Bridgeport Telegram and Bridgeport Post Publish Schedule and Rates
The Bridgeport Telegram delivers morning editions with the Bridgeport Post evening and Sunday Post. Rates shown include annual and quarterly mail options, with prices for daily and Sunday packages and outside Bridgeport extended delivery. The Associated Press is credited for local news republication.
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Connecticut work training cuts welfare rolls says official
State Welfare Commissioner Bernard Shapiro says Connecticut's work training program reaches the untrainables and hopeless families. The policy saves taxpayers about 3 million dollars with 1.7 million more from federal funds allocated to continue War on Poverty efforts.
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Connecticut
Bernard Shapiro
Uproar Over Overseas Aid Fades As Policy Goes Open
The Johnson administration moves foreign aid from covert government support to a private public mechanism. A cabinet inquiry found most groups did not rely on government funding while the program aided many countries. Dean Rusk to determine the open method, ending the scandal as open aid begins.
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Sweden
India
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U.S
School for Public Officials in North Carolina Aims at Training
Officials note that thousands are elected with little preparation and criticize lack of training. The issue is widespread from coast to coast, but the plan to address it emerges in Chapel Hill North Carolina where a formal school for public officials is being discussed.
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North Carolina
Chapel Hill
UNC launches Institute of Government to train public officials
The University of North Carolina establishes the Institute of Government to address deficiencies in public affairs training. It offers extensive courses for state county and municipal officeholders including legislators welfare officers tax collectors highway patrolmen sheriffs and firemen. The program emphasizes practical management and directs future courses to new demands.
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Institute of’ Government
University of North Carolina
Pause for a Breather: Champion Downplays Recession Fears
George Champion chairman of Chase Manhattan says the economy will slow but not slide into recession. He cites strong output and income, low unemployment, and argues restraint in government spending and prudent policy to cushion adjustments and support a broad economic resurgence.
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Legislation Would Allow Donating Bodies to Medical Science
A proposed Ohio bill would let individuals will their bodies or parts to science, shifting authority from next of kin. Medical schools and transplant doctors back the measure, while funeral directors oppose it to preserve traditional death practices.
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Ohio
Ohio Funeral Directors Association
Easter Charade on Connecticut Avenue Protests Peace
Washington Star notes an Easter Parade protest by a group of university students advocating peace. The piece contrasts views on Vietnam, memory of death, and the role of beauty in hard times while acknowledging youthful arrogance and the inevitability of death in life.
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Vietnam
Food prices slide since 1966 peak across the United States
U S housewives boycotted stores over high prices but now prices have fallen 5 percent from a year earlier and 43 percent from last August. Factors include favorable weather, higher farm productivity, and calmer demand from military and exports. analysts cite mental price ceilings and the perceived normality of specials.
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U.S
Sylvia Porter
Department of Agriculture
Turnaroung
Thousands in Beijing demand Liu Shai-chi ouster
Tokyo AP reports mass demonstrations in Peking with as many as 500000 participants under a Red Guard call to remove Liu Shai-chi, described as top party official pursuing the capitalist road. Radio Peking calls the protests a general offensive against Liu without naming him.
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Judge Klau Confirmed for Eight-Year Hartford Superior Term
The House confirmed Judge Joseph E. Klau of Stratford for an eight year term on the Hartford Superior Court by a 133 to 13 vote. The Senate had earlier approved the appointment.
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Scandal Ties State Dept to Quinine Cartel Deals
National sources reveal a major Senate Antitrust Committee inquiry into State Department officials over involvement with an international cartel that inflated quinidine prices 80 cents to 4 6 dollars per ounce between 1954 and 1966. The cartel, aided by pressure on the GSA, sought to control the world stockpile of quinine, raising costs for heart disease patients and drawing DOJ scrutiny for possible money transfers.
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Lantic Treaty Organization
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Charles Delup, Gaulle
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Senate Antitrust Committee
Philip Hart
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European Economic Community
C. N. van der Spek
CSA
Thant’s shifting Vietnam peace plans face doubt
Analysis argues United Nations Secretary General U Thant is changing his second peace plan after Hanoi and Washington rejected his earlier terms. He now calls for a truce first and negotiations later, but the idea of a supervised ceasefire under jungle-war conditions remains unclear and impractical.
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Great Land Grab of 67-11 by Holmes Alexander
A discussion of geothermal steam as a future energy source, its discovery, and the clash between private enterprise and federal control. The piece notes companies investing in exploration, a 1966 Geothermal Gas Act, President Johnson’s land freezes, and a Senate response led by Senator Bible arguing for privatized wealth versus a White House preference for socializing energy wealth.
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Testa Seeks Rule Limiting Tax Assessor Politics in 1967 Session
During a Hartford Judiciary hearing on House Bill 245, Speaker Robert Testo advocates prohibiting political activity by appointed tax assessors. The session notes Testo’s history with Bridgeport politics, his ally Raymond Lyddy pressing questions, and the bill’s potential to curb assessor involvement in elections.
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Testa
Judiciary Committee
John Bailey
Bridgeport
Frank McGee
Hartford
Raymond Lyddy
John Relihan
Senate
Sun Spots Said to Affect Health in Soviet Study
Moscow based Tass reports two Soviet scientists link solar activity to shifts in sickness and death rates. They claim sun spots alter the earth’s magnetic field which in turn impacts the brain and human health.
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