State Parley on Rights Outlines Action Agenda
The Connecticut Governors Conference on Human Rights and Opportunities presented an action agenda at the State Capitol with plans for welfare housing jobs police education taxes and news coverage. Gov. John Dempsey vowed a permanent legislative human rights committee and an executive liaison panel to push the agenda across agencies. The conference urged police reform neighborhood oversight civil rights hearings and a bipartisan state inquiry into policing, along with welfare court expansion and expanded funding for schools and housing. Senator Abraham Ribicoff pitched a $50 billion urban renewal program over 10 years, arguing for bold action to rebuild cities while balancing wartime priorities.
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Hartford
State Capitol
John Dempsey
Connecticut
Dempsey
General Assembly
Executive Branch
Charles R. Gordon
Bridgeport-Stortford
NAACP
Louis H. Pollak
Law School
New Haven
New Parley
Congress
Vietnam
Ribicoff
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Girl 17 Held In Money Order Kiting Case
Bridgeport police arrested 17 year old Stratford girl Jane Nell Ryan after she cashed a $90 money order altered from $9 at East Main street furniture store. She bought a 22 nail type phone and kept the rest as change. Det. Potz says she visited another store before a clerk alerted police. She is charged with obtaining money under false pretenses and held in the Women’s Detention Home in lieu of $500 bail. Patrolmen Vida Santos and Salthouse assisted.
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Bridgeport
Stratford
Jane Nell Ryan
Barnum Avenue
East Main Street
Walter Potz
Miss Ryan
Det. Potz
Ryan
Womens Detention Home
Thorme Street
Anthony Vida
Julia Santos
Arthur Salthouse
Professor Tops 1 77 Blood Donors With 56th Gift
Seventy seven people donated pints of blood at the University of Bridgeport Student Center in a Warner Bros and Sprague Meter Co sponsored blood bank. Eaton V. W. Read the Warner professor and UB former dean gave his 56th pint and marks his 60th birthday.
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Warner Bros
Sprague Meter Company
University of Bridgeport
Eaton V. W. Read
Warner
Bridgeport Red Cross
Ralph Stone
Warner's
Charles F. Barnes
The
Red Cross
William J. Lucas
Blue Ribbon Packing
Joseph L. Stadt
Bridgeport Fire Department
Herman Seperack
Emma L. Henry
Hobart Smith Jr
Arthur Dauplaise
Edward W. Kay
Betty Turner
Richard Doherty
William J. McMahan
Gilman Shattuck
Mary Ellen Finneran
Margaret
Frisbie
Sprague Meter
Charles
Jelliffe
Paul V. Lesko
Norman Stevenson
Frank C. Kot
John Mahoney
Edward Lesko
Kenneth G. Coddington
Michele A. Germane
Frank A. Lada
Charlotte Palimas
Douglas Purcell
Charles Radziwill
McKinley Rowe
Judith Verspoor
Gustave S. Nemeth
John Molloy
North End Radar Check Nets 15 Traffic Violations
Police radar on North Park avenue last night nabbed 15 drivers for speeding and traffic sign violations. All released on summons pending Circuit Court arraignment April 20. Names, ages, and addresses of those summoned listed. arrests made by Traffic division officers Busollotta, Fabrizi, and Wargo. Highway official Ives names Elmer J. Morgan as highway assistant maintenance division chief in Winsted after merit exam.
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North Park Avenue
State Traffic Commission
John ‘O'Leary
Traffic Division
Cwere
Peter J. Friberg
Golden Red Avenue
Thomas R. Rowe
Beechwood Avenue
Elmer “W. Gross
Chestnut Street
Hugh’ "Downey,Jr
Walcott
Donna A. Reed
Poplar Street
Richard S. Pickman
Calhoun Avenue
Trumbull
Richard A. Merrill
Highland Street
Stratford
Joan Winslow
Lakeview
Gruman Avenue
Norwalk
Benzola Nicholson
Trumbull Avenue
Robert Spath
Woodmere
N.Y
Sadie Greene
Russ Road
Dennis Olgino
Edison Road
Anthony DiCocco
Park Avenue
Douglas F. Gentile
Harlem Avenue
Anthony Busollotta
Ronald Fabrizi
Paul Wargo
Wethersfield
Stats High ‘Way
Howard 3. Ives
Elmer J. Morgan
Winsted
Mr. Morgan
Highway Department
Daily News chapel meetings disrupt New York printers
The Daily News business manager said chapel meetings by printers amid contract talks are interfering with publication and advertising for the Sunday edition. Union chief Bertram Powers said some issues were settled and only wages and weekly hours remain.
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NEW York
The
Daily News
News
W.H. James
the News
Morning News
Bertram A. Powers
Powers
Union seeks 20 percent raise in one-year contract
The five Long Island newspapers including the News and Times have paused negotiations since last November while printers demand a 20 percent pay raise in a one-year pact. They report current day shifts at 151.85 weekly with extra pay for night work and 13,000 full-timers plus 4,000 part-timers under contract.
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The
News, Times, World
Journal Tribune
Long Island Daily Press
Long Island Star
Underwater Volcano Found in South Pacific Near Fanning Island
University of Hawaii oceanographers report a new sea mountain about 160 miles northeast of Fanning Island, roughly 1,100 miles south of Honolulu. Dr. Klaus Wyrtki notes the volcano is two miles wide and rises about three miles from the ocean floor to within half a mile of the surface.
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Honolulu
South Pacific
University of Hawaii Oceanographers
Fanning Island
Klaus Wyrtki
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
Gromyko Holds Second Cairo Talks With Nasser
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met again with President Gamal Abdel Nasser at his residence amid speculation on topics including Aden, Geneva disarmament, and Egyptian Soviet economic relations. Diplomats note possible interest in avoiding a new flareup in Aden as discussions continue. German bus drivers will be made to take holidays.
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Cairo
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nasser
Gromyko
Mahmoud Riad
Aden
Geneva
Egypt
Italy
West Germany
United States
Soviet Union
Front For
South Yemen
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Miami Seaquarium
North End
Sears
Kenmore
Fairfield Ave
Thur
Necticut
Boston Post
Middletown
Lins Filter
Ansonia
Meriden
Main St
Centennial Plaza
Branford Milford Cheery Hil
Chaney Se
Wallin Sa
Publishers ‘Association of
New York City
Post
American Newspaper Guild
Pacific
Abdel Nasser
Kyanize
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BS Reed
Fane
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