The Bridgeport Post from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 10

TEN THE BRIDGEPORT POST, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 19S7. STONE-THROWER TO PET CROW MIDDLEBORO, Dec. 12 Blacky the crow won't be And youngsters there would pro- dropping in for his two-squares- a-day at the high school and elementary school here anymore. unthinking youngster Blacky had had two loves--eating and children--since being nursed back to health last summer by a hunter who discovered! the ebony bird suffering a broken would swoop down on the win dow ledges at Mlddleboro High school. At lunch time, puffy, little Blacky would be invited inside to the cafeteria.

After hearty meal, Blacky would be off again to the Mayflower Grade school vide Blacky's desert. But Blacky's body was found by a roadside yesterday. He ap- He's dead--stoned to death by parently had been the victim of leg. Blacky seemed to recognize human love and every day since school started last September he a stone-throwing child who was unaware of Blacky's love for children. Other youngsters in this little Massachusetts community plan to bury Blacky today.

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EX-GOP SOLON COMMITS SUICIDE PITTSBURGH. Dec. 12-(1NS) Former Republican Congressman John McDowell, who worked closely with Vice President Nixon in cracking the Alger Hiss case, committed suicide last night at his home in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg. Wilkinsburg police said the former lawmaker shot himself in the head with a pistol shortly be-1 fore midnight. He was 55 -and reportedly ailing from cancer.

It was McDowell, a free-swing- ng member of the House Un- American committee, who used his knowledge as a bird-watcher to link Whitaker Chambers to Hiss. Chambers off-handedly mentioned seeing a prothonotary warbler and Hiss, maware of his accuser's testimony, also remarked on seeing he bird during his' walks. McDowell's "also divulged that Russia had been ap- leased with a shipment of puri- icd uranium in 1945. and that Vindsor, was being' used freely as an entry point into the U. S.

by communist agents. However, a coalition of Demo crats and GOP critics of' wha they called "witch de feated McDowell's bid for a third term to Congress in 1948. McDowell's final column, un der the title "The Country Edi tor," appeared today, in the Wilkinsburg Gazette which, he edited and published since 1932 The column dealt with the dedication of a new church neai his home next Sunday. Bullard Company Greets Old Timers lOfORCED TO FLEE I NEW HAVEN FIRE NEW HAVEN-, 12--(UP! Ten persons, including three chil into the cold morninj air today as fire swept a second floor apartment of a two-and-one half-story wooden building. No injuries were reported.

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HONETSPOT RD SI ftAl FORD, CONN. The Bullard company's Old-Timers association initiated 11 members into their quarter century section and two into the 50-year group at their annual meeting last night In the company's cafeteria. The two 50-year, members receive congratulations from the company heads. Left to right are Foster Whitworth, 50-year member; E. P.

Bullard, president and general manager; Fred Somers, 50 years; and E. C. Bullard, chairman of the board. BUIIARD'S FETES EMPLOYES' GROUP Eleven new members were welcomed arid a new slate of offi-j cers of the Bullard company's Old Timers association' were 1 elected last night at a dinner meeting in the company cafeteria attended by 175 persons. Key speakers at the affair were Edward P.

Bullard, HI, presiden and general manager, and Ed ward C. chairman of the board, who. presented' inscribe! gold 1 watches to the eleven'em ployes who had completed 25 years of service to the company during the past year. They are.as follows: Mrs. Mary V.

Dutcher, of 10 Circular ave nue, a cost department clerk; John A. Bullard, Of 33 Old Acad emy road, Fairfield, training su pecvisor; Stanley H. fiullard Beers road, Easton, foundry superintendent; George F. Beauchemin, 121 Osborne Hill road," Fairfield, a pattern maker; Cyri Armstrong, of Kurd road, Shelton, a machinist; Charles LeDoux, a foundry foreman 132 Orchard Hill drive, Fairfield; John P. Koberna, of 131 Hand ford drive, Fairfield, assistan employment manager; Maguire, of 163 Greenfield ave nue, Stratford, a.machinist; Har old E.

Speer, of 35 Scofield ave nue, a clerk iri the timekeeping department; and George L. Todd of 135 Old'Post road, Fairfield, vice president and controller. Elected president of the association was Charles Barnes, of 250 Oakland drive, Trumbull, manager of the order arid building department. He succeeds George Frye. The office of honorary president was filled by Harry Van Yorx, of 98 First avenue, Lordship, a retired sales engineer, who succeeds Foster Whitworth.

Other new officers are Rich ard Smith, of 141 Edge Hill road Fairfield, supervisor of tile equip ment and tooling department vice president; William Kalkert of Rock Ridge road, Fairfield, a methods and Miss Ida M. Kurimai. of 553 State street extension, private secretary in the production control de- partment, secretary. According to Wentworth Mul- hollahd, chairman of the arrangements committee, there are 251 active and retired members of the Old Timers association who represent more than 8,000 years of service to- the company. REACHES 100 CREDITS BAKING SODA NEW Milne, Dtt.

Cele- britlai his IMth birthday today, retired farmer Charlci H. Smith uid he thought "baking It what kept me alive" this lonf. The great-grandfather explained that he has taken a teaspoon of baking soda after every meal for SO-years because he "used to have stomach trouble." However, he said he had never drunk or smoked during his lifetime which began four years before the start of the Civil war. 'he is affectionately known--lives with dairyman-rural letter carrier Omar W. Francis, 81, and his wife.

Francis was reared by an uncle by marriage, after he was orphaned at five. A 24-by-18-lnch cake, inscribed "happy century birthday, Charles H. Smith," was the centerpiece of today's birthday party. BOY, 10, RAJSES FUND TO SPEED SATELLITE NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Dec. Joe Santore is only 10 years old, but he views with alarm the Soviet earth satellites.

Joe and his fifth'grade classmates sent $2.01 to the Interna- tiona! Atomic Energy agency in Vienna, which was set up several months ago to promote world cooperation in developing peace- ul uses for atomic energy. The dollar of which vas contributed by 'Joe--was the agency's first private gift. Joe, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. William Santore said last night that the Soviet lead in earth satellites alarmed him.

He said he wants to further the advance of Western nation knowledge in the satellite field. FUGITIVE SLIPS AWAY JAILER WAXES HOT MOUNT STERLING, Dec. Montgomery county jailer H. Swope took out In hot pursuit when a prisoner fled yesterday-but the trail was much too cold. The jailer chased Barnard Shellon of Winchester over Icy streets and'slippery sidewalks.

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