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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.

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

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.