Fairfield Beach flood dike plan faces strong critique
Fairfield residents clash over a flood control scheme along Fairfield Beach road and Pine Creek. Proposals include gravel dikes and a dike divided highway to protect beachfront properties, with concerns over parking, land seizures, and water drainage. Members cite Army Engineer guidance yet critics warn of cost, displaced garages, and impact on residents and Beach Club.
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Fairfield Beach
Beach
Reef
Sterber
Steiber
Pine Creek
Silas
U. S Army Engineer
Jennings Beach
Annie Burr Jennings
Burr
Raymond Johnson
Beach Club
William Boyd
Fairfield Beach Club
Dainiels
Fairfield Beach Road
Robert G Lee
ATM
Colonial Gardens Association
Pine Creek Road
Riverside Drive
South Benson Road
Daniels
Two new Dutch stamps fund Netherlands National Aviation Fund
Two Dutch stamps introduce surcharges to support the Netherlands National Aviation Fund. The stamps, issued by the postal authority, allocate additional revenue to aviation-related initiatives. Authorities emphasize that the surcharges will fund safety programs, airport infrastructure, and air traffic management investments.
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Netherlands National Aviation Fund
Schoolmen Seek Return Of Land For Central Education
Central high School relies on the Congress street site for outdoor physical education and junior varsity football practice. Principal George L Garand warned that Central’s program would suffer without the site, which also could serve as a summer playground. The Common Council voted to accept the school board’s offer to recover the property for school use, with Mayor McLevy urging temporary parking use in the interim. Anita Vogel urged a valiant effort to retain the site for schooling.
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Common Council
Vo cd
McLevy
George L Garand
Central High School
Centrals
Garand Sach
Congress Street
Central
Bassick and
Harding
Garand
Anita Vogel
Review board upholds Dickenson conviction
Arry Cpl Edward S Dickenson, 23, faces 10 years for collaborating with the communist enemy in Korea. An Army Board of Review of three men upheld his court martial conviction and sentence. Dickenson’s lawyer Guy Emery said the case would go to the US Court of Military Appeals.
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Washington
Arry Cpl
Edward S Dickenson
Korea
Court of Military Appeals
Dickenson
Guy Emery
Threeman Army Board of Reverw
Army
Dubliner Joseph Coleman Records Will On Postal Card
Joseph Coleman of Dublin Ireland had his will formally recorded on a postal card, noting the execution of his last wishes in a concise archival entry.
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Joseph Coleman
Dublin
Eire
Witness says promises were made to testify at trial
Garcia testified that promises were made by assistant district attorney Thomas Cullen and McGrattan in a conference room at the Long Island City prison. He claimed if he did not testify he could face 100 years in prison, while four felony laps would be dropped and another charge reduced.
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McGrattan
Garcia
Thomas Cullen
Long Island City
Outburst Delays Trial in Queens County Court
During the trial in Queens county court, a defendant shouted I’m no Judas near McGrattan’s feet, prompting Judge Raphael Egan to call a recess. The interruption halted proceedings as court adjourned briefly.
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McGrattans
Raphael Egan
Queens County
Singer Plant to Close Fridays Before Holidays
Singer Manufacturing company employees were notified the plant will close on the Fridays before Christmas and New Year’s Day. Production ends Thursday. operations resume Monday. Paydays for the two weeks plus holidays are Thursday, Dec 23 and Thursday, Dec 30.
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Singer Manufacturing Company
Felled by Auto In Fairfield Woman Struck Crossing
Mrs Anthony Carrano aged 34 of 380 Brookside drive Fairfield was hit in the left hip by an auto while crossing Main street at State street around 2 25 pm yesterday. She was not hospitalized. Walter Archie aged 42 of 211 Pulaski street the driver was not held.
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Anthony Carrano
Brookside Drive
Fairfield
Main Street
State Street
Walter Archie
Pulaski Street
Truck and two cars crash on East Main Street
Two drivers injured in a three way collision at 12 30 p m in front of 3130 East Main Street. Joseph Slessar, 62, suffered a left arm injury. Stanley W Hart, 35, of Mahopac N Y, was shaken up. Edward J Pliska, 20, of 1006 East Main Street, who lost control on a curve, received a summons for violating auto laws.
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East Main Street
Joseph Slessar
Bradley Street
Stanley W Hart
Mahopac
N. Y
Frederick Kiernan
Edward J Phska
Slossar
Hart
Pliska
Posters urge riders to donate. bank asks Need money
In Philadelphia a Philadelphia Transportation Co bus displayed three adjacent posters promoting separate fundraising drives. Nearby an advertisement from a local bank asked Need money as a call to potential customers.
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Philadelphia
Philadelpha Transportation Co
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Review Board
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Tsuda
Domestics
Howlands Thrift Basement
Joe White
TI Sports Far Howland
Tics Howland
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