Bradley enters governor race in Connecticut
Westport businessman and former GOP state chairman J Kenneth Bradley formally announced his candidacy for governor on the Republican ticket at Hartford County GOP meeting in the Hotel Bond. endorsements by Westport and Bridgeport town committees frame his bid amid a field of five announced candidates.
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Bradley
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Hartford County Republican Associates
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Eisenhower
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Mr. Bradley
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Fairfield County
Fred R. Zeller
Stonington
John D. Alsop
Ayon
Antonio
Sadiak
Rockville
Benjamin L. Barringer
New Milford
Theodore S Ryan
Sharon
Litchfield County
Sadlak
Zeller
Alsop
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Conferees Bar Five-Cent Home Letter Rate In Postal Bill
Washington April 23 conferees voted to drop the five-cent rate for intercity letters from a postal rate hike bill and set the rate at four cents. They also included a 257 million dollar pay hike for about 500000 postal employees, larger than Eisenhower’s proposal. An angry comment came from L R Walter, special assistant to Summerfield.
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Senate
House
Congress
Washington
Senate House
Eisenhower
Summerfield
L.R. Walter
Weather Summary For Bridgeport And Vicinity
Partly cloudy and warmer with scattered showers and possible thundershowers by late afternoon. Tonight mostly cloudy with more showers, low near 50s. Friday partly cloudy with little change in temperature, high in the 60s. Winds SW 10 to 15 mph. Temperatures and tides listed with daily almanac data for Thursday, April 24.
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Bridgeport
de Cere Ee
Teveenes
Westport Opposes Wilton Water Bill
First Selectman Herbert E. Baldwin sent a telegram to Governor Ribicoff urging a veto of the Wilton water bill. He warned Westport faces potential water shortages as local sources are exhausted and noted the bill would grant Wilton control of underground water in the town until 1961.
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Westport
First
Herbert E. Baldwin
Ribicoff
Wilton
Baldwin
House panel trims Eisenhower aid in quiet votes
The House Foreign Affairs committee voted to cut 339 million dollars from Eisenhower's foreign aid program in a swift closed session. The panel trimmed military aid by 160 million, reduced economic grants, and cut defense support, while boosting 8 million for technical assistance as the full bill moves to the House floor next week.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
Morgan
Dpa
U. S
Stratford Authority opposes beach use fee proposal
Stratford Waterfront authority informs Town Manager Harry B. Flood it disapproves a plan by councilman George Wright to charge out of town and out of state visitors for beach use. Walter M. Goddard says the group opposes the head charge and will notify Flood of the stance.
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Stratford
Wright
Bridgeport
General Assembly
Five Army Parachutists Die in Eagle Wing Drop at Fort Campbell
At Fort Campbell Kentucky five paratroopers were killed and more than 100 wounded during a mass air drop as part of Exercise Eagle Wing. Gusty winds blew jumpers off the intended landing zones and into trees rocks and woodland. Up to 1,300 members of the 101st Airborne Division took part as the military said the maneuvers would continue with another mass jump planned for Saturday. SFC Jennings Price of Clinton Tennessee noted his 80th jump.
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101St Airborne Division
Fort Campbell
Army
SFC
Jennings Price
Clinton, Tenn
Bethel Teen Convicted in Auto Fatality
A Bethel teenager, Michael Burns 17, was convicted in Superior Court of manslaughter for the Sept 13 auto death of Edward G. Flynn 44 on Old Hawleyville road. Co defendant Thomas Scales 18 was acquitted after a two hour trial. Based on testimony Dr John D Booth linked Flynn’s death to skull fractures and brain injuries from the crash. State's Attorney Lorin W Willis said the youths were racing on the narrow curve where Burns collided with Flynn's sedan.
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Bethel
Edward G. Flynn
Michael Burns
Old Hawleyville Road
Burns
Thomas Scales
Howard W. Alcorn
John D. Booth
Danbury Medical Lexaminer
Flynn
Danbury Hospital
Lorin W. Willis
Sunny Acres Road
Area planning gains support from Bridgeport region towns
Municipal leaders from Bridgeport Trumbull Fairfield and Stratford voiced support for regional planning and potential funding when needed at a Trumbull Town Hall meeting with State Development Commission reps. Newtown and other fringe towns weighed costs and regional alliances with Danbury and Stamford Norwalk.
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Trumbull
Fairfield
Stratford
Trumbull Town Hall
State Development Commission
Newtown
Easton
Monroe
Shelton
Naugatuck Valley
Danbury
William Blakey
Westport
Weston
Stamford-Norwalk
Vnj
Blakey
Rocket Hurls New Nose Cone Over Atlantic
A secret nose cone tests aboard a hybrid Air Force Thor Navy Vanguard rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral and aimed to recover near Ascension Island after a 30 minute flight. Sightings were reported from Florida to Miami as exhaust and a vivid vapor trail stretched across the sky. The dual purpose test sought to prove cone heat resistance and assess mixed rocket performance for future space and missile missions.
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Florida
Atlantic
Air Force
Ascension Island
Thor
Navy
Vanguard
United States
Moon
al ‘Thor
Miami
Miami Herald
Tampa-St. Petersburg
Car Crash Claims Weston Man Ernest Moon
Ernest Moon 46 of Lyons Plains Road Weston died when his car ran up an embankment on North Avenue near the Merritt Parkway and overturned, pinning him beneath. A wrecker freed the vehicle, Dr William McMahon of Norwalk pronounced death at the scene. Moon, route salesman for Ferris Dairy in Westport, had lived previously in Penguin apartments on Hillspoint Road and came from Richmond Virginia. He is survived by his wife Juanita and two daughters Pamela age three and Virginia seven months. Services are being arranged by Charles H. Lewis Funeral Home.
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Westport
Ernest Moon
Lyons Plains Road
Weston
North Avenue
Cross Highway
Merritt Parkway
William McMahon
Norwalk
Ferris Dairy
Moon
Richmond
Penguin
Hillspoint Road
Juanita Moon
Pamela
Virginia
Charles H. Lewis Funeral Home
East State Street
Bridgeport Mayors Washington Trip Aims to Increase Local Contracts
Mayor Tedesco and Deputy State Labor Commissioner Leo J. Dunn travel to Washington to press for more government contracts for Bridgeport firms. They will meet Senators Bush Purtell and Symington, Rep Morano, and defense officials to show Bridgeport as a critical unemployment area and to cite existing bids on pending projects. The effort seeks steady employment for Bridgeport workers through targeted procurement.
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Tedesco
Leo J. Dunn
Washington
Bridgeport
Dunn
Bush
Purtell
Stuart Symington
Morano
Cordiner Heads GF Board Paxton Named President
Ralph J. Cordiner of General Electric became chairman of the board and Robert Paxton was promoted to president while Cordiner remains chief executive officer. The changes were approved at GE's annual meeting as about 4000 stockholders gathered. Cordiner succeeds Philip D. Reed who did not seek re election. Paxton, 46, had led the four operating divisions.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Ralph J. Cordiner
General Electric Co
Robert Paxton
Cordiner
Philip D. Reed
Paxton
Bridgeport Housing Faces Solvency Crisis Over June Payment
Beardsley and Pequonnock public housing units in Bridgeport show 60 vacancies totaling 1250 units amid an economic squeeze. BHA seeks conference with State Public Works Commissioner Murphy to discuss waiving or restructuring the June 30 52 300 payment or possibly selling the projects to private interests.
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Bridgeport Housing Authority
State Public Works
Timothy J. Murphy
Bridgeport
Harold C. Poole
BHA
State Public Works Department
Poole
Beardsley Terrace
Pequonnock
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