voice of radio station WBZ at Springfield, were linked together today in a desperate attempt to find Alice M. Corbett, missing Smith College junior, who disappeared from her room in Clark house yesterday morning under circumstances that indicate suicide. A reward of $500 for information concerning her whereabouts was offered today by her father.
- Acting Chief of Police Michael J. Lyons gave notice today that from now on he intends to actively enforce the law concerning parking lights on automobiles. The chief will also prosecute bicyclists who fail to show suitable lights between a half hour after sunset and a half hour before sunrise in accordance with the law.
- The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given preliminary approval to construction of a proposed $2.3 billion twin-reactor nuclear power plant in Montague. A draft of an environmental impact statement by the federal commission released today concludes that the risk of accidental radiation exposure from the planned atomic power facility would be “very low.”
- The planning board last night was told that storm water run-off from the uncompleted Brookwood Estates subdivision off Florence Road could possibly pollute a city well that provides water for homes in the Ryan Road area. Conservation Officer Charles Dauchy and Richard Carnes, chairman of the conservation commission, told the board that salt and other pollutants from the subdivision could seep down to pollute the well.