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By JIM BRIDGMAN

Cubmaster Walter Dembek was taken by surprise at a meeting of Cub Scout Pack 119 last week at which Carol Paciorek narrated a tribute to the scouting leader entitled, “This is Your Life.” Dembek was given a photo album and plaque commemorating his service to Pack 119.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The Northampton School Committee last night voted to hire four Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) workers to participate in a training program this summer. The program would enable the workers to join the school department staff in the fall as special education teachers, or, in one case, as a social worker.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The cornerstone of the meetinghouse for the second congregational society of Northampton will be laid on Wednesday next. An address will be delivered by Charles E. Forbes, Esq.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Spokesmen in Amherst say they were pleased by yesterday’s announcement that officials of the John F. Kennedy Library Corp. have narrowed site choices to the University of Massachusetts campuses at Amherst and Boston. Amherst Selectmen Chair Nancy Eddy commented today, “This is a real shot in the arm for the university. It’s a real plum for the university no matter what campus is decided upon.”

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The Honorable Shirley Chisholm, Democratic Congresswoman from the 12th Congressional District in New York, will be the speaker at Smith College’s 97th commencement June 1. Mrs. Chisholm will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during the exercises.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

To mark its 100th birthday, Smith College will present Northampton with 100 trees over the next 10 years. The Centennial gift has been announced by Thomas C. Mendenhall, president of Smith. The trees, which will come, for the most part, from Smith’s own nurseries, will be planted along city streets that run through and around the campus.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Amherst Town Meeting last night overwhelmingly gave its support to locating the John F. Kennedy Library on the University of Massachusetts campus at Amherst. Voting on a motion submitted by Chair of the Selectboard Nancy Eddy, Town Meeting voted 180 to 28 to endorse locating the library on the UMass campus.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

An administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board has found that the management of Bookland, Inc., Bookstores violated a federal labor law last summer by attempting to “coerce” employees not to organize a union. Bookland has three shops in the area, including one on King Street in Northampton.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Northampton’s registry of motor vehicles will remain on Center Street while city officials search for a suitable building to relocate the registry in the downtown area. The registry had been scheduled to move its operation this spring.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, told Smith College women yesterday that they should become part of the “creative, dedicated minority” that is seeking to alleviate poverty, war, racism and other injustices in the world. Speaking at Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Mrs. King told the students that as “privileged women” they had a special obligation to help their fellow human beings.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

A liberal and enterprising spirit on the subject of the Hampshire and Hampden canal prevails in this and other towns through which the canal is expected to pass. Measures have been taken to procure a skillful engineer, and an accurate survey will soon be made.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Martha R. Fowlkes, a city resident and a graduate student in sociology at the University of Massachusetts, has been awarded one of 25 Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies for 1975-76. She will use the fellowship to work on her Ph.D. dissertation at UMass.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

A six-foot model helicopter that will buzz Main Street, a five-story jump from the top of a building into the parking lot of McCallum’s, prizes, a barbershop quartet, and an accordion band are just some of the highlights of a three-day trade and home show which the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring this week.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

An increase in Northampton’s property tax rate is inevitable next year, Mayor Sean M. Dunphy said Saturday. Dunphy said that he did not know where additional funds could be found to offset the budget rise. This year’s tax rate was $56 per thousand.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Died, at Granby, on April 7, Mr. William Taylor, aged 35. The deceased went to his barn to feed his horse, ascended the scaffold directly over the horse, and was moving some hay when the flooring broke and he fell in the rear of the horse, which, frighted at his sudden appearance, kicked him violently in the breast. He lay in the farm about two hours in intolerable agony, and then without assistance crept into the house where he died.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The Northampton recreation commission will ask the City Council tonight to take the first step toward constructing a new field sports recreation area for the city on 15 acres of land on Burts Pit Road. Patrick Goggins, director of the recreation department, said that the commission will ask the council for $3,900 to finance engineering studies for the project.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Workmen are preparing the former McCallum’s Department Store for the Hampshire County Trade Show opening April 24. The three-day show will have 70 exhibits featuring industry, service and retail products from the county.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Three teenagers completed an 18-hour stint each of dancing this weekend in efforts to raise money for a scholarship for a Tri-Hi Y member. Winners were Buff Zeitler, Steve Laiczyk and Ann Rayes-Guera, all of whom will receive a dinner at the Captain’s Table.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

“Our goal is to waterproof every family in Hampshire County,” is the way Frank LaLiberte, executive director of the Hampshire Regional YMCA, describes the Y’s free learn-too-swim program set for the week of April 21. Using the most modern teaching techniques, the Y course enables most swimmers to swim safely 50 feet after five days.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The Northampton Historical Commission wants to avoid generating a “Disneyland” type of atmosphere of false nostalgia in its proposal to create a national historic district in the downtown area, commission chair C. Keith Wilbur said yesterday. The commission is seeking to place a portion of the downtown area on the federal National Register of Historic Places.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

We are informed that at a late meeting of the trustees of Amherst Academy, it was voted that the trustees consent to and approve of the act to establish a college in the town of Amherst; and that all the property of every description pertaining to the Collegiate Institution be transferred and delivered to the trustees of the college.