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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1957
Page
3
Icelandic author Halldor Laxness and his wife plan a trip to China this weekend under invitation from the Chinese regime. The trip follows Laxness being awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature and marks his first major visit to the country.
A large new parking lot behind the Stratford theater in Camden will be free for public use starting today, with window stickers for merchants to direct patrons. The plan, led by Albert Pickus and Stratford Center Business Association, aims to ease downtown parking after a snowstorm. Two children were killed nearby earlier when struck by a train while crossing a railroad trestle.
Downtown center and Paradise Green lighting displays sponsored by local business groups will be switched on at dusk with no special ceremonies due to weather. The lights will remain on each night through the season.
Snow and icy winds forced the Rotary club to postpone its weekly meeting to December 12 at 8 p.m. in the high school teachers cafeteria. Over 30 business and professional men are expected to enroll, with district officials attending the first session. Pilgrim Fellowship Rev. Robert L. Meier of Lordship Community Church announced a Pilgrim Fellowship meeting for Sunday at 7 p.m. in the church.
Fire Department answered 90 alarms in November per Chief Theodore S. Lockwood in a report to Town Manager Harry B Flood. Total property involved valued at 87 600 with 6 775 insured. 84 fires with no loss. Seventy alarms were for brush and damp conditions. Building permits issued include a garage 800, two one family dwellings 9 000 and 12 000 each, and a Birchwood Square home 12 000. Luther Leagues to attend State rally at St Pauls in Terryville, leaving 1 45 p m.
Mrs. Melville S. Bulmer, wife of Rev. Melville Bulmer, enters Bridgeport Hospital this week as a surgical patient. Rev. John Tomis pauses near Town Hall to direct Holiday window setup at 2740 Main Street. Barbara Smith marks a December 11 birthday. Joseph Melnik notes 41 groups used Boothe Memorial Park in November with 2,651 attendees.
New York Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower court order removing Rev William Howard Melish from the pulpit of Brooklyn's Church of the Holy Trinity. The decision sustained that parish vestry members were present in February 1956 when Herman S. Sidener was elected rector, amid long running church disputes and a closed church since July.
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