The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 13

THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1968 THIRTEEN DANBURY Poison War To Open On Starling Flock Vernon Williams, director environmental health for the city of Danbury, has announced that the city will begin placing cquipment this week on buildings in the Man street West street intersection area to inate the flock of starlings which rest there every night. He plans to install 75 or 80 metal rods lined with poison which kills the birds within 12 to 24 hours. The rods are round. two feet long, with a felt strip on top saturated with an endrin solution which penetrates through the birds' feet and kills them. The method has been cleared with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the National Audubon society and the U.S.