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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1974
Page
12
Monk parakeets native to South America now total about 4000 across 26 states per the Missouri Conservation Commission. The birds harm wildlife and are known to cut TV lead-in wires with their strong beaks and strip ornamental trees for nest material.
Jerome Orcutt Boys' club and sisters held an Easter egg hunt in Orcutt on Saturday led by North End Good Guys chair John Hartington. Helpers Sal Leonetti, Butch Leonetti, Mario Fracassini, Stanley Stewart, Russell Banks assisted. Perry Pitotti, Albert Paolini, John Corsano aided. Top egg gatherers were Jimmy Rebeka, Victor Squires, Ann Foulke, Zita Fragosa with Special Eye awards to Mike Stomeyer, Enrique Torres, Daryle Harris, Floyd Quick, Maria Crowell and Elaine Renfer.
Hartford AP The state Senate unanimously approved a bill barring the Motor Vehicles Department from issuing phony automobile registrations except where allowed by General Assembly regulations. The measure moves to the House for clearance amid auditors findings of about 200 fictitious registrations last year and concerns over misuse by state officials.
In New Haven AP report jurors testified that threats against Aillon may have influenced deliberations or his fate. Suzanne Alix and others described a report that Montano family members would harm him if acquitted. The hearing before Judge John F. Shea Jr. recessed as attorneys pressed questions on juror exposure to such reports.
Hartford AP The Appropriations Committee approved a bill to waive all tuition at state colleges and the University of Connecticut for Vietnam era veterans. The committee also backed a mobile psychiatric team study of cable TV uses and a pilot bilingual education project in Waterbury while killing a pay-raise bill for police who pursued higher education.
A UPI report notes the ten story Wainwright Building in downtown St. Louis was completed in 1892 3 and is widely regarded as the world’s first steel frame skyscraper. The article adds a note on lacrosse tracing its origins to the Iroquois and the intertribal game baggataway played before 1492 in Ontario and New York.
A dense list of cinema and theater listings across numerous venues. Titles include The Sting, Alice in Wonderland, The Exorcist, Blazing Saddles, Huckleberry Finn, and more with multiple daily showtimes and venues such as Milford Norwalk Greenwich Fairfield and Westport.
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