Bridgeport Telegram, The (Newspaper) - August 23, 1955, Bridgeport, Connecticut x Y r At V Forecast WARM TODAY WEDNESDAY COOLER Detailed on Editorial Class Matter Orm 1955 State St at t 36 Pages CENTS t Ike State Today To View Hood IB TALK President's Visit of High Importance to tation Work STATE Start Is Made on Several Fronts to Speed struction Task Aug Still staggered tby the devastation of last week's Connecticut today to move ahead on several fronts to speed the jobs of and rehabilitation Of prime importance in this fort be financed out help of both state and federal governments will be the visit to Bradley Field tomorrow of dent Eisenhower The President will fly to the Windsor Locks base at 8 to confer with Gov coff and chief executives of other New England which ed flood damage To Speed Reconstruction Developments on the tion front followed quickly upon one another today During the 1 Gov the State Public Works department to waive income limits to open up state housing projects units in the Waterbury area to people homeless by the high water 2 The governor made a special appeal to U S Secretary of Com- merce Sinclair Weeks asking for emergency federal grants for road construction 3 The Governor ordered pages on ail state building contracts for the duration of the emergency so that the state will not be in the of competing for er or with reconstruction projects 4 The governor called a special meeting of the state's S tors and congressmen for day morning to discuss ways and means of speeding the variety of federal aid to which the state and its are 5 The governor directed that the way be cleared for speedy handling of unemployment com- benefit claims from sons who have lost their work be- cause of Peterson Arrives In State 6 Federal Civil Defense Val- Peterson arrived in to confer with Gov Icoff and President Eisenhower on the disaster situation and to speed CD aid to the state 7 A special team of federal lic housing administration headed by Albert E arrived in the state to praise the housing situation and plans for alleviating it 8 Ribicoff announced that offices will be in rington and Waterbury to handle all applications for all sorts of aid offices will be manned by of- of the Civil Defense the the federal the the Red Cross and other Aiding 9 The State Health department continued its of anti- vaccine in stricken areas and wa's prepared to aid local of- in any health problems 10 State Adj Gen Frederick Reincke announced that troops of on Page OFFICIAL WEATHER from the tf BRIDGEPORT AND not so and humid high near Fair and low 60 to 65 with comfortable humidity NEW Same as for Bridgeport p TEMPERATURE to 8 p Highest 91 yesterday J2 Highest Yesterday 79 year 58 PRECIPITATION 10 Needed For Rebuilding Putnam Civil Defense Director Al Gion said 10 years to rebuild city of wracked by three days of flood and Dirt and silt from the flood waters are piled 12 feet high in the center of the Power are gas is shut off Martial law has been declared Medical teams at opposite ends of town are giving ary typhoid shots Army purification centers are doling out a gallon of potable water daily to each resident The local supply isn't safe and keep telling us to boil our but there's nothing to boil it The only telephones working are emergency ones set up at three locations FLOOD BELIEF Mayor Kicks Off Red Cross Appeal With Gift From City The Bridgeport chapter of the American Red Cross last night an- that approximately has been pledged or donated in ad- dition to large quantities of clothing and blankets to aid the victims of the worst flood in Connecticut's history Following a meeting with Red Cross and civic yesterday afternoon Mayor ced the of Bridgeport w a s pledging to the chapter to help the ravaged localities The employes of many industrial and the firms responded wholeheartedly to th Red Cross appeal for funds to help stricken families and but a spokesman for the ter said more volunteers are ed to raise funds Raised In Court Judges Samuel Tedesco and John presiding over traffic court last made an appeal for and the specta court employes and defendants raised a total of Employes of the Bridgeport Brass have pledged with donated yesterday and the rest to be turned over to the Red Cross while the Bridgeport Metal employes donated The Singer Manufacturing com- pany employes have donated from their special while the Girls club of the nrm has given Other donations are as Employes of the Bridgeport Tool and Die Warner Salem Lutheran Bruner Ritter and which was matched by the and a woman who asked that her name be to be divided by the Stratford and Westport Red Cross chapters Garments Contributed Warner announced that It s sending worth of tion garments to the Red Cross for distribution to needy the Junior Chamber of Commerce and residents of Seaside village have started food and fund Paul of hearing the radio appeal for flood called the Bridgeport Red Cross to say that he and some of his friends are sending supplies here today on the Port Jefferson and the town of Fort has offered to send eight dump trucks complete with crews to help clean up Yesterday the on Page e Into Street Train Wreck In West Rip One Plunges Into Voices as He Leaves Denver to View Areas CITES RELIEF EFFORTS Plans Conference at lay Field After Air Tour of Six States dent Eisenhower took off tonight for an aerial inspection tour row of regions of six northeastern states ately after the tour he hold an emergency relief conference in Con- The private plane Columbine the was airborne from Air Force Base here at pan T on an overnight flight to the east coast He scheduled to arrive at Air about Tuesday To View Devastated Areas On the way there he will fly over flood ravaged areas of New New Massachusetts and Rhode Island Eisenhower his rado vacation about 12 hours earlier than planned to make the inspection tour Before leaving the summer White House the President called on the nation to in and the American Cross raise a dis- aster relief Eisenhower was accompanied bv his David who vacationed with him last at a Rocky Mountain ranch was returning home to Ft across the Potomac from Washington Also along on the flight L chairman of the Atomic Energy re- ported to the President today on the Geneva atoms for peace Chief Judge Orie L Phillips of the U.S 10th Circuit of who was flying east for the can Bar Association and a small party of White House staff members f Federal the extent de- scribed by Presidential Secretary iwa as effect a blank have been mado available for relief vork in the flood areas through the Civil De- fense administration Eisenhower who had called men into a conference room at Lowry Air Force the mer White said the federal government had been cooperating on Page WRECK CAUSED By BURNED OFFICIAL Power Shut Off as Tanker Car Leaks Petroleum After Crash 3 TRACKS BLOCKED Fire Department Called No Injuries Reported Three derailed freight cars are shown after crashing off the New Haven railroad tracks at Railroad avenue and Bostwick avenue last The car in foreground has plowed up the pavement of Railroad avenue and is pushing against a fence outside the Nilson turing while the middle car teeters on the edge of the supported by the other two cars HIT BY 11 DIE I Features for Everybody In Telegram Every Day Angelo Patri Page 20 Classified Ads Pages Comics Page 24 Constantine Brown Page 18 Crossword Puzzle Page 24 Dr Bundesen Page 20 Editorials Page 18 Fashions Page 20 Financial News Page 29 jacoby on Bridge Page 22 Obituaries Page 29 Radio and TV Page 25 Sports Pages Theater News Page 16 Women's News Page 22 Most of Damage to Industry Is Not Covered by Insurance t- Today a High p m m p m Tomorrow p m nu p m August 23 Two thirty-fifth day of the year day of SUB rises at m Sun at p m f Aug1 Most of dollars of damage done to Connecticut's flood ed industries Js not covered by in- l Officials of Insurance com- panies said only these factories suffered will collect fire insurance policies i V i started during flood tions also will be covered by But there are no policies Written which cover JOBS or ages due to floods of waters An official for Factory In- surance which Insurance on plants and factories said he that to Con- plants will run into of But caust meat of tha been f caused by flood rather than wind or only a part of is insured 29 Other Children Injured at Crossing in Center of Tennessee Town Board Gets Plan to Mire Supernumerary hen SPRING Aug 22 A freight train de a school bus loaded with about 40 children here ing at least 11 of them and injuring all the others The state highway patrol Nashville said its reports had 17 definitely but this figure could not immediately from the several hospitals and eral homes involved The Southern Railway train struck the bus ingt dead and injured grammar school children for 10 the track The happened just off the main street of this town than population and two blocks from the Spring City entary school the children had just left As in most other rural Tennessee Spring City schools start classes in mid-August to allow a recess town is near an elbow of the Tennessee river just above the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar on Page MAN SEIZED TWICE WITH POLICY SLIPS Theodore restert 4 Hours After Be- ing Fined which 103 stock fire across writes many of Insurance but nothing covers i FTA official Jd that he any concerns write flood insurance on factories He said It Is a type of business n with only plants In flood endangered areas wanting the coverage Other plants not -in danger of the FTA official do not want flood insurance makes It business rates to a prohibitive he FIA and were en Page A man fined City court yesterday playing was re- arrested four later on same by of the Special division who they confiscated worth of number plays in auto The Theodora of 1559 Kim was released on a bond another itn Police said Lockwood was at 11 bv JOnneth on the Into custody at North and ey Tajne and Walter Witt of the cial Services The two acting on a and n search revealed a containing cash and poV icy Flips Witt located which approximately slips with than number Supt Jeffery Urges Help Be Ready for Assignments The Board of Education was a ed to consider a unique plan for hiring a number of super- numerary teachers who would be to day-to-day substitute teaching as needed Supt of Schools Joseph E who recommended the new said it would help solve the problem of enough qualified and would be a vast improvement over the od presently in use The board agreed at its meeting last night to study the matter with a view to a decision at its next session in Land Strip In other the board ed a strip of land between Buildings 1 and 16 at the Beardsley Terrace state moderate rental offered by the Bridgeport Housing be developed as a passageway for pupils from Trumbull avenue to the grounds of the William Samuel Johnaon school on Hill road The directed Supt fery to confer with the Park de- on Page FREESE NOMINATED AGAIN IN NORWALK Back Mayor Term After 55 lion njr Freese was nominated as a candidate for reelection to serve a fifth successive two-year term nt the city convention of the pendent party tonight An ineffective attempt oust he mayor as leader of the party was made by William A was as candidate for reelection In his own First Without sanction Murray of Edward us mayor but Mr Creiner Immediately vas not a The party nominated Republican in- town clerk and John treasurer to ceed who ed to another For Board rof ph present board man and have oa a running Richard L on HURT SERIOUSLY BY CAR William Ann Salvo Arrested After Driving Away A six-year-old boy riding a was injured seriously in Black Rock at p.m yesterday when struck by an autoist who police said left the scene was later arrested on a charge of evading ity The William JrM son of William A of 345 Old tery was removed Jn an un- conscious condition to St Vincent's hospital by Dr Michael City ambulance physician last said the boy is under treatment for severe head injuries His condition was described as Police Lieut Raymond paid the child was hit by a car driven by Ann of 71 street He said Mrs Salvo left the scene and was later arrested at her home She was charged with evading and released on a bond pending a City court hearing The accident happened at top road and Sailors lane Police quoted Mrs Salvo as ing she continued on driving be- cause she believed she had hit branches that hung down on side of the from large trees Assisting in the investigation are William Patrolmen FREIGHT WRECK DELAYS TRAINS All Service Halted More Than 3 One Track Reopened Ti nin halted more than hours a result of last night's It was announced by officials of the New New Haven and ford railroad Responsible for thn delay was a leaking tanker gallons of liquefied eum Fire department ordered all power shut off on the line in the vicinity of the crash because of the danger that a spark explode tumea from the according to Leslie public relations of the Ona Track Open At o'clock this Mr Tyler one track would be ed and used by trains to and from New York Diesel engines will be he natch About a dozen separate passenger trains were delayed during the three-hour according to Mr who was still at the scene at 2 Agreement to open the one track on Page FAIRFIELD SETS DATE FOR LOTTERIES VOTE Fairfield voters will go to the polls Aug 31 in a special dum on the Raffles and Bazaars passed by the General bly's last session The date for the referendum was set last night by the ive m Koger high school AEC Chief Says U.S Leads Reds in Atomic Power for Peace Aug 22 The chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission told President hower today the outcome of the eneva atoms for peace conference indicates that the United States clearly of Russia ia of atomic power for v Lewis also riold a mews conference after with Um ust concluded Geneva enormously assisted the cause of Sixty-seven Including the S and participated at the which the outgrowth of President's United Nations Address Dec 8 1953 In that speech he proposed creation of an international atomic pool for peaceful Just back from who headed American flew to the summer White House here make a hand report to Eisenhower Strauss told newsmen that he had during the flight to what would make headline for them find Had concluded that in his opinion the moat result of the Geneva meeting is That it has lined up scientists of- the world behind President's as aet forth in hia 1053 added that if any skepticism in that connection in advance of the it on Twelve loaded cars of a New freight were derailed between the Fairfield avenue and Bostwick avenue ducts at 10 o'clock last There were no reports of injuries One of the derailed ed with rolls of plunged down the embankment and stretched across the west of Railroad coming to rest against the wire fence of the A H Machine company Two boxcars overturned On top of the embankment while other derailed cars remained All Power Shut Off With one of the derailed a leaking liquified the Pire department ordered all power shut on the New New Haven line in the vicinity the crash because of danger of v The leaking petroleum tanker came to a halt at the Boat wick of ex- plosion the Fire ment ordered evacuation of the Bostwick Laboratories at Railroad and Bostwick avenues Hot Box Seen A railroad spokesman a hot burned apparently caused the derailment He added that 25 cars from the end of the train Fire Chief Sylvester K Mayor McLevy and Police Supt John A were among the first to arrive at the scene Chief Jennings orders to permit no smoking with in blocks of the petroleum tank be- cause of a leak that developed near the bottom of the Fire department to the scene stood guard in the event of fire Chief Jennings ordered all current shut off leaking could moved by wreckers called from Disrupts New York All train service to and from NSW York was disrupted Chief Jennings said he ordered railroad authorities to permit trains to pass petroleum car until the tanker is removed from the tracks Approximately 50 feet of track was ripped and stones the viaduct were tern ing into the street and narrowly missing and trucks Norman of 1121 Success a at by Sikorsky he ed the crash He said the car that landed down the embankment into the narrowly the trucks passing easterly along Railroad f Sees Flash Fire had stepped outside when 1 noticed a flash fire under wheels of one of the en a Mr said He said he noticed the turn and one land across Railroad I immediately lice and called the Police and departments and City he wasn't sure it wasn't train that had crashed Lance said Emergency Units The City witH private policemen from by Olin c t o r Koiv got f But there's women
