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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1927
Page
10
The senate today passed two companion measures concerning the Common Pleas of Fairfield county. One bill grants power to the judges to name an additional clerk when needed, the other aims to arrange for the three judges to sit simultaneously in Danbury Bridgeport and a third location.
Stamford council approves a third clerk position and allocates 1000 dollars for the additional clerk. The measure specifies funding for the xtra clerkship as part of the new bill.
Hartford April 5 pension bill for Peter Dietrich elevator man at Fairfield County courthouse Bridgeport set 75 dollars monthly for life passed the Senate then reconsidered and tabled later actions attributed to staff correspondent in Hartford report
Hartford April 28 report on a City of Bridgeport pension bill hearing before the Cities and Boroughs committee. Representative Joan I. Lynch Orange opposes Widow pensions for dependents of police and fire personnel not killed in duty. City officials favor broader retirement provisions and a detailed substitute bill planning two relief funds and higher pension ceilings.
Hartford April 2 Senator Joseph Cubelius pension bill for Bridgeport Police and Fire departments was favorably reported in the Senate today. It provides for two thirds pay in cases where policemen or firefighters are disabled in the line of duty.
One car registered in Connecticut was reported stolen yesterday while parked on Are Street. Irene Parks Jennings of Danbury was owner of the recovered vehicle. Another car was stolen on Golden Hill Street near Main Street Wednesday night and later recovered.
April 28 AP hearing on a bill to reform state aid for education follows a commission report from 1925. It would base aid on town tax income, with nine class levels, setting pupil payments and requiring towns spend at least 30 per pupil.
New Haven may see a merger of Grace Hospital and New Haven Hospital as a bill favorably reported by the General Assembly would grant authority for consolidation. Grace Hospital cites rising maintenance costs while New Haven Hospital seeks enhanced training opportunities for Yale Medical School students. The measure enables action after informal discussions without waiting for the next two year session.
Christ Episcopal church in Christchurch hosted a luncheon and a village hall program in honor of Theodore Braitling the new organist and choir leader. The event featured impromptu choir numbers and an informal dance with attendance by Mr. Ernest Craft and many church members and guests.
Samuel H. Fisher of New Haven and New York, a Yale Corporation member and lawyer, was elected a trustee of the Berkeley Divinity School at a special trustees meeting. Fisher serves on multiple corporate boards, charitable councils, and is a longtime church educator. The Berkeley School, now in Middletown, plans to move to New Sliven soon.
Trial opens in Criminal Superior Court for William J. McGrail of Brighton Massachusetts charged with misconduct of a motor vehicle operator after his passenger bus crashed into two trucks on the Milford turnpike on January 25. Howard Dinerstein, driver of a Bill Kneeland Express truck, testified detailing the sequence of the wreck as the bus struck the rear of his vehicle and collided with another truck as dawn light failed and visibility was limited.
The article notes that distributing electrical energy to customers costs more than producing it at the generating station. Distribution expenses exceed the total cost of coal, furnaces, boilers, generators, salaries, and all other factors involved in electricity generation.
An advertisement encourages early rupture care and warns against improper trusses. It promotes a Bridgeport branch at 158 Fairfield Ave near Main, offering free examinations and personalized truss fitting. Local specialists advise that if a truss cannot fit a case they will say so and urge readers to call regardless of advancement.
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