Forty two youths designated for draftee call to Fort Dix
Forty two youths will depart Monday for Fort Dix New Jersey to make up the December draft quota from three local boards. Board 14 will send 14 men Board 15 thirteen and Board 16 fifteen notables include Justin Hannan George Mario Jesse Jones John Scott Richard Outlaw Patsy Pagnarulo Donald Cameron Paul Jeter Norman Dedrick Clifford Hull James Babis Sprine George Adam Gilbert Whipple Henry Toviov Jerome Adelean Eloy Vindersu Martinew Lindsay Walter Veillette Jonas Meyer Stephen Sednsky Fred Deluca Thomas O’Neil Robert Eisenman and others from Stratford Trumbull Shelton Fairfield Southport Weston and Westport.
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Fort Dix
N. J
Board 14
Board
Board 16
Justin G. Hannan
Beardsley Park Terrace
George Mario
Arctic Street
Jesse D Jones
Hallett Street
John M Scott
Hawthorne Street
Raichard K. Outlaw
Marion Street
Patsy S&s. Pagnarulo
Donald T Cameron
Wilmot Place
Paul E. Jeter
Stratford
Norman IL. Dedrick
Windsor Avenue
Clifford C. Hull, Jr
Bridgeport
Henry C. Toviov
Milne Street
Jerome J. Adelean
Hawley Avenue
Eloy J. Vindersu Jr
French Street
Martinew Lindsay
Orange Street
Walter E. Veillette, Jr
Stratford Asenue
Jonas J. Meyer
Linford Place
Stephen J. Sednsky
Astoria Avenue
Fred Deluca
Northfield Avenue
Thomas J. O'Neil
North Avenue
Robert L. Eisenman
Lourme Street
Vernon G. Rein
Grove Street
Michael J. Massaria
Francis Street
Trumbull
Anthony S Stachelazvk
Malthy Street
Shelton
Family at Lyme hopes missing yachtsman reaches port
Dec. 8 report from Lyme states 77 year old yachtsman and his 47 foot ketch Ingegerd HI left Nov. 14 with Shelton Pitney Henry Clarke and Blyden Whose crew, bound for St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, while the Coast Guard searches for the boat and its crew. The captain’s son Willard Bubar says the family remains confident the vessel will arrive safely.
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Lyme
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Willard Bubar
Hudson H. Bubar
Coast Guard
Shelton Pitney
New York
Henry Clarke
Plot Clarke
Hamburg Cove
Blyden
Bubar
Bermuda
Unemployment rises in November as jobs grow
In November unemployment increased by 152000, a seasonally smaller rise as winter curtails outdoor work. The joint report from Secretary Weeks and Secretary Mitchell notes a further improvement in the job picture while total nonfarm employment reached 55600000 for 1954. The auto industry shows a sizable pickup for a second straight month and retail trade remains buoyant ahead of the holidays.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Secretary of Labor
Mitchell
Yule tree shipped to Savannah Scouts
Vermont tree shipped to Savannah for a nationwide scout memorial display at the Juliette Gordon Low home. Under Mrs Thomas I Rogers's direction Bonnington Scout Council officers Deborah Watson and Constance Killian prepared the evergreen for the journey and gift to honor local scouting units.
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Benningopon
Wiltec
CAPD
Rosixn
Vermont
Sa- Woemnahtia
Jaliette Gordon Low
Bennington
Millenota
Savannah
Thomas I Rogers
Bonnington Cir Scout
Connerb Incorporated
Deborah Watson
Constance Killian
Armory Construction Plan Seeks $900000 Across Bridgeport Area
Major General Frederick G. Reineke told Governor-elect Ribicoff that Connecticut requests $900000 for new armory facilities in the Bridgeport area. Two buildings are proposed at about $450000 each, with state and federal funds. No sites chosen yet. a separate request includes funds for a new New London armory.
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Hartford
Frederick G. Reincke
A. A. Ribicoff
State Military Department
Bridgeport
Reineke
New London
Two youths held in purse thefts and auto thefts
Ralph DiCiccio 17 of Stratford and Steve Chilinsky 19 of Father Panik village are held on bonds of 2500 each, charged with four purse thefts and three auto thefts in Bridgeport, Stratford, and Fairfield. Detectives Lombard Chaffee and Carroll arrested them. arraignment pending.
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Ralph DiCiccio
Light Street
Stratford
Steve Chilinsky
Father Panik Village
Joseph A. Walsh
Fairfield
Lombard
Bridgeport Police
Raymond KE. Chaffee
Stratford Police Department
Patrick Carroll
Fairfield Police
Ticket Fix Cop Found Shot to Death in Brooklyn
A veteran policeman, 45 year old Andrew Hunter, was found dead from a gunshot in his police car behind the Brooklyn station where he worked after signing a waiver of immunity prior to testifying in a grand jury probe of a traffic ticket scandal. Police say more than 100 cops were involved in a payoff scheme to avoid fines. Hunter was married with a son and had served since 1957.
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New York
Dee &(Ap
Andrew Hunter
Brooklyn
Hunter
Sharp rise seen in welfare costs in Connecticut
Hartford December 8 AP Governor elect Ribicoff was told the State Welfare department will need 25 percent more money to care for Connecticut's needy over the next two years. Welfare Commissioner Houston said the jump to 76 million is driven by heavier caseloads and population increases among the aged infirm and dependent children. He noted potential extra costs from a 100 percent free care plan for institutional patients and warned the 1955 Legislature should appropriate sufficient funds, or the agency will seek 3.5 million more to operate through June 30.
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Hartford
A A. Ribicoff
State Welfare Department
Connecticut
Howard E. Houston
Ribioff
Houston
Ribicof
Case
Nine Children in Four Years Shocks St Louis Family
Mrs. Gussie Cleveland, 24, has borne nine children in four years in St Louis, including two sets of triplets and a pair of twins. The latest triplets, all boys, arrived Saturday and are reported well at Homer G Phillips hospital. Her husband, a laborer, is currently unemployed. Of the children born since 1950 three are living.
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ST. Louis
Dec
Gussie Cleveland
Homer G Phillips Hospital
Cleveland
Death toll rises from Marylander fire in Germantown
In Germantown Maryland the Marylander rent home fire killed seven people starting with four elderly women who died at the scene and two others who died the following day.
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Germantown
Coast-to-Coast Flights Like School Bus to Plane
New York December AP profile Brooklyn-born Madeline Wade a 24-year-old TWA hostess on Flight 95 between New York and Los Angeles. She studies sociology at Columbia ballet in Brooklyn and tennis in Santa Monica while clocking massive air miles and planning a heavier program toward a B.S. degree. She often wears her airline uniform to class and jokes about homework left aboard a plane.
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New York
Trans World Airlines
Madeline Wade
Brooklyn
TWA
Los Angeles
Columbia University
Santa Monica
Calif
Wade
Barbizon Studio
Paris
Toscanini Cheered by Opera Audience in Milan
Maestro Arturo Toscanini received a salvo of cheers and a bouquet from a Milan audience last night at the opera. The flowers were tossed to the stage for soprano Maria Meneghini Callas who had just returned from performances in the United States. The singer then presented the bouquet to the conductor in a stage box as the entire audience rose in tribute.
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Milan
Italy
Arturo Toscanini
Maria Meneghini Callas
United States
Callas
Toscanini
Brennan Returns Home Stamford
William H. Brennan Fairfield county Republican chairman has returned to his Stamford home after a 10 day stay in St. Joseph's hospital for a physical checkup.
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Stamford
William H. Brennan
Fairfield County
St. Joseph's Hospital
Norwich Seaman Desmond Dies From Brunswick Crash Injuries
Seaman John F. Desmond aged 21 of Norwich Conn died at the U S Naval hospital from injuries sustained Saturday when his car ran into a tree in Brunswick. The death was reported from Portsmouth N H.
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Portsmouth
N. H
John F. Desmond
Norwich
Conn
U.S. Naval Hospital
Brunswick
Zip mystery surrounds Denver governor’s lookalike dogs
Denver governor Dan Thornton reassured residents that Zip, his golden retriever, has been found after strays resembling the governor’s pet proliferated. Citizens brought dogs to the governor’s door, including a man who paid a taxi fare to return a supposed Zip. The governor paid the cab fare himself.
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Denver
Zip
Dan Thornton
Thornton
Court orders Pan Am to pay ex-employees
A labor court in Guatemala ordered Pan American World Airways to pay 16 dismissed workers 27 839 dollars in severance. The employees were fired July 1 after Col Carlos Castillo Armas led a coup d etat against President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. The ruling shields political beliefs from punishment under labor law. The government also decreed expropriation of Arbenzs farm El Cajon valued at 123 370 dollars, part of seizures totaling 213 650 dollars.
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Guatemala
Pan American World Airwaves
Carlos Castillo Armas
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Arbenz
el Cajon
Castillo Armas
Rail line sued over rape assault at Norwalk station
A Norwalk woman and her six year old daughter sue The New Haven Railroad for 50000 in Superior court alleging negligence at South Norwalk station. They say Robert L. Butler attacked them after accosting them in a parked car and that Butler was previously convicted of rape. The plaintiffs seek 35000 and 15000 respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven Railroad
Norwalk
Sue Frances Hull
Leslie Hull
South Norwalk
About & P.m
Robert L. Butler
Waterbury Finance Board overestimates 1935 marriage license receipts
Waterbury December 8 AP report notes marriage license fees are 42 cents but the Board of Finance estimates 1935 receipts at 1425 dollars. The Waterbury Republican mocks the board, saying its members are old married men who have forgotten the cost to wed.
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Waterbury
Board of Finance
Four Wisconsin students expelled over nude pose scheme
Four University of Wisconsin students were expelled and five others placed on probation after participating in photographing a 20-year-old woman who posed nude. The woman said a Hollywood talent scout urged her to pose and she met two male students at their apartment. She later received further calls from two more alleged talent scouts.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Hollywood
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