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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

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.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Mary McColgan, wife of former Rep. Edward McColgan, was elected yesterday to the Ward 4 City Council seat that her husband once held. Mrs. McColgan, a Democrat who ran without opposition in yesterday’s special election, will take the council seat vacated by Rep. William P Nagle Jr., when he resigned to join the Legislature in January.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Eleven persons were baptized at a ceremony held by the Assembly of God Church Saturday in the YMCA pool on Prospect St. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. Ronald S. Hale, who, while half-submerged in the pool, read the Bible’s account of Jesus’ baptism.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Asahel Pomeroy has for sale if applied for soon, that valuable lot of land in Venture’s Field, formerly owned by Col. Seth Pomeroy, containing 12 to 14 acres of mowing and plowing, with some fruit trees on it. A liberal credit will be given, if desired.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

A special committee report which would change personnel policies at the University of Massachusetts has been greeted with shock by many professors, who see the report as seriously eroding their authority. The report indicates that the UMass president or trustees can eliminate a program or a department and can fire faculty, whether or not faculty members are tenured.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Tonight’s edition of the weekly radio series “Forward Northampton” will feature three representatives of St. Michael’s School in Northampton, who will discuss the past, present and future directions of the school and the necessity to charge a tuition fee for the coming academic year.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The election of the President of the United States to succeed the venerable incumbent of that elevated and responsible station has at length terminated, under circumstances more honorable to the national character than could have been anticipated. We refer to the deliberation and calmness which characterized the conduct of the members of both Houses, the order and regularity of the proceedings, and the sober resignation of the vanquished friends of several candidates upon the result being ascertained.

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 facade 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.