The Berkshire County Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • Page 17

Berkshire Eagle Local Newi WBEC (Monday through Saturday) 7.30AM 10.30AM 12.30PM 6.00 PM 10.30 PM The Berkshire Evening Eagle The Weather Temperature 8.30 AM 70 Sun rises at Temperature 12 noon 79 Sun sets at High 24 hours, 4.30 PM, Low 21 hours, it 5 AM. G2 Range year HBO 67, 47 Precipitation 24 hours 0- B.1B 8.33 New moon June 26 Full moon July 10 Lamps ll(hted 9.03 Second Section Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Thursday, June 16, 1949. City Edition Man Admits Stabbing Sto Was a Hoax ry Romeo Millette Tells Police He Hit Car Bumper An investigation by New York state police yesterday revealed that Romeo E. Millette, 46, of 54 Dewey Avenue, had not been stabbed as he originally claimed.

According to Sgt. John McNamee of the Troy headquarters of the state police, Millette said that the wound he received in the neck actually was not administered by an unidentified assailant he had first claimed, but was sustained in a fall in the town of Hancock. Millette further admitted to police he had fabricated the entire story he had given to Pittsfield police earlier yesterday. The Dewey Avenue man was treated at Pittsfield General Hospital. At that time, he told police he was by a "tall, slim men" who accused him of trying to take bis girl from him, and that his "assailant" met him outside a dance hall in New Lebanon, and jabbed him in the neck with "a sharp instrument." Late yesterday afternoon, Sgt.

McNamee called in newsmen to tell of Millette's admission to him. According to the trooper, Millette revealed that he had sustained the wound when he slipped and fell on the rear bumper of his car while it was parked in Hancock. 1300 Attend Camp Fire Fair An estimated 1300 persons have I attended the first annual Camp Fire Girls summer fair, now on at I The old tannery lot on Elm Street The lawn party began Monday! evening and will continue through 1 Saturday evening. i Local service clubs have supplied' a number of volunteers to work at booths and concessions each night to help the Camp Fire organization. Among the volunteers for this evening's a a i are Max H.

Mattoon, Ira T. May. Dr. Walter R. Seaman, S.

J. Hegg, Robert D. Bardwell Thomas Zorbo, Anthony Cancilla, Kenneth Shepardson, Harry and Ralph Caropreso, Kenneth Fairfield, Miss Eleanor Sanborn, Mrs. Walter Goerlach, Paul and David Sweeney, Miss Olga Clements, Miss Louise Hen- drlckson, Clifford LaPointe, Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur S. Fox, Simeon Decelles, Mrs. Robert F. Johnson, Thomas Manfield, Graham Tomko and John H. Fisher.

Clapp Park Family Party On Tonight Tonight at 7 is family night at Clapp Park, with parents encouraged to visit the playground and participate with their children activities. A hot dog roast and outdoor movies will be principal features of the program and a meeting of the Neighborhood Council is scheduled during the evening. This will be the principal event of the final week of the spring playground program at the park sponsored by the Department of Parks and Recreation, and made possible by funds furnished by the Junior League to pay two full- time leaders. During the five-week period i Saturday, 14,636 visits to the park were recorded. Car! Sykes won the first ground kite contest, held last to get of line.

play- week his to A re- when he was able draw out 1700 feet peat fall. father-and-son baseball game played. The dads won 10 to 4. contest, is scheduled for the Last. Thursday evening Camp Get-Together More than 50 Camp Merrill residents last night attended the first camp get-together of the season.

Ralph S. Tompkins, new camp director, and Mrs. Tompkins were introduced. The program consisted of games, refreshments and danc- in House-Senate Group Coming On City Housing Fund Bill A special six-man legislative comm i will visit Pittsfield soon to seek an on-the-spot solution for the a i a a snarls a have a the city's to unfreeze its $1,200,000 housing This CONDUCTING NOVENA: Rev. William Nolan, C.S.S.R., who will conduct the novena to the Sacred Heart which opens at Sacred Heart Church this afternoon at 5.30.

The novena will continue for nine days with services in the afternoon iincl evening at 7.30. TIIKY'HE OFF: Before entraining for tomorrow morning for a neck's study of the fundamentals of government, Berkshire County girls selected to attend the American I.rgion A i i a Girls' Stale were entertained Ins! night l)y Mrs. August II. Kiligax at her Lenox home. Among the -10 who attended were county Leuioii A i i a officials mid mothers of the girls.

Seated on the floor, left to right, are the Misses Nancy Kornn of I.ee, Ann Evans of i i a i i i of Adams and Beverly Jenks of Dalton. Seated are the Misses Lanraine Stuart of Dalton, Barbara Gurney of a Miles of Adams, Janice Robinson of North Adams, Claire Cyr of Pitlsfield. Jeanette Rodgers of Vi illiamstown and M.iriim i of Cheshire. Others, absent from the picture, are Rose Axelrod and Ellen Conroy of Great Barrington and Eleanor Felix of North Adams. Mrs.

i i Girls' State chairman for the county, said the girls will be addressed by Governor Dever during sessions nl Bridgewaler State Teachers College. new development in the long-drawn-out housing light disclosed by Mayor Capeiess noon i a telephone conversation i Senator Michael H. Condron, i i a legislative champion of the controversial bill. was i Edmund St. John Dies in Adams ADAMS Edmund R.

St. John, 58, well-known electrical contractor, died at his home, 31 Orchard Street, last i at 6 a a short illness. Mr: St. John was in the elec trical a i i business here for 25 years and more recently was employed by electrical contractor- in Pittsfield, His business here was located on Summer Street Mr. St.

John, a past commander of the Adams Post, 160, American Legion, leaves three sons, R. a student at Boston University School of Law, Bernard J. a student at the i i of Cir i a i and Charles of i town a Mrs. Robert i of Adams and Mrs, Wheeler, R.N., of Lenox; a sister, Mrs. Thomas i of ire; a brother, Vincent of Cleveland, Ohio.

A military funeral will be held Saturday morning at 10 at St. Thomas' Church in Adams. The body is at the McBride Funeral Home where the family will meet friends tonight from 7 to 11 a tomorrow afternoon and evening from 2 to 5 and 7 to 11. G. W.

LaVallee To Graduate at Babson Institute State Trooper Is Seriously Injured Thomas Keeley Has Possible Fractured Spine and Leg LEE--State Patrolman Thomas H. Keeley, 23, of the Lee barracks is recovering at St. Luke's Hospital, i i today from a possible a spine and leg received in an accident in Lenox yesterday a as he was pur- i a speeding i on his motorcycle. Officer Keeley's struck an a i operated Lester Weller 55, of Bel" mar, N.J., who pleaded i in Pastor Salau To Address Advent 1st Event ing purposes if such a procedure were approved by the City Council here. No Local Members The mayor quoted Senator Condron as saying that the new committee will consist of three members from each branch and will not include any legislators from this district.

No date has yet' been set for their visit to Pittsfield. The $1,200,000 housing fund that is the subject of the mayor's bill The decision to send a joint i was borrowed for the Wilson Park committee to i i i was reached I project a year ago, but was never by Senate and House leaders used because a subsequent stare day a the House refused to a i bill enabled the city to ccpt. a compromise i i the total cost of the proj- mended by a i conference to the commonwealth. Because last week. The compromise was earmarked for hous- have allowed Pittsfield to spending, a special act of Legisla- $1,200,000 for lure is required to make it avail- able for other municipal purposes, Former Resident Is Graduated Miss Sally Wright, Salvation Army Corps a a i stationed in Jersey City, N.J., formerly of Pittsfield, has graduated from Dickinson Accredited Evening High School, Jersey City.

Miss Wright, who took the college preparatory co'irxe, has been on the- honor roll for all five years. Miss i served with the local Salvation Army from 1937 to 1940. She now is on the staff of the Door oC Hope Home and of the Hospital for Unmarried Mothers in Jersey City. She will come to Pitts- with Mrs. Margaret Leslie of 154 Dalton Avenue.

C. Arsenault Dies at 46 Local Engineer In Electronics Was Long 111 Charles L. Arsenault, 46, search electronic engineer, of 192 Dalton Avenue, died last night at his home after a long illness of a District Court c- i i i Ferrev, 45, of i Pastor Robert Salau, a iO in Dis English a i a i of i i C-iirt. a larceny of $430 South a i i will preach at the from Mrs. i i a Snicer of 67 a a a i camp i of Seventh-Dav A i i Ferry an unem- ioyc-d being held at.

the i a i in default of 1 to in at, the i a i S2500 bail. will be tried a camp grounds at Lancaster. About 50 local members, headed by Elder H. P. a a i a of the camp pastoral committee, will a a Police of Winsted arrested him Tuesday a they had learned from Capt.

Raymond F. Coakley a Ferrey had left home a where hired to do som the 'Spicer A native of Webster, Mr. Arsenault was born May 4. 1903, and had lived in Pittsfield 20 years. He was a graduate of Webster High School and Norwich University in the class of 1927.

He was employed as research electronic engineer' by applied physics iaborntorv, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Md. He was a communicant of St. Mary's Church, belonged to the Eagles of Muskegon, and was a lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Association. Survivors are his widow, the former Evelyn Nagelschmidt; a had been Pastor S.au, an opined i A i plans Vc N.V.

He is charged i Iair obillard of Graf ton and to more a 2fVt servicemen 5 re co-io aint and will be ar- Cecilia of Pittsfield: two of World War II he mN i he rained' i his a Mondav broth Augustine of East Doue- was an work-r a a a i a a Theodore of California, a a i islands i Hampshire Avenue, president an( several nieces and nephews. of i Morningside Taxi Company, was not i of violating A 5000 are expected to a i he labor laws, and was discharged. District Court this i to the war. The Workers were ized by his to at- by I tend the camp, at which addresses i The complaint was brought by Leo el- by leading church officials and H. Layden of this city, and the turned missionaries will be heard, i alleged offense dated back to Oct.

LaVallee HOME Lota', Would You Like To See a Picture and Gerald LaVallee. son Mrs, i i a L. LaVniVo 255 i i a a a a from Babson I i of Business A i i a i Mr, LaVallee, who lias majored in the study of i i i i receive a bachelor of science degree in business a i i a i He i charge of a i to each was fined $50. Weller failed to tents stop for a sign af intersection Routes 7 and 20 near the Lenox Brotherhood was 'H a i east on Route 20 giving a to a speeder. Aside from his back and leg in- i Officer Keeley suffered a broken finger on his "left hand and contusions and abrasions about the face.

Sgt. Theodore H. Sironach Activity programs are planned 2 6 1948. age group. Campers live i John J.

Finn of 54 Hollister cottages and dormitory 1 Street pleaded guilty and paid a S3 rooms, and eat at a a i a on fine for over-parking the on Pear'. Street metered The body rests at the Dery Funeral Home where services will be Saturday morning at 9.30 followed at 10 at St. Mary's Church with a solemn high mass of requiem. Burial will be in Pittsfield Cemetery. The family will meet friends at the funeral-home tonight and tomorrow evening from 7 to 10 and tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 5.

be associated i William Fil-ene's Sons Company. Boston, in i executive training program, beginning July 11. Mr. LaVallee. who has been en the dean's list for scholarship during every school is a member of A a Delta Sigma, a i a pro- the fessional a i i a i A I had graduate of St.

Joseph's i School, he served in Hie years, 2 of which were spent in Pacific area, and attended shire Business College before entering Babson, of headquarters of the state police in Northampton is conducting the investigation. He reported that Weller admitted he failed to stop for the sign before his car was in collision with the trooper's motorcycle. Dr. Carl A. Bergan, who treated i trooper at the scene, him removed to St.

Luke's h's i i a in Kelly's a a He Navy 3 under the a of Dr. Ber- nn and Dr. a i Dobelle of Births Ptttsfleld General Hospital Mr. and Mrs, Daniel E. Smith, 15 Daytona Avenue, a son yesterday.

St. Luke's Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Touhy, 30.

Church Street, a daughter this morning. se Would Like To Beild The Pittsfield Co-operative Bank has hundreds of photographs of homes in our "MASTER KEY TO style, every size--and you can have complete working blue prints whenever you need them at a mere fractional cost. Stop in any time and ask for our "MASTER KEYS TO HOMES." Also available are the illustrated folders on moderate priced homes free on request at the bank, or by mail. CO Pittsfieid TIVE TEXN STREET It's Opposite the Post Office Mr. and Mrs.

Evert C. Thomas, 340 First Street, a daughter this morning. Other Hospitals Mr. and Mrs. Nelson S.

Hine of Somerville. N.J., a a Linda Ruth, Tuesday in Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Hine is tha former Dorothy Kornfeld, daughter of Mrs. Harry Kornfeld of 36 Commonwealth Avenue.

Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Hine of 54 Glenwood Avenue. Mr.

and Mrs. Manuel Luiz of Bridgewater, a daughter June 14 at Goddard Hospital, Brocton. Mrs. Luiz is the former Marjorie daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Louis G. Scully of 16 Taconic Street. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Luiz of Bridgewater.

New Courses Announced for Summer Session Two new courses have been adcJed to curriculum of the forthcoming North Adams State Teachers College summer at the High School, It- was announced by the School Department today. I Carl Gorman, director of music' in the Pittsfield school system, will teach a course entitled "Founds-1 tions in Music for Teachers," and Miss Grace Earl of the Berkshire' Hills School in Great Barrington will conduct a class in the teaching of creative arts. Both courses are being offered by the Massachusetts Division University Extension under the sponsorship of the North Adams State Teachers College. The summer session will start July 5 and close Aug. 12.

We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for the flowers and congratulations sent for grand opening of "Dream Away Lodge." --Adv. --17 Carpenter work, hourly or contract. Satisfaction guar. 2-0595. --Adv.

--23 Indian Head Hotel Coming Attractions Eddie Thomas and his orchestra, vocals by Franklin Sturgis, Sat. and Sun. this week. Don't miss! Best music. Try our delicious dinners in our newly redesigned private dining room.

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Smith, licensed my friends and masseur, 23 Dai- beautiful flow- 1 ton. Tel. Adv. --17 my ill IT Steamed clams and lobster Friday night at Pleasant Point. Dance with Bobby White and his Solovox Saturday --18 Wanted--Gift of used tricycles even in need of repairs.

Call Pittsfield Day --20 Lawn, porch i sprayed. Reasonable prices. Dial 17 Fun Headquarters New shipment received. Jokes. tricks, novelties.

Toy West Mart, 168 --18 Buy Admiral Refrigerators $30 trade-in. --Adv. LJghtman's Store, --18 Bric-a-Brac A good selection to choose from. We buy and sell. Swap Shop, 92 Eagle St.

Dial --18 Five thousand 2 I -i-inch tomato plants for sale. Good price if taken at once. Viale Floral Co. 8775. --Adv.

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