Tax cuts urged to end recession with temporary suspensions
Senate House Economic subcommittee heard arguments for suspending tax collections for two or three months and for temporary tax cuts to rapidly end the slump. Yale’s Fellner Harvard’s Dusenberry and Gerhard Colm backed cuts. J A Levingston urged a wait and see approach. House Rules committee moved toward a Democratic bill for 12 billion dollars in unemployment relief grants despite Eisenhower opposition. A Fed report noted prices rose three times faster in this recession than in 1953 54.
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Senate
House
Yntema
William Fellner
Yale University
James Dusenberry
Harvard
Gerhard Colm
National Planning Assa
J. A. Levingston
Rep
Marlin
Massachusetts
White House
Eisenhower
Sen
Knowland
California
Federal Reserve Board
Street names and public works items before city council
The committee proposed no action on abolishing the last 295 feet of Hill Street while seeking public input on sewer work for Loftus Circle Northfield Drive and Jennings Avenue, sidewalks on Westfield Grovers and Gilmaan, and other items. Other business included street acceptance proposals for Podge Street and Trelane Drive and a 25 lot Stratford subdivision sewer tie in. All five aldermen attended the meeting chaired by Alderman Sarefing Sgro.
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Hill Street
Loftus Crcle
Northfield Drive
Jennings Avenue
Westfield Avenue
Grovers Avenue
Gil- Maan Street
Podge Street
Vincent Feticetta
Stratford
Success Avenue
Bridgeport
Trelane Drive
Mary Journey's Inn
Fairfield Avenue
Sarefing Sgro
Albert J. Saffo
John Donofrio
Frank V. Feroleto
Samuel Barker
Milford RTM Slices 9760 From Budget Sees Town Council Cuts
April 29 Milford RTM nears end of budget review. Members reach page 114 of 115 page 1958 59 budget and adjourn to 6 1 o'clock tonight. The body trimmed 9760 from the town council budget, cut the contingency fund by 10000 and reduced the miscellaneous account by 509. An appropriation of 740 was added to widen River Street near the railroad bridge. There are 30e jumps on the Grand National steeplechase course.
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Milford
RTM
of Rtm
iM ENDS PACT UAW SURPRISED AS EXTENSION REJECTED
The auto union rejected Ford and Chrysler three month extension bids while GM issued a 30 day cancellation notice. Negotiations continue as Chrysler seeks a two year extension with arbitration and an optional profit sharing approach, amid industry wage trends and production concerns.
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Theunion
Ford
Chrysler
Louis G. Seaton
Woodstock
General Motors
Woodcock
L. L. Colbert
Colbert
UAW
UN Chief Seeks Arctic Talks Without Veto Threat
United Nations discussions on disarmament bridge to a summit where equal footing guides talks. Sobolev hints at a possible Soviet veto while Gromyko dismisses the Eisenhower plan as publicity amid U S insistence on inspecting Arctic measures. Soviet counter resolution seeks note of preliminary consultations on a summit agenda.
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Sumit
Med
Sobolev
Eisenhower
Andrei Gromyko
Moscow
Gromyko
United States
Scholev
Council
U.S
Canada
France
Britain
Soviet Union
Denmark
Norway
Lodge
U.S. Strategic Air Force
Arctic
Minister Challenges School Bus Act Sparked Supreme Court Debate
The Rev. Mr. Lowell warns the private school transportation law could seed sectarian education funded by tax dollars. He argues public schools must remain democratic and warns that subsidies to church schools threaten separation of church and state. Conrad Jahn calls the act anti democratic.
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Supreme Court
Connecticut
Lowell
Belgium
Conrad Jahn
United Congregational Church
Jowell
Connecticut Doctors Oppose CMS Contract Plan
Connecticut physicians meeting in Bridgeport rejected the new Connecticut Medical Services contract over fee definitions and third party payments. Delegates split along conservative and reform lines, with Dr. John P. Gens leading the disapproval and Dr. Walter Russell elected president for the next term. The session urged submitting proposed contract changes to county associations before state approval.
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Connecticut
CMS
Cis
Fairfield County
Gray Carter
County Medical Society
John P. Gens
South Norwalk
House of Delegates
Connecticut ‘Medical Society
Connecticut Medical Services, Inc
Connecticut State Medical Society
Connecticut Medical Service Inc
State Insurance Commissioner
State Medical Society
Weise
Ile
Bridgeport Medical Association
Tellers
Society
Fairfield
Hartford
New Haven
Litchfield
Middlesex
New London
Tolland
Windham
Middesex
Dele
Officers
American Medical Association
Bridgeport Area
Edwin R. Connors
William H. Curley
John F. Nolan
Louis Castaldo
Ralph L. Parker
Elwood K. Jones
Nathaniel Keninsberg
Bridgeport
Edwin F. Trautman
Trumbull
J. Henton Egee
Newtown
Walker
W. Bradford Walker
Retirig
Cornwall
Walter Russell
Russell
Doctora
Forand
Clyde L. Deming
Donald J. McCrain
Frank J.pofito
Torrington
William R. Richards
Creighton Barker
Thomas M. Feeney
Cole B. Gibson
Meriden
Michael R. Scully
David T. Monahan
Louis H. Nahan
James R. Cullen
J. Alfred Fabre
John H. Grossman
Charles N. Sullivan
New Britain
Greenwich
AMA
Thomas Danaher
William Horton
Max Alpert
Wlss
Curley
John N. Gallivan
Stratford High School
Stratfield Hotel
Wilford F. Hall
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
General Hall
T. C. Gentry
New York City
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Wmth
William J. Kennard
Washington
Aims C. McGuinness
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
False Fire Alarm Triggers Fairfield Scene
Firefighters responded to a false alarm shortly before 7 PM at Box 256 near Fairfield Avenue and Burr Road. Police were asked to investigate afterwards.
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Fairfield Avenue
Burr Road
GE Union Seeks Cooperation in Strike Tactics
GE union leaders pressed for cooperation between the IUE and the Building Trades in the plant strike at the Getl atly site. IUE officials insist the conflict targets General Electric not the tradesmen, while GE warns prolonged stoppage could force a shutdown as maintenance workers join picketing at eight plant gates. Ronald Hanley Marks of Cape Town earned a PhD for hydrazine research used in rockets and medicine.
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Agelan GE
Santoianni
IUE
General Electric Company
Local 203
Getlatly
William F. Burleigh
Gellatly
Building Stades Council
Ronald Hanley Marks
Cape Town
South Africa
Alcorn Plans to Attend GOP State Convention
Meade Alcorn, GOP National Chairman, will attend the Connecticut state convention in Hartford on June 18 and 19. He says he remains neutral on the gubernatorial nominee, backs uniting behind the chosen candidate, and expects to help secure the governor’s race and support for Eisenhower and Nixon in the fall.
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Myr. Alcorn
Eisenhower
Nixon
Hartford
Meade Alcorn
Clarence
Baldwin
Alcorn
Purtell
Jees Ribbott
Ansonia
Ribicoff
Orange
Milford
Fairfield
Mr. Alcorn
He Jong
GOP
John Alsop
Fred R. Zeller
Stonington
J. Kenneth Bradley
Westport
Zeller
Bond
White House
U. S. Senate
Alsop
Stephen J. Sweeney
Naugatuck
Toha Ottaviano
New’ Haven
Army to Build Nike Play Sites Near Harrier Area
Conyers Construction of Manchester Connecticut submitted an apparent third lowest bid of 64,000 dollars for a Harrier area project while the Army plans Nike play sites and a figure of 53,490 dollars is cited in the same notice.
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ARMY
NIKE
Conyers Construction Company, Inc
Manchester, Conn
Harrimer Area
Courts to Include Playing Facilities for Multiple Sports
The courts will include facilities for basketball tennis volleyball and badminton, enabling a range of court sports at the venue.
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Wermpauney
Police Department Announces Personnel Reassignments
The department lists changes including training officer becoming relief captain and Capt John F Moran taking over clerk duties from Sgt James E Falvey. Arthur Buchanan to move from radio car to Traffic division May 5. Robert Whyland to serve as city claims investigator. Not affected are Curry Clampett and McPadden.
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Joseph O’donoghue
James E. Falvey
John F. Moran
Moran
Falvey
Robert Whyland
Military pay boost sparks broader defense strain
The Senate hears that the boost in military pay comes amid deep maintenance shortages in the Defense Department. In the Strategic Air Command about 6½ wings of B-47 aircraft, roughly 15 percent of the combat fleet, are grounded due to maintenance gaps from understaffing, a pattern echoed across the armed forces. A separate note mentions a Johannesburg exhibitions scene where a 37 pound boy, six years old, hurls his 100 pound brother.
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Senate
Department of Defense
Strategic Air Command
Duggie Lee
Jude
Johannesburg
South Africa
Diplomats Choose Separate Talks With Gromyko in Moscow
U S Britain and France rejected adding Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia to pre summit talks and instead agreed to meet separately with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Moscow. Final approval rests with London and Paris as Alphand said the draft goes to capitals for ratification. Formal Kremlin notice expected by week’s end.
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Washington
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
U. S
Andrei Gromyko
Moscow
London
Paris
Herve Alphand
Harold Caccia
C. Burke Elbrick
Alphand
Kremlin
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Connecticut Allergy Society
Connecticut Diabetes Association
GE Union
BIG
Ment
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Petos
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