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BRIDGEPORT POST Wednesday, Mav 20, 197-1 Closed Sessions Become A Habit of Police Board MILITANTS HALT ULSTER STRIKE (Continued from Page One) By GARY McTROTTLS A three-hour executive session to hear testimony regarding a complaint of alleged misconduct by a Bridgeport policeman was conducted last night before the regular meeting uf the Board of Police Commissioners. It was the third long executive session conducted by the board in the- past two months. The public meeting of the board Jast night did not start until I I o'clock. Supt. of Police Joseph A.

Walsh and Commissioner Roger Lcti- jnan, board president, today both refused to discuss what went on during the executive session. Buton Weinslein, a lawyer who is representing the complainant, also refused to comment en Lhe nature of the alleged misconduct the policeman has been charged with. It was learned that the complaint concerned alleged misconduct by a policeman in 1973. The Identity of the policeman was not revealed. The complainant apparently filed a grievance with Ihe Police department in 1973.

The complaint at that time. was investigated by the department, and no action against the policeman involved was taken. The complainant, through Mr. Weinstein, appealed, bringing the matter before (he board for a second investigation. Six witnesses, all of Puerto Rican extraction, were accompanied at the closed session by Mr.

Weinstein, who also provided an interpreter for the board members. The use of the interpreter and the amount of testimony given by the six witnesses resulted in ihe long executive session. It was learned that after hearing the witnesses, testimony of Commissioner the Lehman and of the hoard ilanned to investigate ind had reserved decision on the ase. In the past, executive sessions lave been conducted a regular board meetings. The ength of some of the executive sessions apparently forced the board to hold Ihe closed part of the meeting after the public session.

Two Fire commissioners, Andrew Gottfried and Charles Dougicllo along with two Police department chaplains left the meeting room at the start of the executive session. Alderman Joseph Mastronar di, a member of the Police Fire Aldermanic investigating committee waited until 10:45 p.m. before he left the meeting oom. At 11 p.m. the public meeting began with the board approving reimbursements for Detective Cornelius Carroll for damaged eyeglasses and Patrolman Paul Bogardus for a pair of trousers.

The board was also informed by the department clerk, UteuL. Thomas Cormery, of the deaths of three widows of former policemen, and accepted a check for $50 directed to the Police BenevoEcnt association for emergency services rendered to the family of. the late 'Mrs. Marie Simon. 14 Policemen Hurt on Duty, Up by 4 From Prior Month The Bridgeport's Police commissioners were told at a meeting last night that 14 policemen were injured in the line of duty from May 2 to May 24.

Supt. of Police Joseph A. Walsh said this was four more than the number reported to the board for the previous period. The 14 injured policemen are: Gerald DeJoseph, recurrence of old injury sustained on Nov. 10, 1969; Louis LaChiomy, injured left ankle, responding to a report of a burglary; Genaro Gilormino, injured when kicked in groin and hit on neck while placing Robert right thumb nail, placing person under arrest; Joseph J.

Loschiavo, received cuts and punctures to a left hand and wrist while attempting to apprehend suspect; and Francis McNeil, contusion to left shoulder and human bite on the right ring finger, while making arrest. person under arrest; Yarasavich, injured Also, Cornelius F. Carrot! multiple abrasions and contusions of the body when assaulted by members of the GreatfuE Dead motorcycle, gang; Thomas Canavan, injured toe and left foot while investigating burglary; Albert R. Fedorek, twisted left ankle and pulled tendons white assigned to emergency call; William Brackett, received flying glass in right eye when police car windshield was cracked by flying and Paul Lengyel, laceration of right finger, while executing search -arrant. Also, Michael Supple, sprained ankle, while on patrol; Milton McKinney, sprain, abrasion and bruise to right knee while placing person under arrest; and James Hanley, cut on back of hand, climbing through window to a pprehend burg la ry suspect.

Supl. Walsh said the 14 patrolman lost a total of ten work days as a result of their injuries. ized and Is coordinating the strike, said the protest would continue until strikers are given assurances a new elec- ions will be held. Nevertheless, the strikers backed off their threat completely to shut down essential services. They restored house- lold gas supplies today, said electric power supplies would be kept at a safe level and sent men back to operate water and sewage systems.

Bakeries and dairies were told to resume normal deliveries. The militants' grip on industry continued unabated, however, with Belfast's giant concentration of man-made fiber plants all idled. Faulkner and his Protestant supporters on the Executive quit Tuesday because Britain's administrator in the province, Merlyn Rees, refused their demand to negotiate with the strikers. Faulkner's departure set of I big victory celebration iard-)ine Protestant areas ol Belfast and other towns. Crowds danced around bonfires in the Shankill Road area singing old battle songs and cheering men of the workers' council.

The strikers viewed coalition with the Catholics as a concession to the guerrilla gunmen of the Irish Republican Army which for years has waged a combing campaign intended lo break the province's links with Britain. More than 1,030 have died in almost five years of riots and bombing. During the strike the IRA has been unusually quiet, but a bomb in Londonderry critically wounded a British soldier Tuesday night, and military authorities feared it might portend renewed violence. Liam Cosgrave, the Irish Republic's prime minister, bitterly denounced the TRA as responsible for the collapse of the power-sharing system in the north. "As we warned it would, the campaign of the IRA has provoked a massive sectarian backlash," he said.

"This has undermined the only kind of solution that can bring peace to Northern Irelanc and security to the minority in that area." After he resigned, Faulkner said: "I have never experienced a sadder day in life." AP Wirepholo Ominous Parasitic Wasp This is the head af a parasitic wasp magnified IW times hy the Texas AM university electron mtscroscoiM: which allows the unusual depth of field. This picture would be impossible wilh a normal camera. Mole Ihe bulbous compound eyes on each side and Ihe pinchers al the botlunl. The photo was made by graduate sludent Nick Norton in Ihe lab at College Station, Tex. GOLDA MAY QUIT IN NEXT 24 HOURS JERUSALEM (AP) Prefer Golda Meir may quit within the next 2-i hours and over the government to Premier-designate Yitzhak Ra- ain, officials said today.

Rabin won new coalition approval for cabinet Tuesday Gerry Fill, his Roman Catho-i government. night from Mrs. Meir's Labor party, and announced he ready to assume his new position Mrs. Meir remains in power as caretaker premier until parliament votes confidence in Rabin and his cabinet. That vote may come Thursday folio win; a debate on disengagement negotiations with Syria.

If the vote is favorable, Mrs Meir could retire to private life immediately. Rabin, Israel's 52-year-old former chief of staff and ambassador to Washington, faces heavy opposition in running the Victor in Oregon AP WlrephoFo WAYNE MORSE FDA Proposes Warning Label Be Placed on Microwave Ovens lie deputy and leader of the Social Democrat and Labor parly, said Protestant extremists had won a "fascist" victory. "I can-only a descent into complete anarchy," he said. Wilson has called the situation brought on by the strike the worst crisis in Northern Ireland's 50-year history. Britain had refused to negotiate with the strikers.

On Monday, Wilson ordered army troops to take over two oil storage depots and several hundred gasoline stations in an attempt to break the strike. The strikers responded wilh WASHINGTON (AP) Food and Drug Administration today proposed permanent warning labels on all microwave ovens, but rejected a Consumers Union petition calling for more comprehensive warnings and safety testing requirements. The suggested warning label would read: "Do Not Attempt lo Operate This Oven Using Microwave Energy With: (a) object caught in door (b) door that does not close properly, (c) damaged door, hinge latch or sealing surface," A seconc proposed label would advise owners and repairmen that only properly qualified personnel should repair microwave ovens. The FDA said the warnin; statement now is required in owner instruction manuals, hu that the manuals arc not rsual On the basis of its own test esults, Consumers Union March 1973 recommended that onsumers not buy microwave vens. The organization said it had ound evidence of measurable radiation leakage from 15 nds of the most popular crowavc ovens.

"We rejected their specific Doints but at the same time seriously what they were saying," an FDA spokesman said. Duplicating a proposed plastic strip lesl recommended by ly accessible in apartments 01 food vending areas. their threat to shut down all essential services in the province Foreign Minister and represents a FULBRIGHT LOSES IN PRIMARY BID (Continued from Page One) the height of his anti-Vietnam war effort, used the related Bargaining with the Arab of usurpation of con- tituttonal power by the Presi- but said "the numbers of opposed to it are increas- ng." The Rahin cabinet includes neither Defense Minister Moshe 1 Dayan nor Abba Eban majority of only two. seats in the 120-membcr parliament. The government's first task would be to continue the peace N.Y.

LIBRARIAN RAPED, KILLED NEW YORK (AP) A 23 ear-old librarian was stran jled and probably raped by dlter who ransacked her apa men) and left her partially cla jody on Ihe Ijving room floor her East Side apartment. The victim, Anne -Be olzheimcr, was found Tuesdi with a rope around her nee and her lingerie stuffed in he mouth. Police were sent to her apar ment in an old seven-stor building on East 74th Street York Avenue when her associ ates at work became alarme over her absence. She was a assistant librarian at Dell Pu lishing Co. She" was nude from the wa and preliminary' exai indicated rape, Dr.

IV chael Baden, the deputy chi medical examiner, said. Detectives said her apartment was in disarray, but there were no signs of forced entry, There were double locks on the door and the locked front dbor REACHED Sparkman Prime a i a JY ISRAEL, SYRIA To Head Fulbright Committee (Continued from Page One) announcements would be in very general terms." Meanwhile, Israeli officials lid Mrs. Meir may quit office i the next 24 hours and turn ver the government to Pre ier-Designate Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin won approval for a ew coalition cabinet Tuesday ight from Mrs. Meir's Labor arty.

He announced to Presi ent Ephraim Kalzir that he tas ready to take over with a ew government that left ou Minister Moshe Dayan nd some of Israel's most fa liliar faces. Mrs. Meir, who wants to re- ire to a communal settlemen the Negev desert, remains in WASHINGTON (AP) Thel wo senior members of the Sen-: te Foreign Relations Committee Democrat J. W. Ful- iright and Republican George D.

Aiken will be missing when the next Congress convenes in 1975. If the Democrats stilt control he Senate, considered likely, he new chairman could Sen. Tohn Sparkman of he wants to give up chairmanship of the Banking committee. Otherwise TRUCK SPILLS DEBRIS IN ACCIDENT ON PIKE A truck ran off the eastbound lanes of the Connecticut turnpike near the State Street it will be Sen. Both the powerful Likud opposition bloc and the National Religious party which refused to join Rabin's coalition stand firm against making concessions to the Arabs- Rabin's own Labor party has been badly damaged by the angry political trading and infighting that preceded the selection of ihe new cabinet.

Jesuit Accuses Magazines Of Anti-Nixon Left Bias Consumers Union, the FDA found that 89 of 196 ovens leaked excessive radiation. The plastic strips were placed in the door seal to simulate buildup of dirt and food. Consumer organizations have been concerned that microwave leakage may cause eye damage skin burns to oven users. (UPI) Presi- Dr. John J.

Me- "All IXCUJSIVE DIAMOND ClOSS COtOIIS WITH flECTKIC SUICONEV AUTO PAINTING CHICAGO dential aide Laughlin, said Tuesday he thought the radio and television networks were trying harder to be fair with the President but that the news magazines were on a witch hunt. McLaughlin, a Jesuit priest noted for his outspoken defense of President Nixon, made his remarks in answer to a question on a television program hosted jy interviewer Phil Donohue. He also gave Federal Judge Tohn Sirica more credit for caking the Watergate case than the Washington Post. Less on Radio-TV Fit BODY FENDER REPAIR wilh i i Enl Schtib i "Initially yes, but 1 do think Ihe trophies for breaking the Watergate case do not belong to the press," he said. "I think Ihey belong primarily to John Sirica, the judge, who, if you will, held the head of convictec Watergate burglar James Me Cord under water until he spoke and as a consequence of his revelations Lhe case was broken so I think the judiciary deserves the lion share of (he credit." SHEARSON IS TALKING MERGER WITH HAYDEH Shcarson, Ilammill Co.

"I think there is a residual I which recently acquire he Bridgeport office of duPon Valston, is talking merge wilh Hayden Stone, officer of the two big Wall Street bank ng and brokerage houses con Mas in the national media of this country," Me Laugh I in said. "Ii think lately there has been a 1 lessening of this bias and there nas been an effort in the direction of fairness, particularly on the part of the networks. "The ink media, however, particularly Newsweek and Time Magazine, remain quite And I share view of ABC's Harry Ueasoner who said that he has had it with Time and Newsweek and their coverage ol Ihe Watergate slory. "He said the recent issues are more on the style of pejorative pamphlelerring than Ihey are on he style of objective journalism and he said they discredit ant embarrass oil of us. I tend to The combined firms, thej parties estimated would be the STILL AMERICA'S BIGGEST BARGAIN fttDGEPOATi 67 Crescent Niblc) VTAMFOHD 10 CRYSTAL ST.

(Otf U.I, Ha. 1) "If I'm sent back to the Senate, I'm going to pick up where left off. and that's the worst iews for (President) Nixon that anyone could send to him," Morse said. With I 647 ot the 2,514 Oregon recincts rejporting, Morse had or 49.2 per cent, compared to 39.5 per cent, for his chief opponent in the four-way race, state Senate President Jason Bpe. In the Arkansas Democratic primary, former Rep.

Davtd H. Pryor, 39, of Little Rock held a bare major- ty of 51 per cent, Faubus was second place with 33 per cent, followed by Lt. Gov. Bob Riley. Pryor must stay above 50 per cent to avoid a runoff.

In (he Oregon gubematoria race, state Sen. Victor Atiyeh scored an upset victory over Secretary of State Clay Myers in the Republican primary while former stale Treasurer Robert Straub led a field of Democrats. of the apartment house could be opened only by someone who used a key or pressed Lt. James Gallagher of 4th District Homicide Squad said Miss Berolzheimer left the Massapequa Park, N.Y., home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel Berolzheimer, about -8 p.m. Monday night after, a Memorial Day visit. Police were not immediately able to trace er subsequent activities. A next-door neighbor, Geraldne Fitzgerald said the slain woman, was a "lovely person;" who kept to herself, painting and doing tapestries. Miss Berolzheimer's supervisor at the publishing firm, Virgil Bayne, said she was ''Absolutely reliable, just a pearl of an employe." Miss Berolzheimer went- to work from Dell after graduating from Windham College in Putnam, in 1972.

HOSPITAL WINS RATE INCREASE (Continued from Page One) need for the increase in the light of fuel adjustment charges. Republican Gov. Tom McCallj He said, however, that the in- barred by Oregon law from'crease is applicable only to the wwer as caretaker premier un 1 the Parliament votes eon idence in Israel's new lead rship. This may come Thurs ay. Earlier in the Israel evvsmen who have been covering Kissinger mission for th jast month said they thought th lusive disengagement agree ment was finally "in the bag.

Foreign Minister Abba Eban sai lissinger himself tnought a "pos tive agreement on disengage ment" would be reached, th late radio reported, The radto also reported that Kissinger has promised the.Is- aelis American safeguards against Palestinian terrorist ac- ivity against Israeli territory rom Syria. The cabinet "decided to rely an American commitment the terrorists, and not to demand a Syrian prom- se to prevent terrorist activi- ies from Syria in the body of the agreement," the broadcast said. The government-owned radio no source for its informa- ion on the results of the secret cabinet meeting. Under the agreement, a pro- sosed cease-fire line would run 300 yards west of Quneitra, the Syrian capital of the Golan Heights now occupied by Israel, broadcast said, acknowledging that the town would revert to Syria. Syrian police but no Syrian soldiers would be stationed near the border, it said.

Syrian and Israeli gunners have waged war of attrition along the 40-mile Golan from for 78 days, and the object ol Kissinger's mission has been to separate them as he did earlie wilh the Israeli and Egyptian armies along the Suez Canal. Kissinger, tne U.S. secretary of state, as he returned in the earl; morning from four hours talks with Syrian President'Ha fez Assad. A Syrian presiden tial spokesman said later tha most points discussed by th two "have been settled." Arriving in Jerusalem, Kis singer immediately briefe Premier Meir's negotiating team Kissinger had extended hi 33-day Middle East stay yet an other day Tuesday for yet an other trip his I3lh to Syri carry unspecified Israe "clarifications" personally Assad. Monday Kissinge had relumed from Syria wit out a pact.

Israel held a fiv hour cabinet session Tuesday apparently making some ke concessions, and Kissinger cided to travel what he call "the final lap" by going Damascus. Before leaving the Syria capital, Kissinger, paid a ha hour "courtesy 7 oreign Minister Andrei Grom to, who was in Syria on an une )Iained visit. Frank Church of Idaho -less Mike Mansfield decides to step down as majority leader. In the tradition-entrenched Senate, seniority rules in chairmanships of standing conr mittees, 'which are limited one to-a-senator. Served IS Vein Fulbrighl, 69, of Arkansas, was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee for 15 years.

He became a lame duck Tuesday when -Gov. Dale Bumpers defeated him soundly in the Arkansas state primary. Aiken, 81, of Vermont, the ranking Republican on the committee did not seek re-election this year. The No, 2 Republican on the committee is New Jersey's Clifford P. Case.

On the Democratic side, day at 9:05 a.m., spilling a load of debris over the right shoulder of the road, State police reported. Trooper Robert J. Mattis said a truck driven by James S. Madonna, 3, of 215 Joffre avenue, Stamford, struck Ihe rear of another truck operated by Frank Howard, 46, of Milford, N.H., and then overturned onto a section of cable fencing. The accident is still under investigation.

Traffic was not blocked on the ramp and one travel lane wa closed'on the was reported. The trip reversed somber mood, after seeking a third consecutive term. Bolh Ford and Cook scored overwhelming victories in Kentucky, with races Ehat looked ahead to the November showdown. Neither man did much campaigning. With 3,139 of Kentucky's 3,268 precincts reporting, the 47-year' rmcd yesterday in New York, Cook had 87.2 per cent of Republican vote, and had 84.8 per cent in Ifth largest in Ihe industry.

primary. Though stiphtly larger, it wasj reported, Shcarson would bcj I NEW OFFICERS resulting Shearson-Hayden Stone, and would have a combined! WESTON--The NorficH Con capital of about $76 million. balance of the present budget period which ends June 3D. Thereafter, the hospital must submit an entirely new budget the commission for the 1974-75 Budget year. While the 52 across-the-board increase requested by Bridgeport-hospital was not defined as regarded by Iho commission as either "temporary" or "dependent on" future fuel adjustment costs, the commission spokesman said that any significant drop in the fuel adjustment charges which might occur by July I would have to be reflected in the hospital's new and, if significant grcgational Church's Women's Officers of both i 5 rcccnt) elcclc(I new that an agreement has not been concluded, but they spoke in officers.

They larkman, 74, is second in se- ority to Fulbright. Mansfield No. 3 and Church, 54, is No. Church was first elected to Senate in 1956 and was a S. delegate to the 21st Gener- Assembly of the United Na- ons.

Sparkman should decide on Foreign Relations chair anship, the new chairman of Banking committee' assuming Democrats con- ol the Senate would be Wit am Pr'oxmire of Wisconsin, uch a prospect reportedly rompted the nation's financial aders to make massive con- ibutions to Fulbright's re-elec on campaign. Proxmire has Jeen an outspoken critic of the nancial industry. No Preference Stated Sparkman has not indicated is preference for a committee lairmanship publicly, but as- ociates believe he would like cap a 38-year congressional areer by serving the last four ears before his indicated re- rement in the Senate's restigtous legislative position s'head of Foreign Relations. Fulbright himself gave up the tanking chairmanship to heat! Relations. Sparkman been.

Banking, chairman ince 1967. arisfield, 71, a Church are voting of mvinost military ahl: foreign wlicy issues. v'' other resisted' legislative efforts led Mansfield, Church and Ful- iright to force withdrawal of J.S. forces from Vietnam. Sparkman, like Fulbright, has supported the policy of detente with the Soviet Union and the Kacemaking efforts of Secre- lary of State Henry Kissinger in the-Middle East.

There now are 10 Democrats and 7 Republicans on ihe Foreign Relations committee. CYCLIST INJURED IN PIKE A NORWALK Louis G. Imperato, 21, of 108 Grumman avenue, Norwalk, was listed in "serious" condition today at Norwalk hospital in the intensive care section undergoing treatment for injuries received yesterday at 7:45 p.m. when the motorcycle he was riding over- on the eastbound lanes of ihe Connecticut turnpike hear the Cedar street overpass, State Police reported. Hospital attendants said the cyclist received a fracture of the left leg, a fracture of the left arm, a severe left arm laceration, multiple facial and head lacerations, a fractured jaw.arid also had several teeth knocked out.

Traffic was delayed around the scene for a half-hour' as Emergency Medical Technicians rorn Norwalk hospital prepared he injured man.for movement. Trooper Thomas Pietrtni said mperato was traveling cast in he center lane and changed into theMeft lane. The front of the motorcycle began to shimmy and the driver lost control; sending the cycle into the median divider guard railing. The cycle, the trooper said, rode along the guard railing about 80 feet and flipped over into the left lane, spilling the operator off of the cycle onto the left lane pavement. The accident is under investigation.

3 SURVIVING QUINTS BIRTHDAY MONTREAL (AP) hree surviving Dionne quin- uplcCs, Annette, Cecile Yvonne, have celebrated their 40th birthdays without a family eunion. In a telephone Annette Allard said she planned to spend Tuesday quietly and that the three sisters did not intend to celebrate their birthdays together. All three live in the Montreal area. Annette is married with three children arid Cecile, separated from her husband in 1957, has four children. Yvonne is single.

Two sisters are dead. Emilia died at the age of 20 from pneumonia and Marie died at the age of 35, leaving two daugh- WRONG ADDRESS Mrs. Arie Leaphart, of Priscilla lane, Stratford, a teacher at Bridgeport's Garfield school, been chosen an Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America for 1974. Mrs. Leaphart's address was reported incorrectly in The Post yesterday.

A newborn kangaroo takes slightly unde: 3 minutes to find its way 6 inches to its mother's reflected from a basketball-sue IWft Milan in A special camera designed to keep of man-made satellites can photograph the light pouch. object miles out in space. feel that way." Sees Witch Hunt think this has now veloped into a witch hunt. And you know that a witch hunt requires a nonstop supply of witches. When you run out of witches, you have to manu facturc innocent ones." Asked if, he didn't feel good about ihe aggressive reporting of the Washington Post in the Watergate affairs.

McLaughlin said: terms of a fait accompli, Glum Weeks, ing only stockholder approval, (president; Helen I.andess, second Haydcn Slonc is publicly i while Shcarson is privately held. WEDNESDAY: "You've really got Insomnia if you can't sleep when it's time lo get up." budget enough, could remove nr modify the approved $2 increase. The in its approval, noted lhat the additional incurred by the three arc: Judy Stripp, prcsi- hospitals as a ol lirst vice ad ustment ct)st and the gen eral increases in the cost of en ergy, had resulted, even though here were strong indications that all three hospitals had been conservation measures in the use of all forms ol energy bara Zuvanich, corresponding secretary; Arlcnc Sundy, treasurer; Susan Hutchinson, devotions: Jackie Troxcll, Church Women United Representative; Jean Anderson, hospitality; Yvonne Levinc, membership; Alice Bank, Nancy Jahn, remembrance; Kac Brad- Icy, telephone; er, missions: South Western representative. Nancy Hawbrak- Claire Foslcr, Three recently young took adventurer a grueling five-month-Iong walk Phoenix, lo Calgary Canada, living oft the land jus as mountain men did in the ear ly 1800. INSURANCE Since Tax Deductible Life Insurance for the corporation 1 2.

3, Who can buy Tax Deductible life Insurance arid what iJ the IRS code section that permits it? Answer Any business, or professions! corporation under Section 79 ot IRS Qmtttion Can the proceeds be kepi out of an individual's estate? Answer Many times this is possible subject to state law. Qwftion It there a minimum number oi employees who must insured under Section 79? Answer No, one employee may be enough. Question WANT TO KNOW MORE Answer-- CALL BRENDAN T. SHEA AT: BEARDSLEY, BROWN, BASSETT, INC. 558 CLINTON AVENUE, BRIDGEPORT--PHONE 366-181S.

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