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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: THURSDAY; AUGUST 5, 1948. The Neighbors By George Clark police Tribute paid Starnei Tn Vox-Cop Bulletin Says His Work Had Been lnvaiuame Service of State Open Tuesday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:50 p.m. Closed Monday t. Bricklayers Shortage Hit By Builders Union Replies in Fight Resulting From State's Mid-Summer Boom A labor-management fight about the shortage of bricklayers was aired Tuesday, one of the by products of Connecticut's mid summer building boom Building contractors accused bricklayers unions of causing a lag In construction work In the state.

They sale? the unions refused to allow enough new bricklayers to be trained. The Hartford bricklayers union n.urm Lieutenant Frank niled last month In A- Son at the Newlngton ai an expert in nis iieu 'Jnrk was invaluable to th hoseSe according to Vox gamonthV bulletin of the Stat, poi maeazine'i leading article sane T. latest issue li a mnuie xo Starkel. His years of 1 inspector or explosives, hazardous job in ffie are described. must not be supposed for hrief second that his death was careless- replied that it was cooperating this year in training 60 apprentice trowel-wielders in this city.

"But," said Carmine F. Di- to his own," the leaai i Corcia, business agent of AFL MAKE YOUR HOME BEAUTIFUL 1 while you stretch your budget rvV-C0P tribut. follows: T.i-nRra.bls IvOM. Bricklayers Local 1. "the contractors are trying to flood the market with bricklayers.

They would like to turn out 300 or 400 at a clip. Then, when the boom Connecticut State Police Jlrtment suffered an irrepar-, the traeic death of Starkel on July 1ft police of- collapses, we'd all be out on the hi outstanding af street." Contractors Position. The contractors' position was stated by Charles F. Grisham, executive vice-president of the -Trr. mu.

mm 1 "I wouldn't have taken this job if I'd known how the boss ties up the phones with business calls. My friends haven't got through to me all davl" Connecticut chapter of Associated seismologist at Weston College, was imposed July 5 after the government had put down an at wrote to him often on matters of mutual interest and valued his tempted insurrection of the army opinion very highly. Experienced garrison at Juliaca, in southeast em Peru. srrti in Connecticut, ne naa ine faculty of making and tart of friends. That they toion was demonstrated at in West Hartford's rnreregational Church, when hun-AAt of persons came from all Sns of New York State, Bos-and Canada to pay tribute to Police delegations of Ilart- East Hartford, and' West Hertford augmented the State Po-H detail.

Very conspicuous were tv. numerous uniformed fire chiefs fire marshals, and repre-Mntidvfi of other public protection services. His intimate fraternal associates in the Masonic Order, traditionally attired, added to thi solemnity of the occasion br their presence at the church men connected with leading explo sive companies in the East. Her -7 AfS.yS' cules Powder Company, duPont -4 deNemours, and Atlas Powder Company, to name a few. fre quently availed themselves of the benefit of his practical knowledge in the use and transportation of General Contractors of America.

He said the shortage of bricklayers is causing builders to search for substitute materials for brick and plaster. Mr. Grisham called "unfounded" the unions' fear that the supply of bricklayers might catch up with demand if more apprentices were trained. "At present there are two jobs for every bricklayer in the state," the contractors' spokesman said. Mr.

DiCorcia answered tfeat only last winter some 25 of the 264 members of his union were drawing unemployment compensation. The union leader compared the bricklayer shortage to the wartime cigarette shortage. "Contractors will just have to wait in line until they can get the bricklayers they want," he explained. Three-Way Cooperation. The training program which explosives.

'Knowledge Invaluable. "The Department of State Po 41 Jr lice will miss his reports on po tential disasters. No more will he Yale Biology Professor Will Broadcast Sunday New Haven, Aug. 4. (Special.) George A.

Baitsell, Colgate professor of biology at Yale, will discuss the ways In which the newly-formed Scientific Research Society of America will aid American industry on the "Yale Interprets the News" radio program, Sunday at 6:15 p. m. over Station WTIC, Hartford. This new scientific body is sponsored by, and affiliated with, the Society of the Sigma Xi, a national honorary scientific organization in American universities, which has its headquarters at Yale. Mr.

Baitsell is the national executive secretary of Sigma Xi. The new group, called RESA, also is quartered at Yale. State Issues Booklet mmmmi r- respond to fire calls at all hours of the day and night, ready and willing to render all possible assistance. No more will we wait expectantly for his "all-is-well" telephone call. Those of us who worked side by side twith him through the years will miss his companionship in hours of stress and turmoil.

His knowledge acquired through years of experience was invaluable to the State produces new bricklayers involves service. It is no exaggeration to three-way cooperation. Contractors pay trainees' wages. The state pays for instructors. The union approves the number of apprentices who will be trained.

Mr. Grisham said the dearth of bricklayers was in some cases raising the, costs of building. Contractors working on a cost-plus basis can outbid other builders by state that the department's progress in public safety matters pertaining to public assemblies can be attributed in a large measure to Frank Starkel's ability to obtain the whole-hearted coopera To Attract Industries isti Dy Tneir incs um 111.1 6iavc afterward. There were a great many honorary hearers and these wen drawn from all walks of life. The mourners were not confined to on race, one creed or one color, all were present for but a single purpose, to honor and pay their last respects to a fellow worker, a fraternal brother, and to a dear friend.

"An atmosphere of deep peace pervaded the church, which was literally a bower of flowers. (So many "flowers were sent to the funeral parlors that it was phvsically impossible to handle them.) Rev. Donald IT. Finley. associate pastor of the church (West Hartford Congregational), and Rev.

Douglas W. Kennedy, 'State Police chaplain and rector of St. James Episcopal Church of West Hartford, presided at the simple hut very impressive church services. Officer Fred R. Feegal, of our communications division, sang The Lord's Prayer' and 'Lead Kindly Light' in a very moving manner.

In I.lns of Duty. "Frank Starkel died as he wished to die, in harness and in Sine of duty. Actually his death resulted from activities beyond be call of duty! It must not be opposed for one brief second hat his death was attributable to offering bricklayers higher wages. tion of all concerned in providing The State Development Commission on Wednesday published a large illustrated booklet designed to induce industrial and residential expansion in Tolland. Then the other builders are forced to raise their wages, and the up nnmnnn iinmrn-iiifrijftiii4rti afeS-.

Jfet'5j II 1 ward spiral begins, he said. Windham and New London coun Mr. Grisham cited the cases of ties. Entitled "Eastern Connecticut," the booklet contains DhotosraDhs SOLID depicting industrial sites and buildings, highways, farm, fishing and hunting scenes, and of swim an out-of-state contractor who raised wage scales 17 per cent in Hartford while doing a construction job for "big business." Mr. DiCorcia in reply urged contractors to "curta3 some of this work they are doing for big business, work on night clubs, warehouses and so onT "Why don't the contractors concentrate on a legitimate housing program that will give veterans homes they can afford to live in?" he asked.

safety factors, without recourse to court proceedings. "Never in our many years of close contact did we hear him utter an unkind word to or about his associates, on the job or elsewhere. "To his family we extend our heartfelt sympathy. We also sympathize deeply with his immediate associates in the fire marshal's division, they will miss him hourly and for many and many a day. But Frank Starkel is not dead! We who knew and loved him will miss his gay camaraderie, his warm friendliness, his unfailing good humor.

Truly the "milk of human kindness" ran riot in his veins, and volumes could be written about "that best portion of a good man's life, his little, un-remembered acts of kindness and of love" when evaluating Lieutenant Frank A. Starkel." ming, boating and horse racing events. A summary of the Industrial, recreational and agricultural ad-vantases nf the reeion. and a re NOW view of water, rail, airlines and highway transportation facilities ts included. anyone's carelessness, least of all '0 his own.

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In that critical Period he supervised the trans- jwuBuon or explosives passing through Connecticut by motor less disturbance due to social andj MOTHER GOOSE PICTURIMES ON RECORDS NONBREAKABLE r. r.i iiiii tsss domestic interests today than was true of the last week fewer telephone calls perhaps, but those you L4' really answer will be of more 1m On an average, between 20 tons were transported daily. Wiring one day, 105 private trucks wfrd with TNT bombs passed rough Connecticut, en route ran the wpstern to the eastern of the state. E. Don Leete.

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