United States Denies Soviet Polar Flight Provocation
The United States rejected Soviet charges that U S bombers conduct provocative flights toward Russia in the polar regions. The State Department said SAC drills are defensive and not provocations, and it welcomed a UN Security Council meeting requested by the Soviets for Monday to discuss the charges.
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Washington
Russia
North Pole
United States
United Nations
U. S
State Department
Free World
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Moscow
Ussr
Andrei Gromyko
UN Security Council
U.S
Security Council
Arkady A. Sobolev
Henry Cabot Lodge
S-nation Council
Kremlin
Bridgeport Weather Forecast Quiet Mild With Showers Possible
Mostly fair and mild today in Bridgeport and vicinity with a high near 73 and tonight’s low around 44. Sunday expect considerable cloudiness and a cooler day with scattered showers likely. record temperatures and barometer readings are noted for the day.
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Bridgeport
Trout Season Opens Across State With High Hopes
State Fisheries and Game officials announce inland fishing season ready to roll as 280 stocked brooks and numerous lakes welcome about 200000 trout. Expect yearling brookies, two year olds, rainbows and brown trout to draw crowds on opening day.
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State Fisheries and Game Department
U S aide Jacyno expelled by Czechoslovakia over spying
In Prague Radio announces expulsion of Joseph R. Jacyno second secretary at the U S Embassy on espionage charges. Jacyno a Massachusetts native and Tufts graduate served as press attache and was stationed in Prague since 1956. He is ordered to leave immediately after allegedly obtaining espionage material from a recently arrested Czechoslovak citizen.
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Vienna
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Joseph R. Jacyno
U. S
Prague
Jacyna
Massachusetts
Tufts’ College
Jaecyna
Jacyno
U S Assails Charge As a Frameup
The State department denounces Czech spy charges against American diplomat Joseph Jacyna as a frameup. Prague reports said Jacyna faces expulsion though Washington had no confirmation. He was held in communicado after three plainclothes Czech officers arrested him while he sent recordings to a Czech friend. The department calls detention without embassy contact a violation of diplomatic practice.
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Joseph Jacyna
U. S
Prague
Jacyno
Jacyna
Missing Girl Polly Whitcomb Returns Home With Ex-Con Held
Priscilla Whitcomb age 20 returned to Springfield Vermont claiming she ended a 17 month disappearance linked to Richard Thatcher a 21 year old parole violator She said the romance ended due to living a life of false pretenses Thatcher a former Colorado bad check offender was paroled 1955 and later charged with auto fraud in Northampton Massachusetts Also police tied Thatcher to aliases and a car found in a Boston garage with ongoing questions about their past relationship
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U.S
Louis G. Whitcomb
Springfield
Smith College
Boston
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Thatcher
Priscilla
Polly
Whit Comb
Livjing
Northampton
Mass
Boston Police
U. S
Vermont
Evanston
Colorado State Reformatory
Smith Campus
Colorado
Robert Katz
Jury Indicts Mrs DiNardo for First Degree Murder
Julia DiNardo, a 35 year old mother of three, is indicted by an 18 member Grand Jury for first degree murder in the shooting of her 41 year old husband Pasquale at their Westport home. The true bill was handed down at 2 45 p m after more than four hours of deliberation.
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Julia DiNardo
Pasquate
Westport
DiNardos
Four Die in Middletown Fire Shocked City
In Middletown a fourth story tenement fire killed four young children of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Davis Janice Bryant Sally and Wendy. Seven others escaped from the old wooden building as firemen battled the flames. Fire Chief J Franklin Dunn cited a defective heater in the kitchen as the probable cause.
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Middletown
Lawrence Davis
Janice
Bryant
Sally
Wendy
J. Franklin Dunn
Dunn
Robert Martin
Assembly Ends Special Session 992 Million Plan Approved
The House Ways and Means committee approves a 12.4 billion unemployment relief program funded entirely by federal dollars. Treasury Secretary Anderson warns the deficit may exceed 3 billion by year end and opposes an abrupt tax cut while noting possible next year's deficit near 4 billion.
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Andersson
Eiserhower
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Ways and Means Committee
Council of Economic Advisers
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American Society of Newspaper Editors
ASNE
New York
Eisenhower
Treasury
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Sumner H. Slichter
Senate Finance Committee
Slichter
Congress
Ways and Means
SINGERS SCORE SYMPHONY HIT
The Connecticut Symphony Orchestra closed its 1957 48 season with a sparkling English performance of Mozart Così Fan tutte at the Shake Speare Festival Theatre Stratford before about 1200. Soloists Phyllis Curtin Sylvia Stahlman Mac Morgan David Lloyd Kenneth J Smith Jane Hobson and Maestro Jones Perlea led the modern dress 18th century staging in English with a notable cast and a strong Town Hall praise.
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Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
Shake_Speare Festival Theatre
Stratford
Jones
Perlea
Phyllis Curtin
NBS
New York City
Don Alfonso
Despina
Jane
Hobson
Democrats Map Strategy Over Overnight Parking Measure
Democratic aldermen held a Friday caucus to plan for Socialist opposition as the overnight parking ban faced a Monday vote. Council President Gladstone declined to reveal strategies, noting only that the group anticipated possible resistance. Two Socialist aldermen had already signaled opposition to ending the ban, with three others possible.
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Louis J. Gladistone
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Jasper Me! Levy
Paul G. Belles
Charles P. Wangel
Legislature Approves Wilton Water Measure
The legislature approved the Wilton water bill after lengthy debate and sent it to Governor Ribicoff. The measure grants Wilton control over underground water resources and becomes effective until July 1, 1961, with a ban on contracts extending beyond the bill’s life. Rep. E. O. Smith (R Mansfield) helped push the amendment through.
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House
Senate
Wilton
Ribicolf
E. O. Smith
Mansfield
CBS strike ends as IBEW votes 7 to 4
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers says strike board members have ended a 12 day walkout by 1300 technicians across eight cities including New York Hollywood St Louis San Francisco Milwaukee and more. The new three year pact boosts weekly top wages to 1850 back to February 1 and 190 weekly from August 1 1959 with 6.4 percent current raise and 2.4 percent next year.
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Columbia Broadcasting System
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
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Hollywood
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San Francisco
Milwaukee
Legislature approvesBridgeport pension and city bills
Hartford April 18 The Legislature approved bills to raise Bridgeport police and firemen retired before 1948 by six dollars weekly and ease pension rules for school janitors. Corrective measures from a 1957 city election referendum passed, sponsored by Senator A Edward Sandula. Also approved were 695000 in Bridgeport bond issues for an incinerator and school projects and a Seaside park comfort station. The Wheeler mansion may be designated an historic site pending Common Council approval. All go to Governor Ribicoff.
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Bridgeport
Connecticcut Historical Commission
Wheeler
Common Council
Ribicoff
Wall Collapses During Demolition Kills Child in Meriden
In Meriden on April date, a wall of steel and concrete toppled during razing work, crushing a 15 month old infant and injuring two women with children nearby. Police cited machine vibrations causing a seven foot column to snap. Edward Bonz... and a second child were struck by debris. Mrs Phyllis Young and her daughter were also hurt but stable.
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Meriden
Anta
Edward Bonezkiewicz
Stanley Bons
Enkiewez
Wallingford
Ronald
Phyllis Young
Merid‘en
Margaret
Hartford GOP roads plan sparks statewide debate
The General Assembly adjourned after approving a 52.18 million Republican anti recession program with 30 million for highways 15 million for urban renewal 4 million for aged housing and 7.18 million for public works while extending unemployment benefits. Governor Ribicoff criticized the package as not meeting state needs.
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Senate
Ribicoff
General Assembly Asa
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